Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937, November 19, 1912, Image 12

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Newspaper Page TextTHE 3IORXIXG OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1912. 12 PORTLAND. OREGON. Entered at Portland, Oregon. Postottlca as Bcond-e!aas Matter. . . . '. Subscription Rate Invariably In Advance. (BT MAIL.) Dal.y. Sunday Included, one year. i tally. Bunday Included, alx montha.... X fcally. Sunday Included, three montha. .Z." Dally. Sunday Included, one month ! .2 Dally, without Bunday. one year.. J-y Dally, without Bunday, six montha..... ' Dally, without Funday. three months... i-o Daily, without Sunday, one month.. 1 Weekly, one year S"no Sunday, one year 5"50 i Sunday and Weekly, one year i (BY CARRIER.) -i Dally. Sunday Included, one year. -S? Dally. Sunday Included, one month . . ... . n . money or- . now to Ifceimi wan rwiuw-v -- J oar. ezpreaa order or peraonal check on your i ' - - ... . .t. " iirrencv are local Dana. oirap. ' i j , at the aendef a risk. Give poatofflce address . In full. Including county and state. - Postage Bates lO to 14 pages. 1 to 28 pa gas. S centa; 80 to 40 page. nta. - 40 to 60 pages. 4 centa. Foreign postage. - double rate. . :- Eastern Business office Veere c9,nJ5" ; lln New York. Brunswick building. t-ni - tt-ro. Steger building. Ban Francisco Office R. J. Bldwell Co., ; 13 Market street. .-.. R r Enropran Offico-i-No. S. Regent street. B- 5 Lndon- - r roRTLAxn, Tuesday, nov. is, REORGANIZE THE REPUBLICAN PARTY J The confident assertions of Roose- velt and Flinn that the Progressive r party has killed the Republican party ', are already being refuted by move- ments to reorganize and rehabilitate the supposed corpse over which they 4 are holding the death dance. The most significant fact about these f movements is that they have been in J itiated by those Progressives who re J fused to follow Roosevelt out of the ' party, but whose progressiveness has : been proved by years of fighting. 1 The confidence of Roosevelt and his '. followers that they have founded a new, permanent party which is to sup plant the Republican party is matched , by the confidence of these Progres : sive Republicans that they can reor- - ganize their own party on Progressive : lines, and thereby win back a large v proportion of the Republicans who 5 voted for Roosevelt. Their confidence ' is justified by an analysis of election results. This shows that the strength of the Progressive party is largely flc titious. From one-half to three fourths of the Roosevelt vote waa due to Roosevelt's personal popularity, C else why were the Progressive candi .'; dates for other offices so uniformly ' weak? Not over 15 Progressive Rep .' resentatives and only one Progressive r Senator were elected, though, had the party been as strong as its leader, s more Progressives than Republicans J should have been elected. Unless - Roosevelt in another campaign could gain enough strength to elect not only T himself but a majority of both houses, ; his victory would be barren, for he : could not carry through Congress any ..' part of his programme without shar ; lng the credit with one or both the ? other parties. He would thereby dis ? credit his frequent assertion that only through his new party can social and ; industrial Justice be obtained. All ex " cept the. most blindly infatuated : Rooseveltians must recognize this - fact. Those who followed him through desire to procure certain reforms and not through hero-worship or antagon ism to Taft will look about them dur- . ing the next four years for the best means of gaining their end. The ma j Jority of such men are doubtless for f mer Republicans, and, if the Republi can party should definitely commit '' itaelf to a progressive programme, they would be more disposed to re turn to their former political home than to adhere to a new party which : had no prospect of accomplishing " anything, or to Join the Democrats, against whom they would have a nat L ural hostility. ; In the recent election the Republl- can party was at its weakest, weaker than in any election since the Civil " War. More than 3,000,000 of its nor- mal votes were cast for Roosevelt and probably another million for Wilson. . There waa dissension among those who remained, for La Follette, Had : ley, Borah and their like remained ' Republicans only formally. Tet un- der these most adverse circumstances '.. it polled between 3.000,000 and 4,000, t 000 votes. This Is the size of the party when stripped to the bone, when 1 reduced only to those men who had - no hope of victory, no magnetic lead 1 er. no motive for voting as 'they did i except fidelity to Republican princl ' pies. That those principles are con ? sistent with progress is proved by the fact that all progressive legislation of . the last fifty years was passed by the ',' Republican party. A party which re tains such strength under such atl ; verse circumstances is not dead or ' even moribund. It has been punished I for Its sinsr-but is not forever excluded 5 from popular favor. What is needed to rehablHtate the " party, then, is a frank acceptance of defeat by the Republlran reaction aries. No other course is open to this element. They must yield to the progressive element of the party, lest a worse thing befall them. If they do not yield, they will drive progressive Republicans into the arms of Roose- velt or the Democracy.Roosevelfs suc . cess would mean the reign of radical Ism with all the uncertainty which grows out of the ever-changing char acter of the Roosevelt policies. Demo cratic success means destruction of the protective tariff, which the reac tionaries most desire to preserve. The Democrats promise to compete with the other parties in progressive meas ures. If the reactionaries were to go over bodily to the Democrats, they would have to make the same kind of . a compromise with the progressive Democrats as would be necessary