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PORTLAND, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1. WIS.
THE AGRICt I.TI'R AXi fOIXKGE EX
TENSION BILL.
The bill to provide for the exten
sion work of the Agricultural College
is so Important to the people of the
state that Its provisions should be
widely published. There is hardly a
citizen of Oregon who will not be
beneficially affected by the bill if it Is
passed because all business and Indus
try depend finally upon agriculture.
This bill strikes at the root of the
causes which prevent Oregon agricul
ture from developing and thriving. In
the first place. It gives the Agricultural
College full authority to carry on "ex
tension work." In other words. It
opens the way for the college, with all
Its instructors, its technical equipment
and scientific knowledge, to go.directly
to the people and give them the benefit
of the world's best knowledge.
For this purpose there is an appro
priation of $25,000. . This is, of course,
too little for the adequate support of
a work so Immensely important. It
would not s far fr H that must
done if we are to put the agriculture
of the state upon a scientific and pro
ductive basis. To bring the available
fund nearer to what is really needed
the bill authorizes each county to ap
propriate as much as It wishes to aid
the extension work, and for every dol
lar given by any county tip to a cer
tain limit the state will give two. This
puts a premium upon the educational
zeal of the various counties. Natur
ally, all the funds are to be expended
under the supervision of the Agricul
tural College, since that Is the only
way to secure efficiency. Under any
other arrangement "pork barrel"
methods, with all their shame and
scandal, would be sure to ensue. Un
less the money can be expended under
expert central supervision. It would be
better to drop the bill at once, for all
that would come of It would be merely
another source of waste and graft.
It Is wisely provided that two ad
Joining counties may unite to secure
larger benefits from the act than
either could alone. The State Treas
urer Is authorized to receive donations
from various sources if any should be
offered, and there Is a provision In the
bill that If the Federal authorities
shall ever donate extension funds con
ditioned on equal donations from the
state, moneys shall be appropriated
for that pifrpose. These clauses are
of Importance because the Crop Im
provement Committee of Chicago Is
prepared to assist in this great work
if conditions are suitable, while the
Federal Government is moving in the
same direction. Oregon ought to be
ready to take advantage of these op
portunities In the best possible way.
The sole consideration ought to be the
highest good of agriculture. Every
other motive should be dropped. No
argument which looks in any other di
rection should have a feather's weight.
Concentrated and efficient control In
this matter Is vitally essential. With
out It all will be ruined and lost. If
It cannot be secured now, it Is better
to wait until It can.
Finally, the bill provides that the
Superintendent of Public Instruction
shall co-operate with the Agricultural
College In the extension work. The
ability and resources of his great of
fice are to be united with those of the
Agricultural College for the public
welfare. He is to send two assistants
throughout the state to supervise ag
ricultural and industrial work in the
public schools. This will, of course,
connect with the extension work of the
college. Indeed, the bill expressly
says that the State Superintendent and
the college shall co-operate, while, as
a matter of course, the views and
wishes of the respective county super
intendents will be consulted. Without
their hearty co-operation little could
be done through the schools.
These are the main provisions of
this excellent bill. Its obvious pur
pose is to bring all the Industrial
teaching power of the state to bear
upon the problem of better farming
and improved country life. If it is
passed and permitted to work out its
purpose unimpeded, it will pay richly
In money, in character and In human
happiness. The Agricultural College
has long been trying with Inadequate
resources to carry the gospel of mod
ern scientific farming to every com
munity in the state. Superintendent
Alderman has been laboring faithfully
to advance industrial education in the
common schools. Each has been ham.
pered by lack of funds, by want of au
thority and by legal difficulties in the
way of full co-operation. This bill re
moves these hindrances and unites the
resources of the state educational de
partment and the college for energetic
and efficient work. We foresee meas
ureless benefits to the state if it is en
acted In to law as it stands.
An objection has .been made to the
bill, but we cannot believe that It Is ad
vanced seriously because It is so prepos
terous. By the operation of this law. we
are told, the Agricultural College will
build up & powerful political machine
and thus control the state. If the state
must have a political machine, we can
Imagine no more desirable one than the
Agricultural College, with its trained
educational experts, would be likely to
frame. But on its face such talk Is
nonsensical. What sane person would
ever dream of subjecting Oregon to a
political machine with the initiative,
the referendum and the recall In the
hands of the people? With these po
tent instruments of liberty they are
and must remain masters of every po
litical situation. It Is safe In Oregon
to concentrate power In the hands of
the people's servants because the peo
ple are unquestionably and indisputa
bly masters. Make the team as strong
nd spirited as you may, the people
have the bits and reins to drive it safe
ly. But it Is foreign to the ideals of
the Agricultural College to build up a
political machine. The men at the
college are trained experts, loving the
sciences to which they have devoted
their lives and living for the good of
mankind. They are not politicians and
nothing could ever make them politi
cians. Give them more power and
means and they will use it for the
greater good of the state. That is the
long and short of the matter. As long
as we can absolutely control our serv
ants, why not trust them? On the
other hand, to divide control of this
money and work among a multitude of
discordant individuals or boards would
be to waste the money and ruin the
work. There must be a common pur
pose in order to achieve the best re
sults and there can be no common pur
pose without a common head. For
this service the trained abilities and
high ideals of the Agricultural Colleg?
are at the disposal of the state? Why
not use them?
