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' OPINIONS ON THE CABINET.
Trlr1nf Wllsnn'a fnhinpt' KelpO.
tions meet with almost unanimous
praise from newspapers of all par
ties. They are regarded as men of
bin own choice, appointed with a view
to the fitness of the men for the work
laid out for them, as advisers to the
President and for team-work, due re
gard being had for geography. Th
one appointment which is considered
to have been influenced by politics Is
that of Mr. Bryan, and it Is subjected
to much criticism. But Bryan's com
manding position in the Democratic
party and his services to Mr. Wilson
are held to have made his selection
inevitable. New England feels slight
ed at the failure to name a man from
that section, but concedes the excel
lence of the material chosen.
The New York Evening Post says
This Impression that President Wilson
means to be his own master will be height'
ened by his selections for the Cabinet.
one can allege that these appointments were
dictated to him. There ia not the faintest
trail of a boss over them. Nor do any of
them smell of political obligations assumed
or bargains made.
In view of the long overdue bank
ing and currency legislation and the
anti-trust legislation and prosecutions
in prospect, the Post particularly
praises the choice of Mr. McAdoo as
that of a good executive with a wide
knowledge of business and that of Mr.
McReynolds for his legal knowledge
and vigor as a prosecutor. It expresses
hope that Mr. Bryan will do much
work for international peace, in which
he is much interested.
The New Tork Tribune says that the
change in public opinion since 1896
has brought it nearer to Mr. Bryan's
radicalism, and that he was "in
sense the forerunner of the Wilson
restoration," It adds that "the Presi
dent has realized that Mr: Bryan will
be nowhere more serviceable and less
dangerous for the next four years than
at the head of the State Department.
The) Tribune has nothing but praise
for the other Cabinet members,
among them extolling Mr. Lane as "an
aggressive force on the Interstate Com'
merce Commission."
Some misgivings are entertained by
the New Tork Herald, judging by the
tone of its comment. It asks:
What shall be said of a Cabinet that la
headed by William J. Bryan, who has been
'regarded by everybody as a perpetual agi
. tator and not as an' executive, and is tailed
off by William B. Wilson, of whom few
' persona ever heard T
"Personally honorable, fairly able
' and indisputably Democratic" is the
. Brooklyn Eagle's summing up of the
, .Cabinet's character. It says of Mr.
Bryan that, though he has never been
' engaged in diplomatic functions, he
' "has studied and been honored by
- more foreign nations than any Amer-
', lean, save Mr. Taft, since Grant." It
' calls Mr. McAdoo "one of the most
constructive and administrative finan
" tiers of the world and one of the
' - ablest, most sunny and patriotic men.'
. It compliments Mr. McReynolds as "a
i ' very great lawyer, one of the greatest
in the land." It says Judge Garrison
. "never the division of a battle knew"
1 and that Mr. Daniels "could no more
i get a squadron on the go than a spin'
! ster." but assumes that their "under-
. lings will tactfully coach them." It
has kind words for Mr. Burleson and
' Secretary of Labor Wilson, and for its
! neighbor, Mr. Redfteld, and it says
; ' that better selections than Mr. Lane
' and Professor Houston could not. have
I "been made.
' The New Tork Globe begins by say-
lng:
No one who values truth will assert that
. the new Cabinet was dictated to the new
President. It la his own.
Bryan by the New Tork Evening Sun.
Citing the cases of former defeated
candidates for the Presidency who be
came Secretary of State, it says:
Tt will be a fortunate thing for Wood row
Wilson, a real accession to the public con
fidence in his Administration, If In a few
short weeks his Secretary of State learns.
aa did William II. Seward, that the man
who sits at the head of the Cabinet table
Is. In fact, the head of his Administration.
In the opinion of the Chicago Rec-;ord-Herald
the Cabinet exemplifies the
new theory set forth by Mr. Wilson in
his "Constitutional Government," that
the later tendency in making selections
is to disregard politics and select able,
experienced, representative men of
affairs, who will compose executive
rather than political councils. ,
Mr. Bryan Is held by the Baltimore
. Sun to be "essential to Mr. Wilson's
- Cabinet if it is to reflect all that Mr.
Wilson stands for in progressive poli
cies," and that Mr. McAdoo Is as es
sential as Mr. Bryan, for "he is a spe
cialist and an expert as a constructive
' financier and as a creator of real and
great things." It believes they will
work together in harmony, because,
"'if for no other reason, Mr. Wilson
seems to have a special genius for
making people work together who
never worked together before."
The Boston Transcript does not
think well of Mr. Bryan as Secretary
of State. It says he has never favor
ably impressed the American public as
a safe adviser, and, though it hopes
responsibility will sober and steady
him. "he does not possess that fore
sight and strong practical common
sense which fit him for diplomatic
duties." It doubts whether he will
realize "that it is his part not to make
policies, but to carry them out," and
would not be surprised or feel regret
were a clash between him and Mr. 1
' Wilson to occur. i
The Boston Herald expatiates on the
fact that this Is the first Cabinet since
that of John Quincy Adams in which
New England has not been represent- j
ed, and thinks it likely that before the
close of the Administration Mr. Wilson
will give Cabinet office to one or two
men from that section.
