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PORTLAND, WEDNESDAY. OCT. 80, 191.
BOW TO CUT OUT PRrVTLEOE,
'"Cut out privIlege,' says Wilson
So also saya Tart. Ha not only says
it, but does It. The Issue In this cam'
palg-n Is not. as Wilson assumes,
whether privilege shall be cut out, but
how it shall be cut out. The Demo
cratic party is committed to an oper
ation which. (While curing the disease,
would for a long term of years cripple
the patient. Taft 1 even now per
forming: an operation which will as
effectually cure the disease, but will
not sap the patient's vitality and will
be followed by quick recovery. The
Republican party asks the people to
allow him to complete the operation
and not to change surgeons at a criti
cal stage of the task.
Wilson assumes that any party
which does not accept his remedy for
the disease is opposed to curing it. He
says that the Republican and Progres
slve parties alike propose "that we
shall accept the consequences of the
evil developments that have charac
terized the last decades In this coun
try, shall assume that it is impossible
to prevent monopoly, and shall merely
set the Government to preside over
it, see that its processes are assuaged
and rendered less cruel, see that mo
nopoly becomes a providence for the
people as well as a master over them.
Herein he, perhaps unintentionally but
grossly, misrepresents the- policy of
the Republican party with regard to
the trusts. That policy is as diamet
rically opposed to that of the Roose
velt Progressives as the Republican
tariff policy Is opposed to that of the
Democrats.
The whole tenor and purpose of
Taft' speeches and messages and of
his executive acts have been to re
store competition by dissolving those
corporations and combinations whose
purpose or effect Is to destroy com
petition and to keep competition
alive by preventing the formation
of any more such combinations. He
has been eminently successful in
the work of dissolution and is so
unflinching in his purpose to con
tinue that work that he has driven
from his party Into the ranks of the
pretended Progressives many men who
supported him four years ago but who
now despair of turning him from his
purpose. The people should love Taft
for having made enemies of these men.
But we are told that the dissolution
of the oil and tobacco trusts was a
bluff. That Is not the opinion of their
competitors, who are best able to
ludge by results. C. D. Chamberlain,
secretary and general counsel of the
National Petroleum Association, com
posed of the Standard's competitors,
has written to Attorney-General
Wickersham stating that "it may be
safely stated that the giving of re
bates upon which the Standard Oil
monoply was built up has ceased, pref
erential rates are few and far be
tween, disclosure of information by
carrier of competitive shipments is no
longer practiced, price cutting below
cost to kill competition is rare, and
many other unethical commercial
practices have become so jnfrequent
as hardly to cause complaint." The
independent is now able to do busi
ness at a profit "and without the
fearful handicap under which he
labored" before the trust was dis
solved. The Standard no longer con
trols production and price of crude
oil by controlling transportation, and
the production and price of crude oil
have greatly increased. The Stand
ard's grip on the business has been so
weakened that it and its former sub
sidiaries now control only 66 instead
of 87 per cent, except in California,
where it controls only 40 per cent.
Had Taft not forced dissolution, the
trusts would have strengthened their
hold from year to year.v He has
stopped this Increase in strength and
has started the process of disintegra
. tion by restoring equal competition.
Wilson says the Republicans fall to
see the principle on which the tariff
must be lowered, which he thus
defines:
That principle Is that every part of the
tariff that has afforded a covert to those
who have organized monopoly In this coun
try and have thereby created high prices,
hall be out out as quickly as It can be cut
out without risk of business disaster.
That is the very principle on which
Taft's polioy is based. While adher
ing to the protective theory, he would
limit duties to difference in cost of
production at home and abroad. That
policy would spread the benefits of
protection equally over all Industries
that is, over the whole Nation. No
special privilege can find covert in
such a policy, systematically carried
out, as It would be under Taft's plan
of schedule revision and expert, im
partial ascertainment of facts.
Wilson may be and doubtless is
sincere In his desire to cut out privi
lege, but it is doubtful whether he
could do so If elected President. A
howl would go up from the Louisiana
Democrats if an attempt were made
to put sugar on the free list. We
know from the way Democrats from
the Southern cotton manufacturing'
and lumber states voted on the Payne
Aldrich bill how deep is their devo
tion to a revenue tariff. Having in
flicted incurable wounds in the am
bitions of Clark, the Democratic
Speaker, and Underwood, the Demo
cratic leader, of the House, Wilson
cannot expect that hearty co-operation
from them which would be nec
essary to whip these recalcitrant ele
ments Into line. Privilege would st.ll
exist after a Democratic revision of
the tariff; we should have a change
of beneficiaries, nothing more.