STRIKING A TRCST, BUT HITTING
THE PUBLIC.
Senator Kellaher, in his great stunt
of fighting all the trusts, has caused
to be added the following amendment
to the Barrett good roads bill at Sa
lem: No State Highway Commissioner. County
Commissioner, County Roadmaater or County
Court shall adopt plans and specifications
for any road which requires the exclusive
use of any patented article or process, or
any article or process protected by any
trade-mark or any article or process wholly
controlled by any person, firm or corpora
tion thereof.
The purpose of this amendment ap
pears to be to strike1 a deadly blow at
the wicked paving trust: and undoubt
edly It will accomplish that end. It
Is desirable to prevent a monopoly In
paving; it is desirable to have the ad
vantage of competition from all pav
ing concerns, trust and Independent;
but is it desirable to exclude from bid
ding at all any concern which has a
trademark pavement? Senator Kella
her Is reported to have said that such
concerns may bid, Indeed; but It seems
clear that his little Joker makes it im
possible for such a bidder to get a
lawful contract, and therefore to get
his money.
Representative Spencer has offered
the following substitute for the Kella
her proposal:
No State Highway Commissioner, County
Court, County commissioner or County
Roadmaater shall adopt or prescribe before
advertising for bids any plans or specifica
tions for any road which requires the ex
clusive use of any patented article or pro
cess, or any article or process protected by
any trade-mark or any article or process
wholly controlled by any person, firm or cor
poration thereof.
Why does this amendment not whol
ly prevent water-tight monopoly?
Why does It not leave with the public
authorities the option of awarding a
contract to the lowest bidder on any
kind of pavement? Why should state
lrv decline tn avail Itself
of any possible opportunity to get a
standard pavement or roaa irom any
bidder?
THE LOBBY'S GRAND WORK.
All the devices of human ingenuity,
through legislation or invention or
otherwise, will avail nothing to spare
a ciiuontihl lpcislator from the blan
dishments and persuasions of the
lobbyist, rne legislature wm m t
fair way to destroy the final remnant
of petty graft in the transportation of
prisoners to the penitentiary by dis
placing the Sheriffs as custodians and
instituting trained prison guards, when
a mighty feat of ground and lofty
tumbling was done and the bill was
killed. The Sheriffs, always a power
ful political factor at home, had
spoken. It took years to wrest from
the allied Sheriffs of Oregon the prof
itable business of conveying Insane
persons from their respective counties
to the State Asylum; but finally it was
accomplished, and the humane and
economical method of putting the poor
unfortunates in charge of expert at
tendants was substituted. But the
Sheriffs have successfully made their
last stand on their historic privilege of
taking a trip to Salem at the state's
expense, or of sending a favorite spe
cial deputy, and they have won.
Governor West alone at Salem has
had the courage to stand up and fight
the Sheriffs. He ought to have won.
He might have won if his other prison
reforms had commended themselves
to the. people as being so meritorious
as this particular change.
The schoolteachers' lobby, too, has
invaded the Legislature, and no man
had the nerve to resist. Now we are
to have a schoolteachers' machine in
Portland which, like the famous brook,
will go on forever. Tet we howl for
reform of the schools, and agitate,
demonstrate and legislate, and lay the
foundation for the future development
of the public school system by per
petuating the tenure of all the present
principals and teachers. When in the
coming years we discover that no
progress is being made, we ought to
know where to lay the blame.
A REJECTED INNOVATION.
It is probably useless to suggest that
our professional lawgivers would have
more Influence if they would try to
be consistent. But as their influence
is not wholly desirable we hasten to
call attention to the latest effort of
Mr. ITRen.
Mr. ITRen, in the past, has made,
without success, a determined effort
to secure an inhibition against legisla
tive interference, either by repeal or
amendment, with laws adopted by the
people. Tet it must be that Mr. ITRen
believes it would be proper and, were
he In favor of the measure, laudable,
If the Legislature enacted a principle
rejected by the people.
In the recent election, recall of Ju
dicial decisions was before the voters
as one of the chief planks of the Pro
gressive platform. That entertaining
"contract with the people" did not
propose recall of decisions as a Na
tional issue, but pledged the party to
provide a means by which the voters
might enact, notwithstanding the de
cision, any law passed under the police
power of the state "when held uncon
stitutional under the state constitu
tion." Of the total number of ballots cast
In the election but little more than
one-fourth was favorable to the Pro
gressive cause. What percentage of
one-fourth of the voters expressed a
personal admiration for the Presiden
tial candidate and not adherence to
his party's principles Is unknown, but
doubtless It was large.