Of Secretary of War Garrison, the
Newark. N. J.. News says: "The new
"Secretary of War has a habit of mak-
' ing good in whatever he undertakes."
'-- Although the Hartford Courant,
closes with the remark, "It's a Cabi-
JSThw1 Eirg!!mu"Yankee
in it," it has much praise to offer. It
styles Mr. Bryan "a political Inevita
bility," Mr. McAdoo "an excellent Sec
retary of the Treasury," Mr. McRey
nolds "a promotion on the merits,"
Mr. Lane "a capable Interstate Com
merce Commissioner," adding, "and
it's a big point in his favor that Mr.
Hearst detests him." . ...
The New Tork San finds a good
word to say for each Cabinet officer
aside from Mr. Bryan, in "whom it
never sees any good.
Mr. McAdoo, Mr. McReynolds and
Mr. Lane are singled out by the. New
Tork Journal of Commerce as men
having special training for their
offices. - - - '
ENOUGH FOB ONE ' MAN TO DO.
The State of Oregon has appropriate
ed 1450,000 to complete the Columbia
Southern Irrigation project, in Central
Oregon. The deplorable condition of
the settlers and the Implied obligation
of the state to support a plan carried
forward. In a limited sense, under its
auspices were two factor"? In inducing
the Governor and " the -Legislature to
come to the rescue. The Oregonian
has no purpose here to -say that their
action was not warranted or that the
state had no explicit duty to make
good the rosy promises of Irresponsi
ble promoters or reckless exploiters.
But it is well to say that J450.000 is a
large sum of money and that the state
has embarked on a financial under
taking entirely foreign to its estab
lished policy of lending its credit to
no private or semi-private enterprise.
It is not easy to foresee the end.
The appropriation was made by the
Legislature largely through the impor
tunities of Governor West, to whose
ready sympathies the plight of the
settlers had made a strong appeal and
who .responded by causing the state's
money to be put behind them.
Now we hear that $450,000 will not
be nearly enough and either-the Gov
ernment Reclamation Service will have
to co-operate with the state, or more
money must be forthcoming from sue
ceeding Legislatures. It may be, how
ever, that 450,000 is ample. We
hope so.
Governor West will do well to aban.
don some of his glittering generaliza
tions about promoting the public wel
fare for a careful consideration of the
new relationship of the state to the
Columbia Southern project.- It - will
require painstaking, methodical and
skilful management to conserve this
great fund for the benefit alike of state
and the settlers. It is a big Job for a
Governor or anybody. Hard sense,
hard work, not dreams, are now
required.
DANGER OF WAR CONTINUES.
Large Increases in the standing arm
ies of France and Germany, failure of
Russia and Austria to demobilize not
withstanding their exchange of pacific
assurances, rumors of. British plans to
send an army to aid France and Au
strian threats to Servia, all", these
facts go to show that the danger of
a general war Is not past. While the
great powers mediate between Turkey
and the Balkan allies, the latter delib
erately delay negotiations in the hope
that capture of the besieged fortresses
will strengthen their position in dic
tating terms. The great powers wish
to arrange peace conditions before
Scutari and Adrlanople fall, for they
know that the danger of general war
will be greater after those events. '
The most serious peril will come
from the fail of Scutari. Montenegro
has set her heartv on its possession.
and Austria is as determined that it
shall be Included in a nominally au
tonomous Albania. Were the fortress
once in the hands of Montenegro, that
country would resist any effort to dis
possess her. Much as Russia may de
sire peace, she could not stand idly by
while Austria attempted by force to
deprive a kindred Slav people of the
spoils of war. The Czar's government
yields to public opinion on one sub
ject race sympathy with other Slav
peoples. It made the war of 1877-8
gainst Turkey at the dictates of Pan-
slavism.- It would be strongly inclined
to. help the Balkan states if Austria
were to use force for the purpose of
thwarting the ambition of Montenegro
and Servia to reach the sea, and of
Greece to extend her borders north
ward along the Adriatic.
If Austria became involved in war
Germany and Italy would help her, as
the German Chancellor has declared
they would. France is equally pledged
to help Russia, and Great Britain's
obligations are such that she could not
keep out Of the fight. Austria, there
fore, can use the fear of a general
war as a club to extort the utmost
concessions possible without fighting.
The strongest influence in favor of
peace is the knowledge that war, once
begun between two great powers, will
raw in all six of them.
DON'T KEEP ALASKA WATTING.
The plan agreed upon between Pres
ident Wilson and the Democratic lead
era in Congress will not be viewed with
complacency by those who have staked
their fortunes some of them their
lives on the development of Alaska.
Many of these men have about reached
the limit of their endurance while
aiting for the Government to unlock
the land and leave the pioneers free
to work. They are not willing to wait
another year.