The Christian Science Monitor
smiles rather disdainfully at The Ore
gonian's com.-nent on the naming of
the electric railway sleeping-cars after
the tributaries of the Willamette. The
Oregonian dutifully hoped that the
names would promote public knowl
edge of geography. Our contempor
ary opines that passengers will not He
awake nights to improve their educa
tion. Plainly, the Monitor, though it
lives in Boston, does not know the
lengths to which people will go when
their zeal for learning is once aroused.
We have seen young men maul one
another about a muddy field an -entire
afternoon to advance their mutual ed
ucatlon.
FEW HIRXNQ OF l"RKN.
Let us see how gently and easily
Mr. ITRen seeks to glide around the
exact (Situation as to his employment
by Joseph Fels to promote the single
tax in Oregon through the initiative
Mr. ITRen had been .East in the year
1909 and upon his return he disclosed
the facts about his "arrangement" in
a "public statement" at a meeting of
the Single Tax League In Portland in
May. , Other chosen friends in the
ITRen inner circle seem also to have
been aware of the agreeable facts.
But. so far as The Oregonian, or any
one outside the ITRen confidence,
knows, there was then no publication
in any newspaper or other general
notice of the ITRen employment. The
Oregonian invites Mr. ITRen or any
of his coadjutors to refer it to any
generally attended public meeting in
1909. or to any published statement,
where the $3000 annual payment to
the ITRen law firm was discussed.
The facts first reached The Orego
nlan about December, 1910, in a letter
written by an Oregon citizen who got
his Information from Joseph Fels.
This was the first inkling The Orego
nlan had of ITRen's little deal, and it
was certainlv the first ' knowledge
given to the general public.
Let the reader Dear in mina ini
Mr. ITRen made his contract with the
benevolent Mr. Fels in 1909. For the
campaign of 1910, Mr. H. W. Stone,
who is alike active in T. M. C. A. phi
lanthropies and In single tax promo
tion, filed for the Fels fund a liu
campaign' statement disclosing that
the disbursements had been $15
484.97. Among the items appears the
following: - -
ITRen Bchuebel, offlos expenses, t50.4I.
That Is all. Merely office ex
penses. No salary, no memoranda,
no payments, except office expenses.
Nothing there to shonr what ITRen
was privately getting, if he was get
ting anything. But 1 May of that year
(1909) Mr. ITRen had made public to
his own chosen and well-nourished
Single Tax League the fact that he
had arranged for $3000 a year to be
given to his law firm.
We suppose that someone Is paying
Mr. Shields. We suppose also the per
sons whom Mr. ITRen names have
contributed generously to an anti-single
tax fund. Is it reprehensible for
citizens whose interests are directly
attacked by a foreign soapmaker
through his hired agents, and who
believe that the public interest de
pends largely upon their activity and
effective remonstrance, to Join in a
common cause to defeat the proposed
vivisection of the Oregon patient by
the single tax experimenters?
SENATORIAL COURTESY.
Senator Martine, of New Jersey, is
Governor Wilson's choice for United
States Senator. That Interesting fact
was disclosed yesterday in a Jona
than Bourne advertisement, carefully
phrased so as to adhere to the facts,
but framed with calculated design
through ingenious typographical dis
play so as to leave with the casual
reader the impression that Jonathan
Bourne is Woodrow Wilson's choice
for Senator. He is not.
Senator Martine testifies ' to the
value of Mr. Bourne's services in the
Senate. Senatorial courtesy Is a pow
erful club. It actually brought a
Bourne encomium from Senator Ellhu
Root.
The salient fact about Senator Mar
tine Is that Woodrow Wilson made
him Senator for New Jersey. Martine
was the direct primary nominee, hav
ing taken it when nobody wanted it,
or thought It worth having. But Gov
ernor Wilson took up the cause of
Martine and insisted upon his elec
tion by the Legislature for the sole
reason that he was the choice of the
people through the direct primary.
Wilson desired to make the direct pri
mary a reality and not a joke. He
succeeded.
Now Martine, who owes his political
life to the direct primary, speaks for
Bourne, product also of the direct pri
mary, but now a poor loser bolter
from the direct primary.
WANTED, A STATESMAN, NOT A POLI
TICIAN.
What this country needs in these
times of gradual revolution Is a Presi
dent .who Is a statesman, not a politi
cian; a man who has been tried and
proved, not an experiment. This Is
the consideration which has brought
a decision in favor of Taft to Charles
Francis Adams, grandson of a Presi
dent and son of the Minister to Eng
land who prevented that country from
recognizing the Confederacy.