At all events the voters definitely
rejected the Progressive platform and
recall of Judicial decisions. Now Mr.
ITRen. regardless of the voice of the
people, asks the despised Legislature
to put recall of Judicial decisions into
lawful force In Oregon. Or perhaps
he merely desires that the Legislature
submit the question again to the peo
ple, which, of course, would save paid
petition-hawking. If there be an irre
vocable determination by a few in
novators to get It on the ballot.
If it is merly a reference to the
people that Mr. ITRen desires why not
let him have it? The new bauble,
would amuse him and perhaps keep
him out of other mischief. Who cares
for length of ballot, or taxpayers'
money, or voters' patience ? 1
ON -BEING DEAD BROKE.
' "Have you ever . been broke, flat
broke, in a strange place without a
Job, cold, hungry, no bed, the city
wind searching out the very marrow
of your bones through thin and in
sufficient clothing and ill-nourished
body?" This sentence Is quoted -from
"Lend a Hand," the paper which the
Inmates of the penitentiary at Salem
publish. It Is reprinted because it
shows striking literary ability, for one
thing. But we have In mind another
ieason, which will appear in a mo
ment. The writer goes on to say, "have you
ever been in this miserable condition
and then had man after man turn
you out of office or store with a curt
"No help wanted'?" The implication
from all this is that behind many
crimes there is an explanation in the
want and suffering of the criminal.
Whether the explanation excuses the
crime or not is of course another mat
ter. Most of us will agree that It
seldom or never does. Still the fact
that there are men, and possibly wo
men, too, in this and other cities who
are begging for work and cannot find
any Is worth thinking about. What
Is the reason for their sad plight?
Naturally there must be many rea
sons, but at this instant our thoughts
are fixed upon one which seems as
important as any. It is the maladjust
ments of our life. So many strings lie
with their ends loose that individ
uals are unnecessarily perplexed and
ruined. No doubt there are in Port
land today men who are honestly seek
ing work and cannot find io. On the
other hand, here is a compensating
fact which has come to our knowledge.
A farmer of our acquaintance has
several acres of potatoes which he has
not dug because the price would not
warrant It, as he believed. He would
b willing to allow any honest man to
dig the crop and market it on equit
able shares, but the honest man does
nJt make his appearance. The farm
er has even Inquired of certain em
ployment agents if such a man might
be found, but they give him little en
couragement. Here is another fact. There are
thousands of good homes in the rural
districts of Oregon with fair wages
waiting for decent girls who will en
ter them and render domestic service.
But Just as no man can be found to
dig the farmer's potatoes, so no girls
can be found to help the farmers'
wives. So rural industry goes to pieces
for want of help and people starve and
freeze in the city for want of work.
Do ' we speak too strongly when we
say that there are maladjustments in
our life?
CLOSING IN ON CONSTANTINOPLE.
The peninsula of Gallipoli, on which
the Greeks and Bulgarians have cen
tered their attack, is a long, narrow
strip of land forming the northwestern
boundary of the Dardanelles straits.
On the northwest side is the Gulf of
Saros, where the Greek ships can He
and perhaps bombard the forts from
the rear. Buliar, the village to which
the Turks are being pursued by the
Bulgarians, Is on the neck of the pen
insula, and Gallipoli, the principal
town with a well fortified harbor, is at
the point where the straits open into
the Sea of Marmora.
If the allies can take Buliar and
Gallipoli they will have cut off the
Dardanelles from Constantinople,
and by training their guns on the
straits, can also cut them off from
water communication with the Sea of
Marmora. The Greek fleet, by block
ading the Mediterranean outlet, can
complete the Isolation of the forts.
With the forts thus besieged, the Bul
garians can then advance on Constan.
tinople along the north shore of the
Sea of Marmora. By keeping the forts
busy defending themselves on the land
side, the Greeks may be able to send
their ships through the straits, but
they would do so at the risk of com
ing in contact with submarine mines.
These mines, however, might prove to
be as great a bluff as were those of
the Spaniards in the entrance of Ma
nila Bay.
To what extent the Servians can
help the Greeks and Bulgarians in this
enterprise depends on the degree to
which they are kept occupied by .the
Turkish army of Monastir and by the
Moslem Albanians. The army of
Monastir has been unaccounted for
since the capture of that place by the
Servians, but is now reported to
threaten an attack on Uskup, the an
cient Servian capital. The Albanians
are reported to have been armed se
cretly by Austria and to threaten the
Servians from the west. If Servla can
dispose of these forces, or can leave
Montenegro to cope with the Alban
ians until the Greeks take Janina and
close in on them from the south, she
may be able to render more aid in
the ' final assault on Constantinople.
At present the allies are hampered by
the necessity of dividing their forces
for the reduction of Adrlanople, Scu
tari and Janina.
HENRI BERGSON.
Those who like to record the current
events which make history wilf set
down in their diaries that Henri Berg
son landed at New Tork last Sunday.
