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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1912. 10 j PORTLAND, OKEGON. Entered at Portland, Oreion. Featofflea aa Second-Claae Matter. t, . Subscription Rata Invariably lm Advanca. (BT MAIL.) Pally. Sunday Included, one year. J'" Dally. Sunday Included. six months.... - Bally. Eunday Included, three montha.. X.Z0 Dally. Sunday Included, one montn. - . . !? Dally." without Sunday, one year.. j-jv Dally, without Sunday, alx montha.... a." Dally, without Sunday, three montha... Dally, without Sunday, one month... -Y Weekly, one year JjJ Sunday, one year Eunday and Weekly, one year... I (BT CARRIER.) Dally. Bunday Included, one year...... " Dally. Sunday Included, one month.... How to Remit Bend VtoT'Fri der, expreaa ardor or personal T7J, local bank. Stamps, coin or currency ar. at: the sender's risk. Give poetofflce addrses in' lull, Including county and elate. roetase Bate 10 to 14 Stents; to 28 pages, 2 cent.; 30 to Op". JoaSii 40 to 60 pages, a cents. Foreign postage, .double rata. - Mfc Karfern. Business OtfleeVwe Conk lln Mew York. Brunawlck buUdlng. cago, Steger building. Han Frnnelaro Office R. J. BldwaU Co. T Market street. , European Office No. 8 Regent street, B. W London. . SATURDAY, OCT. ft, Ml rOHTLAJiD, ! JT.HO K GATENS ON TICK. Judge Gatens speaks from a wide experience upon the subject of youth- ' fu'l delinquency and "the social evil." As judge of the Juvenile Court he has been confronted with these and kin- . dred evils in their most shocking forms. It lo impossible that a man of his Intelligence should not have re. fleeted upon them deeply and the hearty applause which greeted his remarks at the Progressive Business Men's Club on Thursday was as much a tribute te the gravity of his thought as to the soundness of his convictions. We must all agree with him that mod ern society is suffering from a deadly disease growing out of misdirected sex feeling and that the only cure for It must be sought In-the home. "The fault lies primarily among ourselves, In our homes," said Judge Gatens, "and the remedy must come from the fathers and mothers of the community." This is so obviously true that it admits of no comment. Were every home what it should be nd lost women would haunt the streets and no contaminated young men would disseminate the poison they have acquired by vice among innocent wives and children. What change shall be made in the rules of the home in order to end this fright ful tragedy? Judge Gatens advises stricter regulation of our boys and girls." He told the Progressive Busi ness Men that he was In favor of the old-fashioned mother, the kind that maintained absolute control over her young. "Some people tell me," he continued, "that they rule their chil dren with love. Love! Rot! Take a clhb." It is needless to remind the reader that the "club" has already been tried without any particularly encouraging results. Many social students believe that the laxity of this generation is the inevitable reaction from the severe re strictions of our predecessors. No doubt there are instances where "a good, sound flogging" has proved to be the moral salvation of a boy or even a girl, but we can hardly hope. as a general practice, to nog virtue Into our young' people. The "club" Indiscriminately applied is far more likely to cultivate a crop of revolt and hatred. Experience does not warrant any , expectation that the morals of the world can be materially bettered by brute force. Watchfulness over the goings and comings of the young, "stricter regulation," as Judge Gatens puts it, is a more promising expedient, and yet It cannot be overlooked that this has been fully tried out, too, with out solving the problem. France edu cates her girls in convents under eyes whose vigilance never sleeps and the law of that country makes parental authority absolute In many directions. But for all that the "social evil" In France is as virulent as in the United States. Vigilance and "the club" must play a part In the solution, very likely, but by themselves they will "not suf fice. Thus much experience infallibly teaches and what other guide have weT In our opinion Judge Gatens speaks somewhat too disparagingly of "love" as a factor In the prevention and cure of bad habits. We dare say he has been justly exasperated by the slushy twaddle pf sentimentalists who do not know the difference between love and foolish indulgence. Love, in spite of ' all the idiots who misuse the word, lies at the root of Justice and without Jus tice the young cannot be redeemed, as Judge Gatens himself well knows. But mere is reaavii iu ucucm w.ci. . , unabashed knowledge is as badly needed as anything else in this fearful burlness. The prudery which has tried to keep the young ignorant of the laws of life has delivered them over to destruc tion. The knowledge which their par ents would not Impart they have ac quired from vile companions. Facts which in themselves are innocent come tinged -with wickedness from wicked lips. American "purity" has actually made Heaven's highest law a thing of shame. The great miracle of nature, the transmission of life, must only be mentioned in evil dens with obscene comment. With the intelli gence of a whole Nation thus funda mentally perverted, is it any wonder that passion runs to sin? From the time he begins to understand language everybody assures the child that pas sion is sin. and the organs connected with it are shameful, if net wicked. He' cannot escape the onset of na ture's Imperious will, and. Ignorant of the, nobility of her purpose, he sinks into disease and filth. Never was light more needed than upon this