Nor Is there any reason why they
should wait. The policy of Govern
ment construction of railroads has
een approved by both parties, by the
Republicans headed by both President
Taft and Senator La Follette and by
the Democrats headed by Governor
Sulzer when he was a member of the
House. Both parties agreed on the
appointment of the Alaska Railroad
Commission to investigate routes and
cost of construction. That commis
sion has reported and Mr. Taft rec
ommended adoption of its plans. There
like agreement between parties on
he policy of leasing coal land. The
whole subject is therefore ripe for ac
tion. People in the West will not stand
by patiently and watch the Senate do
nothing while the House passes tariff
bills, then watch the House mark time
hile the Senate acts on them. There
ill be ample time for each house to
gislate for Alaska during the neces
sary waits. The desire to focus public
attention on the Senate while It is de
liberating is a poor excuse for inaction
on the part of the House. The tariff
a matter of such overshadowing in
terest to every citiaen that we need
have no fear that vigilance on the' part
f the people will be lacking. Great
as is interest in Alaska, legislation
for that territory will- not divert at-
ention from the tariff.
The Alaska Railroad Commission
as recommended the construction, at
cost of 335.611.000, of an extension
of the Copper River and Northwest
ern Railroad, "Which has its water ter-
Inus at Cordova, from Chitina to
Fairbanks, a distance of 313 miles: an
Trten?rorr Tjf t he - Alaska - -Northern
which reaches tidewater at Seward
from Kern Creek to the Susitna Val
ley, lis- miles, and thence to McGrat'n
on the Kuskokwlm River, a distance
of 229 miles, and branches of 38 miles
each to the Bering River and Mata-
nuska coal fields. The commission
concludes its report by saying:
' The Commission ia unanimously of opin
ion that this -development should be under
taken at once and prosecuted wlta vigor
that tt cannot be accomplished without pro
viding the railroads herein recommended
under some system which will insure low
transportation charges and the consequent
rapid settlement of this new land and the
utilisation of its great resources.
Alaska has asked the Pacific States
to join her in an appeal to President
Wilson for action on this" report and
on the Alaska land laws at the extra
session of Congress. Justice and that
fellow-feeling which the whole West
should have for every territory which
is in the pioneer stage whence we have
but lately emerged call upon us to re
spond. If sentiment were not enough,
self-interest should cause us to speak
out, for Alaska waits to expand our
trade and to supply cheap fuel. Alaska
has a voice, but no vote in Congress.
The whole Pacific Coast should give
her the aid of its votes in both Senate
and House.
TEAR IT ALL DOWN.
Somehow the recent Legislature
robbed the people of 32,000,000. So it
is now said. Think of it! Robbed us
of 32,000,000. Nobody knows or says
how or where.-' Nobody can or will
say. The gutter press rarely descends
to disgusting details. Gross exaggera
tion and infamous accusation couched
in terms of Impersonal denunciation
startle and scandalize; but they, af
ford many loopholes for convenient
and ready escape when there is a call
for vulgar facts. Guilt is individual
but falsehood may be made universal
by aiming at everybody and hitting
anybody, thus being resented by no
body in particular.
Yet the 32,000,0',0 sensation, or at
tempted sensation, is used as a basis
for a wild call to abolish the Legisla
ture. Why not? Let us abolish law,
order, government, society, property,
religion and civilization. Every day
crimes are committed, wrongs are per
petrated, people are oppressed, pover
ty rears its hideous head, the innocent
suffer for the guilty, and the pure are
defiled by the wicked. Let us throw
away what poor safeguards we have
erected, and start again. Because we
have failed to build a perfect struc
ture of Justice, righteousness, helpful
ness, lawfulness, peace, happiness and
prosperity, let us tear it down and
begin over again; or perhaps it will be
impossible; but in any event let us
destroy.
But when we destroy who will have
the wherewith to buy the daily out
givings of trash that masquerade in
the name of journalism, or to buy or
have anything else?
STEALING
ANOTHER WOMAN'S
BAND.
HTS-
An alluring miss who eloped some
time since from Portland with the
husband of another woman and the
father of ' a little baby has returned
alone to San Francisco from an Orien
tal sojourn of brief duration. She re
ports having been deserted by the vic
tim of her wiles. What else could she
have expected ? The male creature who
abandons his wife and babies for an
other woman is not so much the vic
tim of a siren's wiles as of an unstable
man's weaknesses.- There is a grave
something lacking in his make-up. He
hasn't a moral balance wheel. Ac
cordingly he is swept away by impulse
and when the novelty of the elope
ment or other adventure wears off it
is quite to be expected that he again
will follow the line of least resistance
fhto greener fields. He may be car
ried away by a second siren or he may
wander off on the unromantic quest
of relief from the burden of support
ing two persons.
The woman who steals another
woman's husband should take small
pride In the achievement. She has ac
quired merely a weak, defective crea
ture of which she can never be sure.
OUTLOOK IN THE SENATE.
The composition of the Democratic
steering committee of the Senate goes
to show that a compromise will be ef
fected between the progressives and
insurgents on the seniority rule. The
nrosrressives are in the majority on the
committee and nave displaced such old
stalwarts as Senators Martin and Ba
con, but the rule of seniority may not
be abrogated entirely.
Experience derived from length of
service should have its due weight in
placing men at the head of important
committees, but strong men should not
be kept in the background because
they are new, nor should weak men be
kept in the front because they are old
in service.