In a letter to Isaac Markens, pub
lished in the New York Evening Post,
Mr. Adams says that, owing to the
rapid growth of the country in popu
lation and wealth "we are passing
through something closely resembling
a revolution" and he inclines "strongly
to that political action through which
the impending change, will be con
ducted in the most orderly and least
destructive manner." This, he says, a.t
once eliminates Roosevelt, whom he
calls "a man of lawless mind one
who chafes under, restraint and de
lay." Mr. Wilson he pronounces an
experiment and he gravely questions
whether his (Wilson's) many years
of pedagogical work is the most ap
propriate training for the Presidential
chair" and he predicts that Wilson's
policy "would from the start be di
rected with an eye to four years hence
and the succession." Adams then
says:
Were President Taft re-elected we might.
on the contrary, have a chance of four
years of good, disinterested and experienced
administrative work. His present Admin
istration has been hampered In policy, es
pecially of late, by a continued eye to the
succession. Were he now re-elected he
would undoubtedly conduct the Government
with a view to the general welfare of the
country during his second term. He could
not accomplish much, but during the four
years given him considerable progress would
naturally be made toward a clearer and
better understanding of the changes which
are Inevitably Impending and of the modi
fication of our system appropriate thereto.
That is the deliberate Judgment of
an experienced statesman, one of a
long lne of statesmen. When we
look back at Kooseveus career, we
cannot but Indorse Adams' character
ization of him as "a man of lawless
mind." His denunciation of the anti
trust law as an excuse for its utterly
Inadequate enforcement; his blinking
at Oregon jury-flxlng; his sanction of
the steel merger; his secret counte
nance of the Panama revolution are
all evidence that,, when the law runs
counter to his will, the law is set at
naught.
Taft is a man of proved experience
and skill as a statesman. He started
the new government of the Philippines
on its course, wisely settling many
ticklish questions with the minimum
of frictjon. As Secretary of War he
pacified Cuba and started construction
of the Panama Canal. As President
he has determinedly fought and de
feated monopoly without great agita
tion: he has evolved a new tariff poi
Icy. the essential features of which
are approved by his opponents; he has
brought the railroads under effective
control; he has secured legislation
beneficial to labor and is securing
more; he'has given us postal savings
banks and parcels post; he has kept
us free from foreign entanglements
and has advanced the cause of peace
among nations.
Taft's skill as a statesman has been
thrown Into the shade by his short
comings as a politician. Just as Roose.
velt'a genius as a politician has dis
tracted attention from his shortcom
I rigs as a statesman. But has not the
time come when we should be guided
in our choice of a President by a
man's qualities as a statesman rather
than as a politician? If we give Taft
another term, his opposition to a third
term and his advocacy of a longer
single term will prevent any political
considerations from hampering his
work for the whole people. He will
thus be able to give his abilities as
an administrator free and untram
meled play. He will be able to ad
vance the great problems which now
confront us so far towards solution
that his successor will but need to cap
the structure he has built
SIXGLK-TAXER FOR ASSESSOR.
"Didn't he (Henry E. Reed) repudl
ate the primary when Rushlight was
nominated for Mayor?" Inquires the
single-tax newspaper friend of Single
Tax Wagnon, the single-tax candidate
for County Assessor. "Didn't Mr. Reed
bring out Joseph Simon as an inde
pendent candidate for Mayor, to 'save
the city?" Hardly; but Reed sup
ported Mr. Simon and managed his
campaign.
Mr. Reed entered the Republican
primary as a candidate for Assessor
and was nominated. He Is the direct
primary nominee. He had hot been a
candidate for anything before the prl
mary that nominated Mr. Rushlight
for Mayor; nor, for that matter, was
Mr. Simon. It takes a large and loose
Imagination to bring forward any sug
gestlon of "repudiation" In Mr. Reed's
present or previous political conduct.
But Wagnon is the Democratic can
didate and the Bull Moose candidate
for Assessor. Did he repudiate the
Democratic party when he became the
Bull Moose candidate, or the Bull
Moose party when he became the
Democratic candidate? It is a puzzle,
hardly worth trying to solve, however,
since he actually repudiates both
nominations when he becomes the sin
gle-tax candidate.
If the people of Multnomah want a
shouting slngle-taxer for Assessor,
they will find their man Is Wagnon.
FORK BARREL STATESMEN.
The Oregonian Is not an admirer of
Collier's Weekly; but Collier's Weekly
Is, or has been, an admirer of Senator
Bourne. It is therefore Interesting to
find in the current Issue of the muck
raking publication an article by Mark
Sullivan, who bears the title of asso-
elate editor, entitled "Pork-Barrel
Statesmen."
