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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 1912. Ufa &u$mxn PORTLAND. OKECOV. Enured at Portland. Oregon. Postofflce as Second-Clan Matter. Subscription Ratea Invariably In Advance. (BT MAIL.) Dally. Sunday Included, one year SJ9 Dally. Sunday Included, alx months..... Dally. Sunday Included, three roontha.. 2-H Dally. Sunday Included, one month Dally, without Sunday, one year. e." It-ll.. ! I mil Cl.nBW ! V mnllthl. .... A. it n.itu' I. kn..t Gnuli IhrM months... 1.75 Dally, without Sunday, one month Weekly, one year i Sunday, one year Sunday and Weekly, one year (BY CARRIER.) Pally. Sunday included, one year 9 Dally. Sundav Included, one month 9.00 nuw iu nrjim ochu . . . . . - .. der. expre-a order or personal check on your local bank. Stamp, coin or currency are at tne aender'a rlak. Olve poatofflce address in run. including i-uuii.jr uu Postage Kiitea 10 to 14 pages. 1 cent. i to Kft vaKes. 2 cents: 30 to 40 pagea. 3 cents, 40 to 60 pages. 4 cents. Foreign postage, double rate. . u Eastern Business Offices Verre & ConK Itn New York, Brunswick building. Chi cago. &ieaer duiiuim. Kan KranrtM-a Office R. J. Bldwell Co.. T42 Market street. European Office No. 3 Regent street. W.. London. PORTLAND, 8ATIRDAY, AUGUST 31, 12 COVENANTS AND A THIRD TERM. The eloquent platform of principles enunciated by the Ttooseveu rrogrcs sives at Chicago contained the solemn declaration that the new party had thii. mnHA a "mvpna nt with the peo ple," and the additional plank was inserted that "we hereDy mna me party and its candidates in state and Nation to the pledges made herein." -coi, wm-Hs inripfd and impressive. ,.,. hu filohnrntA articles of luu, auci " " faith offered by the representatives of the new movement, with mucn emo tion and fervent hymn singing. A Mvimi with the DeoDle Is a sacred contract and it is not lightly to be broken. We are- sure mai me r npivi insnired bv the Kreat en thusiasm of the hour, and assured that they represented the hlgnest ana finest aspirations of the American nonnio hpllpved in their platform and intended that its promises should be fulfilled. To tnat ena tney numiudicu fnr Tr.sldpnt Theodore Roosevelt. How heavily do the obligations of a social contract rest upon Mr. Koose velt? Lest we forget some things that should not be forgotten, let us revert briefly to the record of a few years on the vital subject of a third term for Mr. Roosevelt. On the night of November 8, 1904, when he had just been elected to the Presidency, after filling three and a half years of TroSiriont MrTCinlftv's unexpired term, he voluntarily Issued a statement that he "regarded the substance ana nnf ih form" of his duty to the peo ple to decline a third term, and he added: Under no circumstances will I be a can didate for or accept anotner nomiimiiun. A year later, in a public statement. President Roosevelt assured the Na tion: "I have not changed and shall not change that decision." But in ih. onnrsa nf events a new President succeeded Mr. Roosevelt, and he was Ucti.i-heri in his retirement by sug gestions or demands that he stand for the Republican, nomination. August 18. 1911. he wrote to Editor Moore, of Pittsburg: . - n.iv vrin hut everv friend I have, to see to It that no movement whatever Is made to bring mo ioraru - i IQiq t r..i that T have a rieht cinuiumc in ici- - - . . to ask all my friends, tf necessary, active y to work to prevent any buck should esteem it a genuine calamity If auch a movement were undertaken. Colonel Roosevelt had not modified early in 1912 his opinion that a move ment for his nomination would be a miino I'oiamifv " La Follette was in the field, actively striving for the favor of the Republican voters, ana It was generally understood that he had announced his candidacy - only after consultation with Colonel Roose velt. The Colonel then wrote to Edi tor Van Valkenburg, of the Philadel phia North American: I have expressed myself perfectly freely to a large number of men in the matter, always to the same effect, telling you. for Instance, personally and those who were with you at lunch at my house, and telling Glfford Plnchot, J!m Garfield and Congress man Madison and Billy Loeb, and Secretary Mever and Secretary Stimson and all alike, lust exactly what I have said always, that I would not be a candidate In 1912 myself, and that I had no intention of taking part in the nomination for or against any candidate. But the pressure became too great, or the allurement too strong, or the situation too critical. Just as one chooses to see it; and Colonel Roose velt threw aside all restraints and be came a candidate for President against both Mr. Taft and Mr. La Follette. The pledge of Colonel Roosevelt to return to private life and to keep away from a third term was a cove nant with the American people. It was specific, clear, direct, and forever binding. It Is pitiful that he should now be driven to the last extremity of evasion and quibbling by saying that he meant a third "consecutive" term. If it be possible to agree with Colonel Roosevelt that his pledge of 1904 meant something more, or rather less, than it plainly said, it Is not pos sible to escape the situation he has precipitated upon the American peo ple by his candidacy, which is that he is a third term candidate. All other considerations aside. It is; not wise, and it may be disastrous, to elect any man President of the United States for a third term. "BOSS-BIDDEN". PRIVILEGE-CONTROLLED." Roosevelt's charge that both Re publican and Democratic parties are boss-ridden and privilege-controlled Is