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Steser building. . ., r lu Franclae OIXlc B. J. Bldwall Caw X2 Market atreet. . European OMlca No. Kecent MrMt, a. W London. PORTLAND, FRIDAY, AUGUST t. Hun LET US AWAIT RESULTS. . No wise business man adopts a rad ical change of policy until the failure of his past policy has been demon strated beyond a doubt. But Roose velt and those who Join with him in assuming that the dissolution of the trusts is impossible, that an attempt to dissolve them would be disastrous to business and that no alternative re mains but their legalization under strict Government regulation, are pro. posing that this Nation shall do what a wise business man would not do. Between J890 and 1903, when the Northern Securities suit was begun, comparatively few attempts had been made to enforce the Sherman law, and. with the exception of the sugar trust, the great monopolies had been immune from attack. Roosevelt insti tuted forty-four proceedings of vari ous kinds under that law during the seven and one-half years of his In cumbency of the President's chair. Several of these suits were against the same combination and a number of them were directed against small lo cal trusts of no general importance. During his administration the major ity of the trusts were organized, but he did nothing to prevent their com ing into existence. Their capitaliza tion increased tenfold in that period. The really earnest effort to enforce the anti-trust law generally and im partially began with President Taffs administration. Until last December he had instituted thirty-seven pro ceedings and the number begun since that date easily brings the total up to. If not beyond, the total of Roosevelt's term. It Is only a year since he se cured concrete results in court through the dissolution of the oil and tobacco trusts, but he has since se cured the dissolution of several other trusts, either voluntarily or by court decree, and he is continuing the work, undaunted by criticism from either the trusts or their enemies. It is too early as yet to Judge of the effects of Taffs work. One might as well sow seed and expect to see the plant grow up in a night. But we can already discern some results. The or ganization of trusts has ceased and, as the Springfield Republican remarks: The trust promoter ha son out of busi ness for th same reason that George W. Perkins has son Into politics. The gloomy predictions of business paralysis as the penalty for blocking the working out or "moaern economic methods" have been falsified. On the contrary. Illogical as it may seem in the eyes of the trust promoters, busi ness shows a decided and healthy re vival. Although it Is yet too early to Judge of the full effects of disintegra tion, there are already perceptible Ria-ns that they have been beneficial. Higher quotations for standard stocks have led the cynical to pronounce dis solution a farce. Roosevelt, forgetting that the oil monopoly was dissolved precisely as he proposed, has taken up th crv. It is possible that the ad vance in price is partly the .result of recovery from undue depression causea bv fear of the effect of the uovern ment's suit. This advance is certainly due in large part to the revelation that the trust's assets were worth twice as iw.,.. o thtr brink value. It Is in i om decree due to natural causes, en tirelv disassociated from the question v of whether the country's oil supply is or Is not controlled by a monopoly; " such causes, for example, as higher prices caused by increased use or gaso line and other petroleum products i But there are Indications already of a revival of competitive conditions, such f as a higher price for crude oil in the i mid-continental field, due to the pres ence of more than one bidder, i In the tobacco trade there are clear. I ly discernible evidences of reviving 1 comrjetition. Growers get higher nrices. for there are competing buy ers in the field. The growing of to bacco will thus be stimulated, the sup- ply will be increased and the oppor i tunity for new firms to engage in to " hacco manufacture will be broadened The dissevered parts of the old trust - have begun a great advertising campaign, and competition has driven the shrunken American xoDacco t-um Tianv to expend much of its surplus In improving its plants and in otherwise preparing to contend wun its nvms. i Th hest evidence that the Taft pol ' Ir-v of dissolution is no farce is found ' in the strenuous resistance of the trusts to the efforts now being made to subiect them to the same process I If dissolution had been a mere change in outward form without change in the inward essence, the steel and harvester trusts would not be making sucn a vigorous tight. Perkins, . Hanna and McCormick would not have gone Into nolitics and financed a new party. it will be time enough to decide that competition is dead beyond hope of resurrection when the Taft policy has 1 been put in full operation and has had time to work out its results. That '. policy requires not only that final de- : cislons be rendered in all pending suits, I hut that the Sherman law be supple- mented by a law defining more exactly -artist does and what does not consti , monopoly, what does and what does not constitute unrea conahle restraint of trade, as well as endowing an administrative ' bodv with power to start corporations on "the path of legality and to keep i them in that path. The full working out of such a policy requires abolition of those special privileges which have Ko.n fecund breeders of trusts and res toration of that equal opportunity for o-hinh Taft is striving ana oi