with the progressive Republicans and they would also have to sacrifice protec tion. By accepting gracefully the popular verdict and conceding once : for all that special privilege must end, they can insure progress on sane lines conforming with Republican principles. . That progressive leaders within the Republican party believe the party can be reorganized on such lines as ." to accomplish the reforms for which - they have consistently fought in their " respective states and in Congress is ' proved by the overtures made to that end by Borah, Cummins, La Follette, ' Kenyon and Hadley to the regular Republican leaders. The regular lead ; ers now realize that they erred in Ig noring the progressives and are ready ' to compromise on measures and lead- ership. The standpat leaders are gone. wlth the exception of Penrose .: in the Senate and Payne In the House. They have given place to men who have learned their lesson and who are conservative without being reac- - tlonary. The time is ripe for the lead ers of both elements of the party to come together and build anew. The progressive Republicans have every motive of personal ambition as well as party loyalty and loyalty to their principles for desiring such a compromise. It would lift them from the position of leaders In a faction to that of leaders of the whole party. It would open the way. for higher honors to them. If they had Joined the Pro gressive party, they would not only have been required , to affiliate with such trust magnates as Perkins and such bosses as Flinn. with whom they have nothing In common, but to sub ordinate their ambition to that of Roosevelt, who threatens to become the perpetual candidate and dictator. The two wings of the Republican party can reunite on such a pro gramme and under such leaders as to establish popular confidence in their progressive purposes. By so doing they can make the defeat of 1912xihe prelude to a succession of victories. MR. TEAL- FOR THE WILSON CABINET. Oregon has a candidate for Secre tary of the Interior, in the Cabinet of President Wilson, in the person of Joseph N. Teal. The Oregonian assumes that there will be no dissent ing voice in the state against the selection of a man so well known and so well qualified for this great posi tion. It is an office that has to do with the welfare and problems of the West. Mr. Teal knows all about them. He understands and appre ciates the policies and the proper concern of the Government as to the forests, 'the public domain, water power, reclamation, coal lands and the like on the one hand: and he knows, and he would be in accord with, the attitude and the Interest of the public on the other. We think that with Mr. Teal in the Cabinet, the Administration might readily be brought to a sane view of conserva tion, so that conservation would not mean stagnation but intelligent and profitable use. We are to have a Democratic Ad ministration. Mr. Teal is a Demo crat. He stands for the West. He belongs to the Pacific Coast. He should have the support of all citi zens and all interests In his candi dacy. In this matter of large concern to Oregon and the West, The Ore gonian does not hesitate to commend Mr. Teal to the favorable considera tion of the new Administration. NO LAWMAKING BY PROXY. Mr. Hersner, of Newport, deems it a sad mistake for the elector who Is In doubt to vote No. Far better, he thinks, it would be to leave It to others who do know. We suppose that Mr. Hersner does not intend to make a proposal strik ing at the life of the initiative and referendum; yet he would relieve the people as a whole of the duty of de ciding on any measure submitted for their action, and leave it to a selected group and Informed few, an assembly commissioned to decide questions or Issues for the whole electorate. The Oregon system is for all the people, not a part of the people. If a part of the people only discharge their obligations as lawmakers, the system is a failure. Mr. Hersner's figure about the hun ter who shoots at any moving object In the woods is Interesting but not adequate. The comparison might be improved from his point of view If he were to suggest that all who do not know how to shoot stay at home and leave all the game to real hunters. But the Oregon system Imposes on all citizens alike the duty of hunting and does not permit one to turn over his gun to any proxy. KOGl'E RIVER APPLES FOB WILSON T The Oregonian hopes that President-elect Wilson will soon have the opportunity to test the quality of the famous Rogue River apples; but it confesses that it has become a little anxious since receiving a letter from Mr. A. K. Ware, of Medford, contain ing for the most part matter wholly irrelevant to the public wager of two boxes of Rogue River apples on elec tion results, but having also this paragraph: "If I remember aright, you wagered me a box of Rogue Rlver'a best Newtown ap ples that CoL Roosevelt would not win nor be even second in the race. How about It?" Mr. Ware does not remember aright. To refresh his very poor memory we reprint the offer made by The Ore gonian: We will wager Mr. Ware a box of flrst clasa Rogue River apples that Mr. Roosevelt will not get as many votea In the electoral college aa the next highest Presidential candidate. We will wager another box of fancy Rogue River apples that he will not get halt as many. The Oregonian, Monday, August 19, 1912. Just how far Mr. Ware's treacher ous recollection has led him astray may be seen by reference to the clear terms of the wager. Mr. Roosevelt will not get as many electoral votes as the next highest Presidential can didate, nor half so many. The Oregonian desires that the fin est product of the wonderful Rogue River, represented In two boxes of fancy apples, be sent to President elect Wilson. Will Mr. Ware fulfill his. clear obligation to the terms of his contract, and at the same time do a genuine service to Rogue River Valley and Oregon? A PHILADELPHIA PLAN. Tho