directly contrary to the facts. Is La Follette or Borah or Cummins or Hadley boss-ridden or privilege-controlled? Their whole public record proves the contrary. They have fought the bosses and privilege consistently and persistently and are fighting still within the Republican party. They are winning every battle in which they engage. Nor is the Colonel"s indict ment true of the Democratic party, as was proved by the action of the Balti more convention in denouncing the bosses among its own delegates and nominating the man the bosses most fear. Wilson's record proves that, if elected President, he would treat other bosses as he treated Smith of New Jersey. We all know what he did to Smith. The most stunning blow ever dealt at the bosses and special privilege was the passage of the Panama Canal law by the joint action of both parties in Congress. It has removed the stran-gle-hold of the railroads on water transportation and has committed the Nation to a new shipping policy di rectly opposite to the privilege-breeding subsidy policy which Roosevelt formerly advocated. That law Is a convincing demonstration that the control of the bosses and of the privi leged corporations is already de stroyed without the aid of Roosevelt, but with the aid of men whom, when in office, he persistently fought. The Progressive movement achieved suc cess without his help, through the work of the men who are now the con trolling element in the Republican party, and those who have opposed it are, one by one, slinking Into retire ment, as does Senator Perkins. The battle was already won and the en emy's hosts were already put to rout when Roosevelt rushed onto the field, shouting "Follow me," and merely led the pursuit. The contest between the Republican and Democratic parties is being fought out on clearly-defined differ ences of . principle, and whichever party wins will govern the country in accordance with its declared policy, free from the dictation of bosses or eleventh-hour converts to the cause of progress. SAN FRANCISCO AND OREGON. The Flying Legion of representa tive San Francisco citizens have had a hearty welcome in their formal visit to the cities of the Pacific Northwest. Thev have found that there is an ex ceedingly cordial feeling here toward San Francisco and California, and they know, as they could not have heretofore known, that there is an earnest desire throughout the whole of Oregon and Washington that the Panama-Pacific Exposition in 1915 be a magnificent success. Oregon and California are friends from tradition and sentiment and in all their neighborly relations. They could hardly be otherwise. The pros perity of one is the concern of the other: adversity for one is the mis fortune of the other. Their citizens have mingled for years on terms of fraternal good will, and have given to one another a thousand evidences of mutual regard. A recent testi monial of Oregon's attitude was the Oregon First excursion, last March. Now the Californians are here, and Oregon is glad to receive them. Probably the Californians will hear something while here about the em bargo at San Francisco on the fin ished lumber products of the Pacific Northwest. There is virtually a boycott, and is an impediment to the reciprocal trade relations of the Northwest and San Francisco that ought not to exist. It is no sufficient excuse that it grows out of San Francisco's extraordinary labor situation. It Is an intolerable combination that excludes free trade between the states and that exists nowhere but in San Francisco. In the interest of its own .market, San Francisco ought to take down this lumber barrier. What would California think, for example, if Port land should refuse to buy any Cali fornia raisins unless they were seeded and boxed in Portland, or California nriur unless thev were packed in Portland in Oregon boxes, or flour unless the wheat were minea in Port land? Yet that Is precisely what San Francisco does when it insists that all Northwest lumber shall be planed or finished in San Francisco. JUSTICE NOT FOR SALE. It probably did not occur to the authors of the 160-page spasm of Clackamas County tax figures that any man could exist, who, able to pay his Just proportion of county revenues, would prefer to pay it rather than shift the burden on those less able to pay. Tet one man has gone on record to that effect and we doubt not that there are others in Clackamas County who will not be tempted by the sordid bait thrown out by the taxroll manipulators of the Fels Fund Com mission. Witness the following let ter: Hubbard, Or., Aug. ' 28. (To the Editor.) On page 156 of the Fels single tax pamphlet sent out by Messrs. Crldge. Eggles ton and U'Ren. I see opposite my name taxes paid In 1010, $00.34 and In another column that all would have been exempt under single tax. Again on page 98 opposite Albert G. Toder's name I find that he paid in 1910 taxes $17.49. Under single tax he would have to pay $20.29. On page 85. -A. E. Tay lor Is shown to have paid $12.38. Under single tax he would pay $19.03. These two young men have each bought forty acres of raw land and are working twelve to fourteen hours a day trying to hew out a home for themselves and families. Knowing these young men as I do I think If I were made wholly of brass I would be ashamed to look them in the face, were I to vote for and afterward take advantage of this most infamous measure. Shifting the burden from the well-to-do onto those less able to bear It that is "equal taxation" with a vengeance. JONATHAN S. YODER. Thus do the figures of the single taxers themselves, inaccurate though they are, uphold what