wmcn Roosevelt preaches so verbosely. These things being done, we shall see how far combination is me lesiiiiuaic re sult of modern economic methods, and how far It is the rruu or iawies.ne, greed and governmental iavuia. n then in spite of all we can do. monop jlics breed, we shall be ready to con th. Roosevelt policy of Govern ...nimilwi monopoly, or the kin- dred Socialist policy of Government owned monopoly, which Is but a step farther. MISPLACED 6YMPATHY.' The Oregonian supposes that Mr. C. E. S. Wood has not intended to advo cate the remission of all penalty for crime; yet that is what he appears to do when he argues that punishment does not prevent crime. What does prevent crime? It is the vigorous and certain enforcement of law, and of the suitable penalties prescribed by law. It may be freely conceded that the very harshness of former English laws in making some 150 offenses such as larceny, burglary, and so on punish able by death defeated the wholesome purposes of exact Justice. England does things better now, for it hangs murderers and traitors, and there is neither murder nor treason In Great Britain at least not to any consider able extent. France abolished the guillotine a few years ago: but has restored it for use In capital cases. Recently, for the sake of an impressive lesson, several murderers were publicly guillotined. Evidently France found that homi cides had increased under the tender heme of too merciful justice, cated by Mr. Wood. The Oregonian does not at au con tend that all persons guilty of homl- m .hn tw haneed: nor does it agree with Mr. Wood that the small number of convictions for murder is due to tne growing antipathy to the hangman. There is very little fear by murderers of either the hangman or prison, owing to society's indifference to crimes of the blood. Why this calloused disre gard for human life? F Why does soci ety care so little when one person slays another? Why does society so soon forges the man or woman wnu been brutally slain and shower all its tears on the surviving slayer? Because of the astounding growth or the spirit of protest against authority nd of revolt against tne iorms ui .. There Is a wiaespreau BUv.jau0v dogma that nobody ought to be penal ized for anything, and that the way to abolish crime Is to punish nobody for crime. . The old-fashioned view ana xc Oregonian is old-fashlonea enougu iu hold it Is that the way to prevent crime is to punish the criminal. It ould rid society of sucn unuu ui.. monsters as tne slayers ui ." Green girl and the little Holzman girl, because it thinks they have forfeited the right to live, and it thinks also notfcif nouraa uduii ouv... ...., 1, worse than wasted, and any effort at reformation is uc.., hopeless. srPFRIOR OREGON POTATOES. v.Hxus nooDle who have made a study of the subject report xnat u. tiiv inno acres Dlanted to pota toes In Crook County within easy reach of the railways. As mere win un doubtedly be a large yield per acre, o, o. tha oualltv is sure to be su perb, these tubers ougnt w lot of money into that country this Fall. , , Ti.. tiniiand acres is merely a starter. It must be remembered that before the railways reached mat sec tion the production of potatoes beyond the local demand was aoout as pru..L as gathering pebbles, or harvesting sage brusn. do who really the first full year the Crook County landowners have had to try their hands at potato growing as a ,mTviirrtal nroDOsition. A thousand acres is a good beginning. The experts from the Oregon Agri ii.m1 Polleee have insisted that po tato growing ought to be one of the chief industries of the interior of Ore gon, particularly in croon, upper and large areas in Harney. The two latter fields are not yet in touch with the outside world by rail, but they will be In 1914. portions of the territory in 1913. and soon thereafter we may expect to see the potato crop oi ure ran nearly doubled. As to quality, tnere are no oeticr po tatoes riroduced anywhere than up6n the dry farming lands In the sections mentioned. The celebrated Greeley spuds are far inferior to them both in flavor and keeping qualities. Potato raising Is a profitable in dustry. If you doubt it ask the grow ers around Canby. in Clackamas Coun ty. Canby ships from 450 to BOO cars every year, the output going almost entirely to San Francisco. The people of Crook will have to get a market, but In. co-operation with the railways, rates have been secured that opens to them the Oklahoma field, and a trial will be made of shipments there this Fall. The Texas field will also receive attention. But somewhere there win be found a market, for once tried the Oregon dry-land spuds will be in great demand. The average price of potatoes in the United States for the five years prior to 1911 was $0.58.6 per bushel; for last year It was 10.79.9. The average price In Oregon last year was 67 cents, but our average returns per acre were very high J 87.10 per acre, while the average of the country was only 164.64. Oklahoma, where we ought to find a large and profitable market, is the poorest potato state In the country. the yield there being for last year only 22.32 per acre, while the price was $1.24. The average yield per acre was eighteen bushels. There is surely money in potatoes In this state at the average prices ruling of late years, and our area and output should be largely increased. We had last year 46,000 acres in spuds; Crook and adjacent counties ought to have double that acreage before five years roll around, FROPEK MILITARY SPOUT. J. T. Dillon, a humble private In the Third Oregon Regiment, writes to The Oregonian to correct