Editor Sullivan takes for his text
the case of Representative Humphrey,
of Seattle, who Is a candidate for re
election, and for whom a vigorous ap
peal is being made because he is said
to have procured "$22,000,000 in ap
propriations for the State of Washing
ton." The Seattle newspapers are said
to be supporting Mr. Humphrey be
cause it is a "good business proposl
tion." All this makes the Collier's
editor quite sorrowful, as of course It
should, and he says, among other
things:
The members who are most successful at
the pork trough are, as a rule, those who
are most willing to be puppets In the
hands of the man at the top of the or
ganization, and the man at the top ' is
the one who arranges tariffs and other
ImDortant matters on the basis of trading
a publlo building in Sundance tor a vote
in favor or the steel tariff, me pork bar
rel la strictly a matter of you-scratch-my-
back-ril-scratch-yours. There are very few
Congressmen but are ashamed of It. If
any intelligent observer were asked to put
his finger on the root of all evil at Wash
ington, he would name tne porx oarrei.
Collier's can perform few services more use
ful than to educate the Nation to a point
where the pork-barrel argument ror re
election Is unpopular.
Associate Editor Sullivan discusses
with increasing indignation other
pork-barrel cases, and winds up with
the following striking observation:
At Its worst the cork-barrel argument for
re-election is a confession of bribery; at Its
best It Is drawing a herring across the
trail. Insist on knowing how your Con
gressman voted on the tariff.
If Editor Sullivan wllj look up the
records he will be pained to discover
that i Senator Bourne voted for the
Payne-Aldrlch bill, after a glowing
eulogy of Mr. Aldrich, whose daughter
married John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
8 CPE RINTEXDENT ALDERMAN'S
COURSE.
Superintendent Alderman's lecture
course to be given for the general
public through the schools Is a matter
of profound interest. It is a step in
the great movement to extend the In
fluence of the schools and unite them
more closely with the living affairs
of the home and the community. The
day has 'passed by when sensible peo
ple looked upon the schoolhouse as
a" temple dedicated exclusively to
arithmetic and grammar, where men
tion of the business of everyday life
was desecration. The world has be
come convinced that the best educa
tion la that which makes young people
most intimate with the environment
where they are to exist and prepares
them adequately to play their parts
with others in the drama of life.
It must have been with some such
thoughts as these in his mind that
Superintendent Alderman arranged
his list of topics for the lectures.
There are ten if them and all are
"new." The lecture course looks for
ward and not backward. Here are
the topics: "New View of Boy Life,"
"New View of Recreation," "New
View of Education," "New View of
Human Life," "Jfew View of Rural
Life," "New View of the - People's
Wealth," "New View of Working
men's Rights," "New View of Com
munity Life," "New View of Public
Finance," "New View of Crime and
Criminals."
The list Is inviting. If the various
subjects are handled as - they ought
to be there will flow out Into the rural
communities of Oregon a veritable
river of inspiration and knowledge.
The speakers are - to be competent
men selected from among the citizens
of the state who, Mr. Alderman as
sumes,, "will be familiar with the
problems that confront us here in
Oregon In our daily work." City su
perintendents and rural teachers who
wish a course of lectures on this plan
are invited to write to Mr. Alderman
giving particulars as to funds, subjects
desired, and so on. Nothing will be
charged except the lecturers travel
ing expenses and his entertainment.
Those who deliver lectures will give
their services freely.
Mr. Alderman makes some valuable
practical suggestions to those who
wish to arrange for lectures. Two or
three districts should unite when this
Is practicable. The lectures should be
well advertised and no admission
should be charged. The funds neces
sary ought to be procured by some
form of private subscription, or per
haps appropriated by the school board
or the local Commercial Club. Mr.
Alderman's project Is so meritorious
that every teacher in the state should
unite to help make it a popular suc-
Credit for leadership in the move
ment for publicity of campaign ex
penses is claimed for the Democrats
by the Louisville Courier-Journal,
which thus shows forgetfulness or
lack of information. Oregon, which
is a Republican state, was a pioneer
not only in this movement, but In lim
iting campaign expenses, for in 1908
this state adopted the corrupt prac
tices act. Oregon's example was fol
lowed by Republican California In
1909, and Republican Connecticut and
Kansas provided for publicity in the
same year. In 1911 the Democratic
House took a leaf out of Oregon't
book by passing a law limiting ex
penses in Congressional elections and
requiring publicity. This law passed
a Republican Senate and was ap
proved by a Republican Senate. The
movement was common' to both par
ties, but began in Republican states.
Prosperity reached the railroads
with a rush In August, when they got
the first benefits of the movement of
the bumper crops and of Increased
general trade. The net operating rev
enue of 220,405 miles of line was
$96,402,972, an increase of $10,927,009
over August, 1911. This is a greater
sum than for any preceding month
except . October, 1909. As the crop
movement was only begun in August,
we may hope for even larger increases
in the following months. The roads
will not be able to make those im
provements which, they complain, re
cent scant earnings have prevented.