The Oregonlan has contended. Single tax would in crease the hardships of the small home-builder and retard development of the country. Indeed would Mr. Toder be brass were he, under prom ise of saving a few dollars in tax money, to vote to make more difficult the needed reclaiming of the unde veloped acres of Clackamas County. BUTTON SHOES. One of our contemporaries, pub lished in Boston, grows pensive over the prospect of the return of the but ton shoe. It is announced as an im pending disaster for men and women. As the waist buttoned down the back recedes, the still more direful button shoe appears to take its place. Thus our contemporary makes its moan and we must confess that we share in its melancholy. Button shoes are pretty to look at when the buttons are all there and none of the holes are torn out and each knob is in the right hole, but that is the best one can say for them. To the aged they are little short of a tor ment, especially to the aged fat, since in order to perform the trick of fas tening them one has to bend at a right angle and stay bent for half an hour or such a matter without relax ation. Moreover, the buttonhook is always getting lost. It slips through a hole in the pocket or is mistaken for a toothpick and idly cast away, or it is left on the table and forgotten, so that in one's moment of greatest need it is never at hand. The best substitute for a buttonhook has been proved by universal experience to be a short word beginning with "d." The button shoe has nothing to rec ommend it on the score of conveni ence. Would that were the end of the complaint against it, but there is more to come. It is a decidedly im moral contrivance, not only because it is responsible for profanity, but, and worse, because it promotes mendacity. "Tommy, are your shoes all buttoned up?" inquires mamma as the hope of the family slips by on 1.1s way to school. "Yes, every button," replies Tommy, accelerating his speed as much as possible. But the vigilant maternal eye is too quick for him and being caught, his sin comes out in all its horror. Not half the buttons are fastened. When she inquires why he has been so negligent of his attire and what he expects the teacher will think of his going to school looking so. Tommy replies that he couldn't find the buttonhook. A little, research dis closes it lying in plain sight on the floor by his bed and he then advances the amended plea that he has hurt his finger and can't use it. After this Is exploded comes the new excuse that his back is too lame to bend over, and so on until he is too late for school. Thus by a conclusive train of logic we see that the button shoe not only stimulates mendacity, but Is in reality a foe to public education. LETTERS TO THE PAPERS. The Oregonlan .receives daily for publication many letters from corre spondents with request for publica tion. In the aggregate the volume of such communications is large so large that space cannot be given to all, and selections from the most worthy and pertinent must be made. The Oregonian solicits, and will print, brief letters duly signed, but it pre fers an authentic signature and will print no anonymous letters unless the reason therefore is apparent. The long letter stands a poor chance of publi cation, and, in the opinion of The Ore gonlan, stands Just as poor a chance of being read, if printed, unless it shall have special merit. We will say again to correspondents: (1) Make your letters short. (2) Sign your name for publica tion. (3) Write on one side only of the paper. (4) Use a typewriter, if possible, and space widely; or be certain that your handwriting is perfectly legible. (5) Do not write unless you are sure you have something to saj". (6) Cultivate brevity, lucidity, moderation and legibility. (7) Do not be discouraged if your letter is not printed, or If it is con densed or abbreviated when it is printed. (8) If you are not willing that your letter shall be subject to editorial su pervision and correction, do not write It; or at least do not send it. (9) , (10), (11). (12). (13) and all the rest of the rules: Cut it short. BRITISH PROTEST UNFOUNDED. One British newspaper. The Nation, has the courage and frankness to de clare that, in exempting American coastwise vessels from tolls on the Panama Canal, the United States does not violate the Hay-Pauncefote treaty. The only ground for criticism it finds is the broad interpretation given the coastwise navigation law, which classes as coasters vessels plying be tween New York and the Pacific ports, even though they touch at Porto Rico and Hawaii and go on to the Philippines. The Nation continues: All this had obvious bearing 6n the pro visions of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty. Its provisions for equality of treatment could not apply to vessels engaged In coastwise traffic and using the canal, because only American vessels. In fact, were so engaged. If the treaty meant that American ships that enjoy a monopoly under the navigation laws when plying round Cape Horn between the eastern and western coasts of America should lose that monopoly, when they used the canal, it should certainly have said, so, but no one ever suggested that the treaty suspended the operation of the navigation laws when the coasting trade goes through the canal. r The greater discrimination Includes ihe less and. as the navigation laws exclude all but American ships from the coastwise trade, the grievance of discrimination in tolls upon coastwise traffic would seem to be somewhat unreal. The coasting trade Is already an American monopoly, and the Imposition or relaxation of