subject of the transmission of life. Many will sin against the light, of course, and for them other measures, even harsh ones, may be needed, but first of all every child should be taught the truth about his body and the consequences of abusing It- After that has been thoroughly done, perhaps we shall find the club still useful, but without the light of knowledge It will surely fall. There Is no good reason why society should give up trying to solve the social prob lem and lapse back In despair to "the restricted district." There is some thing incongruous In preaching Chris tianity in, the churches while at the same time we complacently dwell be side a tophet which Jeeringly pro claims Christianity a failure. If water transportation is valuable as a regulator when we simply have a navigable channel and water termi nals without any steamers to churn the waters or to tie up at the wharves, It is many times as valuable when steamers ply the waters and use the wharves in constant, active competi tion with railroads. An. oft-repeated but never-executed threat of water competition gradually loses Its force uhtll It provokes only a smile on the face of a railroad man. When car ried Into practice. It spurs the railroad man to meet an actual, present dan ger to his business. If the railroad is prompted to make concessions by a mere threat. It will make still greater concessions when action replaces the threat. ' THE CALIFORNIA WAT. California fortunately has the recall. Judicial and otherwise, and the Su preme Court may be ejected by the offended Bull Moosers. The Roose velt faction won a tainted legal victory In Its battle over the electoral ticket, but the Supreme Court had the un speakably bad taste to say that the primary law Is a "very bad law" and to admit that by Its decision It had virtually disfranchised a third of the citizens of the state. An admitted wrong committed under the forms of law and in the name of Justice makes It not the less intolerable. The California ballot will have a Roosevelt ticket under the label "Re publican" and there will be no elec tors for Mr. Taft. The virtuous John son and the Impeccable Heney and their blind followers who went to Chi cago and made the welkin ring with their furious denunciation of the wrongs California suffered there, have got even by disfranchising a hundred thousand voters at home. They have usurped the name and place of the Republican electors on the ballot,' and for the purpose of perpetrating this gross infamy they are willing to mas querade as Republicans, though they have proclaimed everywhere their in dependence of the Republican party and have set out to wreck it. What sympathy can the California Bull Moosers expect for the injustice they say they endured at Chicago in face of the vastly greater Injustice and oppression they impose in California? WISE CUSTOM. The most pertinent comment to be made upon the persuasive communi cation of Mr. Peddicord may be found in the following words of Theodore Roosevelt: The wl diatom which limits the Presi dent to two terma regards the substance and not the form, and under no circumstances will I he a candidate for or accept another nomination. One may quibble and evade, twist and double twist all he pleases over the exact meaning of these plain words, but there is no ambiguity about them and there Is no uncertainty about what Colonel Roosevelt Intended they should mean. The Oregonlan said that the no-third-term precedent Is a sound princi ple of our unwritten law. Mr. Roose velt himself says it is a "wise custom." It Is not a formal precept of any writ ten constitution. It is a traditional sentiment. Imbedded in tha minds and consciousness of the American people, and based on a certain knowledge of the fallibility of human nature and human institutions and on the disas trous lessons of all human experience. If it were merely a constitutional In hibition, It might be changed in these days of facile law-making. But being a safe and sound rule of Na tional conduct. It cannot with impu nity be modified or disobeyed. We iwould remind Mr. Peddicord that the country refused General Grant a third term, notwithstanding the eloquent appeal of his friend, Sen ator Conkling; and we think the peo ple now regard It as an eminently wise decision. Why make Roosevelt the Great Exception? The govern ment that cannot get along without the services of any man is In a bad way. ROOSEVELT ON CAMPAIGN FUNDS. The difficulty Colonel Roosevelt encountered and failed to overcome In testifying before the Clapp committee was in showing that eight years ago he was awake to what the public now considers bold improprieties in accu mulating campaign funds and then looked upon with lightly expressed resentment. Public sentiment against admitted or implied political obligation to con centrated capital has grown and spread in the eight years. It has seemed a popular key at which to pitch the political bugle. So the Pro gressive party candidate has sounded it from Atlantic to Pacific Colonel Roosevelt individually has given un measurable impetus to resentment against trust dictation of National policies. That his own campaign eight years back received aid from the large corporations calls for more adroit explanation than if it had been disclosed in that of any other candi date. That Colonel Roosevelt asked no man to contribute, made no promise as a return for any contribution and had never been asked, "by anyone having authority," to guide his course in a particular way because any con tribution had been made, may be given ready credence. He has put a quali fication in his leading answer suffi cient even to cover the representations