Philadelphia public schools have taken up a piece of work which ought to be widely imitated. If It Is well managed it cannot fail to be highly beneficial to the pupils, to say nothing of its broad humanitarian in fluence upon the teachers. One would suppose that It might transform the public schools from dead machines into living organisms. What they are doing In Philadelphia is to group the children into little communities of kindred tastes. A careful study is made of the "characters and apti tudes" of the pupils. This is in Itself a startling innovation upon the old fashioned machine methods. Usually the child is regarded as a mere grist when he comes to school and he is lumped Into the hopper to be ground with the rest. The Idea that the Lord might have made him different from his associates has been slow to dawn upon the pedagogic intelligence. And when it was found that some child was different from the mass the dead ly aim of the machine was to grind him down to type. In Philadelphia they are trying another way. Having taken the trouble to find out something about the natures and dis positions of the children under their care, the Philadelphia teachers fhtend to adopt a course of education which will develop Individuality. The plan Is to be carried out even in the pu pils' games. Wise teachers have al ways insisted that games were pro foundly educational, or might be made so. The new scheme Is to adapt the games to the children. Those who like a particular kind are to be kept together on the playground. Some will prefer walke in the woods to any other recreation. There will be a sys tematic effort to gratify their taste. Those who delight In rough sports like football will have a chance to In dulge their preference. By such a systematic use of games It Is hoped to develop the pupils along the lines of their individualities. Of course the same method will bo carried into the regular school studies: This is the plan by which philosophers like Her bert Spencer and Pestalozzl insist that the human race can develop geniuses at will. The old system of suppression develops simpletons. THE NORTHWEST'S VARIED PRODUCTS. National Apple day has been cho sen by the Pacific Northwest as the opening day for a display not only of its apples, (but of all other products of the soil. The variety and excel lenpe of the exhibits are truly aston ishing. The exposition at the Land Products Show on East Morrison street, great and diverse as It is, Is not by any means all-embracing. It was preceded by the Flower Show at the Armory and is held simultane ously with the International Dairy Show on the Peninsula. Even these exhibitions omit two Important prod ucts of the Pacific Northwest tim ber and livestock. A visit to the Land Products Show will convince any man or woman that this is not a country of one product, for the first thing which impresses the visitor is the wealth of products which the Pacific Northwest yields. There are all varieties of fruit, nuts, root crops, grains, grasses and forage plants, to say nothing of all farming and packing appliances. Every county In Oregon and Idaho, all Southern and Central and much of Eastern Wash ington, several counties in Montana and a large part of British Columbia are represented. All the several cli mates make displays, from the ex tremely humid -coast belt to the dry farming belt of Central Oregon. There are crops grown under irriga tion, In the humid climates where ir rigation is unnecessary and In the dry land where it is Impossible. From the last-named section -there is one exhibit which includes sixty varieties of grain grown on fifty acres, a dozen varie ties of fruit and all the known vege tables; roots and forage plants of this latitude. The arrangement is strik ing and artistic and, being according to sections, gives an idea of the wealth of the country at one glance. Though apples predominate, one can' easily see that In this part of the world we do not by any means live on apples alone. The man who wishes to learn what we produce in this favored land can not only see the products, but he can meet and talk with the producer. The exhibitor usually accompanies his ex hibit and will gladly tell the nature of his soil, what methods of cultivation get the best results, what they cost and what profit he makns. If he de sires to go Into scientific details, he can visit the exhibit of the Oregon Agricultural College and talk with the professors and their assistants. In fact, by visiting this show, one can learn all that it is possible to know without going to the land Itself and cultivating It. Before the show Is closed the manu facturers of Oregon will meet in Port land and tell what they are making of the raw materials which this state produces. We not only derive wealth from an ' infinite variety of products of the soil, but we go further and con vert an Increasing number of these products Into shapes ready for con nmntlnn. It in becoming that we should encourage the growth of man ufactures, for they rurnisn a mantei for our land products and add to the accumulated wealth available for fur ther development. All these displays and conventions are a demonstration that the Pacific Northwest is the land not only of op portunity, but of unlimited opportuni ty. If a man will but work, he can find profitable work to suit any taste or natural bent. He need but go to the show, make his choice and learn from the prizewinner in each line how to go to work and achieve success. TO A YOUNG LOVER. A reader writes to inquire of The Oregonian about the wisdom of mar rying on 160 a month. "Would you advise a young man to marry who is getting a salary of $60 a month?" That is his question, and to our minds it is an important one. The young man is probably a prudent fellow. If he were not he would have rushed into matrimony the first time a pretty face attracted him, without regard to the consequences. No doubt he Is also steady and industrious. The fact