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PORTLAND, FRIDAY, NOV. S, 19.
BLAMING THE I.KGISLATI RE.
There is nothing Ingenious or log
leal In the attempt of certain neir
nanpra to blame overuse of the direct
lefrislntivA riower on the deficiencies of
the Legislature. The record of meas
ures inflicted on the public in the re
cent election constituted the most per
niclous abuse of a proper reserve
power yet -witnessed In Oregon, but in
w Instances can the cause of eud
mission of amendments or bills be
traced to Inactivities or error or un
responsiveness to public will on the
nart ft hl T.pifilfttUTe.
tf -rr.av ha truthfullv admitted that
the lawmaking body has been remiss
In the past. It may even have been
deficient in numerous particulars m
1911, but by no stretch of Imagination
or application of sly argument can the
enactment of the majority of the
eleven measures adopted be defined as
a .chiilra tr lh Legislature.
On only three of the acts adopted
can the Legislature De saia 10 nave
been Inactive. These iwere the eight
v, tow onit th two bills providing
for employment of prisoners in public
road construction. un me uuici
hand, the Legislature was distinctly
sustained on three measures. The peo
ple adopted the amendment impos
ir.cr rimiMa liability on bank stock'
holders, which was submitted by the
Legislature. They also adopted the
Malarkey public utilities act, which
hail heen adopted by the Legislature,
but submitted to the voters by abuse
of the referendum. They also aaopi
ed a limitation on county bonded In
rieVitednpsa for roads, when a limita
tion had been contained In a road bill
adopted by the Legislature and. vetoed
by Governor West.
Woman suffrage, county tax option
repeal and state road bond limitation
were adopted, but were constitutional
amendments which the Legislature
had no power to enact. Likewise the
Legislature was without authority to
enact a law exempting household ef
fects from taxation. The fact that
people wanted It and had not been
given It cannot bo evidence) of legis
lative Inefficiency.
The one remaining successful bill,
which proposes something or other
about freight rates, Is admitted by the
chief critic of the Legislature as bad
law.
There was perhaps an element of
rebuke to the Legislature in the defeat
of the two referendums on university
appropriations, but whether these
measures lost because of logrolling
tactics In the assembly or because of
n antipathy to appropriations that
was voiced with equal positiveness on
Initiated money bills is questionable.
There is another way of analyzing
the submission of measures in respect
to legislative Inefficiency. There were
six road measures on the ballot that
would not have been there had the
adequate road laws adopted by the
1911 Legislature not been vetoed by
an Impulsive Governor at the request
of an Impulsive Portland organiza
tion. There were five tax measures
submitted that would not have been
presented had not the people made
the mistake of depriving the Legisla
ture of the power to enact tax laws.
That it was a mistake was declared in
the recent election by a majority of
18000. The constitutional inhibition
against consolidation of cities or cre
ation of new counties by legislative
enactment was responsible for two
more measures. Two others, the blue
sky law and the hotel inspection act,
had never been submitted to the Leg
islature. One of these came from a
source that could readily have secured
its submission at the session of 1911
and the other very plainly was not
wanted by the people.
Unquestionably in the class of ex
perimental legislation were the acts
abolishing the State- Senate, imposing
a freight-rate schedule, inflicting sin
gle tax and providing for majority
rule. There were two of the last, one
of which originated in the Legislature.
The Oregonlan believes other meas
ures were improperly before the vot
ers, but in the foregoing list are
twenty amendments and bills that
burdened the ballot six because the
Legislature was overruled by an ill
advised veto: five because theorists
and tax tinkerers had fooled the peo
ple, and nine for no good reason
whatever.
There are but seventeen remaining,
or less than one-half. As to these,
there was no honest excuse for sub
mitting the public utilities act, no Jus
tification for going to the people with
the State Printer's bill, and no rea
sonable ground for believing that the
anti-boycott or anti-street speaking
bills were desired by the general pub
lic. There Is not a complete classifica
tion herein, but a common-sense re
view by anybody familiar with the
terms of the various measures and
with constitutional restrictions ought
to convince him that we shall not ob
tain a lessening of initiative abuses
by hammering the Legislature. We
have cleaned up one prolific source of
bills by restoring the tax power to the
Legislature. We have also rebuked
tinkering and experimenting in no un
certain terms. Whether the rebuke
will be heeded Is another matter. If
It is not, a majority rule measure, if
submitted, will gain more votes In
1914 than it did In 1912, and possibly
some greater restriction even will be
adopted. It Is the foolish friends of
direct legislation who are supplying
the ammunition used by its enemies.
It is time believers in the Oregon sys
tem consulted facts instead of time
worn prejudices. Let them devise
some means of making direct legisla
tion what all National leaders of
thought deem it a gun behind the ,
door and critics will disappear along
with freak legislation, of which we
enacted samples both In 1910 and
1912.
TRUSTS CHANGE THEIR TONE.