If Sherman should die before the
electoral college meets, th complica
tions of this complicated Presidential
election would be Increased. In that
event, should the election be thrown
into Congress with Taft and Wilson as
the leading candidates for President,
the Senate would be forced to choose
between Marshall and Johnson for
Vice-President unless -the Republican
electors should vote for a new candi
date in place of - Sherman. All the
Constitutional provisions for Presiden
tial elections may be put to the test
on this occasion.
Some Americans may perhaps sus
pect that the encouraging reports of
the good work done under our author
ity in the Philippines are colored by
official optimism. To lull possible sus
picions of this sort it might be a good
plan to read Werner Frederloh Bruck's
account of American doings in the
Philippines, as published in the Prus
sian Year Book at Berlin. Mr. Bruck
declares that the Islands have been
Improved by the American occupa
tion, and, coming from a German,
such an admission means a great deal.
The Protean specter of the recall
has assumed an unheard-of guise in
Minnesota. It visits that state as "the
recall of franchises," which is evident.
ly something far different from the
recall of officials or court decisions.
When a corporation misconducts itself
its franchise Is to be revoked by popu
lar vote, fair compensation being al
lowed. The new, development is in
teresting mainly because It proves
again that when you start a hare you
never can tell how far It will run.
Miss Frances Moore, the bindery
girl, might be- excused for breaking
off her match with Frederick S. New
man on the ground that Sir Frederick,
his father, is an undesirable father-
in-law. But the loyalty of the son
who gives up $100,000 to win her may
compensate for the shortcomings of
the father. Then the father may re
lent; they often do.
If Rockefeller and Archbold should
sell their stock in the Waters-Pierce
Oil Company to Pierce, It will be the
first case on record of their selling to
"the other fellow." Hitherto they
have made "the other fellow" sell to
them at their price. Times have
changed . since the trust-busters got
In action.
A New Tork "eentleman" burelar
who has been robbirxr millionaires
says he has been under his pal's hyp
notic influence. That chap has been
filling up. on popular magazine detec
tive tales.
Luclle Cameron's stepfather has is
sued an edict that the girl's mother
must renounce her or leave him. In
which event it isn't difficult to forecast
the mother's action.
One Pennsylvania town produced
3,600,000 cigars last week. Think of
the strain on the cabbage supply that
comes with election time.
The plot to force the Czar to abdi
cate reminds us that Russia is still
living in the twilight between the dark
ages and modern times.
Mrs. Belmont, in engaging In an
encounter with a milliner, overlooked
the fighting propensities suggested by
the name Clancy.
The- Turks must find It difficult to
distinguish between a line of Greek
soldiers and a troupe of ballet dancers.
At last the secret of the precipitate
Turkish flight Is out. The Montene
grin commander writes poetry.
No, it Isn't altogether safe to name
the new baby Woodrow. Better wait
until next Wednesday.
A post-season of Pacific Coast ball
would be shockingly indecent. . Let the
corpses rest In peace.
Micrococcus Is the name given to
the germ transmitted in kissing. ' Who
Is afraid?
Why not a thirty-foot harbor for
Coos Bay? The cargoes are there.
Tralnrobbery continues to be an
exhilarating Oklahoma industry.
Save the straw votes for a bonfire
over the real thing.
Everybody's claiming It!
State Measures Condensed
Advice to Voters Presented 1st Ab
breviated Form.
The recommendations of The Orego
nian on the measures to be considered
at the general election have been
founded largely on certain general rules
of consideration, as follows:
When In doubt vote "No."
Vote "No" on attempts at lawmaking
that can be handled by the Legislature.
Vote "No" on local issues presented
to the state at large
Vote "Yes" on referendum measures
where the referendum power has been
abused.
It must be remembered in applying
these rules that constitutional amend
ments cannot be adopted except by vote
of the people and that the Legislature
has been deprived of authority to enact
tax laws. But unless they be extremely
simple propositions all tax laws (this
does not apply to tax amendments)
should be defeated with the view of
restoring to the Legislature its proper
functions.
No advice Is given on road measures
because there are three distinct plans
each opposed to the other two, thus
making adoption of an Intelligent pro
gramme seemingly hopeless.
. Woman suffrage amendment:
X 300 Yea. Vote Yes.
SOI No.
Creating office of Lieutenant-Governor.
Amendment:
X 80a Yes. Vote Yes,
803 NO.
Divorce ef local and state taxation.
Amendment:
X 804 Yes. Vote Yes.
305 No. -
Permitting different tax rates on
classes of property.
X SOfl Yea, Vote Yes.
307 No.
Repeal of county tax option. Amend
ment: X 808 Yes. Vote Yes.
309 No.
Majority rule on constitutional amend
ments. Amendment:
310 Yes.
311 No.
No recommendation.
Double liability on bank stockholders.
