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WHICH 13 THE BEST REMEDY?
All the political doctors of the
American people are of one o, .talon
M to the diagnosis of the NtionJ
disease. Republicans. Democrats and
Progressives all agree that the trouble
,s special privilege ta all it, mult far
lous forms. It Is therefore a waste , of
words for Governor Marshal, to tell
us once more. In no matter how eW
,uent language, that ore must get rid
of that disease and restore the health
conditions of equal opportonttj.
all know that; we are all agreed
"PThe question now before the Amer
ica? people is: How? W ; the
remedy for this disease? Dr. Tart ana
biT collaborator. Dr. Sherman Dr.
Wilson and Dr. Marshall. Dr. Roose
velt and Dr. Johnson recommend I dif
ferent medicine. The people who re
the patient, are now considering which
pair of doctors to employ as their reg
ular physicians and which remedy to
take Let Dr. Marshall show us
wherein his and Dr. Wilson's medicine
is superior to that of their rivals Let
him and all the other doctors cease
their endless prating about what ails
us and apply their minds to coninc
tag us thai they can and will cure us
and that the other doctors cannot.
We know that we have an acute at
tack of plutocracy, whereof the symp
toms are high living for the rich and
high cost of living for the poor; per
version of the machinery of govern
ment to the point that, under the
forms of democracy, we have been
receding into an actual oligarchy Now
what are we going to do about It? For
goodness' sake. Dr. Marsha 1. don t
diagnose the case all over again We
have heard all that to the point of
nausea. Tell us how your medicine
will cure us.
Dr Taft recommends a continuance
of his present course of treatment
with some modifications. He would
reduce the tariff to a point which
would equalize conditions at home
and abroad: he would exterminate
the trusts and provide tLe Federal
Government with means of preventing
growth of new trusts: he would head
off oligarchy by stimulating more ac
tivity on the part of the democracy,
holding that oligarchy has seized the
reins because democracy was too lazy
to drive.
Dr. Wilson would put our adult in
dustries through a strict course of
self-reliance, instead of protection,
. leaving them only as much protection
as is consistent with our main purpose
of raising revenue, but would Increase
the doses of his medicine gradually.
He. too. would exterminate trusts, but
would limit Increase of Federal power
out of respect to the states. Ignoring
the peoples Indolence in not perform
ing the duties they already have, he
would Impose more duties on them
by means of Presidential primaries
and direct legislation.
Dr. Roosevelt Is a homeopath of the
most advanced school. Paternalism
having abnormally developed the rich,
he would even things up by giving
liberal doses of the same drug to the
poor. He would administer the same
tariff revision tonic as Taft. but would
apply some new patent device for di
recting the life-giving fluid to the part
of the body politic which most needs
It or thinks it does namely, the
worklngman. He would exercise a
nice discrimination In dealing with
the trusts, exterminating only the
bad. carefully nurturing the good and
guiding them along the straight and
narrow path of virtue he to be sole
good judge as to which are good and
which bad. He would Infuse energy
into the apathetic electorate by keep
ing It everlastingly busy with direct
primaries, direct elections, initiative,
referendum, recall of anybody and
everybody and retrial at the polls of
suits decided by the courts. He would
not give the people a chance to be
come lazy again, but would be a sort
of political Billy Muldoon. guarantee
ing by his own Infallible cure to re
store vigor to a frame enervated by
a course of living which enlarges the
' stomach but relaxes the muscles and
makes the head ache.
We are of one mind that the patient
has a good, sound constitution, but
that he is suffering from a complica
tion of disorders of one general type.
The doctors disagree only as to the
correct course of treatment. Now,
most learned gentlemen, tell the pa
tient what you have to say in favor of
your own particular medicine and let
him decide.
There is one point which we have
overlooked. Dr. Roosevelt contends
that, having failed in seven years to
effect a cure, he should be given an
other chance. Dr. Taft and Dr. Wil
son agree that, after a fixed term, a
change of doctors is in any case bene
ficial to the patient.
SOCIETY'S TENDER FEELINGS.
Mildred Green was a happy and
beautiful child at Eugene, living a life
of purity and Innocence as the daugh
ter of an Itinerant preacher. She was
too young to have come much in con
tact with the sordid problems of life,
but she was old enough to have given
promise of an unusually fine woman
hood. Mildred said her prayers at her
bedside the other night and retired
ta perfect consciousness that she was
under the protecting eye of Provi
dence and the physical guardianship
of an anxious and loving father. Dur
ing the night her sweet slumbers were
Interrupted by a being who murdered
the child and polluted her pure body
with an unspeakable atrocity. She suf
fered the same awful fate that ended
the childish lives of Barbara Holi
man and of the Hill family.
Who will dare say that the creature
who did this monstrous thing at Eu
gene has not forfeited to society his
right to live? What is proposed to
be done If it be said that he should
merely be sent to prison for life or for
a term of years?