That the trusts have given up hope
of Inducing the people to tolerate them
and have made up their minds to take
their medicine, which would be much
the same whether administered by a
Republican or Democratic doctor, Is
the inference to be drawn from the
changed tone of the. financial organs
which speak for them. The Commer
cial and Financial Chronicle reviews
approvingly a book entitled "The
Control of Trusts," by Professor John
Bates Clark, of Columbia University,
and his son. Professor John Maurice
Clark, of Amherst. This book recom
mends, in opposition to both the rival
policies of destruction and regulation
of monopoly, that the law simply reg.
ulate' competition "in the belief that
this can be done with no disruption
of the business system, and In such a
way as to prevent cut-throat opera
tions for the crushing of rivals, while
creating a condition in which corapS'
tition of a tolerant kind would rule
business life and develop the highest
form of business activity."
The Clarka would strengthen by law
the natural forces which even now
put a strong curb on the great corpo
rations. They would do this by secur
ing for the possible competitor the
way to become an actual one as
promptly as possible, by preventing a
trust from crushing him before he has
a chance to establish himself, by low
ering the tariff whenever prices be
come unreasonable, by punishment of
the familiar practices of the trusts, by
free publicity and by prevention of
Joint control of rival corporations.
Most significant is the Chronicles
admission that "the efficiency of the
Sherman act has been reached" and
that "the Sherman law is going to be
retained." This Is in marked contrast
to the violent attacks on that law as
vague and ineffective and to the de
mands for its repeal, with which the
Wall street papers were filled a year
ago. The trusts are becoming amen
able to public opinion, and have aban
doned the defiant attitude they as
sumed when they felt the first effects
of the law's blows.
ENGLAND AND GERMANY..
The. Guildhall conference to effect
the beginning of a, better understand
Ing between England and Germany
ought not to fall entirely of its pur
pose, though there is much to over
come before their troubles can De
completely allayed. Many distin
guished Englishmen and Germans at
tended the conference and the tone, of
the discussions was hopeful without
undue enthusiasm.
The two nations, as Sir Frank Las-
celles remarked, have unlike Institu
tions and their historical tendencies
are very different. Naturally( some
hostility must arise from these causes,
but they are not of fundamental im
portance. They ought all to disap
pear as the two populations become
better acquainted. It is, in reality, but
a short time since the various Euro
pean countries have enjoyed much op
portunity to get acquainted with 'one
another. Railroads, telegraphs and
universal traveling have become
commonplace so rapidly that we often
forget how extremely novel they are.
It is hardly more than half a century
since England and Germany were far
ther apart and more strange to each
other than England and China now
are. It can hardly be doubted that
the Increase of familiar intercourse
between the two countries will dimin
ish their mutual hostility, as It has so
notably promoted good feeling be
tween Great Britain and France.
The genuine danger to peace be
tween the two countries lies in their
conflicting commercial Interests. It was
shown at the conference, however,
that there Is probably plenty of room
in the world for both of them to ex
pand without destructive Interference.
Since 1895 the external trade of both
England and Germany has been grow
ing at about the same rate, and neither
has experienced serious loss in any
quarter. This ought to help establish
a better sentiment between them.
From another point of view hostil
ity between these two nations is de
plorable. Both of them are menaced
by Russia, the common enemy of
modern civilization Germany on its
eastern frontier, England in India.
Moreover, Russia will oppose Ger
many's colonial schemes in Asia Minor
to the death. United action against
the enemy which menaces both would
be far wiser than waste of strength in
hostility which can benefit neither.
SHALL THE SPOILS SYSTEM RETURN T
Wilson's real troubles will begin
when he is called upon to decide
whether to allow fourth-class post
masters to remain under Civil Service
rules or to restore the patronage sys
tem which existed before Taft issued
his recent order. If the Democratic
Congressmen know what is good for
them, they will ask him to allow Taft's
order to stand, for they would then
escape a vast amount of labor and
would avoid making five or six ene
mies to every friend they attained in
recommending appointments.
But habit Is strong with them, as
with other men, and they may view
with such distaste the spectacle of
60,000 Republicans in office under a
Democratic administration that they
may prefer to endure all the draw
backs. They will also be subjected to
tremendous pressure from the office-
seekers and their friends and will re
quire unusual backbone to resist it.
If Wilson should yield to the impor
tunities of the office seekers and their
friends in Congress by reviving the
polls system in the Postoffice Depart
ment, he would take a decided step
backwards on the road of progress.
He would blight the hopes of. those
who have looked to him to lift the
Government to a higher plane, where
officials are judged by service to the
public, not to their party. He would
return to the standard of judgment
which holds public office to be the
poils of political warfare instead of a
trust for the people. He would brand
his administration as reactionary in
stead of progressive, and would be
false to the high Ideals he has set be
fore the country as his guide. He
would give np to numerous petty ap
pointments, involving great labor, time
which should be devoted to the great
questions for the solution of which the
people look to him.