dues upon it would seem to be a purely domestic affair. It is true that the exemption of Ameri can coastwise ships from all tolls would seem to throw an unfair burden on the over seas trade, but provided that burden is evenly .listrlbuted on the ships of all countries, there Is no discrimination within the terms of the treaty. In our opinion there is no case against the exemption of American coastwise traffic from canal dues. If the treaty meant to prevent that, It was exceedingly badly drawn. In a later article, commenting on President Taft's recommendation that all powers which dispute our right to exempt coastwise vessels be given the right of appeal to the United States courts, the Nation says: Our view is that our diplomacy would be well advised not to dispute America's rights to exempt the coastwise traffic, which was already a monopoly of hers. The chief danger lies in the extraordinarily wide extension which ' American courts have given to the definition of coastwise traffic, an exemption which at present Includes practically all American shipping. It being a foregone conclusion that Great Britain will accomplish nothing through her protest, an appeal to The Hague is predicted. An opinion favor able to the American contention from a Journal of such high standing as the Nation does not augur well for British success before that tribunal, though the difficulty of securing an unbiased decision will be great. All the pow ers which are parties to the agree ments reached at the two peace con ferences at the Hague, with the sole exception of Switzerland, are mari time powers, and, therefore, have an interest in upholding the British! contention. THE COURTS AND THE PEOPLE. . The lawyers, as represented by the committee of the American Bar As sociation, have made some progress toward recognizing tne evils attend ant on the administration of justice when they admit that delays and ex pense urgently call for a remedy. Those evils are so flagrant as to amount to a denial of Justice.- The courts are encumbered with suits which have been prolonged with no other purpose in the mind of one party than to prevent the other party from getting justice, to weary him with continual expense and long wait, lng fnto accepting less than his Just due on abandoning the fight alto gether. For these delays and this expense the lawyers themselves are almost entirely responsible. The law yers waste, and the courts allow them to waste, days upon days in dilatory motions, senseless wrangles and ar guments over hair-splitting technicali ties. The impaneling - of a Jury spreads over weeks, though other countries complete the work in a day or two. Court procedure is so archaic that' in the twentieth century our courts seem to be living in the mid dle ages. But even if these 'evils should be removed, lawyers need expect n abatement of the demand for the recall of Judges as of other officials. We can see no especial divinity hedg ing about a judge to distinguish him from other public servants. They are all amenable to public opinion. Fear that judges would be recalled with out good cause is based on distrust of the people, which is out of place in a republic. If there were any ground for that fear, it would be ground also for changing our form of govern ment. That there Is no such ground, our experience in Oregon goes far to prove. The recall, for judges as for other officials, has been in force in this state for four years, but we have had only one attempt to set it in operation against a judge. In that case the petition failed to secure the required number of signatures. Nor can we perceive that the possibility of judges being recalled has injuri ously affected the administration .of Justice or Impaired the independence of the Judiciary. If anything, the ef fect has been to spur the courts to increased diligence and to more exact impartiality. Complaint has -come mainly from those classes to which was formerly attributed undue influ ence with the courts. Demand for the recall of judges has grown both from the interminable delays and scandalous cost of Justice and from failure to invoke the power reposed In the legislative body for removal of unfit judges; also from misconception of the conditions under which that power should be exercised. The Constitution of the United States distinctly says that Judges "shall hold their offices during good behavior," yet the Senate has assumed that a judge could be convicted and removed under impeachment only when the evidence proved him guilty of crime, regardless of whether the evidence proved his behavior to have been bad. The states have generally followed the lead of Congress in this particu lar. As to recall of decisions The Ore gonian has approved the end in view, but has only criticised the means as clumsy and inefficient. The demand for recall of Judicial decisions, which it is proposed to limit to cases where the courts have annulled a law, has its origin in the assumption by the judiciary of a power supreme over the executive and legislative depart ments of the Government. The Con stitution clearly Intended the three branches of the Government to be co-ordinate, not that one should dom inate the others. It expressly limits the appellate jurisdiction of the Su preme Court by conferring jurisdic tion "with such exceptions and under such regulations as the Congress shall make." But the courts have stretched their appellate Jurisdiction to the point where they have assumed power to annul acts of Congress, . and the latter body has tamely acquiesced. Hence we find one department of the Government, which is so lumberingly slow