Some men have been repeatedly
elected to the Senate . who were not
qualified for leadership in that body
but were pushed to the front by the
seniority rule without regard to their
lack of merit. . Some men have been
elected for only one or two terms, to
be displaced by factional quarrels at
home, who on their merits should have
had high places in the counsels of their
party in the Senate. Under the new
plan some of the mediocrities who
have risen to important chairman
ships will be set back and the ostra
cism of such men as Senator Li Fol
lette will be impossible.
The reorganization of the Senate on
this new plan can Bcarcely be effected
without leaving sore spots In the
breasts of some of the older Senators.
Among these are precisely the men
who are likely to find themselves in
conflict with the Administration on its
progressive programme, particularly
the tariff. They will not be any more
willing to sink their convictions in the
interest of party harmony since their
vanity has been hurt, and Republicans
may be expected to Irritate the sore
spots.
If the Democrats expect to find their
work facilitated by divisions among
their opponents, especially by alliance
with the Progressive party men, they
are likely to be disappointed. The Re
publicans have closed their ranks and
ended their differences. The conserv
atives have accepted the progressive
programme and raised the progressive
leaders to high places in the party
counsels. Senators La Follette and
Cummins are now acknowledged lead
ers. Several of the Senators who fol
lowed Colonel Roosevelt Into Adullam,
notably Mr. BrJstow, of Kansas, have
retained their membership in the old
party; though without formally re
nouncing their allegiance to the new.
There is good prospect that, when
the Inevitable secessions from the
Democratic ranks come on such sched
ules as sugar and lumber, the Repub
licans will be able to put forward mod
erate reductions which will command
not only their own united support, but
that of the Progressive party men and
of the dissident Democrats. Such a ,
controversy as that which impends on
the tariff will do mere than many con
ventions to heal Republican divisions,
for men fighting in the same clause
easily forget past quarrels and differ
ences on questions which are not at
issue.
If President Wilson should be able
to bring into line those Senators who
threaten to bolt the tariff reform pro
gramme, he will have to exert all his
powers of reasoning' and persuasion
and will score a triumph of political
management.
ECONOMY IX THE NAVY.
The Little Americans have adopted
a naval programme which on the
completion of the Pennsylvania will
make our Navy just over half
strong as that of Germany. Ex-Secre
tary Meyer says that at that time we
shall have fourteen dreadnoughts to
Germany's twenty-six, though we
should have twenty-one battleships in
the active and twenty in the reserve
fleet. We are not only far behind
these requirements, but are falling far
ther behind through our failure to
build new ships to take the place of
those which become obsolete.
Mr. Meyer has an economy policy.
but it differs radically from that of
the Democrats. He would economize
by abolishing and selling useless navy
yards and spending what is thus saved
in maintaining a strong, efficient
Navy. The Democrats would continue
the navy yards, for these are "pork,
and would spend on battleships what
they think can be spared after provi
sion has been made for the navy
yards. The pork barrel statesmen de
prive us of the necessaries in order
that they may indulge in the luxuries.
One of the most arduous tasks be
fore President Wilson is to inspire
these gentlemen with his ideals or, if
that be impossible, to bring to bear on
them such pressure from public opin
ion that they will at least act on his
ideals.
Mark Twain's prediction that under
woman suffrage pretty whiskers would
beat grave, homely old wisdom at
every election may turn out to be
true. But what if it does? Things
will be no worse than they are now.
Who ever heard of wisdom winning an
election under male suffrage? A
smooth tongue beats him, graft beats
him. So we need not feel unduly de
pressed If ornate whiskers beat him
when women vote. The poor old fel
low is so used to being trodden under
foot at the polls that a victory might
be fatal.
For publishing widely and promptly
th exposure of the Sisson Diving Bell
swindle Inspector Harry Durand de
serves all praise. Such events ought
not to be hidden under a bushel. They
must be paraded through the country
with the sound of trumpets. Every
exposure of a swindle educates the
gullible public. Prompt publication of
frauds saves many an unsophisticated
victim the dollars he so readily hands
over to the spoiler. To protect people
from their own folly is difficult, but
It must be done.
Before they get through with it the
Washington police may wish they had
treated th'e suffrage paraders a little
more decently. Senator Clapp thinks
it is a pity that pure women cannot
march through the streets of the capi.
tal of a free Nation without Insult" and
a good many other people think so,
too. The women have the consolation
of knowing that they were sinned
against,, not sinners, like their British
sisters, but in time one gets tired of
being sinned against and wants a little
justice. -
Adams, the thief of the Seattle assay
office, goes back to McNeil's Island to
finish the term on which he was pa
roled a year ago. The few years he
spent on the island failed to teach him
respect for the law. Adams is a nat
ural crook, that Is all there Is to it.
Popular fiction receives a setback in
the suit of a Russian Princess against
a New Tork lawyer for $2900. In Bus.
sian romance tales a Princess wouldn't
stoop to pick a small sum like that off
the sidewalk.
Too much optimism need not be
aroused by the report that Dr. Fried-
mann's patients are Improving. Sug
gestive influence often has that effect
temporarily.
Yamhill County Is proud of the na
tivity of three Justices of the Supreme
Bench. That is but one of the large
number of things to the credit of Old
TamhilL
At last we have found means of pro
tection against the deadly hatpin.
Massachusetts decrees that the points
must be covered, the same as fencing
foils.