a wrong impres' sion of the militia that, he fears, may have reached the public through the medium of an erstwhile battalion com mander. Major R. O. Scott. Private Dillon views with much trepidation the testimony of Major Scott at Gov ernor West's inquiry into the Scott battalion mutiny at recent field man euvers. The former commander of four companies tells a lurid tale of mistreatment In the fearful campaign wherein some thirty miles were trav eled in a period of eight days. It is a tale that is most unmilitary and one savoring strongly of "tin." Private Dillon takes the stand that much was learned by association with the Regulars and that if there were any minor hardships they were taken in good part and looked upon by the men in the ranks who do the real work as beneficial and instructive, This Is the proper military spirit and coming from the ranks is significant The occasonal disobedience of some officer Is of no consequence so long as the rank and file is free of mutinous Infections. Had the commanding or ficer of the Second Battalion shared Private Dillon's military spirit it is safe to assume there would have been THE MORNING OREGONIAN. FRIDAY. AUGUST no mutiny. The man who hasn t tne stomach for a mild little maneuver game assuredly would be of no value in the stress of actual campaigning. It would seem that Summer maneu vers have found a new value elimi nation of the unfit from a soDer game in which the main requirements are grit, courage and a proper military pirit. SOAKING THE LAXDOWXER. Land bears now a large share too large a share of taxes. xne con stant design of modern economists is to devise new schemes of taxation to relieve the burden on the land. Thus we find the personal property tax, corporation tax. inheritance tax, in come tax, franchise tax and others. all aimed to equalize the tax oDiiga tion. To the extent that they succeed, so much the better for the land owner and the home owner, who are chiefly represented among the farmers and workers of the state. The single tax cure-all would con centrate and simplify the whole tax problem by making the land pay all the tax. There are to be exceptions, but they are so small as to be negligible. Your single taxer may argue ana expatiate from morning to night about the single tax, but the whole scheme may be summed up in the following: Under single tax the land which now pays part of the taxes will pay ALL the taxes. A FRIEND OF DOGS. The ripple of worshipful Interest which always runs through the East ern states when a British aristocrat is expected has been set going within the last few days by the visit of the Right Honorable Walter Long. In his case there is more ground for a stir than usual because, unlike most of the no bility' and gentry who condescend to patronize these . shores, he has done something In the world besides living and consuming luxuriously. Walter Long was once Secretary for Ireland and narrowly missed being chosen head of the Unionist party when Mr. Balfour retired. A formidable rival fought him so hard that it was deemed best to fix upon a compromise candi date. Yet Mr. Long retains the pres tige of his acknowledged fitness for the position. But his principal work has not lain In the realm of practical politics. It has been the protection of the British Isles from mad dogs. In recognition of what he did he is stig matized as "the muzzier" by dog idol aters who prefer the liberty of their fetishes to the safety of women and children. But perhaps Mr. Long does not care a great deal for their enmity. He freed his country from the plague of dogs by securing the passage of a muzzling and quarantine act which applies to Ireland as well as to Eng land and Scotland. Under this act it is required not only that dogs running about the streets and roads shall be muzzled, but if one of them has been taken out of the country it must submit to quarantine for six months before it can be brought back. It is this last provision which particularly excites the wrath of the adorers of canines. To them it Is Intolerable that the law should lh' terfere with their pleasure merely to protect the public. Still there is a substantial preponderance of common sense over sentimentality in the Brit ish Isles, for Mr. Long's law remains undisturbed on the statute book. The consequence of his work is that rabies has been extinguished in Great Brit ain. The country has plenty of dogs of all degrees, but none of them go mad, simply because the germs of rabies have been exterminated. By a curious turn of fate Mr. Long's glory suffers because his work has been too well done. Inasmuch as there is now no rabies in the country the dog wor shipers declare there never was any and even shout that the disease is Im aginary. Just as the same class of people maintain that there is no dan ger in smallpox after vaccination has stamped it out. What is the use of vaccination when we have no small pox? What Is the use of muzzling the dogs when we have no rabies? What is the use of taking any measures to ward off disease and death? OLD BACHELORS. There is an article In the current Saturday Evening Post which should set self-satisfied bachelors thinking. Its title is "The Man Who Wouldn't Marry." The hero, if one may call a man whose career ended so dismally a hero, was a Southern youth of old family, whose moth er, left an impoverished widow, coun seled him never to marry until he could support a wife In his own sta tion in life. With his way to make In the world this seemed a difficult task and Jie put matrimony out of his thoughts for some years, always intending, of course, to take a wife when he