of Morgan's friendliness made to him when he licensed the absorption of the Tennessee Iron by the Steel Trust. But does the statement wholly cover the ease? Has It ever been customary for a President or a National commit tee to make specific promises in re turn for financial aid? Is there not an Implied agreement in the acceptance of large sums from men whose for tunes may be marred or enhanced by the National policy? Did the tariff protected interests or the Immunized monopolies never contribute to Presi dential campaigns prior to 190 with out specific promise and profit there? by? Would Mr. Morgan, Mr. Arch bold or Mr. Harriman put vast sums into the committee treasury because of mere philanthropic desire that the people might hear the eloquence of campaign orators? It may be profitable, moreover, to contrast the deeds of the Roosevelt administration with what was said or left unsaid when the corporations contributed to his 1904 campaign. Did Roosevelt ever cause the criminal prosecution of any individual offender against the Sherman law? Did he not forbid the prosecution of the Harves ter trust? Did he not give the Morgan interests a practical monopoly of the steel business by permitting the Steel trust to absorb Its chief competitor? Did not unlawful business combina tions Increase from. 149 In number to 10,020 during his administration? Did he not decline to prosecute E. H. Har riman on a charge of looting the Alton railroad? Did he ever recommend downward revision of the tariff? In Oregon we have gained the im pression, apparently, that a corpora tion Is a hard-headed, money-grubbing concern, without a spark of senti ment or patriotism. We have made it unlawful for a corporation to aid with money even money spent other wise lawfully the fortunes of any candidate for office or nomination. A potent recommendation for the direct primary Is the freedom of its can didates from the implied obligation that rests upon those chosen by corporation-controlled conventions. The same argument is now a favorite with advocates of the Presidential primary. The aim in giving the people greater political power, if this argument is sincere. Is as much to rid public offi cers of implied obligations as it Is to make specific compacts of corrupt character Impossible. But Colonel Roosevelt, while Indors ing the Presidential primary4 nay, de manding it gives us to understand that even the money of trusts may be accepted with propriety under certain conditions. Notification to one's com mittee that no promises, express or implied, are to be made as to receipt of funds absolves the candidate. Con tributions ought to be returned If the donor asks for something in return. Money ought not to be accepted from a trust under Inquisitorial Are. These are the set rules we might frame from the Colonel's testimony. But we also must Infer therefrom that a contribu tion silently offered and mutely ac cepted calls for no return and that he he who expects It Is a crook or a fool. These ideas ought to cause a revi sion of plana among those who are now looking forward to everlasting fame as authors of National corrupt practices acts and Presidential prefer ence lawB. PERILS OF LATJOHTEB. If there Is any lesson to be drawn from Wilma Wade's experience It would seem to be that laughter Is dangerous. While she was Indulging in a hearty outburst the other day she sucked a safety pin down Into her bronchial tubes. The surgeons suc ceeded in removing it, fortunately, but the operation required apparatus with terrific names and an amount of deftness which It appals one to try to conceive it. If Miss Wade had been taught not to laugh, but only to smile, she never would have found herself in this perilous dilemma. Preceptresses of young ladles' boarding schools are agreed upon the precept that laughter is vulgar. They permit nothing more strenuous than a smile and even that must be managed with infinite discretion. It should be worked upon cautiously by enunciat ing "Papa, potatoes, prunes,, prisms, peonies" slowly and softly. By this process the lips are elegantly persuad ed to assume the aspect cf a ladylike smie. Laughter Is not only nnlady-like, but It Is cruel. At any rate Its origin is' cruel. Philosophers are a unit in telling us that it began in racial his tory with that stretch of the lips and show of teeth which a warrior exhib its when he smites a. foe. If the foe falls the warrior emits a brutal cackle in harmony with the expression of his features. We are most inclined to laugh when we witness the misfor tunes of our neighbors. A fat man who slips on a banana peel causes laughter in all the bystanders. The less of a stovepipe hat in a gust of wind invariably brings forth guffaws. We never laugh at a humorous story because humor is pervaded with the milk of human kindness, but a witty anecdote, particularly if the wit Is bold and obvious, makes one crow like chanticleer. BALKAN WAR CLOUDS. The threatened war of the four small states which surround Turkey in Europe against the Ottoman Em pire Is more important because of its possible than because of Its immediate consequences. Should Bulgaria, Ser vla, Greeoe and Montenegro combine in an attack on Turkey and should they succeed In their announced pur pose of liberating Macedonia from Turkish rule, a quarrel among them selves for the conquered territory would almost certainly ensue; but even more momentous would be the attitude of the great powers. Austria long has had a covetous eye on Macedonia, her ambition being to secure an outlet to the sea at Salonica. Russia desires Constantinople with control of the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus and the consequent ability to send her navy from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean without restraint from other powers. Great Britain is traditionally opposed to the realization of the Russian ambition and, in case of a decisive move on Russia's part, would find her newly formed bond of friendship with the Muscovite severely strained. Germany has acquired great influence at Constantinople, which she has used to secure concessions for German investors in the Turkish Em pire, and has shown her gratitude by diplomatic endeavors to ward off dan ger from the Sublime Porte, so far as this can be done without offense to Austria and Italy. France is particu larly Interested In averting a crisis, lest she be forced to take sides in a quarrel between her two allies, Eng land and Russia, and thus to lose the friendship of one or the other. Italy, being at war with Turkey, may be ex pected to take advantage of that coun try's new troubles to raise the price of peace, but she will not welcome a struggle wherein others would share with her the spoils of war. ' So well aware are all the powers of the probability that any seizure of Turkish territory by another power would embroil all Europe In war that they may be trusted to exert them selves to the utmost to avert a crisis. Russia and Austria, having most defi nite designs on Turkish territory, may prove to be exceptions. While ostensi bly joining the other powers in efforts to preserve the peace, they may be se cretly intriguing to grab the plunder just when the Balkan allies have it in their ' grasp, in case the four little states should prove victorious. Austria, fearing that the aggrandizement of Servla would block her outlet to the Aegean, is credited with a purpose to occupy that kingdom and to prevent its participation In the war. Her al liance with Italy may prevent her making such a move until Italy and Turkey have ended the Tripolitan war, and, if she should make the move, she would exact compensation In the shape of a slice of territory which would advance her ambition another step towards its goal. Russia may be behind Bulgaria, ready to seize Con stantinople in case Turkish armies should be defeated. As usual, Turkey will play for an other lease of life by skilfully exciting the mutual Jealousies of her enemies. Opportunity to do this exists no less among the BtJkan states than among the great powers. She may first make the best, terms possible with Italy in order that the sea may be open for the transporting of troops from Asia and Africa and that she may be able to withdraw her forces from Tripoli. Turkey's total war strength ia stated to be 725,000 men, against 350,000 for Bulgaria? 175,000 for Servla, 60,000 for Greece and 36,000 for Montenegro, a total for the allies of 611,000. To these must be added the revolted Al banian, , tribes, which are no mean fighters, as the Turks have once more been reminded recently. Turkey has the advantage of numbers and of splendid fighting blood, fired by re ligious zeal, but many of her troops must be gathered from remote prov inces. The allies have all their forces close to the scene of hostilities and can close In on the Turks from north, south and west. A power which will fight for Tur key is the conflicting claims of the allies to any territory they may con quer, which will inevitably breed dis cord before war has long continued. Servia dreams of restoration of the Servian empire as It was ruled by Stephen Dushan in the middle ages, extending from the Danube to the Aegean Sea and from the Black to the Adriatic Sea. Bulgaria hopes to found an empire covering the same territory. Greece dreams of a re stored Greek empire, which would add all the territory south of the Balkan Mountains, including Constantinople and the Aegean archipelago, to the present kingdom. Montenegro pines to expand from her sterile mountains over the rich neighboring valley. When the allies nourish such Ir reconcilable ambitions, victory over the Turks would almost inevitably be the signal for war among themselves, which would reach a climax in the seizure of the spoils of war by Austria or Russia, or both of those powers, as the monkey devoured the cheese when called upon to divide It between the quarreling mice. TRUSTS AND LABOR UNIONS. Louis D. Brandels, of Boston, gives his support to Wilson principally be cause he holds the Democratic candi date's policy with regard to the trusts to mean "Justice with liberty," while he holds Roosevelt's policy to be an effort "to get justice without liberty." His objection to the Roosevelt policy of regulated monopoly Is based chiefly on the hostility of the trusts to labor unions and he cites the easy triumph of the steel trust over the unions as proof that legalized trusts would crush the unions. In an address before the Massachusetts branch of the American Federation of Labor, Brandels said that "until the Federal Constitution is so amended neither Congress nor the interstate trade commission can pre vent their discharging employes for Joining trade unions." He continued: It seems to me very unwise, particularly fnr labor, to surrender industrial liberty and to rely wholly upon legislation and a commission. Legislation and commissions like God help only "him who neips Him self'; and a social programme which ac cepts these things as a substitute for In rfimrrlfLl llbertv. Instead of using them as means of securing Industrial liberty. Is fundamentally unsound, xou anow pence-.