Those militant suffragettes who
charged on the royal coach, brandish
ing beribboned petitions, were a very
mild form of the London variety.
Arkansas has abolished its militia,
but the practice of hunting the razor
back will develop good marksmen for
the time of need.
The Russian Princess who disputes a
New Tork lawyer's bill is evidently not
familiar with the cost of living under
Tammany rule.
But magnates of Chicago who think
38 a week enough pay for women and
girls cannot themselves exist on that
much a day.
Europe is again aroused to war
talk. We suspect the armament man
ufacturing barons of working up the
sentiment.
Perhaps the Chinaman who em
ployed Miss Milholland as his attorney
hopes that her charms will hypnotize
the Jury-
London hoodlums may inspire more
fear in the suffragettes than the Lon
don "bobbies" have been able to cause.
The Portlander who subscribes to
ward the Rose Festival is taking stock
in a great dividend-payer.
According to a Chicago merchant a
girl can live on 38 a week. And wear
diamonds.
It appears that the promoters of the
submarine bell were ringers.
Is Woody going to turn out to be
an enlarged edition of Os?
Woodrow is scared by the specter of
nepotism. He will recover.
Mexico is trying hard to get back
onto the front page.
Has your wife registered yet?
HOUSEWIVES NOT TO BE BLAMED.
High Coat of LI Vina Laid to Price of
. Food Stuff.
PORTLAND. March 9. (To the Edi
tor.) Concerning the high cost of liv
ing, it seems to me that the real point
In this question is being pushed aside
by many writers to The Oregonian. Of
course, many housewives manage bad
ly, both from Ignorance and careless
ness, but this is a matter for homes and
housekeeping courses, etc. to prevent
and mend as far as possible. High
cost of living is there all the same,
both for good and bad housekeepers.
ana it is this injustice to the massei
not only as regard to eatables but on
all our needs, not least the fuel, that
should be met and removed. The de
livery system certainly elevates prices.
so does the telephone and other modern
conveniences. But wages on all points
nave risen, -too, since the good old
days, when those things were not
among us. No, let us take recent-day
conveniences, pay reasonably for them
and be thankful things are made easier
for the busy housekeeper, leaving her
time for developing soul and mind. too.
I don't want to and cannot carry
heavy baskets with food, neither do I
like to bother my husband with such
burdens after a strenuous day's work.
though I - am not among those .who
want a spool delivered. The delivery,
besides, affords honest living to many
people, and I consider it a necessary
expense and like to pay my share for
that; but what we ought not to pay
for, neither poor nor rich, is unneces
sary ' go-betweens ' and greedy trusts,
which quench sound competition and
keep up prices by storing things, etc
If high cost of living is here because
we live too high, why then we would
have no right to complain at all. A
woman who loves justice says: "If each
woman In Portland would become
missionary in her own home and re
duce the cost of living, they would
soon solve the problem satisfactorily
and with no loss to the applegrower or
groceryman. Now, it is not the apple
grower end groceryman we are aiming
at, but the unsound and unjust ap
pendixes in American life of trade, and
would not that one be the best lover
of justice who not only contends to
sit down in her own home and pinch
away on life's necessities as she best
can, but the one who also Is ready to
fight for reasonable prices and cleaner
business life to the benefit of all of us?
The ordinary housewife needs no
body to tell her that apples are cheap
er by the box than by the dozen. Nev
ertheless, it is not always most eco
nomical to buy by the box, to use ap
ples as an example. Some can't give
out so much money at a time for one
thing only, some mothers would have
their little ones asking for apples all
the time and would involuntarily use
more than she could afford. Others
would not be able to finish the apples
before they got spoiled. No, let us at
tack the real source of high cost of
living and reach the high aim: to make
the world a better place to live in and
bring more comfort and happiness to
the hard laboring people, who, as it is
now, are called upon to feed million
aires. Every day we get proof that this
is the fact.
One concern - recently raised the
wages of its laborers 34,000,000, but
raised the prices of its productions,
too, so they themselves made a profit
of 314,000,000. The millionaire must not
lose, of course, but always gain, and
the masses must pay for It. Right
here in our own city we also recently
learned how the commission men on
Front street contribute to the high cost
of living. On the whole, it is not dif
ficult to find the source for those, who
like to open their eyes.
HAPPY HOUSEWIFE.
SALMON DAT IN CLOSED SEASON
Fish Man Suggests That Day In Open
Period Should Be Set.
PORTLAND, March 10. (To the Edi
tor.) Referring to the boost that has
been given to the apple' trade by the
ladles of the Woman's Union who are
working faithfully to reduce the price
of living, this may be the same thing
that occurred in California, when
Talsln day" wag Inaugurated. Every
body was told to buy and eat raisins,
which meant to help clean up the mar
ket of ralatns, and so with apples. Then
next year or two the prices of apples
may be higher.
Then there is a foolish thing put for
ward for salmon day on March 14.
Everybody Is to eat salmon on March
eat salmon that day simply be
cause it is Columbia River salmon, and,
knowing this splendid salmon and oth
er salmons, there is none better any
where. But does it occur to these
friends that the closed season of the
Columbia River salmon is hard and
fast from March 1, and that no salmon
should be caught and sold after that
date, unless 1 am mistaken, until May
I do not think I am mistaken in
my dates, and being a great lover ol
the Chinook salmon, I beg to offer a
protest against any special sale of the
salmon on such a date, as it may mean
getting rid of unlawful salmon.