Once protected by Civil Service
rules, the fourth-class postmasters will
lose much incentive for partisan ac
tivity. Removal may be made the
penalty of offensive partisanship. For
every vote the Democrats can hope to
gain by having a postmaster of their
own political stripe in each small town
and village, they would lose many by
relapse to the spoils system. By
continuing every competent postmas
ter in office and by basing future ap
pointments on competence alone, they
would strengthen public confidence In
their good purposes and would add
far more to their chances of retaining
power than by the opposite course,
and they would secure to members of
their party a fair share of the offices.
NAVIES AND THE MEDITERRANEAN.
With the whole Turkish question
reopened by the present war, and with
both Austria and Russia reaching out
towards the Mediterranean Sea, the
naval armaments of those two coun
tries assume much importance. Both
nations have hitherto been bottled up,
Russia by Ice on the Baltic Sea and by
the closing of the Bosphorus against
her warships, Austria by the lack of
seacoast, her only ports being Trieste
and Flume. Austria seeks control of
the whole east coast of the Adriatic
Sea, Russia seeks egress from the
Black Sea through the straits to the
Mediterranean, at the very least. She
would like to seize the straits and part
of the Aegean coast from the weak
ened hand of the Turk.
In preparation for a possible strug
gle, . both countries are expanding
their navies. Russia launched new
vessels of 93,710 tons In 1911 as com
pared with 62,834 in 1901-2. Austria
launched vessels of 20,010 tons in
1910 against only 8167 in 1901, and
appropriated $3,125,000 for new con
struction In 1911 compared with only
$758,606 in 1901.
If the present Balkan imbroglio
should lead to a general war, these
two nations may be found contending
for the naval supremacy of the East
ern Mediterranean.
(JAM Bl.INd AND GAMBLERS.
The little principality of Monaco is
receiving just now a great deal more
attention than either its population or
its commercial importance warrants.
It is a trifling territory on the shore
of the Mediterranean in the southeast
corner of France. Substantially inde
pendent, it was placed under the pro
tection of the Sardinian monarchy in
1815 by the treaty of Vienna. The
little kingdom also maintains the
friendliest relations with France, from
which country it obtains most of, its
lawyers and its legal code.
Nobody would feel much Interest in
Monaco were it not for the peculiar
institution which flourishes at Monte
Carlo.' its most celebrated town. This
is the magnificent gambling resort to
which adventurous travelers are at
tracted from all parts of the world.
some to carry off easy winnings, oth
ers to bewail the loss of all the money
they stake. The entire population of
Monaco scarcely exceeds 15,000, of
whom 8794 live at Monte Carlo. The
gambling hell in this petty town is a
barefaced conspiracy against the mor
als of the world.
The people of the principality are
themselves forbidden to gamble, but
their approval of the' scheme to fleece
outsiders is secured by a variety of
bribes. The jrambline tables pay all
the taxes. They support the estab.
lished church and maintain all the
public charities. Besides that, they
turn over a handsome revenue to the
reigning Prince and yield fabulous
profits to the Societe Anonyme des
Bains de Mer et Cercle des Etrangers,
which holds the franchise to conduct
the games. This company is capital
Ized at about $6,000,000.
Monte Carlo is a pretty town with
attractive streets, beautiful surround
ing scenery and many notable build
ings. Everything possible is done to
make it pleasant for visitors while
they are being plundered. None of
their reasonable wants has been over
looked. There la even a neat grave
yard where suicides are disposed of
without too much publicity.- No doubt
the romantic stories of suicide 'at
Monte Carlo are exaggerated now and
then, but it stands to reason that In
a town whicn araws visitors Dy me
thousand from every country and
where open and shameless gambling
Is the sole industry there must be
many harrowing Incidents of which
self-murder is not always the most
abhorrent.
Monte Carlo is about the final ref
uge of open gambling for public reve
nue on the face of the earth. Every
where else it has either been put un
der the ban entirely or at least driven
Into deep seclusion. Of course there
Is gambling In every city in the world
and in every country village, but
everywhere .except In Monaco it is
apologized for and some real or pre-
tended efforts are made to extirpate
It. There It is brazenly advertised as
the sole attraction of the principality,
and church and court thrive upon Its
proceeds.
As far as the people of Monaco are
concerned, they have no reason to
complain. The national gambling hell
has relieved the country of the dire
poverty which formerly oppressed It,
pays all the expenses of government
and paves the road to heaven. What
more could they ask for? Perhaps,
after all, It Is just as well that un
blushing gambling should be toler
ated at one town In Christendom. It
may serve the fancied purpose of
some ulcers on the human body which
are said to tap malignant humors and
thus contribute to health.