-, ly well that no legislation, even when sus-tain-H tw ttiA court and no commission. though able and honest will effectually protect labor, unless tne worKingmou auu public opinion ara behind them. A trust is In a much better position to overpower the unions than Is an ln dividual'manufacturer, for It can close union mills and transfer work to non union mills until the strikers are starved Into submission. The steel trust won Its victory over the unions in this manner and has established a pension system which Mr. Brandels de scribes as a form of peonage, since the pension is the reward of twenty years' uninterrupted service and would be forfeited by striking. Driven to make a reluctant state ment of contributions to Roosevelt's pre-conventlon campaign. Senator Dixon says: Outside of the money contributed by local leaders in Ohio, Pennsylvanla,?IUtnole and Massachusetts for the primary campaign In these four states, the entire reconvention campaign cost less than 160,000. I think 1155,000 would be a better figure. , This is a parallel to the case of a man who, when asked how much he spent yearly on clothes, should say: "Outside of what I paid for my suits, hats, shoes, shirts and underwear, I spent so much." Omitting Ohio omitp Dan Hanna; omitting Pennsylvania i-n.,n- triinn flnd the, 5 a head he uuv . - distributed in Pittsburg; by excluding Illinois he excludes what was given by McCormick, and so on through a long list of wealthy "angels" of the Progressive party. Then Dixon .caps the "Umax of his shallow attempt at We didn't get a single dollar for this fund from any oorpomuuu, ........ - were from Individuals. Of course, they didn't. But they got money from the individuals who control corporations. Such a state ment is an insult to the intelligence of the people to whom It is made. A. H. Lea, .who failed to secure the Republican nomination for State Dairy Commissioner, but whose name was written enough times on Democratic ballots to make him the ehoice of that party, has heeded the call. In the meantime, J. D. Mickle, the Republi can nominee, is announcing a sale of his blood cows and other animals and farm paraphernalia In Washington County, preliminary to removal to Sa lem, and the political skies seem to make him a good forecaster. Chicago has a pew magazine of po etry whose life ia fairly certain to last five years, since it has been endowed for that period. What may happen to it later is pure, though not difficult, conjecture. Americans do not love poetry well enough to support a maga zine which publishes nothing else. The editor, Harriet Monroe, herself wooes the muses with some skill, and it is her ambition to attach the best American poets to her roll of contrib utors. The effort of the Consumers' League to establish a minimum wage scale of $9 a week for women Is meri torious, but will fail just as long as the ranks of workers are crowded by young women who are not obliged to labor, but do so that they may spend more money on dress. Demolition of four Pullman cars and loss of life In that Connecticut wreck dislodge long belief in the safety of the end of the train. Production of clover seed is a great source of profit, but many a farmer cheats the soil by burning the threshed hay. A half-hqllday can well be spent today at the Multnomah County Fair, which 6hould not be slighted because it Is outside the city limits. The powers and their money lend ers will let the trouble rage In the Balkans Just long enough to produce more securities. " -The dog without his muzzle looks askance at the man with the straw hat. DANGERS SEES IN SINGLE TAX Mr. Lowell Points Out Damns That Oregon Wonld Rea- PENDLETON, Or Oct. 8. (To the Editor.) May I venture a few sugges tions upon tha single tax menace which confronts the commonwealth at this time? The atmosphere is charged with theories, some of them born of the vision of Henry George and some of them of the gold of Joseph Fela. But there are a few hard facts grounded on experience which ought to control both thought and vote upon a, question like this. First Every single tax apostle ad mits that tha process of education to ward his ideal is a slow one. It ought, then, to be remembered that Oregon is still a state of magnificent propor tions and of few people. We axe in viting settlers from all portions of the world, urging men and women to come here to establish homes and assist in the Btate'a development. We have less than 1,000,000 people within our bor ders and can easily support zu.ooo.uuu. Assuredly, the adoption of the single tax will not serve to swell the popuia tion here, for whether sentiment is cor rect or not, the fact remains that most men look upon the single tax as dream of visionaries, and fear it. They will not settle in a Btate threatened by It. Second Like every new and unde veloped state. Oregon now needs, and for another half century win need, out aide capital for its material develop ment. Its natural resources will never develop themselves. It must be patent to every citizen, whether favorable to the sinele tax Dropaganda or other wise, that the adoption of the amend ment will halt capital at our Doraera, turn it to other states and arrest our prosrress for a generation. 