in'Its methods as to be exasperat ing and is utterly unresponsive to public opinion and modern conditions, invoking musty precedents to overrule the acts of another department which at least in some degree attempts to carry out the public will. No wonder recall of decisions has found some fa vor. Would the courts, with the co-operation of the lawyers, so reform their procedure as to give speedy jus tice at reasonable cost, much criti cism would be stilled. Would the legislative bodies remove unfit judges, whether guilty of definite crimes or not, we should have less demand for recall of Judges. If in any of the states the machinery for so doing does not exist, the Legislature should pro ..u. si- .th to statute, or bv 8Ub- Vluc m - mitting constitutional amendments to the people. Would Congress exercise the power vested in it by the Con stitution to limit appellate jurisdic tion by forbidding annulment of its own acts and would the State Legis latures exercise like power where it exists and call upon the' people to grant it where it does not exist, we should hear less of recall of decisions. Criticism of the courts is due to public recognition of radical defects. It cannot be silenced by condemning the remedies offered. If those reme dies be not the best, let the lawyers suggest better. British shipyards are swamped with business by the boom in Dreadnought building. Holland is reported to in tend contracting for four 17,000-ton ships of that type at British yards, which are already building fourteen large vessels for the British navy and will soon begin work on four more, besides having five under way for other nations . and another in near prospect for Turkey. Though work is abundant, labor Is scarce, owing to the restrictive apprentice rules of the labor unions, and work Is considerably in arrears. Having set the pace by her race with Germany, Great Britain is profiting by the efforts of other na tions to enter the costly game of Dreadnought-building. The modernity of China fills one with consternation. It is not sufficient to say that the new republic is up with the times. It is far and away ahead v, A times Woman suffrage, women soldiers and socialistic land laws were enough to place China among tne most boldly radical of the nations, and now we read that her aviators are killing themselves in daring flights quite like our own. The step from age-long con servatism to daredevil radicalism does not seem to be much longer in prac tice than that from the sublime to the ridiculous. The spirit of ' emulation awakened hiiiiren hv such fairs as that at Milwaukie will make good farmers and workmen in an lines ami guuu the rlsine feneration. The development of all the faculties of mind ana boay is me oeai smu oi development work. When King George sinks his teeth in a Wenatchee apple he may regret that his grandmother's ministers did not hold out for a more southerly boundary at the time of the "54-40 or fight" controversy. ' Was the Colonel "shocked and hor rified" at the contributions to his own campaign fund made by Perkins out of the treasury of a life insurance company ? Clarence Anlaufs profitable deal is likely to cause a boom in the price of bear cubs and many charges of kid napping among the bears. Captain Terhune's feat in repelling the Nicaraguan rebels at Corinto may give him a place beside Admiral Evans in our naval annals. What? The Standard Oil Company indicted again? The octopus seems to be an incorrigible offender. If men are to be hairless in 300 years, John D. .should at once bid for the position- of patrdn saint. No other kind 'of hard luck equals that of the plain-clothes man restored to a uniform. West tells them to get off the bench, but Roosevelt would make it off the earth. King George buys Wenatchee ap ples, but depends on Medford for his oears. a ,.ii:t rains bear eaually hard on crops and white hosiery and shoes. If anything can excite much talk it is a row In the barbers' union. The sincerity of General Booth is shown by the size of his estate. Purchase of a tag today means aid for somebody's daughter. ' The Beavers find the rain a life preserver. REFORM WAVE IS RECALLED. Result of First Cruaa.de la Reviewed By Writer. PORTLAND, Aug. 27. (To the Ed itor.) Some three or four years ago, more or less the -dates are indefinite and immaterial the anti-vice citizens "cleaned up Portland." The redlight district was purged and purified, the one-time dwellings of lewdness were turned into marts of trade and busi ness, or were occupied by "decent" citi zens, and the Magdalenes were driven to suicide, to death, to Seattle, Tacoma, San Francisco or well, no matter about the name of the other place. But the strong voice of the law told them to get. and they got and their old haunts have known them not since. Yes. the city was in the hands of the reformers and they made good their promise of stamping out the evils of a restricted -district. It was a short, sharp and decisive battle, and the purs ers won in a walk. But now. lo. and behold, cometh the Governor, cometh the clergymen, Com eth another set of reformers, and bla zon It forth to the world that Portland is one of the most wicked cities in the world; that lewdness runs rampant, that every quarter (except the old re stricted -district) is overrun with lewd women, that every hotel is infested with them. (Be it noted they did not say every hotel. They excluded the great ones. Which shows they were color-blind, winked the other eye, or looked the other way. Else they might have said every hotel in the city is used as a resort for lewdness, for as signations, or the abode of