So much do I adhere to this rule of
the closed season' and to trying to
help in my small way the efforts of
the State Fish Commission to restock
the Columbia River with the Chinook
salmon, that I positively decline to
buy salmon, for my own house, much as
we like It, at this time ot year, mean
ing the closed season. If others would
do this, it would assist greatly in al
lowing the salmon to reach the upper
rivers, and they themselves would add
to the reproduction which has to be
d-one by artificial methods in these
times. Give the 'salmon a good chance
and then about May 25 or thereabouts
nave a salmon day.
COLUMBIA RIVER SALMON MAN.
CITY IS PLACE TO BE PROUD OF
Travel Impresses) on Reatdents Beauty
and Wealth of Portland.
PORTLAND, March 10. (To the Edi
tor.) Returning: to Portland after an
absence of five months, spent princi
pally in foreign countries and on the
apparently boundless oceans of the
world, one realizes how, when at home,
we fail to appreciate the solidity, activ.
ity and general air of prosperity in
evidence in our own Oregon metropo
lis. We are inclined when at home to
make sarcastic remarks regarding the
cleanliness of our streets and their nar
rowness, and grumble about our small
blocks, etc Really the streets seem
wide boulevards in comparison to the
many, many thoroughfares we have
met with while absent. And the gigan
tic building operations in the heart of
the city, where the surroundings are
so modern and fine, makes one indeed
proud of Portland's progress and gen
eral air of up-to-dateness.
During our absence the Marquam
Building has gone, with its site In proc
ess of rebuilding. The pathos of such
a complete wiping out of the work and
name of an honored pioneer, when we
remember his valiant efforts to help
build up the city, and his pitiful zeal
to hold together his vanishing prop
erty rights, makes one feel 'tis the
"irony of fate" that the building which
was his great pride should, in process
of alteration, collapse to the ground
and be nothing but a memory. Even
the theater part of it, in which he
took such pride, now goes by another
name, and his name goes to dust with
the passing of his earthly life. I like
to see some recognition of the heroic
efforts of a faithful pioneer, who loved
the city in which he lived, and I hope
the builders of the new structure will
agree with not only my views but
those of many others that it should
be named the New Marquam. Also
that the management of the Baker
stock company will feel that it can do
a gracious thing in retaining the name
of Marquam Theater. I have heard
many others concur in these ideas and
I trust it may at last be done. .
MRS. W. P. OLDS.
FATE OF HOME UNDER SOCIALISM
Party's AuthorltJea Advocate Free Love,
Declares Correspondent. .
PORTLAND, March S. ( To the Edi
tor.) Nothing angers Socialists more
than to be asked, "Are you going to
abolish the home?" They Immediately
reply, "We are going to fortify the
home and the family. You are ignorant.
Why don't you read up on Socialism?"
"What shall I read?" seriously asked
a Socialist. He .mentioned Marx, En
gels. Bebel.
So I took him at his word, and this ts
my conclusion after digging into some
of the acknowledged Socialist "class
ics": Marx. Engels and Bebel are un
doubtedly free lovers. The proof ot
this statement is contained In the fol
lowing quotations:
The bom-eeots family will vanish with the
vanishing of capital. Prom the Communist
Manifesto by Marx and Engels.
With the transformation of the means
of production into collective property, the
monogamous family ceases to be the eco
nomic unit of society. The private house
hold changes to a social Industry. The
care and education of children becomes
a public matter. Society cares equally
well for all children, legal or Illegal. This
removes the care about the "conseauences"
which now forms the essential social fac
tor moral and economic hindering a girl
from surrendering unconditionally to the
man she loves. From "The Origin of the
Family, private Property and the btate,
by Frledrfch Engels.
Under the proviso that he Inflict Injury
upon none, the individual shall himself
oversee the satisfaction of his own Instincts.
The satisfaction ot the aexual Instinct is
as much a private concern aa the satisfac
tion of any other natural instinct. None
is therefore accountable to others, and no
unsolicited Judge may Interfere. From
"Women Under Socialism," by August
Bebel.
What completer proof could be asked?
But I will be just and say further that
the private life of all these men. as far
as I have been able to learn, was and
is singularly pure. No charge of prof
ligacy or licentiousness can be sus
tained against them. Personally, what
ever their doctrines may have been,
they were not that kind of men. It
must also be added that they professed
to believe that under freedom the
tendency would be toward monogamy
an institution which we know is but
imperfectly established in real prac
tice, whatever our statutes and books
of moral instruction may prescribe and
command. ...
But in this claim as to the tendency
toward monogamy, I find G. Bernard
Shaw, another avowed and active So
cialist, does not agree with Marx, En
gels and Bebel. Shaw believes that
marriage In all probability will survive
in Socialist society as a convenient do
mestic arrangement, but he deems it
essential to true Socialist ideas of free
dom that both husband and wife must
be allowed full liberty (by law and
public opinion) to. have relations 'with
anyone they please. This idea is put
forth on page 1S9 of "Man and Super
man." By way of advice, I would say. here
after let Socialists be careful to inform
themselves first as to what their
writers say before committing them
selves to positive statements.