that his wages, or salary, cannot com pare with the income of a millionaire does not prove that he Is idle. Hard work does not always mean high pay in this queerly arranged world. Those who toll most continuously and dili gently often get the smallest return for it. ' In heaven we expect such anomalies to be more fairly adjusted. The acute reader will perceive that we are- doing our best to evade the young man's question. The truth is that we do not know how to answer it, since our knowledge of him is pure ly hypothetical and of the girl he has picked out we know nothing at all, not even whether she is a blonde or a brunette, a suffragette or an antl. To begin with, let us lay aside an ancient superstition about matrimony. It is this; that a married couple can live on less money than either of them alone. Of course, by uniting their fortunes In a single household they effect certain economies, especially if the wife is cook, laundry maid, seam stress and scrub woman for the part nership. It takes less fuel to warm one room than two and In the do mestic preparation of food for a fam ily, restaurant expenses oan be elimi nated largely. But on the other hand we must not forget that marriage en tails expenses which neither man nor woman need incur in the single state. Children will be born, doctors" bills must be paid, help must be employed in times of illness. As the years pass, If a family is normal, it will inevitably increase and the domestic bills must grow correspondingly. It sometimes happens that a marriage, contracted in the beginning with high hopes, be comes a cause of increasing misery to parents and children as time elapses. Naturally our young friend will reflect upon facts of this un happy kind before he finally makes up his mind. But there Is a great deal to be said on the other side of the question. Candid men, the wisest of the human race, assure us that the deepest happi ness we can ever hope for comes through wife and children. A couple who unite their fortunes when both are young, overcome hand in hand the difficulties of life and approach old age together, experience Joys so pure and sweet that there is nothing on earth to compare with them. The man who misses married happiness In his youth misses the kernel of life. Whatever else comes to him is com paratively tasteless. Over all later ex perience there Is the mist of Autumn. When youth is gone the dust and ashes begin to gather. The clouds return with growing darkness after the rain. The golden bowl shows nicks. The man who does not make the most of his youth is the most fool ish of fools. The saints and sages all tell us that through marriage and children come the very spirit of the wine of youth. When the evil days come and years draw nigh in which we all have to say there is no pleasure in them, sad indeed will it be for us if there are no little hands to hold as we totter down the years, no child, no grandchild, to renew in his spring ing life the hopes forever gone from ours. We wish we knew the girl our young friend has picked out. So much depends on her. If she is the right kind of a girl we say to the young fellow, "Marry her with our blessing and all will go well with you." But if she Is not the right kind, beware, beware! Look into her habits of life. Does she read novels on the parlor sofa while her .mother does out the week's washing? Does she go to six dances a week and sleep all day on Sunday? Is she eager to make you spend your money for theater tickets and Ice-cream? Does she make her own dresses and trim her own hats? These are some of the tests to apply. A girl who urges her lover to waste his wages will probably make ducks and drakes of the family Income when she Is married. Has your girl learned to, cook? This Is perhaps the most important question of all. On a salary of 160 a month the wife must do pret ty nearly all the household work. If she does not know how to cook or dis likes it, woe to the husband. His wed ding is but a mocking preliminary to the divorce court- Again, in our mod est opinion, this young man ought to inquire about the girl's health. His ro mantic fancy may prefer to see her pale and wan with feet tottering on high-heeled shoes and waist like a wasp's, her lungs not large enough to hold a pint of air and her muscles like putty. But this is not the kind of a wife for a poor man, nor for a rich one, either, so far as that goes. Do not marry a girl whose health is permanently delicate, but when you do marry see to it that your wife's health is not ruined by your conduct. Thousands of feeble women may thank their husbands for lifelong misery. The sins of the fathers are visited upon the mothers as well as upon the children. We are afraid our young friend will find this answer a little vague. The fact is he must decide for himself. Nobody can help him much. We must get married alone and we must die alone. The whole world Is a long way off on both occasions, however near it may seem. It all depends. If he Is the right kind of a man and she Is the right kind of a girl the sooner they get married the better and they will live happy ever after. But if they are not the right kind, we say again beware, beware. Marriage is not a lottery. It Is a life partnership and if the partners choose each other with even a little common sense the chances are Jieavily in favor of Im mense returns in happiness, but if they do not, who shall deliver them from the body of the death to which they have chained themselves? We may see the Government In the paradoxical position of prosecuting and defending the Standard Oil Com pany at the same time. If it should be found to have violated the dissolu tion decree, it will probably be prose cuted again with the prospect of prison sentences for some of its offi cers. At the same time the Govern ment may defend the Standard against the new oil monopoly In Ger many. The maximum and minimum provision of the tariff law is a power ful weapon