Amendment:
X 8ia Yes. Vote Yes.
ma iCrt.
Statewide public utilities regulatl
Ion
Referendum:
X 314. Yes. Vote Yea.
315 No. '
Creating Cascade County. Local ls
sue:
318 Yes.
X 319 No. Vote No.
Mlllage tax for University and Agri
cultural College, Simple tax law:
X 820. Yes. Vote Yes.
Mninrl'tv rule on initiated laws
Amendment;
322 Yes.
323. No.
No recommendation.
rnnntv hnndlnor and road construction
act. Grange bill:
324 Yes.
325 No.
Creating State Highway Department.
Grange mil:
326 Yes. ,
327 No.
No recommendation.
Changing date State Printer bill be
comes effective. , Misuse of Initiative:
3i8 Yes.
V oilO Kn- VnfM No.
Creating office of Hotel Inspector.
Misuse of initiative:
330 Yes.
-v- ! 1 -Va. Vaia Wo
Eight hour day on publlo works
Misuse of initiative:
33- Yes.
X 333 No. Vote No.
Blue Sky law. Misuse of Initiative:
334 Yes.
X 335 No. Vote No.
Prohibiting private employment of
convicts. Misuse or initiative
336 Yes.
. -" D4T o. Vote No.
Relating to employment of rounty
and city prisoners. .Misuse oi iiuuuo
338 Yes.
X 33 No. Vote No. -
State road bonding act.. Harmony
measure:
340 Yes.
341 No.
No recommendation.
Limiting state road indebtedness
Harmony measure:
343 Yes.
343 No.
County bonding act. Harmony Mil:
844 Yes.
345 No.
Limiting county road Indebtedness.
Harmony amendment:
846 Yes.'
847 No.
11U IIJLUUIUIVllwv-.
Providing method for consolidating
cities and creating new counties:
X 348 Yea. Vote Yea.
849 No.
Income Tax Amendment:
X 850 Yea. . Vote yes.
OKI
Tax exemption on household effects.
Elemental tax Din:
X 882 Yea. Vote Yes.
Tax piemDtlon on moneys and cred
its. Complicated.
g&4 xes.
X 855 No. Vote No.
Revising: Inheritance tax laws. Com
plicated.
856 Yes.
X 857 No. Vote No.
D.m.,Kln ihnut frale-ht rates that
nobody can understand. Misuse.
358 Yes.
X 359 No. Vote No.
Countv road bonding act. So-called
Medford bill.
860 Yes.
361 No.
No recommendation.
State-wide single tax with graduated
tax Jug handle. Amendment.
364 Yes. ,
X 385. No. Vpte No.
Abolishing capital punishment.
366 Yes.
X 867 No. Vote No.
Prohibiting boycotting.
368 Yes.
869 No. .
No recommendation.
Giving Mayor authority to control
street speaking.
X 370 Yes. Vote Yes.
871 No.
Appropriation for University. Refer
endum. Misuse of referendum.
X 873 Yes. Vote Yes.
373 No.
Appropriation for University. Refer
mdum. Misuse of referendum.
X 374 Yea. Vote Yea.
375 No.
Multnomah County Measures.
Making Port of Portland Commission
elective.
376 Yes.
X 877 No. Vote No.
County single tax without graduated
lug handle.
378 Yes.
X 879 No.- Vote No.
Creating county high school fund.
880 Yes.
381 No.
Adding- to Port of Portland Improve
ment territory.
X 383 Yea. Vote Yea.
883 No, ,
Special Election Measures
The Oregonla Gives Its' Views on
Two Charters and Twenty Amend
ments and Ordinances to Be Con
sidered Saturday, November 3.
The real issue In the special city
election Saturday, November 2, is the
official commission charter. The Ore
gonian advocates the defeat of the short
charter, the public utilities fraud, ana
advises a vote of No on several amend
ments because the substance of them is
contained in the official charter draft.
Bond measures have been considered on
the ground of publlo needs.
Official commission charter:
X 10O Yea. Vote Yea.
101 No.
Appropriating $300,000 to buy Rosa
Island:
102 Yes,
X 103. Vote No.
Appropriating $850,000 for South Port
land bridge:
104 Yes.
X 105 No. Vote No.
Appropriating $100,000 for incinerat
lng plant:
X 106 Yea. Vote Yes.
107 No.
Appropriating $2,000,000 for parks and
boulevards:
X 108 Yea. Vote Yes.
109 No.
Appropriating $200,000 for auditorium
site:
110 Yes.
' 111 No.
No recommendation.
Relating to waterfront street vaca
tions:
112 Yes.
X 113 No. Vote No.
Extending time for filing applications
for bonding local assessments:
X 114 Yea. Vote Yes.