1 Whether risrht or wrong, it is a fact demon strated over and over again in finan cial history, that money always avoids exDeriments. Third The majority of farms have been developed, the majority of homes have been built, in Oregon as else where throughout the West through borrowed money, secured by mortgages UDon the real estate upon which tne money is expended. Assuredly, it is not expected by the protagonists of the sinnle tax that the cold-blooded mortgage companies and hard-beaded Eastern farmers, from' whom the most of this money has come, will continue in the field under single tax conditions. They may be mistaken, but they do not believe in either the justice or tno theory of making lands bear all the Dublic burdens. If the. single tax amendment is adopted our home build ing will be crippled and our farm de velopment hamstrung. Fourth It is reported that the labor unions are inclined to support the sin gle tax. but I am not ready to believe that such is the case. Theoretically, some of their membership may believe it correct, as many believe that the theory of free trade is correct, but as a rule. I have found the men arniiatea with labor unions remarkably clear thinkers, and they must now realize, as every considerate man realizes, that. with the adoption of this amendment. there is grave danger that immigra tion to Oreiron will practically cease, that our transportation companies will suffer, that our established industries will languish and that the inevitable result will be limited employment and low wasrea. I have not' dealt In theories, but in facts demonstrated by human experi ence. With these before us it is not Important what a man may theoreti cally accept. Conditions confront us, and rainbows will not change them. Men ought to vote from the standpoint of practical, everyday affairs, and serve notice upon Mr. Fels that, wnue we have no objection to his trying the single tax experiment in his own State of Pennsylvania, we decline to drink the hemlock In Oregon. STEPHEN A. LOWELL. OFFICIAL STUDY OF SOCIAL EVILS Government Department and Admin istration Is Suggested. EtJGENE, Or., Oct. 1, (To the Editor.) Mankind, it seems to . the undersigned, is beginning to see the re lation or mutual dependence of the physical and material realms upon the mental, or spiritual, or psychical as never before. One of the faults, or de fects, In the teaching of past ages was the omission of this element of fact from Its curricula of instruction, do mestic as well as public. The In creasing recognition of the solidarity of the race as well as the various in terests concerned in every-day life is bound to bring about certain and, per haps, many changes in the civilization of the race and the solution of many vexed problems confronting the peo ple. Among these there is none more im portant or Intricate and Involved than the social problem sometimes re ferred to as the Boclal evil, "white slave." or "race suicide." It is question able whether in advancing (or chaneino standards and inventions, which are coming into use, there will not be new methods to deal with this matter. In fact many things point that way. The new interests and problems of life are becoming so many that the habit is to specialize on them. That is becoming, in fact, almost necessary. The question of marriage and divorce. Including the said evils referred to, will have to be put into a department by themselves, somewhat In the same way as the schools are now conducted. which will involve, as we can see. separate administration, with special officials in charge of it. It is, not to joke a bit, large enough a matter for a few and the best of such officials. If the railroads and corporations of the Nation are deemed worthy of such treatment, why should not the vastly more Important matter of social rela tions, with the incidentals referred to, resting at the foundation of the growth and even existence of the race, be the game? . This may be considered by many a too early draw on the future, but they can be assured that it is not too early to look ahead sometimes. In fact there are signs that some such line of policy will become essential before long, if we are not to see lnoreasing danger and decadence in the social order. F. A, OUEKET, SPLENDID POEM IS NOT COWBOVS "The Maverick" Not Written by Jack Murphy, Montana Indian. PORTLAND. Oct. 4. (To the Edl tor.) In The Oregonian September 27 and also in a later issue you published a splendid poem entitled "The Maverick." presumably written by one Jack Murphy, a Montana cowboy, of Flathead lineage. According to The Oretconian Jack has a streak of genius. He has, indeed, a streak-of that genius which gives one man the courage to plagiarize the work of another and brazenly claim credit for that which ha has not the anility to proauce. This Bplendrd poem was originally written by Charles Badger Clark, Jr., the only typically Western poet who has had any claim whatsoever to fame tor the virility and freshness of his verse. It first appeared in tne fa cine Monthly of Octobea, 1911, and it was deemed so good by the editor of that estimable magazine that Mr. Clark received a check of no mean size for it. That Jack Murphy or any other would-be poet should claim credit for it this early after Its publication reflects more or less upon the intelli gence of the lovers of literature and fair-Dlav. X am sorry to tod jacK Murphy, the Flathead, of any honors which might be his due, but there Is no literary crime so aetestaoie as Plagiarism. C. E. FISHER. THIRD TERM IDEA ADVOCATED Mr.' Peddicord Finds Support In Evolu tion and Contains? Ssieecn. PORTLAND. Or. Oct. 4. (To the Editor.) In an editorial article in The Sunday Oregonian, entitled "Face to Face With a Crisis," you said: "The election of a Presidential candidate for a third term involves a departure from the historic policy of the Government, held inviolable from the beginning and preserved for more than 100 years as a Bound principle of our unwritten law. If we elect Mr. .Roosevelt, we declare to the world that the apprehensions of our forefathers were groundless and the repeated admonitions of our states men foolish." I am not going to impeach the wis dom, the patriotism, devotion and sin cerity of the founders of our Republic, nor even call them "foolish;" nor