was able. Old bachelors naturally fall into two classes. In the first 'belong those who are such by birth and genius. To them the fleshly comforts are the be- all and end-all of life. Among these comforts they include the gossip, the cosy teas, the fat dinners and the blandishments of society. As long as they have these things they care for nothing more and they find full em Dloyment for their feeble intellectual powers in memorizing the little anec dotes, cultivating the petty elegancies and rehearsing the manners which make them acceptable In wealthy households. The other class of old bachelors come to tneir saa ena inrougn pro crastination. They mean to take a wife next year or the year after, but when the appointed date arrives they find that they still lack money for the venture and put it off again. Thus "tomorrow and tomorrow and tomor row creeps in this petty pace from day to day," and before they think of it they find themselves old men. This Is what happened to the bachelor in the Saturday Evening Post's story. He became pretty thoroughly besotted with the relish for social gaiety and luxurious ease, but It never quite killed the man in him. While he was frit tering away his youth in nonsense he held more or less loyally to a vague resolution to marry some time other, but the time never came. cared more for the fleshpots of Egypt thnTi h did for the life of a man, and so old age found him still a bachelor, The misery of his wifeless and child less plight was multiplied by the sight of his old friends who had braved the rlks of matrimony years Derore ana were now flourishing family men with wives who adored them and sons and daughters rising into prosperous ca reers, while he grew more and more lonely with every passing montn. The Inevitable loneliness of old age is sad enough when a man has all the mitigations for it which nature per mits, such as loving children, troops of friends, the consciousness of a part in life well played. The bachelor xan have none of these. The friends oi his youth die or marry or go to other cities as business calls them and only rarely do any take their places as the years advance. The comforts of the club grow stale even as dear associa tions vanish and new races pusn miu the places of the old ones. Endless rep etition makes the dinners which once wer so saDld. flat and unprontaDie, and the miserable old creature shrinks mr.ro and more into himself wltnout a hope for anything better this side of the grave. Society always smiles on a bachelor, but as his hair turns graj the smiles lose their genuineness lit tle by little. When all likelihood of his choosing a bride has vanished he may still be tolerated for his imitation gayety and pathetic elegance, but he is no longer interesting. The girls mock at him behind his back and mammas shake their heads sorrowfully over the ruin he has made of his life. Rich dinners and the comforts of clubdom are but sorry compensation for the certainty of a fate like this. To be pitied as one waddles toward the grave is not an alluring prospect, but it is what every old bachelor must expect. There is no complete life for individ uals of either sex without marriage and children. The young man who shrinks from matrimony . because he does not dare undertake the support of a wife is no more a coward than the girl who refuses a husband because she can have more luxuries without one. The woman who . declared that she would-not sacrifice a "$60 Job for 140 man" has standards or me which were essentially false. The $40 man may have qualities of mind and heart which fully make up for his small earning power. Very likely Mrs. Micawber enjoyed life a great aeai more than her sisters who had mar ried millionaires and dwelt in palaces. w do not advocate reckless mar riages, nor do we believe the maxim which says that "two can live oa less than one." A bachelor can live in iiiiiirv on a sum which would arrora but poor picking for a wife and chil dren, and there is many a single woman earning more by her labor than she could ever expect to receive from a husband in her own social rank. Still it is a mistake to estimate the values of existence solely in terms of monBv. Man does not live By Dreaa alone, nor woman by ribbons and handsome Browns. It ought to be pos sible for every normal human being to marry without incurring tne miseries of increasna- tioverty as tne penauy, Tf it is a crime against one's better nature to go through life single, It is n orime to marry a woman wun no prospect ahead but poverty ana us Inevitable degradations, if it is a fortune to be childless, it Is perhaps a greater one to bring children into the world with no heritage for them but ignorance and misery. The bachelor in tne ssaiuraay meu, in Post's story did not marry because at heart he was too seirisn. J.ne greai multitude of men who remain Dacne lors do so because they refuse to bring wretchedness uDOn those tney love For the man who shirks fatherhood hor-anae he nrefers to hang wltn a aes perate grip upon the skirts of society nobody feels any sympathy. But to him who wants a wife and children and denies himself the coveted Joy be: cause he prefers the welfare of others to his own. the world must cry peccavi. He suffers the penalty of Bins which he has not committed and tne numan race is the loser by his deprivation. TOntiirkv'B Commission of Agricul ture reports that the state's wheat vleld averages less than ten bushels an acre and many farmers are abandoning wheat for other crops. But the com missioner notes that the fault is in the farmers, not in the land, and is due to lack of agricultural