This murderer this worse-than-murderer
would be fed and fattened
at public expense, behind prison bars,
to appease a mistaken public senti
ment that society must not take the
life of any human being. But there
this leering monster 'is to remain, a
reproach to the law, a terror to him
self and a prey to his own beastly vis
ions and horrible passions all his days.
What a mercy to end the miserable
career of such a wretch.
TOMATOES AND COUNTRY STORES.
The Christian Science Monitor, a
periodical noted for Its veracity, speaks
approvingly of some wonderful tomato
vines in Tennessee. They are said to
be six feet high and to bear "vegeta
bles" so large that "two dozen of
them, make a bushel." Our Boston
contemporary pertinently remark.'!,
touching these tomatoes, that the kind
of gardening which produced them "is
not necessarily confined to Tennessee."
In almost any part of the United
States there are conditions of soil and
climate which would permit three or
four times as much food to be raised
on an acre of ground as we usually
see.
One reason for our shiftless and
unproductive agriculture has been
cheap land. When a family could be
supported upon a quarter section
farmed recklessly there seemed to be
no good reason for applying the knowl
edge, care and hard work which are
essential to intensive farming. But
now the era of cheap land Is rapidly
passing away. There are many parts
of the country where It has already
gone forever and It will not be long
before trie same thing will happen
everywhere. When we have no more
cheap land the practice of slovenly ag
riculture must be abandoned, and like
the people of France and Germany
we shall be obliged to get as much as
we possibly can from every acre.
In preparation for this condition
every step toward intensive farming
ought to be encouraged by those who
care for the welfare of the country'.
In particular no public man should
forget that the problem of an honest
and dependable market for the farmer
is universal and pressing. Before we
can expect him to produce more food
he must be assured of an opportunity
to sell it at a fair profit. As long as
he cannot he will be satisfied with the
old wasteful ways. It is common to
say that the country store provides a
market for the farmer. This is one
of the great arguments against the
parcels post. "The parcels post," we
are told, "will break up the country
store and so deprive the farmer of his
best market." As a matter of fact
the country store does not give the
farmer a market except in the most
limited and unsatisfactory way. It will
usually take what eggs he has to of
fer, but it will not take his vegetables,
fruit, veal, pork or milk. To sell
these articles he must go to the. city.
Is it surprising If he finds it conven
ient also to make his purchases in
the city? "Why don't you trade at
my store and help support home in
dustry?" inquired a country merchant
of a farmer. "Why should I trade
with you?" the farmer replied, "you
never trade with me."
ABUSING THE INITIATIVE.
Here are three bills three out of a
long list of thirty-eight or more that
stand out prominently as examples of
improper and unwarranted employ
ment of the initiative and referendum:
For an act to amend section 2rt of chapter
26, of the laws of Orepon for lltll. placing
the State Printer on a flat salary.
For an act defining hotels in the State
of Oregon, and providing for the use of
fire escates. gangs, ropes, -standpipes and
hose, and rhemlcal fire extinguishers there
with and therein.
For an act to protect purchasers of stocks
and bonds and to prevent fraud in the sale
thereof (Blue sky bill).
The sole purpose of the State Printer
flat salary measure is to advance
from January 1, 1915, to December
1. 1912, the date of the legislative act
of 1911 placing the State Printer on
a flat salary and otherwise regulating
the public printing. The title of the
bill is a gross misnomer, in that it is
designed to convey the impression that
the voter Is now called on to settle the
long-disputed issue over the State
Printer's pay. The flat salary bill is
now law, and it will take effect at the
close of the present printer's term.
There are a lot of busy, fellows "at
Salem who cannot wait; so they have
imposed again upon the electorate as
a whole a matter already well out of
the way.
The other bills are meritorious
enough, doubtless, or rather, they
are suitable subjects of legislation. But
how can the initiative or the referen
dum be made a vehicle for the deter
mination by the people themselves of
important questions if the ballot Is
to be cumbered with bills that belong
strictly In the claas of ordinary legis
lation and that therefore should go to
the state Legislature?
When you are In doubt vote no.
When you are not in doubt about the
overuse or abuse of the sacred office
of the initiative and referendum, vote
no.
GENERAL BOOTH.
Within the memory of men still
young, the Salvation Army no sooner
attempted to hold a religious service
on the streets than-its members were
hooted and hounded by mobs and
were dragged to prison as disturbers
of the peace. So great a change has
its good work wrought in the public
attitude that Its aged commander Is
mourned not only by an organization
which has become world-wide, but by
men and women of every creed and
race.
General Rooth has taken a place
along with Wickliffe, Luther. Calvin,
Loyola, Xavler, Wesley and the
Tractarians as a religious leader, but
he holds a place apart from them. His
purpose,, was to apply Christianity to
the remedy of social evils, to lift up
men physically as well as morally and
spiritually. He organized his army
under the rule of implicit obedience
which governs the great Catholic or
ders, to feed the hungry, fo house the
homeless, to give work to the idle, to
heal the sick, to lift the socially fallen,
to introduce the castaways of the city
slums to new life on the farm. He
was not content with awakening souls
to repentance and to profession of
religious belief. He went farther and
taught men to put their belief into
practice. He went farther still and
awakened In the under dog of modern
civilization the slumbering instincts of
manliness which prompt to honest la
bor, clean living and good citizenship.