mistresses.) Is it not passing strange that four years of reform have resulted in mak ing Portland a hotbed of lewdness? Why, how is it that after running the women out they did not keep them out? Here we are, after four years, on the eve of another purge. Portland's name is being heralded, after four years of reform, as a blot upon civilization. We are advertising for people to come to Portland and make it their home. We are spending lots of money and lots of lung power in showing what a de sirable place of abode Portland is. And now comes the Governor and says the town Is not fit for decent people to live in he says so in effect; not precisely in those words. He talks in 'rough rider" language that does not look well in print. Here come tne clergymen - shout it from their pulpits: "Portland is a hotbed of vice and lewdness. You cannot get into a streetcar, go to a theater, walk the street, or go to a hotel without rubbing elbows with the harlots." What became of the harlots when nut nf t h p restricted nicy wcic n-Liiv-. - - district? Did the reformers know or care? Did any or tnem oner tnese wu , w-l thov would re men iiumco piimuw form and give them a trial? Of course Mrs. A could not taKe one ui mem under her virtuous roof, because she has children, and it would not do to have a reformed woman as their asso ciate. Mrs. B ought to take one of them. Mrs. C should take at least two of them. Mrs. B says it would not do for her to take one of tnem. as sue am ne. husband live by themselves, having no children, and it would be unreasonable to place the head of- the house under .-.1, a n,,f- Mrs A micrht to evil 111UU01H.C0. - - - T I.., take at least two of them, as her chil dren are young ant wouia not u Mrs.' C says she would willingly, gladly. Joyously take one for a maid and another for a kitchen girl, indeed, she had thought very seriously of so doing. But her husband is a very prom inent man and she receives a good deal of company "and the neighbors might talk." Just a word to the reformers, the clergy, the Governor, and all who are going to "clean up Portland." Be con sistent. You blame the landlords of the hotels. Be consistent and do all you can to help them. Whenever you travel abroad or go to a hotel at home, take your marriage certificate with you if you are married. When you regis ter, exhibit it to the clerk, then nail it on your doorpost, so in case the house is "pulled" you will be passed by. To be consistent you should do this, else how will any hotel clerk know whether the lady with you is or is not your wife. And one further word. If after four years of purging. Portland is such a hell-hole of lewdness, what may we expect it to be after another season of purging? LAWRENCE O. MARLINE. MAYOR, NOT CAMERON, TO BLAME City Hu Been Going Back Under Ruah UKUt, Saya Writer. PORTLAND, Or.. Aug. 30. (To the Editor.) It seems to me that Governor West has made an error in placing too v, Kiomo nn the shoulders of District Attorney Cameron. The responsibility for the slip-shod manner witn wnicn 11,1. ho heen run rests upon the shoulders of Mayor Rushlight and not Cameron. It lay within tne power sou the duty of the Mayor to take a lead in 1 ..n ihia -Hv niittine' a stoD to cleaning u)i - - . graft and vice, and assuming the lead ership in any ana an reiumi good of the people. Mayor Rushlight has the whole police force to help him and the whole machinery of the city government at his back. He did nothing to stop the downward tendency of af fairs during months past, either in re spect to vice or graft. If the Mayor is to make no use of the police force .u nf th ritv officials, we U I iiie 1 - ---- . - - . , might borrow them during harvest this year while men are an "- "" fields. When anything is to be done, i, io- h inh fteveral days after It has happened. After having made no use of tne t-oncu xjep-i nuci for a year, he is willing to loan the whole outfit to Governor West in his moral crusade. Let us be fair to Cameron. He has complained time and time again that he 1.1. nnnviit hf-n.ii.p. in al most all cases brought to him by the police; they failed to Dring auuitiem evidence with which to convict, and I am inclined to believe that their fail ure was intentional. , " We were told by those who ought to 1 v,o ... a n wp oipcted Mr. Rush light as Mayor this city would carry a burden. Ana so it n-s Portland never saw and perhaps never in - ,hi. ..it., in tL tnnirlp that com- Wlll DCC L1IIO ... -- - pares to what we now witness. No one seems at tne neaa 01 m- a rule few people have any confidence 1 .u ifavAP m hoiipvA hp. has suffi cient capacity to be at the head of Portland or any otner city. Don't blame District Attorney Cam- ih. nniitlnn nf a pit v when he is not at the head of it. Blame the person who has the autnority to put an end to these conditions and who does not do it the Mayor. I V. CROMFORD. What Became of the Moneyt . . f 1 nl rrtpva rt- Alio- f9 fTo the Editor.) Colonel Roosevelt's reply to .VI 1. Arunuviua 1 ciu . - - 1. 1 nt A.T T TtllflS RHVR that gress, pea n.ms v ' '- ----- he "cannot too strongly denounce the baseness 01 maning ui-u " . . . man " Tf T r Arohhold upon b-u uw"D ..,... gave Mr. Bliss the 1100.000 and took a receipt for it and it was not, as Mr. . . . 1 aa,.a ncBii fnr camnalsrn funds, what became of the money? If Mr. .BUSS was so veiy liuticai, nuuiu not have returned the money and taken a receipt for it, as he certainly wouig have done in a business deal of t'jat magnitude? WOMAN READER. Difference In the Pitching. Exchange. "Why. that boy of mine was one of the greatest pitchers in his day you ever saw." said the farmer to the city visitor with the red tie. "What brush league did he belong tor' asked the city man.