His arrival will not . be followed by
any great battles, nor will he be likely
to accumulate a billion dollars while
he is here, but a thousand years from
now his influence will have done more
to transform the face of the world
than any war ever waged, and his
teaching will be valued more than all
the gold on earth.
Bergson Is the latest, and many be
lieve the greatest, of the long line of
philosophers whom France has given
to mankind. Descartes was not the
first of them, by any means, but he Is
better remembered than any of his
predecessors. It was he who began
his philosophizing with the dictum, "I
think, therefore I am: cogito ergo
Bum." This was a variation of Au
gustine's formula. The old saint said,
"Dubito ergo sum I doubt, therefore
I am." Descartes wished to rid him
self of every possible assumption, be
gin at the bottom of thought and build
up a system which should be impreg
nable at every point. He did not suc
ceed because the very forms into
which his thinking flowed contained
dozens of assumptions without his
knowing It.
But in spite of that, Descartes was
the father of critical philosophy, and
If he had not done his thinking, Kant
never could have laid bare the roots
of the mind as he did. After Descartes
no doubt the next most brilliant name
among the French philosophers before
Bergson is Comte, who founded posi
tivism.. Comte sought to eliminate the
Idea of God from thought and direct
all worship toward humanity. He
elaborated a complete system of relig
ious exercises with a full calendar of
saints and a ritual. His saints were ,
the great men of all times and his
ritual exalted their deeds. His relig
ion of positivtem has not yet conquered
the world, but it has spread beyond
Paris a little.
Frederick Harrison founded a Comt
ist church in London and had a certain
following. There was a great contro
versy, now forgotten, as to whether
Herbert Spencer had lifted some of his
ideas from Comte, but, though his
thinking was similar on the surface, it
was fundamentally unlike the great
Frenchman's.
Reindeer meat from Alaska may at
no distant day contribute materially to
the food supply of the United States.
The reindeer imported by the Govern
ment from Lapland had already In
creased to 33,629 in June, 1911, and
are a source of supply of food and
clothing to the natives, besides being
useful draft animals. The first ship
ment of reindeer meat in cold storage
was made in October, 1911, when
18,750 pounds found ready sale in
Seattle at 25 to 75 cents a pound.
Governor Clark estimates that at the
present rate of increase there may be
2,000.000 reindeer in Alaska in 25
years, from which the United States
may draw part of Its meat supply and
that- the treeless regions of Northern
and Western Alaska, approximately
400.000 acres in extent, could pasture
10,000,000 of the animals.
Passage by the House of Commons
of the bill for the disestablishment of
the English Church in Wales advances
another of the radical measures In the
Liberal programme. The Episcopal
Church is regarded as an alien by the
Welsh because until comparatively re
cent times it held its services in the
English language. The Welsh, adher
ing to their own tongue with the ten
acity peculiar to a small people, for
sook the church to follow Methodist
and Baptist preachers of their own
race who spoke in the language- they
understood. Too late the Episcopal
clergy yielded in some places, for the
people had been alienated and would
not be won back.
Although it is estimated that Alaska
coal could be mined and delivered at
a profit in Portland for $5 a ton, the
people of Western Alaska are import
ing and burning fuel oil at a cost
equivalent to 18 a ton for bituminous
coal. Governor Clark, in his annual
report, says these people "are willing
to accept any measure which will
cause the fuel resources to be opened
to development so much so that the
comparative advantages of a fee sys
tem, a leasing plan, or Government
operation have almost ceased to be a
matter of discussion." But Congress
Addles with Investigations while the
Alaskans sit with folded hands.
Fears are expressed for the stability
of St. Paul's Cathedral, London. An
eminent engineer has reported that
the foundations are overloaded and
that the building Is moving and crack
ing. He attributes this partly to vi
bration caused by the heavy type of
motor omnibus which now traverses
the adjoining streets. He believes the
proposed excavation for a subway ter
minal near the cathedral will weaken
its foundations and recommends that
it be built at a considerable distance.
There is an opportunity there to
build such foundations as have
helped to make the American sky
scraper possible.
A leading English sportsman has
proposed that the Olympic games be
opened to professionals, because Eng
land is placed at a disadvantage by
drawing the line between amateurs
and professionals more sharply than
it is drawn by other countries. Why,
certainly. If England can produce a
better all-around athlete than Thorpe,
either amateur or professional, let the
old country trot him out. But when
Thorpe is classed as a professional on
such slight grounds, we tall to see how
the line could be more Sharply drawn
than in this country.
Alarmed at the prospective ravages
to be wrought by ten pretty girls in
uniform, representing the states in
which women may vote, at the head of
a suffrage parade, the New Tork Sun
suggests that the suffragists use
sterner arguments, "Justice and not
beauty, ten Frights instead of ten
Graces." But the women are out to
win and they know that beauty ap
peals strongly to weak man. The
women are playing politics and play
ing it skillfully.
Effect , of bounty on coyotes is
ov.nwn in the ereat increase of Jack-
rabbits and Harney County now wants
authority to pay a bounty on tne long
legged pests. Influx of these animals
tn nvMp. find there miirht be
established a revolving fund, so to
speak, to hold them in check.