shall I Impeach the sincerity and patriotism of the thousands who honestly differ from me on this or other great issues before the public today. There is little doubt in my mind that the fathers dealt as wisely with the problems of their day as circumstances . would ad mit. But you, and other well-informed persons, know that in addition to the great questions which naturally arise with the march of government and the development of a great nation, the founders of our Republic, notwith standing their unquestioned patriotism, wisdom and learning, passed along down to us some very difficult prob lems. To begin with, they recognized slavery. It is needless to mention what It cost a later generation, even tills, to get rid of it. Their method, the Constitutional method of even today, of electing United States Senators ha been subject of attack for many years, and will, doubtless, soon be discarded. They gave us the useless, perfunctory Electoral College, when today it is safe to say the whole country favors direct vote of the people. They gave us a four years Presidential term, which today is little short of a calamity to the country, and which the people would be practically a unit in greatly lengthening. We have added several departments ' to the Cabinet of Wash inKton. Fifteen times that sacred pal ladlum of our liberties, the Constitu tion itself, has had to be amended al ready. We are indulging in a great deal of direct legislation, wise ana otherwise, but a necessary check on the method the founders thought wise enough in their day. We are getting rid of the old convention system, so fraught with methods of thwarting the will of the people. So we might con tinue at trreat lentrth. How would it seem to the founders of our Republic to behold George and Martha Washington an 4 their slaves going to the polls to vote on November 5? Doubtless many of those truly pro gressive founders of a once great refuge of the down-trodden would really be shocked from a purely senti mental standpoint, and, on regaining their eauipoise. would soon begin to sbe nothing but ruin in the great change. They would forget, as do many of today, that, farther back still, gov ernment was on a par with other con ditions, when men plowed with a stick and reaped with the hook and threshed with a flail. And today, although Im measurably pleased to think we hourly flash wireless messages over seas and talk almost as face to face with distant friends, and travel at "lightning speed" UDon the land and ride upon the storms. many seem never to have thought that all things, including government it self, must advance to meet the new conditions, not realizing that the leaven is necessarily in "the whole lump. Although I look on the real objec tion to a third Presidential term as evanescent, unsubstantial sentiment and untenable tradition, grounded in the same apprehensions as the other great advancements 1 nave nameo. nevertheless I frankly admit many are still honestly opposing the third term idea. But I say to you, with all canaor, that if Mr. Taft should be re-elected, and so serve the people that they may ao fit to nominate him again, I should be more strongly in favor of him for a third term than I am opposed to mm today for a second term, and the Lord knows that would be strong to the limit of my being. It was, doubtless, lust such nominations as Mr. laft re ceived at Chicago last June at the hands of the bosses and the interests that caused the founders of our Jtte mihlin to onDose a third term. ' Permit me to conclude with the fol lowing from Senator Roscoe Conkling's speech In nominating General Grant for a third term; for, to us wno nave miei once doubted the sincerity oi mr, Roosevelt nor the Justice and wisdom of his nomination, there win seem a marvelous narallel: "He is struck at by the whole Demot emtio nartv. because his nomination will be the death blow to Democratic success. He is struck at by others who find offense and dlsquaiincation in tno very service he has rendered and the very experience he has gained. . Show me a better man. Name one and I am answered; but do not point, as a dis mialiflcation. to the very facts which make this man fit beyond all others. Let not experience disqualify or excellence impeach him. There is no third term in the case, and the pretence will die with the nolitical dog-days wnicn en gendered it. Nobody is really worried about a third term except those hope lessly longing for a first term and the dupes they have maae. "Never having had a 'policy to en tnrr-m airalnst the will of the people," he never betrayed a cause or a friend, and the people will never betray or aeaert him. Villnea ana revuea, ruiuirani aspersed by numberless presses, not in nth lands, but in his own. the as saults upon him have strengthened and seasoned his hold upon the public heart. The ammunition or calumny mis all been exploded; the powder has all hen burned: its force is spent; and General Grant's name will glitter as a bright and imperishable star in the dia dem of the Republic when those who hv tried to tarnish it will have molded In forgotten graves and their memories and epitaphs nave vanisneu utterly." w. J. fn.iji-itjuttu. OCTOBER. October comes, a gorgeous knight, t. nu onH niirnle. richlv dight Upon his brow en amber light- There's silver on his nodding plume, And In his air a hint of doom For all the things that bud and bloom. The landscape 'neath his quivering lance Seems touched into a mystic trance. Like realms of fabled old romance. The river flows as if in sleep, With dreams for utterance too deep, And golden tears the willows weep. There's peace upon the hazy hill; The roses, blooming