Gambling might be more audacious
ly rampant everywhere else if It did
not find an unrestricted . outlet at
Monte Carlo, for It seems to be about
the most ravenous of all our passions
except hunger and sex. All savage
races are born gamblers and the most
refined civilizations of the world are
marred by It. Travelers tell the
strangest stories of gambling among
the American Indians long before the
white man had "corrupted" them
from their primitive Innocence. In
Winter, when they could not go on the
warpath to capture and torture their
enemies, they had nothing to do but
play games of chance, and it was the
commonest thing In the world for a
brave to gamble away everything he
possessed, down to his naked skin, in
cluding all his wives and ponies.
In 1905 B. S. Rowntree published
the second edition of his "Betting and
Gambling a National Evil," a collec
tion of essays by recognized authori
ties which deal with the various as
pects of this extraordinary subject.
One of the essayists undertakes to ac
count for the universal gambling
mania which pervades the world. He
says that the passion rages among the
poor because of the monotony of their
lives. . Their toil is unrelieved by ad
venture of any kind except the acci
dents that kill them, and they seek
the variety and interest for which hu
man nature hungers In betting and
games of chance. Among the wealthy
the passion holds sway for much the
same reason. Their lives are as mo
notonous as those of the poor, being
an unrelieved desert of self-indulgence
which they vary by staking their
money at faro and horse races.
All this Is true enough, but It does
not go to the bottom of the matter.
Gambling would still flourish If there
were no monotony in human life.
Some of the greatest gamblers there
are are soldiers in the field, and cer
tainly their lives do not lack change
and. color. The simple, truth or tne
matter is that we are hereditary wor
shipers of the goddess fortune. Noth
ing delights the unregenerate human
heart so much as to stake its all on a
cast of the dice to win or lose as
chance may decide. The exigencies
of evolution have made us so. Those
races of men have survived which
were ready at any moment to risk
everything for something better. The
others have perished. Hence the pas.
slon for gambling, which is nothing
less than playing with fate, is as much
a part of our psychology as the nun
ger for food. Nor is it quite certain
that we are entirely ready to dispense
with it. Willingness to stake fortune
and reputation In 'enterprises for the
publie good Is a form of the gambling
passion, of course very greatly modi
fled. But it is these modified survivals
of primitive traits upon which society
must rely for some of its best achieve
ments. Canada Is chuckling over the pros
pect that, having rejected reciprocity
with the United States, she will soon
have free access to American markets
without Opening Canadian markets to
Americans; in fact, will get all the ben
efits of reciprocity without paying for
them. The Dominion has become the
chief protagonist of protection and is
trying to force that policy on the re
luctant mother country. Canada has
forced the resignation of two succes
sive chairmen of the Imperial Trade
Commission, because they were too
faithful to free trade. The Domin
ion - desires the Old Country to join
in creating an imperial preference
tariff under which Canada will be free
to tax British manufactures while
Britain can even up only by taxing
the food supply she Imports from Can
ada. Tariff reform In Britain and
Canada means higher duties at the
very time when in the .United States
and most other countries it means
lower duties. But as the Canadian
West fills up with peopje and gains
political power. It will revolt against
this policy as the American West has
done.
The possibilities of the loganberry
revealed in the discussions of the hor
ticulturists the other day will proba
bly induce many farmers to begin
cultivating It. Fruitgrowing becomes
more profitable from year to year In
proportion as it is diversified. The
man who depends upon a single prod
uct for his Income is liable to many
disappointments. This may not be
true in some favored apple districts,
but it is elsewhere.
Few Westerners think of Massachu
setts as a corn state, and yet it pro
duces year after year a substantial
crop of that important cereal. This
year Massachusetts has produced a
better yield of corn to the acre than
the average of the Union, and Its con
dition is superior. New England may
not know much in comparison with
Iowa and -Nebraska, but it knows a
few things superlatively well.
The management of the, Sawtelle
Soldiers' Home must have imagined
it was running a penal Institution, in
stead of a haven of refuge for defend
ers of the Union during their declin
ing years. To make the punishment
fit the crime, If the charges should be
proved, the officials should be com
pelled to eat the food and sleep on
the beds which they gave the veterans.
It seems that brilliant opportunities
are opening In China for young Amer.
leans with a little capital and a good
deal of courage to engage In business.
The vast population of that country Is
just beginning to develop the "eco.
nomic demand" which is the founda
tion of trade, and those who are first
in the field will gather the richest re
turns.
The Washington County farmer
who c'ame to Portland to have a "good
time" had it sure enough in walking
barefooted to the police station after
being drugged and robbed of money
and shoes. The metropolis Is not the
place for fun of the bucolic type.
When Colonel Goethals' little vessel
passes through the Panama Canal, less
than a year hence, he will have cause
to be the proudest living American,
for he will have brought to a realiza
tion the vision of centuries.
Another ship goes to the grave
yard' of the Pacific the west coast of
Vancouver Island. Ships are reason
ably safe when once they enter the
straits, but the perils of entering are
manifold.
Still, a babe in its cradle is no safer
than the woman who begs the Gov
ernor to hang her in place of five red
handed murderers. No doubt she
realizes the fact quite fully.