The brain of a dog having been
transferred into the head of a Michi
gan sufferer, no doubt he will spend
his time hereafter barking at the moon
and chasing squirrels.
King George, following the Panama
Canal controversy, sends good wishes
for peace. The Anglo-Saxons may
quibble, but they will never fight
among themselves.
The alphabet has been inscribed by
a New York engraver on a pinhead.
We have known of many interesting
small facts being impressed upon a
pinhead.
Russia refuses further to patronize
our Harvester trust. That will do
much to bind the close tie of friend
ship between the two countries.
It Is not the children who use the
paved streets as a rink that cause the
trouble. The fault lies with the driv
ers who do not see them.
A Falls City man is advertising a
talking machine in trade for wood.
Music hath charms, but it will not
make the kettle boll.
The east wind is needful to health
at this time of year and so is weather
that chills the marrow and makes one
step fasten
A New Jersey scientist claims to
have caught a message from Mara.
From Mars Bryan to the Governor, no
doubt.
No doubt it would please the tight
wad fraternity to provide capital pun
ishment for treating.
Portlanders are wealthy people. The
assessed value shows more than $1000
per capita.
It will be noted that John D.'s tips
to his bootblack were purely vocal.
Without money, Turkey might as
well give up the fight
VOTE. ON COMPENSATION PIJSASES.
I'kvslrlaa M ao Haa Noted Plight of In
jured Tells of Bill's Merita.
PORTLAND, Feb. 6. (To the Editor.)
I note in The Oregonlan this morn
ing that the Lawrence -compensation
bill has passed the House with only
two dissenting votes. I tmnK tnis is
a record that the State of Oregon
should be proud of. The Legislature
n this case has indicated very cor
rectly the mental attitude of the pub
lic conception of Its relation to the in
jured workman and his dependenta
Under the operation of this bill we will
be able to find a surcease from the in
terminable strife, animosities and es
trangements which have characterized
the settlement of cases Involving com
pensation to the injured workmen. This
bill will provide perhaps not as large
an amount as might be awarded in a
few instances where suits are brought,
but the mantle of protection will be
thrown about the shoulders of every
worker and his dependents, which is
the end to be sought after in this im
portant matter of compensation for in
juries or death.
Another thought which striKes me
in regard to this bill is the fact that
the employer, employes and .the state
are contributors to the fund. We hope
to witness In Oregon, as has been fully
demonstrated in Washington, that
every dollar which is paid to the in
jured workman shall go to him directly
without contributing any portion 'of the
award to casualty insurance com
panies. In the past year something
like $500,000 was paid to casualty com
panies by employers, and the amount
which finally reached the men was not
more than 25 per cent. This economic
waste must be stopped, and every dol
lar that is contributed under the theory
of this bill will be kept in the State
of. Oregon instead of a large portion
of the money being sent out of the
state further to enrich other already
wealthy states.
A strong feature which appeals to me
as a physician is the fact that the state
has provided a "First aid to the in
jured." Under this provision every
workman who is injured will at once
have at hie command through the com
mission a competent doctor, who will
be able to alleviate his condition as far
as medical science Is able, and that
at a very low cost to the patient. The
contribution of one-half of 1 per cent
on the wages of the workman, as pro
vided in the bill, will. In many In
stances, not amount to more than the
minimum of 25 cents per month, thus
insuring him mBdical attendance at the
lowest possible cost.
Contract hospital companies. of
course, will oppose this bill with all
their force, as it is not framed in their
interests. A most determined attempt
has already been made to get the Ju
diciary commlteee in the House to
amend the bill to provide a continuance
of this graft. The committee deserves
to be very warmly commended for its
stand on this question, indicating that
it thought more of the injured work
men than providing a soft bed for the
contract hospital companies to lie in.
It has been the experience, I think, of
every. reputable physician in the State
of Oregon, who has been brought into
contact with the working of these com
panies, that their tactics and methods
of operation, to say the least, have
been very reprehensible. They are
conceived on the theory of getting
every dollar they can secure, and giv
ing back as little as possible in the
shape of treatment.
In this connection, the casualty in
surance and contract hospital com
panies have locked arms like Siamese
twins In their assault upon this bill.
The casualty companies are willing the
bill should pass If it is provided that
they are to make a profit out of the
Injured workman, as at present, and
the contract hospital companies are in
the same category both want compen
sation if they can secure a profit out
of Its operation, but not otherwise, it
is to be hoped that the Senate will
take - the same view of this bill that
the House has done, and that In a com
paratively short time we may be able
to see the State of Oregon take its
place alongside its sister state Wash
ington in the humane, economic and
wholesome plan of dealing with In
juries inseparable to industrial life.
E. A. PIERCE, M. D.
ONE IDEA OK TAX ON INCOMES
Mr. Bar ee Believes Wages and Salaries
Cannot Be Included.