115 No.
Authorizing Council to fix salary of
City Attorney:
116 Yes.
X 117 No. Vote No.
Authorizing Council to fix salary of
City Treasurer:
118 Yes.
X 118 No. Vote No.
Authorising Council to fix salary of
City Engineer:
120 Yes.
X 121 No. Vote No.
Creating office of City Prosecutor:
122 Yes. .'
X 123 No. Vote No,
Extending bonding act to street open
ings:
X 124 Yea. Vote Yea.
125 No.
Removing police . department from
civil service:
126 Yes.
X 127 No. Vote No.
Authorizing taxation to pay water
bonds:
128 Yes.
X 129 No. Vote No.
Relating to manner of opening
streets:
130 Yes.
X 131 No. Vote No.
Authorizing $200,000 for public mar
ket:
X 132 Yes. Vote Yes.
133 No.
Publlo Service fraud and treasury
grab:
134 Yes.
X 135 No. Vote No.
Authorizing city to transfer forrlea
to county control:
X 136 Yes. Vote Yes.
137 No' '
Recognition of Greater Portland
plans:
X 138 Yes. Vote Yes.
139 No.
Granting franchise to Northwestern
Electric Company:
X 140 Yea. Vote Yes.
141 No.
Short charter:
142 Yes.
X 143 No. Vote No.
Covered In Official Commission Char
ter.
VOTERS INVITED TO WRITE,
Next Sunday, November 8, The
Oregonian plans to publish a
symposium of letters from the
people discussing Initiative and
referendum measures. Not more
than one page will be devoted
thereto. Writers must observe
the following rules:
Letters must not be more than
300 words In length.
They must be free from per
sonal attacks or questioning of
motive.
Each letter must deal with but
one measure or one subject. That
Is. several tax measures may be
discussed In one communication,
but not one tax measure and one
road measure.
Every letter must be signed by
the true name of the writer.
The Oregonian will make its
own selection of communications,
but will be governed therein by
unbiased Judgment aa to the
clearness of the argument.
Letters should be addressed to
the editor of The Oregonian and
be In this office Thursday night.
Paid propagandists and hired
press agents are barred.
ross island purchase: OPPOSED.
Place of No Practical Value to City,
Is Charged.
PORTLAND, Oct. 29. (To the Edi
tor.) The attempt to get the taxpay
ers to buy Ross Island at this coming
election by voting $300,000 bonds for
It, or even more. Is a deal that looks
somewhat suspicious.
Evidently the only part that the
voter has to do with it Is to vote to
pay the $300,000, and no more. The
whole attempt to Induce the taxpay
ers to buy this Island Is a great frost.
Those who know what Ross Ialand
Is, know that it Is swamp most of the
year, and that to put it in order to be
used as a place for a Jail and other
municipal purposes is the work of a
lifetime and can be done, only at a
cost of hundreds of thousands of dol
lars Practical men look upon this as
a joke which should be beaten at the
polls. In the first case, it is too far
from the center of the city for a Jail;
and to use it as a crematory site, a
new bridge costing thousands of dol
lars yes, hundreds of thousands-
would be necessitated, we have Just
completed a new crematory at a great
cost- This whole deal looks strange to
many of us, and I would advise that
it should be voted down and voted down
hard, VOTER.
Half a Century Ago
From The Oregonian of October to, 186J,
Governor Gibbs vetoed the bill sub
mitting the seat of Government ques
tion to the people, and the bill pro
viding for two .auditors of accounts
for Marlon County on the ground of
unconstitutionality.
The Dalles. Or" Oct. 28. Potatoes
are selling here $2.60 per 60 pounds.
St. Louis, Oct. 23. Colonel Chapman,
chief of General Curtis' staff, who has
Just arrived from a council of over
10,000 Indians in Southern Kansas, says
they are anxious to fight the rebel
Indian regiments In their own way.
San Francisco, Oct. 25. On Septem
ber 15 Collector Rankin wrote to Gov
ernor Andrew, of Massachusetts, ten
dering a cavalry company, commanded
by Captain Reed, First Light Dragoons
of this city, the company furnishing
everything but horses and passage
East. A telegram was received today
stating: that the Secretary of War has
authorized Massachusetts to accept this
company and the Mayor of Boston
agrees to pay $200 per man to cover
transportation.
The City Council again failed to
transact any business last evening.
Three weeks and more have elapsed
now without any business appertaining
to municipal affairs having been at
tended to. Ws are compelled to say
that well-founded suspicion rests with
many that the main cause of this
neglect Is - a desire to stave off or
prevent the passage of a resolution
relative to the completion of engine
house No. 1.
WOMEN IN THE POLITICAL, GAME.
She Is Very Apt to Change Rules, Sag.
gests Suffragist.