Science now accepts crime as a dis.
ease. Very well. It might also recog.
nize the prisons as hospitals and the
hangings as necessary surgical opera
tions for the cure of crime.
Turkey, getting the worst of peace
terms, naturally rejects them, still
hoping for aid from the powers. Per
haps she has encouragement from one
of them to hold out.
A coon hunt with 150 hunters has
been launched by ' Senator Stone in
Missouri. Might do well to take a
staff of surgeons and the Coroner
along.
San Francisco officials are puzzled
as to where a new female member of
the department will carry her club.
Alongside her powder puff, of course.
Wilson again announces that he will
insist on naming his own Cabinet.
Still, he's wasting his time trying to
discourage enthusiastic Democrats..
It was a stroke of cruelty to lift the
fourth-class office from -the hungry
grasp of the victors, and it shakes the
faith of the crossroads warhorse.
Nine policemen were required to
handle one fat woman who had ab
sorbed . the output of a distillery or
two. Quite a load, no doubt.
OnA Mexican earthquake is about as
destructive as a dozen rebellions. Sev
eral persons were killed In the latest
seismic disturbances.
Turkey has rejected terms of peace.
The Ottoman army will now resume
its-proud effort to beat ail military
sprinting records.
Perhaps "booze in, on or .about the
person" may have caused the fre
quent escapes from the penitentiary.
It certainly is a matter for gratifica
tion that the count in California Isn't
needed to settle the election.
OLD-FASHIONED MOTHERS NEEDED
Absence of Them Makes for DIverce,
Is Contention.
PORTLAND, Nov. 15. (To the Edi
tor.) The recent cartoon in The Ore
gonian entitled, "Wanted, More Old
fashioned - Mothers," has set many i
mind to thinking, both masculine and
feminine. Judging by the latest sta
tistics on the divorce evil in the
United States, the subject would be
more appropriately entitled, "Wanted,
More Old-fashioned Mothers and Fath
ers." Much has already been said and
written on the subject from various
points of view, and much more cou.d
yet be said and written on the sub
ject. To my mind, what has already
been said and written on the subject
compared to what could be said ano
written. Is as insignificant as a drop
in the ocean.
The demand for more old-fashioned
fathers and mothers is one of the
greatest of all demands of the age.
The very existence' of society and our
boasted civilization hangs upon the
supply of this great dema.il. Ihe
world, especially the United States, is
much advanced in science, ari, archi
tecture and learning, but when it comes
to a question of morals and happy
homes, the United States Is away be
hind. This is the conclusion t reached
after observing such things very close
ly in this country as well as in Eu
rope for several years. I hope I reached
a wrone conclusion.
The marriage and divorce laws in the
United States are too loose, mis Kitia
of legislation should be under tne con
trol of the Federal uovernmen-., as
affects the welfare and life of the Na
tion. Marriages should not be so nast
ily contracted and divorce ueeraes so
easily granted. The schools should be
owned and manaeed by the Lnited
States Government, just as the post
offices are. The system of education
should ba uniform and a cou-.S3 In
morals should be part of the cuiri
culum.
Incidentally, 1 would like to say :
few words to "Sally." whose lotte.- ap
neared November 15. under the caption,
"The Why of the Painted Doll.". I am
a man of 25 and during my snort ex-si
ence have met and talked with hun
dreds of men of all walks of life old
and young, educated and lliterate, iich
and poor, black and white, and I con
fess that some unfavorable things sue
savs about men are true. On tne
other hand, on some things I do not
as roe with her at all. She says that
"sanEible, home-accomplished girla fai
to attract men these days. "This is true
of some men. Many sensible and good
clean men fail to attract some girls,
Like attracts like and like produces
like. Just as It is true that we have
a ereat body of silly, frivolous gins,
whose brains run to silk hose, patent
Dumps, silk skirts and dresses ana
willow plumes, eo it is equally true
that wa have a srreat body of silly
gocd-for-nothing, but pleasure-seeking
men. And just as it is true that we
have manv sensible ana ao;ompi:snea
girls, so It is equally true that, we have
many, many thousands of good, true
men men who will maite gooct r.us
tar.ds and fathers and companions, men
with real manhood in their veins. j.ne
men that silly, frivolous and painted
B-iria attract are lust as silly and friv
olous as those girls and therefore not
worth having. A good and sensioie mun
has little respect for a' silly, painted,
irnod-for-nothine eirl. however pretty
she may be. While a man may tip his
hat and talk nice and ostensibly re
snect a srlrl who paints and is silly,
yet deep down In his heart he thinks
very little of her; in fact, he despises
and disrespects her and has absolutely
no confidence in her. Just as a sen
sible and decent girl admires a sensible
and decent man, so does a sensioie ana
decent man respect and admire a sen
sible and decent girl and no other.
M. U.
TOBACCO SMOKE IRRITATES HIM.
Traveling Man Airs Grievance Against
Users of the Weed.