PORTT.AND. Feb. 6. (To the Editor.)
The Oregonlan, February 4, says, "In
come tax is a tax on brains, but It is
the brainy men who make tne money.
Income ax Is a tax on Incomes and
It requires no brains whatever to re
ceive incomes. Incomes are derived
from investments, not necessarily our
own, and must not be comounuea witn
wages or salary.
Harrv K. Thaw receives an Income,
yet the law has adjudged him insane
and confines him in an asylum. Mar
shall Field's heirs have an Income that
staggers thought, yet they are wards
of a court. It certainly is an Insult to
Intelligence to Intimate that the brainy
men of our land are the money matters.
Students, inventors, discoverers, his
torians, writers and teachers are the
people of this or any other nation with
brains, and few if any have Incomes
from investments. President-elect Wil
son is said to be a brainy man, and we
read of no great income accruing to
him.
To compare money-makers with
brainy men is to debase everything
irood. great or noble about ns. i-er-
tainly, if there be a man among us
that the law Is alter ana cannot eaten
It Is the monopolized, trustified money
maker. If there is a despised art or
faculty It Is or should be money-making;
getting something for nothing, as
every one does who receives incomes.
An income tax is a tax on the possi
bilities of leifal or other kinds or rob
bery the exercise of undue advantage
over others. Any increase arising troro
anv other source than that emanating
from our Individual energy comes of
taking from others that which they,
and not wo, produce.
In the eyes of human Justice every
step forward In the line of civilization
leads away from money-getting (mak
ing). If money-making be the accept
ed future stanaara tor Drain culture,
verily will civilization go backward
and destroy Itself. It does not require
brain to rob or steal; yet tnis is tne
sum of money-making.
C. W. BARZEE.
If Mr. Barzee believes that the Gov
ernment, under the authority of the
Income tax amendment, will not tax
wages or salary in excess of a specified
minimum, he has a surprise In store.
Some Income tax laws make a dis
tinction in amount of levy between
earned and unearned incomes, but it Is
customary to tax both. The income tax
in British Columbia falls with equal
force on both classes. The constitu
tional amendment, now adopted here,
authorizes Congress to lay and collect
taxes on incomes from whatever source
derived. Ability to make money Is al
most exclusively confined to brainy
men, though all brainy men do not
accumulate wealth. Mr. Rockefeller is
Just as "brainy" In his line of endeavor
as Is Dr. Flexner, head of the Rocke
feller Institute, in medical research.
Because Mr. Rockefeller could no do
Dr. Flexner1 work Is no indication that
he is not brainy; nOr Is the fact that
Dr. Flexner hps not accumulated mil
lions in business evidence that he is
mentally deficient. As to which is the
brainiest in 'a general sense la another
matter. If Congress imposes a tax on
incomes over $5000, earned or unearned,
as it now has authority to do. It would
tax brainy men almost exclusively.
That many brainy men will not be
taxed and a few deficients will be
taxed does not alter the general rule.
JOHN JUNTO VISITOR AT CAPITOL
Legislature Strange to Pioneer, Wko
Draws Tribute From Friend.
PORTLAND, Feb. 4. (To the Edi
tor.) "I am a stranger here," said
Uncle John Minto to the writer In the
corridor of the Capitol at Salem the
other day there in a locality and
community that had known him for
nearly three-quarters of a century.
He was there soon after the Meth
odists had established their outposts
far beyond the limits of civilization.
He was the friend and intimate ot
David Leslie, J. L. Parrish. Harve
and Gustavus Hines, Father Wilbur
and other early Methodist mission
aries, as well as Alkinson, Marsh and
Condon of the Congregationallsts, and
ministers of other denominations, who
labored in the then wilderness to es
tablish the Christian religion amid the
silences of the continuous woods.
He was the protege of Daniel Waldo,
the contemporary of Dr. McLoughlin,
Dr. McBride. Jesse. Charles and Lind
say Applegate and others of the grand
galaxy of the immigration of 184S and
preceding years. He knew Wilson, the
owner of the donation claim upon
which the City of Salem is located, and
saw the capital of the state removed
from Oregon City to its present loca
tion. He has measured swords In the
arena of newspaper discussions with
O'Meara, Dryer, Holbrook and Scott,
and has campaigned with Nesmith,
Lane, Williams, Baker, Deady and
Boise. He came to the Oregon County
but a few months after the historic
gathering at Champoeg that deter
mined the status of this region as to
its National affiliations. A portentous
moment that, and fraught with mighty
possibilities. He helped lay the foun
dations upon which the superstructure
of our modern state is bullded.
"I am a stranger here." A link be
tween the past and the present, Uncle
John Minto is in the very nature of
things near the end of a long and well
spent life, full of years and full of
honors, almost the sole survivor of
those who participated in and were
adults during the formative period that
followed Joe Meek's timely remark,
"Who's for a divide?"