He taught that to be a good Christian
one must be a good, self-supporting,
self-reliant man and he started men
on the road to practice his precepts.
His was no misguided charity which
gives support as a reward for mere
Hp-profession of religion. Booth re
garded his work as only begun when
he had obtained such a profession;
Booth went on to set the man on his
feet, spiritually, morally and socially.
and, having done so, kept watch over
him lest he fall.
In saying that General Booth did
all this, we do not err, for he made the
Salvation Army a great machine in
his hands to carry out his noble pur
poses. Just as surely as Grant made
his army a machine to win the battles
of the Union. Booth's army was Im
bued with his spirit, was trained to
execute his plans, not only without
murmur or cavil, but with enthusias
tic confidence in Its commander and
In his noble purposes. Such obedience
is only yielded to such a commander
and the great danger which besets the
army at his death is that another so
rare a man may not be found to suc
ceed him.
A WHITE LIGHT.
People who like to read in bed will
be pleased to learn that some German
and English scientific men have sim
ultaneously invented a "daylight
lamp" which shines with a ray as
white and pure as sunlight. The rea
son why most lamps are injurious to
the sight is not their dimness. The
eye gets along passably well with no
brighter illumination than comes
from a tallow candle. Our forefath
ers read many good books by that
feeble flame and distilled as much
wisdom from them, perhaps, as we do
with our electric bulbs and acetylene.
A tallow candle which is dutifully
snuffed so that it does not flicker
gives a pretty fair light to read by.
A wax candle Is better, and no doubt
a clear, steady kerosene flame is the
best of all. There Is far more danger
of Injuring the eyes by an excessively
bright light than by a dim one. Lin
coln, who retained his sight In per
fection, as far as we know, to his
death, used to study at night in his
boyhood, by the light of a pine knot
which must have been pretty dim and
not very constant.
It Is the red rays in candle flames
which make them irritating. Red, like
the other colors, has its own psycho
logical as well as physical Influence.
It Is excessively stimulating not only
to the eyes, but also, to the nerves In
general. Persons who live many
years continually In rooms with red
hangings and furniture are apt to be
come violently insane: If that does
not happen their tempers grow cho
leric. In the end they are pretty cer
tain to suffer with neurasthenia from
incessant over-excitement. The new
ly Invented lamp gets rid of just about
all the red rays, while it provides a
superabundance of blue and green.
There Is so little red, in fact, that
some has to be introduced artificially
in order to obtain the exact constitu
ents of sunlight. This has been ac
complished so effectually that deli
cate colors can be distinguished as
well by lamplight as in the sun. Art
classes can now work at night and
picture galleries provided with the
new illuminant may be visited as prof
itably after sunset as In the daytime.
MR. MERRICK'S DEATH.
The Reaper, In claiming Charles B.
Merrick as untimely toll, abstracts
from Portland an efficient Postmaster,
an invaluable worker in the cause of
civic betterment, and an agreeable
personality. There are few men who
would be more widely missed or more
sincerely mourned in this city.
Comparatively a young man and a
newcomer to Oregon, he nevertheless
impressed himself firmly upon the
public mind and affections because of
an inexhaustible energy expended in
the public good plus an inherent kind
liness and wholesomeness of personal
ity. During the two years he served
as postmaster Mr. Merrick found time
not only vastly to improve his depart
ment, but to participate most actively
in a score of campaigns for a greater
and better Portland. He was the
leading spirit in the Greater Portland
Plans Association, as well as in sev
eral lesser improvement organizations.
His leisure hours went to the planning
of means to provide parkways, boule
vards and public playgrounds. In car
rying on these undertakings his meth
ods were effective and served to over
come opposition without creating fric
tion or resentments.
In its several aspects his life, cut
short in Its prime,- was a worthy and
useful one. He was a useful citizen,
a useful soldier In '98, a useful offi
cial, and in his death is found irrepar
able loss.
NIGGARDLY NAVAL POLICY.
The grudging consent of the Demo
cratic House majority to allow the
construction of one dreadnought this
year, even though the same policy is
continued, will not avail to maintain
our position as a naval power. The
Democrats are blind to the fact that
the building of dreadnoughts has put
our old-style battleships and cruisers
as completely out of date as were the
old wooden ships from the day the
Monitor proved the superiority of the
ironclad. The only warships which
count nowadays, in the opinion of na
val authorities, are dreadnoughts and
battle cruisers, called capital ships.
Our older ships would be crumpled up
in a few minutes by the fire of the
modern battleship.
In number of capital ships,", we are
now tied with France for third place
among the naval powers, as the fol
lowing table, presented to the House
by Representative Hobson, shows:
Dread- Battle
noughts, cruisers. Total.
England 34
Germany 30 3 J-
United States 6 ..