PORTLAND, Nov. 18. (To the Edi
tor.) I read The Oregonian's reply the
other dav to the letter written you by
a man from Ban Francisco, wherein he
registered a big kick because he could
not smoke on the streetcars In Port
land, and burn your hand or coat with
his cigar when the car is crowded, or
blow his vile Turkish cigarette smoke
rlrht in your face to breathe, or into
your mouth should you be talking at
the time. This man wantea to ao any
one of these or all, regardless of the
riKhts of others with better breeding.
But this same man (and all others
like him) would fight in a minute if a
non-smoker would stand right In front
of him and blow a bad-smelling breath
deliberately into his face, which even
then would not be half as bad as the
smarting of the eyes strong tobacco
smoke causes to one not accustomed to
it.
I certainly enjoyed your reply, and
am so glad to find one newspaper a
friend of those who do not smoke, but
have to stand for the growing nuisance
at the very table he is eating at in the
cafe or hotel, in closed ouses, street
cars, and In fact, every place you go
In miblic.
The joker In the kicker's letter was
that he even admitted tnat ne was irom
San Francisco, the one city in all the
world .that is absolutely right and dir
ferent. Yes, I admit and always agree
with them when I am there that their
city Is different, for It Is the only city
in the whole United States where they
allow clouds of tobacco smoke to rise
from the audience of a theater during
the entire performance. At times it
causes people to start to coughing. Yes,
It is the only city in the whole United
States that will allow such a thing,
which is now about 25 years out of
place. Yes, this man (and all residents
of San Francisco) want every city or,
at least, think that we all ought to do
as they do.
I spend all of my time in the larger
cities on the Coast from San Diego to
Vancouver, B. C.,uand I tell you I al
ways enjoy riding on the streetcars In
Portland, where my rights are consid
ered as a non-smoker. They are stop
ping it on the streetcars in Seattle, Salt
Lake City and very soon you will not
be allowed to smoke on any part of a
streetcar in Los Angeles, as the fight
Is on.
The other night, on a limited train,
a man was found smoking in his berth.
and got very angry because the porter
stopped him. which he considered an
Infringement upon his rights, as he
"paid for that berth." Of course the
60 odd persons in the sleeper were not
to be considered at all, or even their
lives, should he fall to sleep and set
the coach on fire, for he must lay in
his berth and fill the car with strong
smoke, simply because he wanted to do
exactly as he pleased, or the same, when
in public, as ne did In his own florae
or room. No doubt this man was from
San Francisco, the different city, too.
TRAVELING MAN.
How Laws Are Made.
PORTLAND, Nov. 21. (To the Edi
tor.) Noticing the article In the paper
about beaver brought back to me the
memory of how that law happened to
be passed by the Legislature. At that
time I had a suit pending against 52
settlers on Willow Creek In Malheur
County to compel them to allow water
to come down the channel of the creek
to irrigate my ranch. The people had
found out that when the beaver
dammed the stream the water sub
irrigated the valley, and asked their
representatives in the Legislature to
have a law passed prohibiting the
catching or killing of beaver.
When the law was prepared no one
In the legislature knew or cared any
thing about it, or what Its effect would
be. and they said, "If Malheur wants
a law of that kind, let it have it," and
out of the desire of about 62 people
in a section then almost unknown orig
inated a law that has created a public
nuisance. The sooner it is repealed the
better it will be for everybody.
WILLIAH MARFETT. I
CAUTION ON FRANCHISE URGED.
Question of Authorising- New Car Serv
ice Held Serious One.
PORTLAND, Nov. 20. (To the Ed
itor.) The Heusner franchise, which, I
understand, it to be acted upon by the
City Council tomorrow, is a matter to
be seriously considered, and if granted,
should be well safeguarded. Being a
resident of the' North Albina district,
and a frequent user of the streetcar
system, I would urge that it be care
fully considered. I am not Informed
Just where the proposed line will get
its'support from a city carline stand
point. Much of the territory is sparse
ly settled and portions are now served
by the Portland Railway, Light &
Power Company, and unless transfer
connections can be consummated and
stops made at street crossings, I
fear the desired good results will
not be secured or realized. The
undertaking, no doubt, is a worthy one
and the cost must necessarily be great.
The use of Broadway bridge Is no triv
ial matter, for one line, If it has to rely
on passenger traffio alone, so I conclude
it has or should have other connections
or else depend mostly on freight traf
fic. If so, we should know, something
about where sidetracks and yardage is
to be located, and if for city passenger
service, there should be a transfer sys
tem and stops at all streets for the
benefit of the public, and unless this can
be done, I fear for the results. I have
made some inquiry about these matters,
but have not yet been Informed satis
factorily on these points.
It is not my purpose to throw cold
water on any deserving improvement,
nor can I Join in the cry against the
"rotten service" of our present car
system. I have had the privilege of
visiting very many cities In the Union
and find that ours (Portland) has a
high average car service, and it be
hooves our Council to see that the
franchise now in question has no
jokers that might be hard to overcome
later on. EUGENE PALMER.