He had served In the Legislature
from his county, that had elected such
men as William and John B. Waldo, Ed
Hirsch, Till Ford, Mart Chamberlain
and John B. Dimlck, who have passed
on, and others of note and influence- in
the community, who are still on the
hither side of the Jordan. But the
faces that now appeared in the legis
lative halls were strange. New men
have taken the places of those who
have gone before, and younger men
have superseded others, who by rea
son of advancing years have stepped
aside. Like an echo from the long ago
the once-familiar voice. His figure
moved feebly about greeted occasion
ally by a friend of other years, but
there appeared no regret in the tone
of the spoken words. There was a
consciousness of a duty done, a laitn
well kept, a course nearly run. All
honor to John Minto, who loved his
adopted country and state and devoted
his life to the betterment of his fel
lows. I wondered what he and his coad
jutors of 5 years ago would think If
they were told that a Legislature nine
tenths Republican would elect a Demo
crat to the United States Senate by a
practically unanimous vote; that this
would occur twice in succession and
that the vote of the Oregon Senators
would change the political complexion
of the Senate and affect for good or
ill the policies of the Government, But
this is digression.
The frosts that shall know no melt
ing have gathered upon his brow like
a victor's wreath, and It Is the hope
of the writer that he may wear it for
yet many years. J. B. EDDY.
WHAT SOCIALISTS REALLY WANT
Kelso Man Gives His Ideas of Real
Aim of Party.
KELSO, Wash., Feb. 2. (To the
Editor.) It has always been a mystery
to many of us why some one who
understands Socialism does not have
the honesty of their convictions and
announce Just what we demand, and
how we will conduct our affairs when
we get the majority to see the beauties
of our new system, now called, "Ideal
Industrial Economy," by Marx and
Engels, as set forth in their Communist
Manifesto. It means Just what It says.
Economize human industry; get the
most for the least effort; all must earn
a livelihood or starve or perish; none
shall live on another's toll; none shall
be allowed to employ others for wages;
none shall be allowed, to own property,
exclusively their own; all must sur
render their freedom independance and
individuality to all.
The present marriage system must be
abolished, with Its evil, sequences,
chiefly the waste of five or six women's
time raisins five or six babies when
some old woman rould raise them in
one of our well equipped state
nurseries. By sterilization of God's
derelicts, and Imperfects, and proper
pairing we can raise just such men
and women as the commune approves
of. Set God a pattern, always provided
there is one. Such so-called eternal
truths as freedom, justice, morality and
religion must all go, never to be re
established on a new or any otner Dasis.
This is the true Marxian concept.
adopted by us proletarians who have
been deprived of our productions; who
have tolled and suffered hunger and
cold, while the unconscionable strong
and rich enloy the fruits ot our toll.
This inequality we have always had
with us, and we have been compromis
ing always, but now It must be settled
rleht.
Joined with us in our demand are
many who never suffered as we prole
tarians have, are those who feel them
selves dominated by morals, religion,
eternal truths, freedom, justice. At the
extreme verge of these are Father
Vaughn, Father o ilara and sucn. Be
tween these latter and our own Marx
and Engels are all grades. These latter
call themselves Idealists, and they are
creating an avalanche of reforms to
submerge us true Socialists. They ex
pect to succeed by taking our name.
Socialist. It la not socialism at an mc
are infected with. It is simples.
JOS TIMOTHY,
Valentine Good Pseudonym for Oregon.
PORTLAND. Feb. 6. (To the Editor.)
May I be permitted to comment for
a moment on Mr. urissey s recent sug
gestion in The Oregonlan that Oregon
should be known as the "Valentine
state?"
Nationally and Internationally the
tenderest sentiments of youth, tne cner-
ished recollections of age, cluster
around this emblem, and that It should
be adopted by our great state, seems
eminently appropriate and pleasing.
The day of the comic valentine has
long since passed, so that phase is not
even to be considered In the choice of
the name.
"Valentine State" is at ence unusual,
distinct and interesting. And Is not
Oregon at this very time asking of
thousands of men ana women tnrougn
out our country and abroad, "May I be
your valentine," through her plea for
substantial citizens to make their
homes in this favored region?
To the advertising man (and it is
community advertising nowadays that
spells progress for any state) the term
suggests Infinite possibilities. And most
important of all, it does not disparage
a climate we all find so congenial that
we stay right here and influence our
friends to come. H. M. CUMM1SS,
1239 -East Twenty-eighth street N.
When Gladstone Played Whist.
Morlev's "Life of Gladstone."
Sentember 30 (1871) After dinner
the Prince of Wales Invited me to play
whist, I said, "For love, sir?" He said,
"Well, shillings, and Half a crown on
the rubber," to which I submitted. The
Prince has an immense wnist memory
and plays well accordingly-
Half a Century Ao
From The Oregonlan of Feb. 7. 186S
Captain Hopkins, the U. S. Quarter
master at Fort Vancouver, yesterday let
the contract for 70 wagons, more or
less, to be used in the military expedi
tion to the Snake country the coming
Spring.