- "Leasrue nothing!" replied the rural one. "I'm talking about pitching hay!" MR. PERKINS AND THE TRUSTS Hr. Ware Has a Telegram From the Gentleman Himself. MEDFORD, Or., Aug. 27. (To the Editor.) 1 promised you that as soon as I could send you positive informa tion as regards George W. Perkins being a partner of J. P. Morgan & Co. I would do so. Herein 1 inclose a night letter from the gentleman him self. While my information before was from one who knew what he was talking about, he would not allow his name to be used: so I went right to headquarters. This should be sufficient answer to the traveling salesmen who sent you a letter last week saying they made New York every six months, and were personally acquainted with Mr. Perkins and that they knew him to be a member of the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co.. intimating that I did not know what 1 was talk ing about. They forgot to mention that the New York Sun, which is sup porting Governor Wilson, is said to be owned by this very firm of J. P. Morgan & Co. The trouble is. so many men and newspapers supporting Mr. Taft and Mr. Wilson cannot realize the real truth of the situation today. It is different from any previous cam paign since the Civil War and men and women all over the United States are banding themselves together to work for a new party that will start with a clean slate and endeavor to keep it close to the people by the primary and initiative. The leaders will have to make good or get out so these will be less danger of there ever being bosses like Penrose, Barnes. Murphy or Taggart ever gaining control in the future. A. K. WARE. The Perkins telegram is: New York. N. Y., Aug. 2fi. 1912 A. K. Ware. Care New York Life Insurance Com pany. Medford. Or.: Referring yours -JOth. I entirely severed my connections with J. P. Morgan & Co. a year ago last January. since which date have had no financial or business connection with that house. You are authorized to make this statement as pu'illc as you see fit. GEO. W. FEKKI.ns Mr. Ware, like other Bull Moosers, has now discovered that he talked too much. The original statements of The Oregonian as to Perkins, to which this Medford disciple of the new political faith took exception, were in every particular correct. Mr Ware challenged their accuracy in a letter, from which the following is a paragraph: Will The Oregonlan Btate positively that Mr. Perkins Is one of the officials of the steel trus' or any other trust? Will The Oregonlan deny that Mr. Perkins resigned his official connection with the banking house of J. P. Morgan & Co.. also from the different companies you name as di rector. In order that he might take up his new work as one of the private citizens of this Nation who wish to do all in their power to avert socialism or anarchy s se curing the reins of government in the United States? The Oregonian at no time said that Mr. Perkins is now a partner of the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co. It has said, and it repeats now. that Mr. Perkins was and is an officer of various great corporations, among them the Steel Trust and the Harvester Trust. That fact has never been dis puted by anybody except Mr. Ware. Mr. Perkins has not resigned from the Steel Trust or the Harvester Trust, or any other trust, to "avert socialism" or for any other reason. He holds on to his trust connections, but wants to help make the country better "for the sake of his children," he says. Probably his children will be able to worry along with the millions their angelic father got through his ex ploitation of the people, and will leave to them. Social conditions more toler able for the children of the poor, and not of the rich, would be a some what worthier Ideal. Single Tax Obituary Notice. OREGON CITY, Aug. 27. (To the Editor.) It having pleased the good Lord to have removed from our midst tho In at remains of our beloved Fels Corkscrew Single Tax League. I desire, through respect to tne aepariea. to notify all the friends and relatives of the deceased that the remains will be interred at 11 o'clock P. M. on the 6th day of November. We cordially in vite all the friends and close relatives to be present at the funeral. There will be no danger of Infection, as the departed came to an abrupt end by some dope administered by our worthy assessor, J. E. Jack, on the 23d Inst. GEORGE HICINBOTHAM. Secretary Clackamas County Cemetery. Two Words Pronounced. SHANIKO, Or., Aug. 29. (To the Editor.) Please publish the proper pronunciation of the word chauf feur" and the name "Roosevelt." CHAS. H. MCANN. Sho-fur; accent on first syllable. Ro-ze-velt; accent on first syllable, "o" as In go. Half a Century Ag3 From The Oregonlan of September 1. 