PORTLAND, Oct. 28. (To the Edi
tor.) Ida M. Tarbell says one of her
chief objections to woman suffrage is
that "It will take the attention of
women from what I believe to be their
real civic duties by interesting - them
in the political game, when they should
be concentrating their attention on
specific civic work."
No woman can speak with more au
thority on the fascinations of "the po
litical game" than Ida Tarbell, for she
has studied It more closely than any
of us can ever hope to do, unless we
also choose, as did she, to go out Into
the world and earn a living In that
way. Hers has been a noble calling
she takes rank as the foremost woman
muckiaker of the century, and, men
and women, the muckrakera have ful
filled their purpose with efficiency and
for the public good.
The suffragists are willing to con
cede to Ida Tarbell. therefore, the
probability that they will become In
terested In the political game. The fact
is, they have had their ear to the
ground for a long time listening tor
any sounds that might help them to
work out their special problems of
home and business. Of late, certain
strong vibrations have indicated so
plainly the close connection between
their troubles and the political ma
chines, that at last the women have
begun to follow up the lines of com
munication. Perhaps they may dis
cover what It is that adds to the cost
of living here and subtracts from the
earning capacity there, what It Is that
steadily forces upward the cost of ma
terials and what takes the wearing
quality out of the cloth. The suf
fragists are wondering what makes the
wheels go round, and no doubt In the
course of time they will take the po
litical mechanism apart to find out.
And when they do, what then 7
The New Hampshire politicians have
answered that question. When equal
suffrage was recently being considered
by the Legislature of that state the
political bosses did not say, as do the
anti-suffragists In Oregon, that the
women have more Influence without
the ballot than they could have with
It. What these political bosses really
said was this: "Vote It down. The
women's clubs have too much power
In this state as It la. We won't give
them any more." So much, then, for
the value of the ballot to women. But
this Indisputable authority touches also
upon another vital spot the power ot
women's organizations. Wherever there
is a woman's club or similar organiza
tion of women, there will be found a
nucleus of capable women drawn to
gether for the highest civic alms.
These bodies of women, over a mill
ion strong in the country, have for
years been training themselves In
everything that la conducive to good
citizenship, and they are the agencies
through which it will be easy to dis
seminate political knowledge to all
women.
Why should the antls worry, lest.
with equal suffrage, women would be
forced Into the "political arena" with
men? There will be far less necessity
then than now for women to mingle
with politicians in the campaigns. Un
der present conditions when women
wish to urge any measure for the pub
lic welfare, they are forced to go to
the men and make their plea to but
tonhole them individually, to wait upon
the politicians In committees, to lobby
In the Legislatures at Congress. Thn
suffragists do not like this kind of
campaigning. Do the antisT We think
they do, it their arguments mean any
thing. The suffragists are one and all look
ing forward eagerly to the time when
they will be free to perform their civlo
duties with Intelligence and dignity;
when they will be enabled to spend the
season of the campaign In a quiet edu
cation of themselves and other women
in the measures to be enacted, rather
than fluttering about from one poli
tician to another exerting their fem
inine Influence. We shall get Into the
'political game,' of course, and per
haps change the rules.
E. M. NEWILL.
SIR. WREN'S $3000 PAY BY FELS
Arranged In 1909 Salary Should Be
Given to Ilia Law Firm.
OREGON CITY, Or., Oct. 28. (To the
Editor.) Last Sunday The Oregonian
asked when I first made public the
fact that Jos. Fels was paying my law
firm $3000 a year that I might be free
to divide my time at my own pleasure
between politics and my law business.
The arrangement was made when I was
In New York In March, 1909, and my
first public statement was at a meet
ing of the Single Tax League In Port
land, on my return. In May of that year.
During the Spring and Summer, I told
many members of the Peoples Power
League and other friends. It was never
a secret. No one seemed to regard it
as of any particular Importance until
The Oregonian thought It could be used
to advantage in combatting the People s
Power League and the single tax pro
posals. I think your' first publication
was in 1910, and was copied from some
Eastern Journal.
Will you kindly ask Mr. Chas. H.
Shields, recently of Seattle, whether
Messrs. H. L. Corbett, Wm. M. Ladd, W.
C Alvord, cashier of the First National
Bank, and H. E. Falling have paid
nearly four-fifths of the expenses of
Mr. Shields' Equal Taxation League? .
What did H. L. Corbett and Wm. M.
Ladd offer Mr. Shields as an Induce
ment for him to come to Oregon and
manage the anti-single tax campaign?
Why has Mr. Shields thus far refused
to say who are the members of his
league? Why did he refuse last Thurs
day night, at the Bungalow Theater,
to say whether he was paid for his
services or not? Thus far I have been
unable to get an answer to these ques
tions from Mr. Shields.
W. S. U REN.
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