TRAITS UNCHANGED BY MARRIAGE
Man Cannot Expect Frivolous Maid to
Make Sensible Wife.
SALEM, Or., Nov. 20. (To the Edi
tor.) Since my recent emancipation 1
have developed a new interest in ques
tions of the day, whether of a public
or private nature, and the pathetic ap
peal of "Unfortunate HusDana'' nas
aroused my sympathy and interest.
Now I cannot proffer any helpful ad
vice to Unfortunate Husband. His casi
seems to be beyond human aid; but it
has occurred to me that a few words of
wisdom on the subject might be help
ful to the unsuspecting young man
about to marry.
Unfortunate Husband" has undoubt
edly been stung. But why and hov
did it happen? I can tell you. In
stead of looking about for a quiet
plain, home-loving girl, which, appar
ontlv Is what he now thinks he wants,
he. "like Kipling's "fool," chose instead
"a rag, a bone and a hank of hair,'
and now. too late, sees his mistake.
There is no reason to suppose that
the woman under discussion was any
loss foolish, anv less fond of frivolous
society and extravagant clothes at the
time he asked her to marry mm, dui.
manlike, he marries a Kirl of this type
thinkincr those traits charming- and in-
tprestinsr. but as soon as the marriage
ci-remonv is over he expects, -resio
change! a transformation so complete
as to seem absurd to any one who
knows that marriage cannot .change
the innate characteristics of numan
beings.
A man who marries a irivoious urn
outrht to do so because he prefers that
type of woman through lire. untor
tunate Husband" is aggrieved at a con
dition of society which forbids a hus
band the right to chastise his wife
when he deems it necessary. Now it is
t-onliv too bad. but I fear that even
chastisement would not bring about the
desired condition of affairs, with such
a subject as he describes to work on.
so we will just have to try to find
some other way out of the difficulty.
Pprhnns. since this woman is so ionn
of pretty clothes and wears them for
the admiration they bring her, she
might be reached and influenced to
some extent by her husband showing
the same appreciation of her beauty,
the same admiration for her extrava
gant hats, that he did wnen ner lamor
paid the bills. A CITIZEN.
APPLE WAGER THOUGHT MUDDLED
Mr. Ware Quotes Friends Who Think
He Won Election Bet.
, i.-r,unn i, rr- Vnv 20. Tn the
c.4(n.. Ttin qi-hMb nn "Roffue River
Apples for Wilson" has just been hand
ed to me and l nave given it rareiui
thought and have asked several friends
to Interpret your wager made August
19. and this Is the way they all Inter
pret It to mean:
There were tnree leaaiiig. nuuii"
for President. Taft, Wilson and Roose
velt Mr. Wilson gets tne nignest vuie
in the electoral college. Colonel Koose
..v hicrhaut unA Taft the next
highest. As Mr. Roosevelt gets Just as
many votes in tne electoral uuhurc
.1. . hlrrhaot Af- WaVO WitlS OH
the first proposition. As Mr. Roosevelt
gets just twice the number of electoral
otes as hair tne numoer tnat inr u-.i
: 1 ... Di..e!ant1nl anrilrfatA CTPtS. Mr.
Uiucai x , t-j.uv,..- t. - .
ti'- .tan wina thA Reoond DroDOSitlon.
These are the words of Colonel H. H.
Sargent, to wrom I presented the whole
matter. 'and all who have read the edi
torial here that I have talked with
agree with this view.
I have the apples ready to send at
any time, but as we interpret your
iroposition, you nave lost, oul buu i
low trying to give an entirely differ-
n.-.,nttn vnnr nrltrlnal nroDO-
ent uuiwwuu"- w j -
sition than we are able to make out.
Supposo we hand this letter and your
editorial over to Hon. Alfred E. Clark
for his interpretation, ana 11 ne ys
. . : I. . t ...111
tm wrong ana you are ns'u win dl.k
send on the apples; but aon t you ininn
President-elect Wilson will appreciate
them better aner ne muvco ,n.w
White House in March, alter tne east
ern apples are out of the way and only
r,.-,, T?tver annles are fit to eat? 1
have quite a number of nice Newtown
pples In coia storage ana can oeuu
one or two boxes, Dut you win nave to
pay the express to pay back for such a
muddled-up proposition as you inflict
ed on your readers, as none that I have
talked with seem to understana u.
A. v. v a it r. .
Tho Oreeonian is disappointed that
thorn should be anv disposition on the
part of Mr. Ware and his friends to
place a too tecnnicai consuunmu
the fair terms of the wager. When it
ffered to wager a box of Kogue mver
nnlea that Mr. Roosevelt would not
get as many votes In the electoral col-
an tho "n,it highest" candidate,
and another box that he would not get
half so many, It meant of c'.rse tne
'nt hltrhest" to Roosevelt, ana not
thA "next to the hierhest," as Mr. Ware
appears to thlnk.-
A wager, even when made in a jotu-r-
cnii-it should ha interpreted In ac
cord with the fair Intent of the parties
thereto.' If Mr. Ware misunderstood us
terms, it Is to be regretted. We'll let
it n-n at that. But ' for Its part The
Oregonlan declines to have read Into
its
own offer conditions wnicn it am
place there, and have no place
not
there.