available for use against Germany, but retaliation by that country might cause other American Industries to suffer for tho Standard. John Drew's alarm over the conse quences of the bridge craze is exces sive. The women who are crazy over bridge are of the type which must have some craze; If it were not bridge, it would be something else. Women of that type have a repugnance for babies and, unless they can be cured of their predisposition to crazes, it Is Just as well. Any babies they might bear would be neglected, ill-trained and of little use in the world. America sees the departure of Mr. Bryce with regret. He is valued here not only as a diplomat, but much more as a philosophical student of our country. He is the first Briton who ever wrote about the United States with broad Intelligence. He is almost the first who thought our institutions worth sympathetic study. His retire ment is a loss to two great nations. A suspicion that some of those land show exhibits are paper mache is nat ural enough. But there's nothing In it. Nature produces just such mas terpieces out this way. Portland supremacy again Is at tested. The Northern Pacific is plan ning a direct line from Yakima. By and by our railway lines will radiate like spokes in a wheel. A North Yakima murderer, victim of a jealous rage, was arrested with a single shell in his revolver. He might have put it to excellent use. Bermuda hotels should do a rushing business, for It Is hardly to be ex pected that the pie hungry will re main patiently at home. Another storm Is coming, say the forecasters, and the potatoes yet un dug must wipe their weeping eyes and await deliverance. Nevada lawyers are combining in a fight on free and easy divorces. For one thing there's more profit in the hard-fought kind. It has the sound of twenty years ago. Railway trainmen In the Middle West are predicting a new schedule of wages. The bathtub combine stands con victed of being a trust. No doubt an immunity bath will be sought. The citizen who pays carfare has reason for glee when he sees the city official no longer deadheading. Mrs. Ella Harris, of Dayton, has cause of pride, for she is the first Ore gon woman to vote. Still, those secret weddings are fre quently productive of more or less publicity in the end. It Is not that the world is growing wicked, but methods of exposure are more certain. NEED OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT Based on Highest Principle of Human ity, Say Religion Writer. (Editorial, from California Christian Advocate, official - organ Methodist Episcopal Church.) One is apt to conclude that after 136 vears . of struggle the American Re public should be beyond the experi mental stage. The presence of such an awful situation as that recently unfolded in the New York police and some half-dozen years ago in . San Francisco warns us that the days of danger to our system of government have not wholly passed. New York is to be congratulated on having such a prompt, capable and worthy District Attorney, and such a conscientious Jury. The promptness with which the matter was brought to trial and the energetio way in which the case was pushed to a conclusion is an object lesson to the Nation. It' is not the crime that reaches the vitals of this great tree Republic, but the adminis tration, or lack of administration, of the law. The vigor of public senti ment and moral sense of Justice in the community show the real power of the government. The most deadly enemies of society are not the fierce, devilish outbreaks against the peace of so ciety; the worst enemies are the im personal enemies. A soft, velvet-footed sentiment, walking in the cool of the evening, taking kind-hearted, gentle people unawares, appealing to a su persense of mercy, weakening the nerves of good people until the sense of Justice is a sheer convlctionless jelly, shaping itself to any prevailing situation. Here is a princlrle which we think will hold, though at first it may seem contradictory. The higher the civilization the stricter must be the administration of the laws govern ing that civilization. Under the. old dispensation the law was administered for the sake of the la itself. When the law was satisfied society's interest ceased or became quiescent, but under the new dispensation society insists on a new standard. The man who stole under the old law had a mechanical or legal way of fixing it up, but the man who steals under the new dis pensation must not only do all that the man was required to do under the old dispensation but he must go be yond and by repentance and peniten tial sorrow repair the higher law which belongs to all mankind. Our civilization is advancing more and more toward the higher law of hu manity but no one must for a single moment imagine that Justice Is dis placed by this higher law. Capital punishment is based upon the highest principle of humanity. It is so primary as to spring from the very heart of humanity. It is the highest right vested in civil society. It is a flaming Bword at the portals of life. It is the most merciful of the authori ties given to man. It Is man's high est right to protect life by an author ity over life. There Is no cruelty In It no barbarity in it. It is man's su preme right not simply to take life to protect life, but to sanctify life. In the moral economy of the world, life can only be protected by life. Capital punishment is civil society's preroga tive. It is not a personal right. It Is society's supreme agency for the pro tection of life. Capital punishment is not punish ment in the sense of vengeance or an attempt to requite a wrong. It is an other class of administrative acts. It is that supreme act of civil society by which the right to live is made su- a.. HAi.. whlnfi weakens preme. Any every administrative act is supremely dangerous. TO lnvanaate capital pun ishment means not only to take away .v.. ..i. .ffli.ni nrntectlon to human life, but it lowers the significance