263 Sixth Street. M. P. FOLEY.
DEMOCRAT WOULD BE MARSHAL
Pendleton Man Waxea Facetious Over
Rush for Office.
PENDLETON, Or., March 9. (To the
Editor.) The Oregonian apparently
has scant respect for the man who
would serve his country for a consid
eration in any capacity other than a
Soulier or sailor. I take It foi
granted that you will let a fellow whom
you have called a "hungry minion"
have space to show himself a trifle
"peeved" at being classed with the
chronic office seekers.
If my figures do not lie
I find in the past 80 years I
have read, or scanned, 600 and some odd
miles of colums of The Oregonian.
Usually we have agreed. In fact 1
cannot get along without you while you
have been 30 years in discovering that
I am in Oregon I am a badly biased
democrat, but once or twice you nro-
voking Republicans have nominated, in
my opinion, the best man for Presi
dent, and what could a man who was
a better American than politician do
but vote for him? Nothing. , If Mr.
Wilson had not made such a very
sensible rule that no office seekers
would be allowed to pester him. 1
might be the man to wear the Marshal's
badge, for I could have shown him that
while he only beat me to Staunton.
Va., by four years, I beat him to Pen
dleton, Or., by more than 30 years, and
it is almost a cinch that either my
grandfather or uncle was the first
person to welcome him to the City of
Staunton, the County of Augusta and
the State of Virginia, all of which is
competent, relevant and material to
the making of a good and faithful
Marshal for the District of Oregon.
There will probably be one man, one
woman, one girl and one boy, the last
three native-born Oregonlans, who will
De disappointed if I fail to land the
office, whereas there are thousands
disappointed that Joe Teal does not
sit in Mr. Wilson's Cabinet. That was
a grievous disappointment to all Ore
gon. NORBORNE BERKELEY.
SABOTAGE AND WHAT IT MEANS.
Writer Declares It Contemplates Death
or Misery for the Innocent.
PORTLAND, March 10. (To the Edi
tor.) 1 have heard so much about
sabotage and only heard one side of it.
I have learned that there are two sides
to a story. Let us' see the other side
of sabotage.
The I. W. W. claim that they are a
sane organization, but I fail to see It.
They preach "Strike on the Job." How?
Let each and every member be a com
mittee ant act together. Say a gang
of I. W. W.'s are working on a railroad
putting down new steel. Here. Instead
of putting all the bolts in the joints,
spoil the threads on the bolts and put
them in the Joint ust so they will hold
till the first passenger train loaded with
innocent people hits this joint, and men
and women and children meet death on
the rocks below. Is that the view of
sane men?
Again, say in a fish cannery where
I. W. W.'s are employed, Instead of
working as instructed by the manage-
ment. they put first-class fish into
third-class cans and third class into
first-class; with this put in the same
cans scales and waste and all kinds
of dirty things. Who Is going to buy
and pay their hard-earned pennies? Is
It not the working class? Yes. the
working class buy about 90 per cent of
the canned salmon. Who is the loser?
Is it the rich?
W. D. Haywood tells the- members
of the I. W. W. to put emery dust into
boxings of machines; put soap in the
water tank of an engine. Just think
of a passenger train on an incline in
the Rockies, with no steam to pump air
to set tne Dralies. Where do you sup
pose you will find your loved ones?
Is this sabotage? Yes, this is what
the I. W. W. preach. I only wish "I
could paint in pictures of horror the
real teachings of the L W. W., or the
side they do not tell of on the soap
box. Believe me, the L W. W. would
last just long- enough to say they were
here.
I am not a Pinkerton; neither am I
an I. W. W. DICK M. MAPLES.
Portland, Or.
Itallana Bitter Against LotL
London Globe.
Pierre Lotl's book on the Balkan
war does not represent the first occa
sion on which he has spoken his mind
in regard to a campaign. But whereas
neither England nor the UnfLed States
ever bore him malice for hia criticism
on the South African war and the
Philippine campaign, respectively, he
has received innumerable insulting and
threatening letters from Italians for
his strictures on the war in Tripoli. In
fact, for some months he was in the
habit of throwing away unopened all
letters bearing Italian postmarks.
Back to the Soil
- - - By Deara tTollina. -:- -
We're weary of the rush and toil
Of city life, where I am staying.
We're going back unto the soil.
In agriculture to be playing;
On ev'ry floor, for all were worth
We struggle with the fruitful earth;
And bold and free, . .
Thus carol we: ' ' -
"The farmer's life's, the life for me!"
In sig-sag goes the fire escape
Adown the walls, and at each story
The lodgers take delight to scrape.
Their fraction farms. Installed in
glory, 1
In boxes three feet long or more,
Where the plump seeds with care we
store.
And gaily chant, ' ' v
The while we plant: -"Oh,
this farmer's life is elegant!"
Potential posies, planned to charm
The eye, are planted in my furrows;
And in the second-story farm
The rootlet of the radish burrows;
The third-floor lady's model tract
With onion sets is neatly packed;
On four and five, ,
The farmers strive
To make the bean and turnip thrive.