knowledge. That is the "nub" of the whole difficulty of our diminishing food production in nronortion to population, irarming is vwhnd the. times. This country can produce ample food for its people ana have much left for export, it ino ers will but work their land to its ca naritv. Wh e doing so, tney can in crease the fertility of the soil, but they must use their brains The Commerce Court's narrow es cape from extinction should put it on its good behavior ana insui ueoirc to vindicate its existence. The attacks upon it had their basis in tne juages exaggerated Idea or tneir own pucia, not in any demerit in the court itself. The court now has an opportunity De fore another Congress meets to prove that it Is, what it is capaDie oi necom. ing, a truly useful addition to tne Federal Judiciary. There is obvious economy in vesting the management of all the state elee mosynary Institutions in a single board. Unity of management would menn uniform prices for supplies, solidarity of aim, better methods in handling the inmates ana many omcr Improvements. Were the same policy applied to the educational institutions, equally desirable results would fol low. How could Ziegfeld be so callous as tn hacome inaiiiereni to .j ex changing charms of Anna Held ? Be hind the footlights ne deserts n w follow other women; before the foot lights Pittsburg millionaires showered money at her feet. Is there so much difference between Anna on and Anna off the stage? The emptying of the Miles Glacier Lake is an example or tne natural phenomena with which Alaskans must contend. Men wno live -wun vno volcanoes on one hand and moving rivers of ice on the other are in very truth living close to nature. In drastic treatment of wretches who wantonly take human life let there be a warning to their kind, a deterrent to those in whose miserable brains murder lies in embryo awaiting only encouragement and opportunity to spring Into full being. The Progressive party is "ferninst" bosses, but Roosevelt "orders" his Cincinnati adherents to put a candi date in the field against his son-in-law, Longworth. But, of course, Roosevelt is not a boss; he is "our great leader." Invincible General Prosperity is striving earnestly to scatter the army of the Industrial Workers of the World. They should be too busy earn ing good wages to strike and agitate. With hundreds of carloads of fruit to ship East at fancy prices, Medford has no time to listen to any man who does not talk prosperity. Secretary Knox ia an artful dodger in escaping the interviewer by travel ing through Canada.-- Anvway. the Beavers can "lick" the tailenders. 23, 1913. REFLECTIONS ON SINGLE Tii Some FUacle Are Pointed Out by Mr. Lehman. t PORTLAND. Aug. 18. (To the EdU tor.) In The Oregonian of August 17 W. S. CRen desires a few cold facts. Mr. trRen, like the puppet show at a county fair, sets up little rag dolls and then knocks them down again. - His ar guments are good as. long as they re late to the particular dolls that he him self sets up, but when - someone sets up a doll, anchored firm in the roots of common-sense, equity ana jus tice, then his arguments rail snoru The farmer would not De ruineu uy reason of paying less taxes, neither would the factory owner or mivui. The promise of less taxes to the farmer made by the single-taxers is hkc a sugar doll to a baby wnen it is Hun gry. It satisfies it for a time and takes its mind oft tne reason mi The single tax advocates will admit ih.i the exemntion of all rorms or pri vate property rrom taxation and the placing or the run Duraen oi Ing the Government upon the land will .,. ha land value. In fact it Is stated by the single taxers tnai tne principal object or tne single u to reduce land values. Of what benefit is it to a farmer to co-ue a few dollars a vear in his taxes and lose a hundred times the amount of his saving in the form or tne aepie ciation of his land values. The single taxers say that he need not sell his land for less money than he paid for it H ahould hold it: that its pro ductive power is just as great after single tax as betore, wnne nis isi wi" be less. , . if They rail to take Into consiaeranun that the farmer has intrinsic value in his land; that he has paid for his land in mnnev unri in all eaulty and any system of taxation whicn wui away from him any of the money that he put into his land is unjust ana wn nnl etnnH Land is only worth what similar lands equally as well located are worth. rci-oriiiBteri sincle tax will have a ten dency to depreciate the land values of non-productive lands. Since the basic value of all lands is the raw land It self, anything which has a tendency I. reduce the value of this land Will strike equally as hard the owner of the Improved land, because the im proved land is only worth what raw land is wortn, plus tne cost oi i Imnrovement. Mr. U'Ren fails to state that the community-made value, which is the basis of land values, is also tne basis of imnrovement values. The same pop ulation which causes land values to increase causes the demand for the products of the land and enables these products to be marketed at a profit. If the land is improved and is of fered for sale the community-made value helDS the owner to find a buyer. The owner of a 40-acre improved ranch in the heart of an Impenetrable wilder ness, with no community to market his products among, has no land value. Therefore, to follow logically the ar gument of the single taxers. who claim that the community-made value should be returned to the people In its Just proportion, all private property should be equally taxed, because all are equal ly affected by the