to human society of every crime ra mo catalogue. In countries where capital punishment has not been in vogue, terrorism prevails. That is not all. but a cruelty, a barbarism of prison life has been set up as a reaction which Is a thousand times more de structive of human life. Our conten tion is that society is in greater dan ger from a deadly, debilitating moral relaxation than it is from graft, thieves, robbers, gamblers and law breakers of every sort. This great Republic needs a powerful stimulation of the sense of Justice and righteous ness. The namby pamby sentimanetal lty being- so freely circulated is ex tremely dangerous. GOOD HUSBANDS HARD TO FIND. Bachelor Maid After Long Search Sur renders to Her Lot. PORTLAND, Nov. 12. (To the Edi tor.) I noticed that "old-fashioned mother" cartoon in The Oregonian, and have longed to be an old-fashioned mother. Although my mother died when I was very. young and left me a family to raise, I fully realize what it means to care for a home. I would much prefer being an old-fashioned mother than enjoying this single bliss, as it is called, provided of course the right man showed up. I get discouraged sometimes and wonder if there are any good men left and then I know there must be, for my brothers are good men. It seems now adays that men don't want ol-d-fash-loned girls, ones that can make a bed, boil water, etc Cheer up, Mr. Bache lor. If you're only 40 and a good hon est man, there are plenty of good bachelor maids looking for a man like you. "Remember the measure ye mete shall be measured to you again." So please don't resign yourself to that fate of emptiness in old age. Men ex pect so much of a woman, It is hard to come up to the scratch. You must have the money, beauty and be skilled In ways too numerous to mention, but if the man has the wherewith to pay the bills he is O. K-, regardless of the past, etc A real woman wants a real man, one to whom she can look up to, respect, honor and obey. I am sure that there is no life happier than married life. If there is only a little common sense injected into it. I don't know of a woman but what would be glad to have a good, honest, capable husband and do her share in every respect . to make a happy home If the desired man should show up. BACHELOR MAID. WHEN IN DOUBT, DON'T VOTE This Correspondent "Would Have Real Lawmaking by Proxy. NEWPORT, Or.. Nov. 14. (To the Editor.) I read with interest your re cent editorial "A Weak Point" I think the main reason that the road measures as well as some other good bills were defeated was overlooked in this article. The reason is found in the advice freely given in many Oregon papers, "when in doubt, vote no." I found a good many people taking that advice, and undoubtedly many who could not de cide which of the many road measures was beBt suited to our needs voted no on all of them. A better plan would seem to be, when one is unable to decide on a certain measure, for him to leave It to those who are clear on the subject to decide - - Unr TtafHfiilai. hill This can be done by not voting at all on that numDer. The "vote no" plan is too much like some of our hunters do who go out into the woods, and whenever they see the brush move they shoot. Their idea would seem to be, when in doubt, shoot, and they get a good many men. On the same principle our Oregon voters .. in vmincr mnnv of the best measures submitted to them. W. W. illi KSJNH.lt. Getting; Married on $60 a Month. PORTLAND, .Nov. 12. (To the Edi tor.) I have noticed in the past that The Oregonian devoted much space to married life, so I would like to ask If you would advise a young man to get married that Is getting a salary of $60 a month. M. H. PUTTING DEMOCRACY ON TRIAL Copious Advice la Offered Party by Weaton Democrat. WESTON, Or., Nov. 14. (To the Edi tor.) Now that the Democratic party will control the Administration and both houses of Congress beginning next March, it has many mentors. My advice may be considered superfluous but I am going to offer it. Woodrow Wilson says he Intends to devote the next few weeks to listening. There fore let him also listen to me, for I am near unto the plain people, of whom I am one, and hear them talk. To begin with, the country's verdict should not be misinterpreted. It signi fies not so much a Democratic victory as a Republican disaster. The Demo crats were united, the- Republicans rent asunder. The aggregate Taft and Roosevelt vote will exceed by over one and one-half millions the Wilson vote, which is practically the same as that given to Bryan four years ago. The result should not be mistaken as a general and hearty Indorsement of Democratic policies. Rather was it a natural consequence of the Roosevelt bolt. The country has been fairly pros perous under Taft's administration. The revolt within his own party which led to his great defeat cannot Justly be ascribed to dissatisfaction with economic conditions. It was due to popular unrest over the suspicion that Taft was Influenced by regard for the welfare of "the interests" rather than of the people. He was considered a lame exponent of the "square deal." His Alaskan policy or lack of it and his endorsement of the Payne-Aldrlch tariff law as "the best ever," follow ing his declaration for tariff revision, doubtless hurt him worse than all. The good he undoubtedly accomplished was lost sight of in popular disap proval of these two pronounced lapses from the straight and narrow path way of political rectitude. Remembering these facts, and that the nation has not "gone Democratic" in ' the sense that a majority of its voters are now Democrats, the new Congress and Administration should proceed with caution. No legislation should be enacted for partisan reasons, but with an eye solely to the "great est good of the greatest number." If certain established injustice should be found to exist, let It be further endured for a time until the proper remedy is determined- with absolute certainty, rather