France 6 .. K
Japan , 4 .. 4
Brazil '. 2 .. 2
Italy 1 .. 1
Austria 1 .. 1
44 0 S3
' Other nations are building so rap
idly that, even should the one-dread-nought-a-year
policy be adopted, and
should the ship we lay down in 1914
be completed In 1915, we should only
hold our own with France in the lat
ter year and should fall still farther
behind Germany. This is apparent
from the following table, which cred
its us with ships now building, but
does not Include any which may be
laid down in the interim:
Dread- Battle
noughts, cruisers. Total.
England 11 38
Germany . .- 17 6 13
France 13 .. 13
Russia 7 4 11
United States 10 . . 10
Japan 5 4 0
Italy , 8 8
Austria 4 .. 4
Brazil 3 .. 3
Argentine - .. 2
Chile 2 .. 2
96 25 121
If the no-battleship Democrats
should later prevail, we should, as the
foregoing table shows, fall behind not
only France? but Russia, and should
definitely sink to fifth place among
nations.
Unless we cast aside party consider
ations and adopt a definite, continu
ous naval policy, which shall be pur
sued unswervingly, no matter which
party controls the Administration and
Congress, we shall fall still farther
behind and shall be classed with such
minor powers as Italy, Austria and
the South American republics. In
other countries parties unite to adopt
and carry out a naval programme ex
tending through a number of years.
Their building programme is capable
of expansion to meet the action of
other nations. If Germany builds two
ships next year, Britain will build
four; if Germany builds three, Britain
will build five. The building -.programme
Is laid out so far ahead that
it is already possible to give the fol
lowing statement of capital ships to
be ready after' 1915:
Dread- Battle
noughts, cruisers.
England ...
Japan .....
Germany , . .
14 -l
S 8
:::::: t 6
France 1"
Italy 3
United States (No programme.)
Totals 41 23
So rapidly Is the building of ships of
the new type proceeding that, taking
into account only ships now com
pleted or authorized, the number of
dreadnoughts In the world's navies
will have increased by the year 1920
from fifty-two to 137 and the number
of battle cruisers from nine to fifty.
It is useless to object that an at
tempt to keep up with other nations
in naval expansion Is folly. Admit
ting the truth of that statement, it is
the kind of folly which we must prac
tice in self-defense. It is folly for two
men to fight, but it is not folly for
a man to be trained and prepared for
a fight when he knows that he is
liable to be attacked. If we are ready
to abandon the Monroe doctrine and
the broader interpretation given to It
by the Lodge resolution and to en
trust the safety of the Panama Canal
to international comity, then, we can
afford to let our naval strength re
main stationary. If we intend to up
hold the Monroe doctrine, we must re
member that it is no stronger than our
power to maintain it by force. The
only nation which is likely to set that
doctrine at naught is Germany, which
is restrained only by the superior na
val power of Britain. But for that,
Germany could now defy us, for she
has thirteen capital ships to our six.
Not only is it unsafe, it is undignified,
for us to rely on the aid of another
nation for the maintenance of this
cardinal point of our foreign policy.
If we rely on our own strength
Britain will the more readily back us
in upholding our supremacy in the
Western Hemisphere and no other na
tion will dare to attack us.
If the ordinance closing saloons at
1 A. M. is rigidly enforced and if the
police and Sheriff adhere to their
purpose of arresting as vagrants all
joyriders found on the streets after
that hour, there will be no danger that
owl cars will become an aid to dissi
pation. They will then answer only
their legitimate business to furnish
means of transit to night workers and
to those who arrive or depart on
trains In the small hours of the morn
ing. This latter class should not suf
fer inconvenience, when the sole rea
son is that law may be violated
through neglect of the proper author
ities to enforce it.
Endless are the possibilities of arti
ficial daylight, which English and Ger
man scientists profess to be able to
produce. Ballrooms may be so lighted
that each color of the women's gowns
will be as easily distinguished as in
daytime. Ail the hues produced by
the painter's talent will stand out as
clearly at night as by day. The artist
will no longer protest against his
work being "skied," but will only in
sist that the rays of the new arc light
so fall upon It that all the variations
of coloring - shall show. When this
discovery is practically applied, we
shall indeed be able to turn night into
day.
Did Arnold Winkelried say his feet
were sore and he was tired when he
gathered an armful of Austrian spears
to his breast at Sempach and opened
the way to victory for the Swiss pa
triots? Did hie Light Brigade ques
tion the wisdom of the order which
sent It on that senseless -charge at Bal
aklava? The men of Oregon's second
battalion need to learn from the fame
which enshrines these men the true
spirit which should inspire a soldier.
Vacation trippers must remember
one important fact If they wish to re
turn to town in good health. Living
conditions are far less hygienic in the
country than, in the city. The water
is apt to be polluted. The food is not
likely to be well cooked. The plague
of flies is unremitting. Flies breed
In filth and around many country
places the accumulation of filth Is
stupendous. The direct consequence
is typhoid fever.