same conditions, the values of which are all created by the community. CHAS. H. LEHMAN. BENEFITS IN FIELD MANEUVERS. Private Dillon Takes Exceptions to Former Major's Story. PORTLAND, Aug. 22. (To the Ed itor.) I have been tempted more than once to take part in the controversy that has arisen over the incident at Gate, Wash., during the recent army maneuvers, but as I am only a private 1 have refrained from doing so, as take It that privates, like children, "should be seen, not heard." If you have correctly reported Mr, Scott's testimony given yesterday at the inquiry at Salem, 1 must, however, ask vou for space to help remove wrong impression which the public Is ant to form of the Oregon National Guard. Now, speaking for myself, I think honestly that I can claim to speak for the bulk of the rank and file and this must be my excuse for speaking per sonally. I Joined the Guard to learn some thing about soldiering and have been out at one state encampment and at the recent army maneuvers. tsotti have been valuable experiences. failed to see that the militia had any objection to serving with the regulars, The regulars who served with us seemed to be a decent lot of fellows, if I am any Judge of men. I saw no in stances of "ragging" on their part, nor heard of any. either, and it seemed to me that they marched with the same enuipment as we did. irrom wnat air. Scott is reported as saying, outsiders are liable to think that the Oregon Vntlonal Guard is a collection of "sissy boys," afraid to get out and rough it with the regulars and when they do so, unduly subject to injured feelines. sore feet, etc Now. I sincerely hope tnat tne pupae will not form any such impression, for I can assure it that we are not that kind of an organization. We are aim ply citizen soldiers anxious to learn all we can in case we should ever be called upon to play the part of real soldiers. We are not in the Guard just for the fun of it and the glory or parading around occasionally. Most of use who took part In the recent maneuvers came back with a broade Idea of what the duties of a soldie consist of. We were glad of the chance to mix with the regulars and learn something from them, and we consld er ourselves better physically and mentally for our experience, and glad that we were able to hold up our end with our brothers In arms. J. T. DILLON, Company C. Third Infantry, O. N. G. WHAT IS THE REMEDY FOR CRIME? Mr. Wood Registers a Protest Asralnst Capital Punishment. PORTLAND, On, Aug. 22. (To the Editor.) I regretted to see the cartoon in The Oregonian today, the sentiment of which is that a humane prison pol icy only encourages crime. Certainly our old criminal and penal system De- longs to the Dark Ages and no Journal of civilization ought to oppose any plan for amelioration. I think it is accept ed that the severity of punishment has no relation to the prevention or crime, New York has the electric chair (and recently killed seven In one rell swoop vet this did not prevent the cold-blood ed murder of Rosenthal. Wisconsin has no capital punishment and has tewe murders than states with capital pun ishment of corresponding population and in the same neighborhood. If punishment prevented crime, why did England abollsn Hanging as tne nunlshment for larceny, burglary, high way robbery, rape and many other crimes? The fact Is the cause of crime lies deeper than the gallows, and choking a man to death is no remedy. But the growing an tipathy to the state taking human life Is responsible for many mistrials. Many a culprit who really ought to be under some kind of state supervision goes scott free because the Jury Is reluctant to hans him. I would like to see in this campaign The Oregonian take a deeper view of crime than to believe ana encourage others to believe that the killing of the criminal either prevents crime or does society any gooa. C. E. S. WOOD. High-Priced Matches. JudKe. They tell us that charges for matches are But -what is their reason for thinking them . ni turn Is ftbOUt tllS aHlOUnt That is paid. I suppose, for a match leith a count, JIB. WARE DISCUSSES HIS RECORD Tells of His Progressive Service and Discusses That Wager. MEDFORD, Or., August 20. (To the Editor.) The Oregonian editorial, care, fully read, fails to make It clear Just what you mean when you say you will wager me a first-class box of Rogue River Apples that Colonel Roosevelt will not get as many votes in the elec toral college as the next highest Presi dential candidate. Whom do you mean, Taft or Wilson? However, I will take ou up on both your offers, only I would like to know whether it is Taft or Wilson you are wagering this first box of apples on. I will make you a proposition. It Colonel Roosevelt does not carry more states than Taft in the November elec tion I will send you a nice box of our fine pears and a box of my best Tel low Newtown apples, that I will guar antee you will pronounce as fine as you ever tasted from Hood River or any other apple district. If Roosevelt wins, you are to send me The Oregon ian for one year from November 1. I have the apples and pears now grow ing on my orchard here and will gladly send them to you, if you win; if I win, you are to purchase the apples here and I will turn them over to the secretary of 'the Commercial Club, to put in the exhibit building for one week and then forward to the newly-elected President. Is this clear? As to my opinion of Dan Kellaher not resigning from the Republican ticket. As I understand the Oregon law (section 3361 of the code), a can didate before the primaries has to sign a sworn statement that he will accept the nomination, and