than that swift and radical changes be attempted. "Make haste slowly" should be the Democratic watchword. The country did not vote for a "change." Had the Republican party united upon a compromise candi date at Chicago, that party would very likely have continued in power. I do not favor the extra session of Congress for tariff revision. Let us have no sudden and radical tinkering. The present law is unjust in spots, but it isn't a source of Imminent peril. The country is used to it and can en dure it until the regular session, when revision should be gone about calmly and in a non-partisan spirit, with all the tariff facts in the possession of Congress that can be gathered in the interim. Good doctors carefully pre pare their patients for an operation, even to remove a malignant tumor. The foundation of "tariff for revenue" should be slowly and skillfully reared, that it may endure for years as a mon ument to Democratic wisdom. Office-seekers should be discouraged. The country's welfare does not depend upon the removal of a Republican that a Democrat should have his Job. Only those Republicans should be removed from office who are proven incapa bles. The Democratic party owes no supporter anything. If he has not supported It from principle, but with hope of reward, he is not entitled to the confidence of the party nor of the people, whom he would probably seek to exploit rather than to serve. That slogan of corruption, "To the victors belong the spoils," Itself belongs to a benighted past. After next March the Democratic party will be on trial. Woodrow Wil son will be on trial. Ha has asked for and has received a working majority in Congress, that he may have the sup port of that body. Its and his respon sibilities are grave and absolute. No excuses will be accepted. The country must be wisely and beneficently ruled. Above alt the country must prosper. Any widespread hardship under Demo cratic rule means ruin to the Demo cratic party. It will elevate to the dignity of truth the oft-repeated as sertion that the Democratic party is great in criticism but weak in per formance. Full power has now been given it. Failure will mean an Irre trievable blow to its prestige. I am now and always have been a Democrat, becapse the principles of my party more nearly embody my political ideals. The doctrine of "equal rights to all and special privileges to none" has always appealed to me. In com mon with a host of. other Democrats of the rank and file I long for my party's success and Justification in the fullness of its power. And I feel that It will be successful, if no costly blunders are made In the name of progress. To be radical is not always to be wise. Civilization and our social system are fruits of the growth of ages. CLARK WOOD. SOAP BOX PROFANITY DISGUSTS Objection Made to Favorite Practice of Street Agitators. PORTLAND. Nov. 18. (To the Ed itor.) It would seem to the writer that the time is fast approaching when the people of Oregon who stand for orderly government will be compelled to draw the line between liberty and license. We refer especially to the conduct of street speakers, and to the language used by them. On last Saturday even ing a Socialist speaker was addressing a large crowd one one of the principal streets, and was endeavoring to win support for his cause by laying down propositions and drawing deductions from them. The following Is a speci men and will serve as an Illustration: Q. Who Is above the worklngman? A. The foreman. Q. Who is above the foreman? A. The superintendent. Q. Who Is above the superintendent? A. The president. Q. Who is above the president? A. The board of di rectors. Q. Who is above the board of directors? A The dividend hunters. Q. And who pays for all this? A. You do. Q. Why? A. Because you are d n fools. A number of propositions and deduc tions were laid down along the same lines, the question being propounded and the answer given by the speaker. The final clincher in support of ech argument was the same, being "be cause you are d n fools." The speaker waa cheered at each out burst of profanity. The writer has been a resident of Oregon only a short time,' and is not familiar with what the people are compelled to tolerate, but I am In formed that no" officer could survive a recall who would proceed against any speaker for using such language. Hun dreds of persons heard the address. The right of free speech is one thing and the right to use profane and vulgar language on the public thor oughfares is quite another. It clearly comes within the offense of disorderly conduct. No speaker should be permit ted to use profane words, or words of ordinary profanity on the public thor oughfares. The guilty person should be proceeded against Individually, and such a proceeding has nothing what ever to do with the right of free speech, and the highest courts have so decided. F. C. Bad Style at a Wedding. Louisville Courier-Journal. "Then the wedding was not altogeth er a success?" "No; the groom's mother cried louder than the bride's mother. It was considered very bad form." Half a Century Ago From The Oregonian of Nov. 19, 1862. The people of The Dalles and Inter mediate points will be pleased to learn that from and after this date a daily mail will be carried from Portland tn The Dalles by the Oregon Steam Navi gation Company. New York. Nov. 13. The Herald's correspondent from North Carolina re ports the occupation of Hamilton on the north bank of the Roanoke. The same correspondent says: "On the night of the 18th a vessel ran the blockade. She was fired at 22 times by tho Flam beau. Several shot struck her, but without making the slightest Impres sion; she must have been Iron-plated-and very thick or the rifle shot would have gone through her. A private letter from New Orleans says: General Butler has taken posses sion of two large plantations near the city and has transferred a large num ber of loyal blacks to them for active service. We have been kindly furnished by Mr. Thomas Fraser, County Assessor, with the following statement, showing the population of Multnomah County as enumerated by him for the year 1862: Legal voters 1311, males. 