Friends of education will rejoice to
learn of the encouraging outlook for
Pacific College at Newberg. It is a
Friends' College and represents the
sound Christian principles of that de
nomination. The prospect for an ad
equate endowment is now good and
the institution will probably enter
upon a period of great prosperity.
The new logging railroad up Silver
Creek will add to the network of
roads which is covering not only the
valleys but the more remote mountain
regions of Oregon and bringing them
in touch with the cities. Such roads
will in a few years lift Oregon into
first place among the lumber states.
What is this we hear about a steam
roller being run over the candidates
at the Spokane .Bull Moose conven
tion? We had been led by one Roose
velt to suppose that the steam roller
was an exclusively Republican imple
ment of warfare, abhorred by all good
Progressives.
Many of the Bull Moose wish to en
joy the pleasures of bolting without
sacrificing the pleasures of the old
party's pie counter. They suffer the
tortures of those who are divided be
tween two desires.
When a mining promoter attacks a
man who proposes state Inspection of
his properties, he proves that the in
spection is necessary and that a "blue
sky" law would be useful In California.
The moving picture people must not
miss a spectacular production in the
march to the gallows tomorrow and
its abrupt termination by the most
tender angel of mercy.
Possibly a reason Son-in-law Nick
is not a Progressive is that he knows
his father-in-law very well.
Is there not an alienist in this broad
state who wants to be superintendent
of the new asylum? '
' Has the speeding fever run Its
course and the speeder reformed, or
has vigilance relaxed?
So Cornelius G. Murphy had no lead
pipe cinch on his job after all.
Stars and Star-Makers
By Leona Casa Baer.
.Mr. and Mrs. George Davis, the for
mer co-manager with Frederick Belas
co at the Belasco Theater, in San Fran
cisco, have gone to New York. They
are accompanied by their niece, Elean
or Haber, who Is known to Portland
ers through her work here in stock
and more recently featured in "The
Barrier." While in New York Mr. Davis
will select hew company members for
the Belasco stock next season.
The children who are rehearsing with
Cathrine Countiss at the Heilig for the
birthday party scene in "Her Own
Way" next week were Immensely ex
cited when informed that real ice
cream would be served. There were
long faces and wails of protests when
a waggish stage-hand suggested that
cotton batting in the saucers would
look "just as well from the front," and
they could pretend to eat it. But Miss
Countiss averted a strike by tactful
assurances that the ice cream should be
Just as real as the champagne sipped
by the grown-ups' in the supper scene
of "Divorcons." Little Mayo Methot,
who has the soul of an artist, was the
only one unconcerned. "It seems to me."
she remarked scornfully to one of the
discontents, "that it is a matter of act
ing, and not what we have on the ta
ble." e
Katherine Grey, lately here in vau
deville and for many seasons a Cali
fornia stock actress, has been engaged
to open a new stock house, the St.
James Theater, of Boston.
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And this is what the Dramatic Re.
view of San Francisco furnished in
the way of news Items. Probably it's
only another press story, however, for
even when she isn't acting Mrs. llling
ton Bowes keeps in the publio eye:
"That part of Margaret llllngton
Bowes' dream of sweet dreams is to
come true, for the long-legged bird
follows in the wake of the famous
star's itinerary. Before the passing
year has turned the corner the motn
erhood that she has so exalted and
prated of to the joy of 'hi scribblers
of newspaper hysteria, when she was
separating herself from Daniel Froh
man, is to be hers.
For the first time in many seasons,
Manager Harry Bishop has seen his
Summer season in Oakland turned into
one of large profit, and the magicians
have been Frankiyn Underwood and
Frances Slosson, who have extended
and could stay for a third extension if
their time permitted. But they are
under contract with John Cort to open
in a new play, "Ransomed," which will
be given its premiere on September
23 In New York.
The Ferris Hartman Opera Company
has sailed for the Orient for a six
months' tour. They will play three
weeks in Honolulu and make appear
ances in Japan, China and Manila.
Carleton Chase has gone to Join the
Essanay Film Manufacturing Company.
Ann Swinburne, a Portland girl, is
to have the leading feminine role In
"The Count of Luxembourg." which
Klaw & Erlanger are to produce at the
Tremont Theater in Boston next Mon
day The music Is by Franz Lehar
and has the usual waltz, without which
no Viennese musical comedy seems to
be complete. The cast includes als.i
Frances Cameron, who comes cut here
occasionally with the "Prince of Pil
sen." .
Lillian Crosman, another Portland
product, is playing at the Colonial in
Chicago in Max von Wegern's produc
tion of "The Merry Widow RemarriiJ,"
an operetta.
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Chester Sutton, who was two years
ago manager of the Orpheum Theater
here, has joined the Willard Mack
Marjorie Rombeau stock as company
manager in Salt Lake City. Since hf
ir horn fr. Sutton has managed the
Orpheum Theater in Butte and Inter
at Salt Lake. Rosa xtoma, tni violin
ist, is Mrs. Sutton in private life, and
Is ingenue with the Mack company.