bravely still. Seem sad for some impending ill. ' Faint o'er the fields of fruitage shorn Seems thinly blown an eerie horn From far-off "'fairy lands forlorn." REX LAMPMAN. Identity of n Chicken Thief. Puck. "Mordecai Judson," roared Colonel White, who had been arpused in the middle of the night by a suspicious noise in his poultry-house, "Is that you in there, you black thief?" "No, sah!" humblv replied a frightened voice. "Dis la muh cousin. Ink Judson, dat looks so much like me and steals everything he kin lay his dog-gawn hands on. Ah's at home dls minute, sab, uh-sleeping de sleep o' de jest." Not a XS18 Model. Chicago Tribune, Hose Tou had to give Clarence a hint before he'd propose, eh? Lily Y-yes. He didn't seem to be equipped with a self starter. WOE IN STORE FOR OLD MAIDS Women Who Spurn Marriage Will Come te Certain Grief. PORTLAND. Oct. 2. (To the Editor.) Upon reading the letters published In The Oregonian. one by the "Bachelor Girl" or "That's Me." September 80th, and the two in reply today, I wish to say a few words in praise of the au thor of the letter signed "One Who Knows." She takes the correct view of "That's He's" letter, as every good and true women should, as woman was not put in this world by the Great Creator to flutter through life like a butterfly, but for a purpose. That purpose, every good and high-minded woman knows. Is to love and be loved, and have a helpmate and to rear children that will be their pride and the pride of their fellow-beings. When they are old they can sit by the fireside with the satis faction of their duty done, loved and respected by all. Let us picture, on the other hand, the woman that Uvea the butterfly life, which is no doubt gay while It lasts, basking in the love of this fickle man now, and anon to the next. How long does it last? Only as long as her beau ties and youthful charms last. When they shall have disappeared, so shall the love of "mere man," such as throw their affections away upon creatures of that sort. Thore are too many such women as "That's Me" In America to day; such women as she are the cause of the breaking up of many homes, and filling the courts with divorce cases, for she will receive the attention! of any man whether single or married, re gardless of consequences, and openly boast of her conquests as a man would boast of how many fish he had caught upon this or that fishing trip. It's all very well and good now, dear little bachelor, but wait until you are down in the vale of years; you will ask your self. Where are my loves of yester year? Then is the time when you will be deserted. Sans husband, sans chil dren, sans friends, sans everything "last scene of alL" R W F. RISKS ARB SEEN IN MATRIMONY. Married Man SisgHti That Even Hna. banda Get "Stung." PORTLAND, Oct. 2 (To the Editor.) I have been reading the letters of Janet and right here I want to say I heartily coincide with her, for unless a woman does get a man who loves her and Is true to his marriage vows she is much better off single. I am a married man and have children of my own and I have seen so much slavery and hardships that many good women are subject to that I entertain fears for my daughter. Men who drink, men who gamble, men who lavish their af fection on other women and atay out late at night, are a menace. I venture to say, aa Janet does, that a large ma jority are sorry they ever married." They expect to get a man, not a brute. While my wife has had no reason to regret our marriage, she would x.ot be to blame if she had had fears ef ill treatment and not married me. It is all a gamble or lottery, anyway. So let our girls take a warning. Mine says she sees so much ill treatment in families that she would not want to trust another man. Lots of men think that a woman is their slave. On the other hand, good husbands get bit, but they are more able to take their part. Sure, it is everyone's preroga tive to marry or stay single, as they wish. Paul tells us it is better to stay single if we can. So I glory In the maids for not being -fools. As Janet says, it is easy to get married, but not easy to get free. W. H. JOSEPH. FEMALE FLIRTS ARB CONDEMNED Girls Who Shy nt Marriage Are Not Normal, Saya Writer. M'MINNVILLE, Or., Oct. 2. (To the Editor.) After reading with interest the many letters printed in The Ore gonian in reply to "A Young Old Maid," "Janet" and others, I have decided to express my opinion. I am not as old as "Janet," nor have I had her ex periences, but I do think that I can appreciate her feelings more than any of those who have thus far replied. Duty is not always the moBt pleasant course to follow, and when one bravely does so they Bhould receive only re spect and honor for it. I know several "old maids" who are among the most noble women Of my acquaintance, but when one deliberately shirks the duties of married life that they may be more free to flirt and make love to every pair of pants that puts in an appearance, whether married or single, as "That's Me" appears to do, to my mind they cannot be too strongly con demned. If young people would take a more serious view of marriage, considering it rather in the light of a divine insti tution than an experiment. It would be better for the human race, as well as for the good of their own souls. So if "That's Me" has no higher ideals than those she has expressed, she would do well, at least, to keep her opinion strictly private. A MERE GIRL. Population of Spain. PORTLAND, Oct. S. (To the Editor.) On September 25 The Oregonian had an Item which said "that 12.000,000 of the 177,000,000 people in Spain can neither read nor write." 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