1S62. The Cariboo mines are still yielding largely to the tew engaged in them, but the cry for bread and the bad sea son have produced a panic among the new miners and prevented further gold discoveries. There has been much distress among the miners and they return disheartened to Victoria. We had the pleasure of a boat ride on the popular steamer Maria yester day to Vancouver and back. New York. Aug. 22. The Tribune's Rappahannock correspondent says that the greatest crisis of this war occurred between Thursday morning and Saturday night. It is past and we o-.. ..f. anri ih Nation safe. Pope's artillery' is now guarding the line of the RappahannocK. Jfitz juiui mi ici, with a very heavy corps joined Pope TT-I , . a-d-lntr find a host Of refiTi- ments have joined and are Joining him by way of Alexandria, curnsiue n-s massed a large army at Fredericks-hure-. Pone is nearly as strong as Lee and Jackson. New York, Aug. 22. A special dis patch from Washington to the World Tt in onpnlv asserted by the emancipationists that the long politi cal struggle is drawing to a close, that the President, overDorne uy wie moo- 1 v, unnn him. will issue a BUro ul uufiii. decree giving freedom to all slaves, and this before September 15. mrmr,ia Antr. 20. The Southern ..... io" nmnietplv overrun with guerrillas. Nothing like it was known before. The conscription maeo an tween the ages of 18 and 35; then the m. 1. totpo nil between the ages of UlllllM l""" ' " 35 and 50. leaving but few men at home for any purpose. All Dusiness is suspended in Mississippi; nothing but war is thought of. This accounts for the large number of guerrillas every where. 1 .... Anor 2fi A careful con sideration' of the evidence accumulated thus far goes to snow tne iniiuence - . l , man nt thp bottom Of the Indian massacres in Minnesota. New Ulm village is mostly ournea. me i.ju. ottaoirpd Nrw TTlm on Saturday and the fight continued until late in the evening. Col. Sibley thinks we have 4000 or B0UU warriors to cunienu ; . v. rru nmmittp.A of citizens from St. Cloud found 200 persons murdered in the vicinity 01 faynevine ana iui way Lake. a nnwprful military force, consist ing of portions of the corps command ed by Generals Curtis and Sherman, ho a been dispatched to take part in the siege of Vlcksburg George and the Senate By Dean Collins. John Qulncy Adams' diary. As in the old days he did pen it, Contains a note that Washington Forgot himself and "cussed" the Senate. At least, so Lodge of late announced. When, on the floor, the warrins fac tions Were citing precedents about Some former Presidential actions. John Q. bestows a human touch Upon George Washington, his glory. Albeit not so widely known As the instructive hatchet story; And one is prone to feel within His bosom stirring, quite a sample Of fellow feeling for the great George Washington and his example. For full a hundred years and more. Since George's sharp profanity Set the example, it hath spread Through masculine humanity. And citizens, with zeal and force. Since the great Washington begun it. Have on occasion freely "cussed" The Senate even I have done it. Indeed they've scarce a measure passed. With heavy argument and fussing, But from some section of the land They caught a rich and fancy cussing. Still, the staid body of the past. Where George his vials of wrath was sprinkling. Was not exactly like we have With us today, I have an Inkling. Could George have come again to earth. The while that Lorimcr was sticking Fast to his seat, to be dislodged Only by strong, persistent knocking. And seen how many another mess The Senate mixed, and gravely stirred it Then when George spoke, by George, I d like M . Just . to have stayed around and heard it. Portland, August 18. The Sabbath of Past Years By June McMillan Ordwny. Where is the Sabbath of my youth, That calm, sweet, peaceful day, Wben churchward all at early morn Wended their quiet way. And listened all intent to find .'he straight and honest way. At close of hymn, so sweet, divine, When all then knelt to pray. The sweet, calm, peaceful Sabbath day With vears has past and gone. And now the streets of city ring With whistle, shout and song. Oh Sabbath dear, could you return Through all the misty years, A benediction you would bring. And calm our deepest fears. Sweet Sabbath day of long, lost years. With hymns of love and cheer. Help us again to know sweet peace, And "read our title clear." June McMillan Ordway. RF.CALI. MAYOR. RELIEVE WEST Competent City AdmlnlMtratlon Hadly Needed. Saya Mr. Everdlug. PORTLAND, Or., Aug. 27. (To the Editor.) Why, instead of all tnls hubbub which is giving this flty a whole lot of notoriety, do not the cit izens get together and accomplish tha same end that the Governor Is striving for, and do it with less trouble? All that this city is in need of Is a. real Mayor and a real Chief of Police. No one will doubt that the Mayor has blundered time and again. lost the con fidence of everybody, and today sits in the office as a mere figurehead. It is due to Mr. Rushlight's inactivity that things are as bad as they are. Let the citizens recall the Mayor, who is responsible for all this trouble, put in a strong man and let Governor West go back to Salem. 6 C. B. EVERDING. Acquiring n Patent. PORTLAND, Or., Aug. 29. (To the Editor.) Please give me all informa tion in the way of patenting an idea that I have on a kitchen utensil. Where will I write and to whom? What it will cost to have it patented? Also how to protect myself if sample is made before being patented? MRS. G. N. If unable to consult a patent attor ney write to Commissioner of Patents, Washington. D. C, for free copy of Rules of Practice. . Consul at Shanghai. EUGENE, Or., Aug. 2a. (To the Editor.) Would you be kind enough to let me know the name of the Amer ican Consul at Shanghai, Ch'na.7 The U. S. Consul-General at Shang hai is Amos P. Wilder. SUNDAY FEATURES College Shall I send my child there? is question dealt with by high educational authority, who gives answer. It is a question up permost in parental minds at this time. Full page, illustrated with photos. Forgetting Blindness An ac count from our Paris correspond ent of the remarkable blind Frenchmen who offset their deep affliction. Child Slaves A close-range study of child-labor, which is a growing evil in the South. Illus trated with photos. 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