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Edmond Hayes appeared In Portland
for the first time at the Marquam
Grand as Romeo to Martha Mathew's
Juliet 17 years ago, and now, after
that long lapse of time, is seen at the
same theater (now the Orpheum) as
the boss of a "bonehead" pianomover.
Hayes styles his big change in Port
land roles as "a jump from Romeo to
'rummy.' " When Hayes was here near
ly one-fifth of a century ago with
Martha Mathew, besides "Romeo and
Juliet" he appeared in "The Lady of
r.vnns" and in "The Egyptian." One
year later he was here with Robert
Downing, playing leads in The Ulaa
iator," "Virginius," "Othello" and "Da
mon and Pythias." Still later he visited
Portland with Maud Granger, for whom
ho -a-aa lonrlinir man in "The Crust of
Society," "Article 47" and "Camille."
Then he went to San Francisco, wnere
he played In stock for three years
Eight years ago he returned to this
city In the burlesque, "The Wise Guy,"
the role for which he Is noted particu
larly. He has also appeared in Port
loj -n-ith Ttnso noirhlan in "Masks and
Faces'' and "The Magistrate."
...
.Top Dillon, who comes out here every
season ahead of something worth
while, keeps up his reputation pro
fessionally by heralding the coming of
the Gilbert & Sullivan Festival Com
pany, and is arranging preliminaries
for the revivals of the "Mikado," "Pin
afore," "Patience" and "The Pirates of
Penzance," which are to be given at
the Heilig the week of September 1.
The cast includes DeWolf Hopper,
BinnfhA TJuffield. Eugene Cowles,
George McFarlane, Arthur Aldridge,
Viola Gillette, Arthur uunningnam,
Alice Brady, Louise Barthel and a host
of others who have helped make these
revivals a sensation in the history of
present-day theatricals. So great has
been the success of this organization
since leaving the .New York Casino,
which playhouse was the birthplace of
all these revivals, that arrangements
have been completed by the Shuberts
and William A. Brady with Manager
Calvin Heilig by which this same com
pany will play in Portland again next
season. On that occasion the present
repertoire will have added "Iolanthe"
and "The Gondoliers."
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Norval McGregor, a well known Coast
manager of small companies, is conval
escing following an operation in a Pas
adena sanitarium
GROWIV6 POLITICAL HONESTY.
Roosevelt Tcok Grave Liberties With
Troth, Says Mr. Atchley.
PORTLAND, Aug. 20. (To the Edi
tor.) The frank editorial acknowldes
ment by The Oregonion to Mr. Side
linger, of Raymond, Wash., that 'Khe
bosses Murphy, Ryan, Belmont, Tag
gart, Sullivan, Hearst were to a man
arrayed against Wilson" at the Balti
more convention, deserves commenda
tion, since The Oregonian is support
ing one of Mr. Wilson's opponents.
It Is encouraging to note the rapid
advance of political honesty and po
litical independence as evidenced by
the great newspapers and voters of the
present. Not so very long ago voters
wished to read only what they be
lieved, and newspapers were excused if
not encouraged In satisfying their in
tolerant political prejudices by evading
the truth, suppressing favorable news,
or deliberately lying about opposing
political parties and candidates.
It Is surprising that so great a pol
itician as Roosevelt, noted for his sa
gacity and progressiveness, should
overlook the present-day demand of
voters for political honesty. He is op
portune in founding a new political
party at a time when political preju
dice and rank political partisanship are
rapidly melting giving way to politi
cal progress and independence. This,
together witli Roosevelt's great popu
larity, will give him millions of votes.
But why lid he throw away the votes
of that vast multitude whose distrust
for a man Who deliberately and un
necessarily lies about the nomination
of Wilson is stronger than their great
admiration for Roosevelt?
It is generally admitted that Roose
velt can do many things that would
kill others Dolitically and remain pop
ular, but It Is certain that he will lose
many votes by insulting the intelll
gence of the people, when he assumes
that they don't know the facts that
Bryan ran Wilson rough-shod over the
bosses at Baltimore. Nor does it add to
the voters' estimate of Roosevelt's ve
racity when he claims to oppose the big
interests, for everybody knows that the
steel and harvester trusts are fmanc
ing and backing him.
GEO. T. ATCHLEY.
627 East Couch street.
PERKINS VIEWED FIRST HAND
Travelinar Men Who Know Roosevelt
Angel Give Version.
ROSEBURG, Or., Aug. 20. (To the
Editor.) Would you kindly give space
to this letter, which is written in re
sponse to Mr. A. K. Ware's eulogistic
letter upholding Mr. Perkins as an
anti-trust advocate, and whose rela
tions with the firm of J. P. Morgan &
Comoany and Wall street In general
are severed once and for all I?). The
acquaintance existing between Mr.
Ware and Mr. Perkins is evidently
from newspaper origin. Mr. Ware, like
the majority of all "Bull Moosers,
has a deck seat on the good boat "Sy
cophant." The personal pronoun is so
evident in Mr. Ware's letter that I. lor
one of a dozen traveling men in Rose
burg today, wish to congratulate him
on the success of his undertaking In
bringing the name of A K. Ware be
fore the public in so ably a written let
ter. But it would have been Better
for Mr. Ware to have known what he
was writing about than It was for him
to fly into print in the manner ne nas.