if nominated he will not withdraw; then he has no choice in the matter. It is up to the people. If they do not care to vote for him they do not have to. However, this question is up before the courts now and in the case of the electors in Kansas the matter was postponed till it could be brought before the entire Supreme Court. The whole Question of tne legality of the action of the National commit tee acting as it did in the case of Cali fornia and Washington might also have been properly taken to the Supreme Court. The Republican state conven tion of Iowa declared that Mr. Tart was not legally nominated, and there were some good lawyers In tnat con vention, too. The whole matter now goes to the proper tribunal, the people themselves, and If they don't care to vote for anv elector who has announced himself for Mr. Roosevelt, they have the right to scratch him off their ticket or vote for the Democratic electors or the electors of any other party tney prefer. I. for one. now am sincerely glad tnat Mr. Roosevelt was turned down at the Republican convention and that tne men and women who believe, and have believed for years, that it was time to form a new Dartv have been given that opportunity, and tnat sucn gooa campaigners as Roosevelt and Johnson could head the ticket- Did you mean something personal in that sentence. It knows all that net ter than some of the hasty and unwise self-called leaders of the people".' tor, if you did, I wish to say that I never soueht an office In my me. nen first went into politics It was a town meeting or caucus or citizens of my ward, and I was nominated for Alder man by a vote of 111 to 90 for my opponent, the man who was a Council man at that time. I was not even pres ent iealn. the candidate for Mayor, I was asked by a large number or citi zens to stand ror the office, not as a Republican or Democrat. We did not mlv nn National Issues with' local Is sues. Again, wnen tne time ior uiins for the Legislature was nearly up ana there werf some nine men already In th field. T was asked to file by a large number of my friends and won out In the primaries. In fact. I have never of my own choice become a candidate for anv orrice. nor nave i ii" "w rieslre to run for any office here in Oreeon. When in the Legislature was known as an insurgent, r-rogrco- oti'o wai not use d then, and I had a biH fiirht all the time. Because l in troduced a bill for the abolishment of the railroad pass and the lowering of the 3-cent a mile passenger rate, and two years later had an all-day battle in the platform committee, of which I was a member atthe state Republican convention at Duluth, Minn., in tne en deavor to get the rest or tne commit tee to insert a 2-cent tare rate into the plattorm. But we won, although there were only two of us for It at first out of a total of nine men on that committee. It was while at this state conven tion I became convinced that it would not be many years before men who be lieved in giving more justice to the common people and the curbing of the powers which the big interests had seized upon, thus holding a club over both the Republican and Democratic parties at most of the state and Na tional conventions, would have to form a new party. There has been such a large element in both parties who were opposed to the primaries, to the initia tive the recall and the giving of the franchise to women that, say what you will, many men, and women too, have wondered how long they would have to wait before the movement would take definite form and that is the rea son so many were ready to join hands and help it along at Chicago August 5. I admit I thought sometimes before the National Republican Convention met in June that a compromise candi date like Cummins might be better at this time and put off the formation of a new party till more of the pro gressive Democrats would help form a new party; but when I saw that Mr. Taft was content to accept a nomina tion with most of his support coming from states which would more likely go Democratic and accept the leader ship of such men as Barnes, Penrose et al., then I thought it was time to act and help form a new party. In conclusion, as to Mr. Perkins and his support of Roosevelt, I am willing to give you my authority as soon as I can get it released, and will do so In the very near future. You have my permission to blue pencil as much of this long letter as you ayxserE The Oregonian made perfectly clear what it meant when it offered to wager, in what was meant to be a semi-Jocular mood, two boxes of Rogue River apples In separate election pro posals. It is not called upon by tbe terms . of its proposal to designate either Taft or Wilson. It is not Invit ing counter offers and declines them, with thanks. But it will carry out fully and explicity its original pro posal to Mr. Ware, for It confesses that it would like to show a man so useful to his community in a commercial way as Mr. Ware is the error of his polit ical ways; and to show it In a manner most impressive to him and his col leagues. The fruits of the wager, if won and, of course. It will be The Oregonian will send to the new Presi dent. Women Refuse to Wear Skirts. Mombasa Correspondence New York Sun. The local Portuguese Governor of In hambane has been forced to rescind his recent order that the native women of that section wear skirts. The edict aroused tremendous opposition among the women of the surrounding country, who bring eggs and vegetables Into the village for sale. They declared their intention of boycotting the town unless the Governor should withdraw the de cree. Many of the townsmen