2610. females 2012, total white population 4622, col ored males 41, colored females 13, Chi nese males 36, Chinese females 17. Boise mines Every arrival from the Upper Columbia brings new evidence of the richness of these mines. The whole upper country seems to have caught the excitement and from every quarter men are crowding into this new Eldo rado. It is supposed that no less than 5000 persons will Winter In these new lines. We observe that the latest style bonnet has. the peak still higher from the head. We observed a couple on the heads of two handsome young ladles (and we don't have any other kind in Portland) going down Second street yesterday, that had space enough be tween the head and roof to insert a pack saddle, while the sides were strapped down to the cheeks and chin tight enough to hold It there la any gale. ABUSED HUSBAND NOW HAS HOPES Looka to Woman Suffrage to Cure In equalities Imposed on Men. PORTLAND. Nov. 16. (To the Edi tor.) Now that the women can vote in Oregon and have a chance to prao tice some of the "Justice" they have been asking for themselves, I hope they will not fall to enact a law which will give a husband some protection from a frivolous and extravagant wife. What is a man to do who is cursed with a "helpmate" (!) who neglects most of her household duties and is wasteful in what little work she does do, who refuses to bear children, who expends money foolishly for clothes and petty personal adornments, who insists upon going down town every day and spending her time in the de partment stores with female friends equally vain and shallow, admiring all the latest styles and silly gewgaws, who never has a serious idea in her head, who makes home life an impos sibility by constantly visiting or being visited by trends as frivolous as she, and who, moreover, has consulted a lawyer to find out Just how far she may go in her perversity and Btill under the law oblige her husband to provide food, clothing and shelter I ask, what is a man of decent Instincts to do under the circumstances? In former days, in primitive society, and even in the middle ages, a man had the right to inflict physical punishment in order to compel obedi ence. If he were to do that today he would be arrested for wife-beating. If the husband refuses to live with and support such a woman, the law prosecutes him for wife desertion. She can then get a divorce and alimony. Should he wish to marry again (which he might be foolish enough to do in spite of his sad experience), he would have to support two women certainly an expensive arrangement when most men have difficulty in supporting one. Shall he sue for a divorce? He would probably be denied a decree. Having taken legal counsel, she could file a cross bill denying his grounds. Then it would be up to him to prove his case which is not so easy to do, parti cularly if the woman is rather good looking, has a trick of acting the part of injured Innocence, can tell a tear ful story and arouse the sympathy of judge, Jury and public against her unfeeling and cruel husband! As I said, something ought to be done for the relief of the unfortunate husband, and I think it is up to the women of the state to furnish the remedy. For one thing, I am in favor of wo men Juries. The men are too easily In fluenced by a woman's personal attrac tiveness to consider such a case on its merits. UNFORTUNATE HUSBAND. WHY MANY WOMEN STAY SINGLE Too Many Men Set Inferior Standard of Morality for Selvea. OREGON CITY, Or., Nov. 16. (To tho Editor.) Being one of the interested readers of the articles published in your columns on marriage and kindred subjects, I cannot refrain from adding a few of my thoughts. We hear so much in this age of "tho independent old maids," who apparently seem more numerous than in the days of our grandmothers. I think that the letters of "Truthful Jane' and "The Original Old Maid" contain full ex planation of that fact Many a sensible girl of today, not being blind to the caprices of so many men who, un fortunately, actually set in themselves a lower standard of morality than they expect in women, wisely keeps herself aloof of such. I do not condemn, by far, all men, for I know men who are ex cellent husbands and fathers, but they are In the minority to the many capablo women in this land. I exclude the giddy, frivolous ones. Rather than en ter into the bonds of matrimony with a man whose moral standard is not high and in whom the promise of a faithful husband shines dimly she chooses to plod her weary way alone through the mazes. I do think it was ordained by God that woman should be the true com panion of man. My idea is that a happy marriage which is lasting is the cul mination of true love, if the one is tho other's equal morally as well as in tellectually. I do believe that it is the heart's true desire of every sensible, fair-minded, home-loving girl who knows how to do things to be a loving wife and fond mother, provided, however, she can be for all time first in the heart of the man whom she is to know as her hus band. When the practical-minded wo man (which includes many of the so called "old maids") is rightly mated and surrounded by the comfortable ne cessities of life, there is a home from whose hearth radiates love, warmth and cheer, and the homes are the bulwarks of the Nation. FAITHFUL WORKER. Honeat Confeaaion of a Doctor. Harper's Weekly. "Do you really believe, doctor, that your old medicines really keep anybody alive?" asked the skeptic "Surely." returned the doctor. "My prescriptions have kept three druggists and their families alive in this town for 20 years." Another Sign of Hard Winter. Boston Transcript. "It's going to be a hard Winter." "How can you tell?" "By the sl2e of the salary I'm getting."