My home is in New York. I am in that
city six months in the year, i Know
Mr. Perkins personally and have known
him for 25 years, and I do know as
a positive fact that Mr. PerKlns is
still a partner in the house of Morgan
& Co.. which not only includes J. t'ler
pont Morgan & Co.. of New York, but
also Includes the house of J. S. Morgan
& Co., of London: Drexel, Harje's &
Co. of Paris and Drexel & Co., of
Philadelphia. Mr. Ware says the edi
tor does not mingle with the common
neoDle to learn their ways and doings,
I venture to say there is no one set of
men who mingle with the common
masses more than the traveling man.
And rieht now there are 12 of us at the
McClelland Hotel. Eight of the 12 are
Republicans and four Democrats. Nine
of the 12 are going to vote tor Tart,
and three say they will vote for Wil
son. The 12 represent all classes of
business and the combined capital or
the 12 different houses we represent
runs into the hundred millions. We
meet all classes of men in all kinds
of conditions, and the general opinion
amontr the Deoole we "meet Is that
either Taft or Wilson is good enough
for them, but that under no circum
stances do they want a third party, or
a third term. Roosevelt may be all
right in his way. but his way and his
Dartv start with an 1 ana ena wnn
a M. So, Mr. Ware, gat busy and -look
up your newspaper friend s liew lorn
City connections.
Indorsed by:
J. C. HODGMAN.
E. S. WALKER,
F. F. THOMPSON,
HARRY STUBBS,
F. G. BROWN.
G. W. RUN KIN.
ALEX HOWELL,
S. H. NEWMAN,
C. M. MORGAN.
MET LOTHARIOS IV UNIFORM.
Experience With Winking Policemen on
Streetcar Is llecountea.
PORTLAND. Aug. 20. (To the Edi
tor.) This letter is for the benefit of
the. neoDle of Portland and the sur
rounding community. It has to deal
with the very efficient and courteous,
as well as nolite, police that do duty
in your most wonderful city. Now do
not thinK lor an instant mat mis is
a letter knocking the City or fort
land: not at all simply the police.
On Sunday morning, some few
minutes before 8 o'clock, two young
ladies took a North Portland car for
the North Bank station, evidently to
catch a train. One of the ladles had
a youngster about 4 years of age
which would seem to signify that she
was a married woman; whicn sne was.
As they entered the car they noticed
four larare and stout policemen also in
the car, men whom the taxpayers of
Portland pay to watch over their
city-
Mind you I say there were four In
this particular car and every single
one of them tried to flirt with these
two young women that had Just
entered the car. One of these police
men Just simply stared and winked at
one of these women until tney leu
the car. I won't give his number here.
I will just keep it until some other
time.
It seems as if one of the ladies had
a suitcase and naturally sne lert it in
the car vestibule until -she arrived at
her destination. Well, sir, it was
laughable to see all foifr cops jump
together and offer to set the bag out
side when the owner was getting ready
to leave the car. It is alright to be
courteous and polite to some people,
but to carry it too far is altogether
something that these policemen should
know better than to do.
I have wondered since whether they
had a game. If they were trying to
draw some innocent people on in order
to arrest them. I want to say that I
am in possession of all four of the
policemen's numbers and If they ever
so much as try It again they will surely
hear of it. It seems a pity nowadays
that even the guards of the cities can
not resist doing what they are paid to
prevent others from doing. Trusting
you will publish this letter for the
public's benefit I remain. Yours very
truly. C. D. G.
Quite a Bit of Nerve.
Boston Transcript.
"What are you writing, old chap?"
"An article entitled 'Advice to Grad
uates.'" "Eh! Advice to grad . Well, of
all the presumption'"
Experimental Judiciary
By Dean Collins.
A Daniel came to the judgment seat.
In the sorrowful session when
The guardsmen gathered and 'gan ta
repeat
The tale how they marched on their
blistered feet.
But wouldn't march back again.
And the captains raised their sorrowful
wall,
And this is the way it ran:
That, thinking the march of no avail.
They stuck and lo, so they tell the
tale.
The court-martial tied the can.
"I'll not decide," quoth the Daniel
grave,
"On the matter that you repeat.
Until, equipped as a soldier brave.
I've hiked eight miles in a warm heat
wave.
And found if it hurts one's feet."
A Daniel come to the judgment, yea,
A Daniel beyond a doubt!
And shall it come to the wondrous day
When never a judge shall sentence say
Until he has tried things out?
May I hope to see. ere my life depart.
The vision beyond belief.
Of a justice grave, in the public mart.
Swiping a loaf from a baker's cart
Before he will sentence a thief?
May I see a judge sedately go
Out from the court to bang
At maybe a dozen men or so.
Returning when he has laid one low
To sentence a man to hang?
The age of wonders is surely here.