Below, 'mong coal and garbage can, "
That dusky Ethiopian felon,.
High "janitor" and "furnace" man.
Doth till to plant the luscious melon;
And from his fellows far aloof,
In his lone garden near the roof,.
. A lodger stout
Sets cabbage out.
With pleasant visions of sauer kraut.
Under the lure of sylvan charm.
The free, fresh life, unvexed by
orders, ...
The slogan of: "Back to the farml"
Has stirred the seal of all us
boarders.
Soon shall our fire-escape, mayhap.
Have Aready backed off the man.
So bold and free,
Thus warble we:
"The farmer's life is the life tor me!"
Twenty-five Years Ago
From The Oregonian of March IS, 18S8
Washington. March 11. Randall has
completed his tariff bill and will n
trotiuoe it in the House tomorrow.
Baker City, OtT. March 11. Baker
City is growing rapidly. The contract
for our new 330,000 schoolhouse was
let yesterday. Some 40 buildings are
now In course of construction and
real estate Is changing hands rapidly.
The Virtue corner, 25x100, was sold
today for 312,000.
Olympia, March 11. Governor Sem
ple made the following appointments
today: Pilot Commissioners for Puget
Sound. W. J. Waltt, Seattle; J. S. Cros
by, Tacoma; R. W. Dillon. Port Town
send. Dr. J. S.-Wlntermute, of Tacoma,
was appointed regent of the Territorial
University, vice J. C. Weatherred.-who
resigned to accept the Tacoma Poat
mastershlp. Today the election of a. district
school clerk for one year and a school
director for three years will take place
on the East Side. The candidates for
school director are: Thomas Hislop and
J. R. N. Sellwood.
Otto Kleeman, the Portland archi
tect, is preparing plans for a new hotel
to be built on the- East Side. -
Thomas Gulnean, proprietor of the
Esmond Hotel, returned yesterday from
a pleasant trip to San Francisco..
Frank G. Ef finger, formerly of the
Postoffice Department, has accepted
the josltion of shipping clerk with
Ames & Detrick.
Delos D. Neer, . architect, returned
Saturday from Corvallls, where he has
been surveying and locating the site
for the new Courthouse.
Baseball circles are rather quiet this
Spring on this side of the river. The
Wlllamettes, of East Portland, have re
organized with Joe' Knott as manager
and J. W. Beverldge as secretary. The
following are the members of the nine:
F. Buchtel, M. Garson, R. Turnbull, S.
Parrott, W. Kerns, W. E. Parrott, G.
McCarthy, A. G. Parrott and F. Bailey.
At the last meeting of the Skldmore
fountain committee it was decided to
ask the city to prepare the ground at
the intersection of First and A. streets
and prepare the foundation upon-which
the fountain is to rest
Half a Century A50 J
From The Oregonian of March 12, . 1S63.
The new steamer Nez Perce. Chief
made her trial trip on Tuesday from
Celilo to the woodyard and back. In
a week or two she will take her place
on the line to Wallula and when the
stage of water will permit it to Lew
iston. Chicago, March 4. A gentleman who
left Memphis the latter part ot last
week informs us that the opinion ot
officers and military circles was that
an attack on Vicksburg would certain
ly 'take place within a week. The siege
had already commenced.
Cairo, March 4. Memphis papers con
tain particulars of the capture of the
Indlanoia. She was lying by five miles
below Locksburg, when the rams
Queen of the West and Webb attacked
and butted herlln-'tlwelds and stern.
The coal barges on each side ot the
Indianola sank and at last Captain
Brown announced that the ship was
sinking and surrendered.
New York, March 5. The. special
Washington dispatch to the Tribune
says a distinguished English statesman
in a recent private letter says that the
reaction In favor of the Union is so
strong in Great Britain that no Cab
inet which should take steps towards
recognizing the Southern Confederacy
could live an hour. y-
The San Francisco quotations of le
gal tender notes from the Alta of the
7th are 70c.
Placervllle, Boise Mines, Feb. 18.
Since my la3t the news of this place
has been confined solely to fresh min
ing excitements, slightly spiced by a
cutting affray and the arrival of two
men who followed up the tracks of
stolen horses, a part of which they suc
ceeded in retaking, and also the scalps
of two Indians who were found with
them.
Man, Treasurer of His Family.
New Orleans Picayune.
A Baltimore man told a Judge that
to atone for his drinking he would
hereafter turn over his weekly pay to
his wife. The judge remonstrated
strongly and said: "I do not want you
to do it. A man who gives his wife
all bis salary is no man at all. The
man is the treasurer of the family.
and he should be the financial head in
reality as well as in theory. A man
must take some pride In the fact that
he is a man and the head of the house."
Very well spoken for a Judge, and his
words are to be commended. People
would think more highly of him if he
was a married man.
A Hand In Crlbbage.
KAMBLA, Or., March 9. (To the Edi
tor.) How much is there is three treys
and two sixes in crlbbage?
A SUBSCRIBER, -Three
treys and two sixes count 10
for five fifteens, six for the three treys
and two for the pair of sixes; total IS.
Leading: and Legal Reply.
Baltimore American.
'What are your assets?" was asked
of the professional witness. "They afe
my lie-abilities," he answered proudly.