Tha sutrerestion that the apples be
sent to President-elect Wilson was vol-
un
tary on our part, and was not a part
of
the original wager. We snail giaaiy
pay
tha exnressaee. either now or after
March 4, If "Mr. Ware will inform us of
e amount.
uAQnirhnA it annears. from Mr.
Ware's Interpretation ot the wager, tfiat
he
thinks he won because Mr. ueose-
velt
and
got as many votes as Roosevelt,
also half as many, which is going
some.
Half a Century Ago
From The Oregonlan of Nov. 22,
Arrangements have been completed
for the establishment of a new line of
transportation from this city to Lewis
ton and other localities in the mining
region of the Upper Columbia and trib
utaries. A contract for the building of
a steamer has been let.
The Savannah Republican says it In
generally resolved by the Army and
citizens to defend that city to the last
and yield that city to the Invaders only
when its walls have been battered
down.
The City CounciTTat its last session,
passed an ordinance providing for the
grading of the public square.
We understand that Mr. A. G. Wall
ing, one of the Councilmen from the
Third Ward, has resigned. There are
now two vacancies.
Washington, Nov. 14. The Army will
soon be fairly in motion aain. All
that is now wanted is sufficient cav
alry force to patrol the ground over
which our troops have already passed
and to capture the bands of guerillas.
ROAD COMMISSION
IS
Ol'POSKD
Senator Barrett . Declares LeiNlntors
Know What Constituents Mailt.
ATHENA, Or., Nov. 20. (To the Edi-.
tor.) Press dispatches indicate that
the Governor is considering the ap
pointment of j another "harmony road
commute" to draft new road bills to
be presented to the Legislature.
In the estimation of the writer, if
the Governor and his advisers really
wish to help along road legislation he
will not appoint any more committees
on road matters, but leave the Legisla
ture and its members alone, free to net
on road matters and free from all such
committees and, lobbying by the inter
ests behind these state-aid boosters.
The individual members of the Leg
islature know the sentiment of their
constituents on these road matters bet
ter than the Governor does; besides,
they have the recent vote as a nuide
and if there is any one thing that i
clear from the recent election, the vote
on the several road measures indicate
that the people and the taxpayers are
not in harmony with the Governor and
his ideas or advisers on the state-aid
road measures.
It is a well-known fart that the lob
byists claiming to represent the Mult
nomah Good Roads Association did
more to defeat all gnod-roads legisla
tion at the last session of the I.eRls
lature than all other forces combined.
A majority of tho members of hotli
houses knew their farmer friends and
constituents were not in favor of the
so-called Webster road bills, espprial
ly the Hierhway Commission and Com
missioner bills. As soon as these Web
ster bills were attempted to be amend
ed so as to ronform to the best inter
ests of the whole state, a howl went ii
from this lobby, and pome of the Port
land papers, that the members were op
posed to any good-roads legislation
(which was not true), and ono mem
ber of this lobby attempted to defy the
whole Legislature and proceeded to in
form the Legislature that It could ac
cept the Webster bills or nothlnut.
Now the facts are that nfier these
dispustinsr scenes and after the Port
land lobby had withdrawn, the mem
bers of both houses got together and
In the short time left passed some
very good road measures, which met
the veto of the Governor. The Port
land association advised the-Governor
to veto the measures which made good
what their lobby member had formeiiy
said that the Legislature must either
accept the Webster bills or nothing. So
we get nothing.
Not that the legislature did not do
Its duty, for, contrary to the impress
sion given out from Portland that the
Legislature failed to act, it did pass
some good measures and now press dis
patches state even the Governor is
willing for the bills to be passed over
his veto.
I have no doubt that the incoming
Legislature will be able to aitreo on
needed road legislation, especially if
the "interests" will leave the Lesisla
ture alone.
All we need to complete laws we now
have is a simple county bonding act
that gives the individual county the
right to act free from any state bond
ing act or state highway scheme.
I have such a bill as this already
prepared, which I Intend to Introduce
early in the session. This bill covers
all the ground and, so far as I ran
learn, meets the approval of the people
of my district, as well as other parts
of the state. C. A.B.tRHliT'7,
Joint Senator. Umatilla, Union and
Morrow Counties.
Office Is Not Sought.
EUGENE, Or., Nov.- 20. (To the Edi
tor.) My attention has been called to
n item statins that I am an appli
cant for the Eugene I'ostof f ice. This
statement in not true and must have
come from someone's vivid Imagination.
I am not an applicant for any office
of any sort whatsoever. ill you
kindly make the correction?
MINMK YV ASH l. U KA ri.
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