And now we have struck the dawn '
Of a day when the court, it doth ap
pear, Shall Judge a deed, without favor or
fear.
By trying the said deed on.
Half a Century Ago
From The Oregonian of August 21V1SI12.
We are in receipt of a copy of a
general order issued by General Wright,
announcing that the rebel force from
Texas has been driven out from Arizona.
An Eastern correspondent says:
"There is one very noticeable feature
in the rebel press. The papers which
in every issue used to call Abraham
Lincoln an ape, a baboon, un imbecile
have utterly stopped it. I have not
seen a specimin of those pleasant
Southern compliments for six months.
The ability and integrity of our first
Republican President have fairly con
quered the respect of his enemies."
Garibaldi has issued a proclamation
for voluteers to assemble in Sicily, an
nouncing that the time for action has
come.
Lieutenant Merryman, of the revenue
service on 1'uget, Sound, took passage
on the last steamer from Victoria for
Washington City, In all probability to
make report upon the actions of Victor
Smith relative to the Custom-House at
Port Townsend. Victor Smith, as soon
as he learned that Lieutenant Merry
man had left Port Townsend. im
mediately started in pursuit with the
steamer Shubrick and will probably
overtake the Lieutenant at San Fran
cisco. We accidentally happened in at No.
2's engine-house on Wednesday even
ing last, and from what we saw and
heard, we immediately came to the
conclusion that the boys were having
a good time. Soul-stirring (we mean
boots, shoes and pump soles) music,
filled the pleasant hall, while the boys
whirled fairy-like forms and sweet,
smiling faces gaily round the room.
Messrs. Bennett and Quimby are the
proprietors of the Pioneer Livery
Stable, on the corner of Morrison and
Second streets, and as such they have
become very popular with the traveling
public.
BILL MOOSE ANTICS AMUSE.
Onlooker at Pow Wow Gives Vlens on
Local Exponents.
PORTLAND, Aug. 20. (To the Edi
tor.) An account in The Oregonian
of the meeting of the "Progressive
party of Multnomah County" was in no
small degree amusing and by no means
incorrect. It would take the pen of
Dickens to depict the scene and the
chief actors of this and other gather
ings of the same crowd. I was pro
foundly impressed with the unselfish
loyalty of some of the principal shout
ers for political purity, and knowing
them pretty well felt like rising in my
place and shouting. At one of the pre
vious meetings, and prominent in the
demand for a complete state and coun
ty ticket, was one of most persistent
little candidates for justice of the
peace. 1 know this chap very well.
He is a progressive from the bottom
up and has flopped in politics, as well
as other matters, until he is as agile
as a mandrill. I have noticed his name
as a lawyer in connection with suits
wherein the rights of the laborer were
being tested, the laborer seeking to
collect his wages for himself and not
for the attorney to use, our perennial
candidate being the defendant in these
suits and making a line, figure as such.
He must have a oouBty ticket, and
then who will be nominated for Jus
tice of the Peace? The mental pro
cesses of genius are certainly hard to
fathom. A great lawyer like our
perennial candidate certainly sheds
luster if not glory on this group.
My feelings were shocked at the rude
assaults and innuendos pointed at my
dear friend H. Coe, M. D., a person of
less rotundity of figure and experience
In handling lunatics would have been
nonplussed but not so II. Coe. He be
lieves in the Oregon System, and hav
ing nominated himself by a clear ma
jority proposed to stick to his con
stituted rights. I suggested to a neigh
bor that he call out as delegates his
Alaska "Jabberwocks," penned up in
his neat little Dotheboys Hall, but my
friend knew them not, so 1 explained
that our peerless leader was the
Squeers of a fine littlo lunatic asylum
wherein are immured by contract all
persons who the Government gathers
from Alaska and who being weak
minded are turned over to 'Squeers"
Cot. It is a Government contract,
made, I believe, during the reign of
Theodore the Omniscient and yielding
large and pleasant revenues.
I certainly was angry at Kellaher,
that champion of the people, when he
said he was to guard "Theodore the
disinherited," and had arranged to
"lend" him to Vancouver. The idea!
Here sits Saucers and is forced to
listen to some one talk in that manner.
He ought to remand him to the padded
precincts of one of his chambers de
luxe. Right won out, however, when
a gentleman declared Dr. Coe. the
rightful leader of the Progressives of
this state. Who will lend the Colonel
Is not yet settled, but no one can deny
that H. Coe was insulted. I shall leave
the party If this occurs again.
JOHN BROWN TABOR.
A Fashion List.
Judge.
Behold! Tho cotton Slimmer gown
Of Turkifh towellrs
For followers of Fapnlnn's fads
Is now the latest thing.
It opens to a thoughtful eye
A vista wide and new.
Where opera cloaks may all he made
Of bath ruga white and blue. '
The sponge, when It Is not In use,.
May deck a modish hat;
The dish cloth he a handkerchief.
Or flowing long cravat;
The laundry bag an auto hood.
"With cakes of soap to trim It
But let me not prolong tho liat.
For, lo! there is no limit.