also an nounced that they would move to an other community where skirts are re garded as superfluous. Impressed by the unexpected volume of adverse opin ion, the Governor surrendered. Throttling Teddy By Dean Collins. Before the hat fell in the ring. Before the babble of the bolt. Before the building of the moose To get the standard party's goat: And since those great events, 1 ween. The paper and the magazine Have come beneath my observation, And I have gleaned some information. And it has seemed to me, at times. That Theodore, and his advice On how the universe should move It has been mentioned, once or twice. I recollect, when glancing through The news, I saw, a time or two. The well-known hat, and right beneath The glasses bright and eke the teeth. Some scattering advices came. Throuch daily papers, to my Ken. Of programmes Theodore had drawn To guide and help tne race oi men. Also his views, it seems to me. On certain men's veracity; And other dope about the way Things went about the Oyster Bay. Some trickling drops of knowledge came Throush varied avenues of news And I opined, indeed, that I Was kept in toucn wun ieuuy a views; Not much, nor fully, I admit; Each day I got not more or it Than a mere 20 columns, or Perchance a tiny traction more. In fact, 'most every thing I found Gave Teddy mention unto me Front page, one column, and beneath; "Continued on pages 2 and 3" Unless at night, ere time for bed. When I within my bible read, I found none there but I surmised 'Twas 'cause it had not been revised. Ah. it Is painful to observe How the press thus has made its choice To muffle from the people's ears The rumblings of Teddy's voice; And yet, indeed, if they gave full Attention to the lone Moose Bull Where would be room for others' views. For crop reports and sporting news? Portland. August 19. Half a Century Ago From The Oregonian of August 23, 1SG2. New York, Aug. 14. The Fortress Monroe correspondent of the Tribune states that it is the belief that the great body of the Army of the Potomac is about to be withdrawn down the pen insula, while the remainder will re embark on transports down the river. Mr. Sammist. photographic artist, vis ited our office yesterday and showed us a number of very fine stereoscopic views of Lewlston and the junction of Clearwater and Snake rivers. ' Culpepper, Va., Aug. 14. General Bu ford reports to General Pope that he pursued the rebels under Jackson to Robinson River, which was so swollen that it could not be crossed by his cav alry and artillery. Numerous indica tions showed the rebels' flight had been confused and precipitate. Memphis, Aug. 15. From Cumberland Gap it is stated, a battle commenced on the 9th at Caswell, seven miles from there, between confederate forces un der Stevenson, numbering from 12,000 to 15,000, and the Federals, numbering 3000. A movement was made by Ste venson in front, while Burton gained the rear by forced marches and sur rounded the Federals. A desperate fight of four hours ensued and the Federals were overpowered by superior num bers. Poor, unfortunate "Nibbs," whose real name Is. we believe. S. F. Whit man, who came to this city about a year ago from the Sound and had made him self generally useful in the way of bill posting and peddling extras, for The Oregonian and Times, died yesterday .t the hospital across the UIUIIIIIIQ " river. FIGHT PICTURES ARE DENOUNCED Grave Menace to Children Seen In Films From Arena. PORTLAND. Aug. 21. (To the Edi tor ) 1 feel as though the protest by women of this city against the. prize fight pictures being shown in this city is well taken. If a disease should visit this state that would retard the physical growth of hogs as effectually as the prize fight pictures retard the moral growth of a child, we would have enough leg islation in 30 days to fUl a volume. It is strange to me that in this city the protest of the women, upon whose Bhoulders rests the burden of rearing the generation that is to come, should be disregarded entirely for the benefit of an undesirable citizen who comes In our midst and demands the privilege of training his children by the display of ...I. n olctures mat nave uwu denounced by tbe oetter .. r everywhere. element It is quite evident that the Mayor and the Chief of Police have a somewhat high er regard for this class ot nmu muu for the women of the city. However this may be. the time is not far dis tant when the city officials that we have In power win ne n in Portland politics. Then protest of women will be heard. E. x. Is. SUNDAY FEATURES Yoshibito The absorbing story of Japan's new ruler, bis life, functions and personality. An un usual feature, with photos. Home - Making An illustrated page on the making of homes in semi-arid sections of interior Ore gon. Redskins and Firewater An account of the thrilling opera tions of special agents who en deavor to separate Indians from liquor. Illustrated with photos. Training Himself How the modern child is training himself. A valuable illustrated half page on the self-training of the rising generation. A Royal Scrubwoman A ro mantic account of the real adven tures of a Russian Princess and the dramatic denouement of her love affair. Evers' Baseball Story-Veteran second baseman of Chicago Cubs discovers rulebook weaknesses and suggests many startling strategies. Real Business Romances A tip that made and spoiled a show. Two Short Stories "The Bal lyhoo Girl" and "Colonel Horn blower's Wedding Gift." The Rowing Girl Another col ored poster fit for framing. Third in the new athletic girl series. Many Other Features. Order today from your newsdealer. IHC til . w .- - -