Messrs. Leonard 4 Green, proprietor!
of the gas works in this city, have been
making an examination into the possi
bility of establishing gas works in
Dalles.
The semi-annual meeting of the Ore
gon state Educational Association and
Teachers' Institute was opened tn the
public schoolhouse in this city at 10
A. M., February 4, by the President, Rev.
Bishop Scott.
Goldsborough, N. C. It is reported
that an abolition fleet of 92 vessels, in
cluding two monitors and six other
ironclads, are at Beaufort Harbor; also
that 52.000 abolitionists are camped In
Morehead and Caroline Countlea
The following Is an exact account ot
the exports from this place seaward
from January 1 to February 2, 1863:
Flour. 480 gr. ska; oats, 75 aks.; bacon,
52 pkgs.; apples. 20.6S9 boxes; hides,
1788; cattle, 266; butter, eggs and lard,
100 pkgs.; sheep, 160; horses, 3; wool, 3
treasure, $287,000. The shipments of
treasure are at the rate of largely
over $3,000,000 a year. .
Some weeks since application was
made to the Common Council to have
a street lamp placed at the Intersection
of Morrison and First streets, but the
matter was not acted upon. It la true
that the blocks above and below on
First street have lamps upon tnem, but
this crossing 1b a miserable place.
The carcass of a calf has been lying
near the filthy sidewalk on Morrison
street for the past eight or 10 days.
Twenty-five Years Ago
From The Oregonlan of February T, 1888.
Salem, Feb. 6. The venerable pioneer,
J. Qulnn Thornton, died at his home in
Salem at 11:40 last night, of old age.
Yreka, Feb. 6. There Is no mall yalV
The railroad may get Sisson & Crocked
pack mules to take mails from Duns
muir to Sisson. The heavy slides near
Delta and Dunsmulr are alrnost cleared
away, but the damage done In the big
canyon between Dunsmulr and Sisson
will require some days more.
San Francisco, Feb. 8. Charles
Crocker has given $1000 to the home for
destitute children in West Oakland.
Aberdeen, W. T, via. Olympla, Feb. .
The steamer Lillle brought news from
Damon's today of the wreck of an iron
vessel, the Abercorn, from Liverpool
for Portland, loaded with steel rails, ten
miles north of Grays Harbor. Three
men out of 27 were saved. Pilot
Charles Johnson is reported lost
Mrs. Theodore Pesch died very sud
denly at her home in Alkali Valley
Tuesday evening, says the Klamath
Star.
A Methodist Episcopal Church or
ganization is being formed In Spokane
Falls under the auBpices of Rev. R. B.
Swift, of Tennessee.
Articles incorporating the People's
Savings Bank were filed with the Coun
ty Clerk yesterday by Lewis Russell,
Herbert Bradley and E. S. Larsen.
The first annual exhibition of the Co
lumbia Poultry Association opened yes
terday at 123 First street
Mr. 'Ira F. Powers, who had two
slight paralytic strokes Saturday, was
on deck at his place of business and
said he was all right and in as good
health as ever.
Work has been commenced on the
East Side pier of the railroad bridge.
The first lectureof the Alpine course
will be delivered at Masonic Hall this
evening by Dr. Willis E. Everette on
the Eskimo of the Yukon delta.
Less than three months ago Mr. Ed
Ward Holman, the Deputy Coroner,
bought the two-story brick building
adjoining the one on the northwest cor
ner of Front and Alder streets, be
longing to the estate of Abner La Cos,
deceased, for $10,750. Yesterday he sold
the same property to John O'Connor for
$14,500, making a net profit of $3760. .
Between Yon and Me.
PORTLAND, Feb. 6. (To the Editor.)
Please advise which of the following
sentences is correct:
This is a matter between you and L
This is a matter between you and me.
G. W. B.
POLICE
FRAME-UPS
AND
GRAFT
An unusually timely page by
Jack Rose, confirming the lat
est confessions of a police cap
tain involving higher-ups. Lieu
tenant Becker's reformed gam
bling partner tells how the New
York police proceed to get peo
ple they do not want out of the
way.
Pie and Diet Dr. Alsberg,
successor of Dr. Wiley, says
that good pie is not the foe of
health and civilization. In a
half-page interview he discusses
diet and pure foods.
Babies Who Work It is
pleasant work for the little tots
and they earn a man's wage by
it, often supporting the family.
An illustrated fall page.
Lincoln Eeminiscences Rec
ollections of the great emanci
pator in which many curious
and interesting tales are re
called. My Valentine A half page,
profusely illustrated, on the
1913 Valentine crop in Port
land. Too Tall for Opera A chap
ter from the home life of a
great singer, Madame Clara
Butt. Written in a delightfully
entertaining vein by Theodora
Bean.
War Schools A full page in
colors on the schools at which
our fighting men are taught the
exact science of modern war
fare. A Quiet DinBer Another half
page picture by Charles Dana
Gibson.
The Vain Venna A snappy
short story by Helen Alexander.
Three pages for women. Many
other features.
Order today of your newsdealer.
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