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PORTLAND, TUESDAY, Al'GtST 12. 1913.
THE CASE Or SULZER.
The charges against Governor Sulzer
of stock gambling and of appropriating
campaign contributions to his personal
use are the latest phase of a war to
the death between the Governor and
Boss Murphy, of Tammany. In judg
ing of them, one must have in mind
the events leading up to them, the
motives of the men making the
charges and the character of their
sponsors and of the men at whom they
are aimed.
Mr. Sulzer was nominated for Gov
ernor by the Democratic party on a
platform promising a direct primary
law. He was nominated with the aid
of Tammany, which would be de
stroyed by a direct primary. The Re
publican party was also pledged to the
direct primary, although Its boss, Wil
liam Barnes, was openly opposed to
and would be deposed by that method
of nomination. The Progressive party
Is also pledged to the direct primary
and alone gave it undivided support.
But the war between the Governor
and the bosses began, not on the pri
mary issue but on appointments. The
Governor refused to take orders from
Murphy and appointed men of his own
choice. The open breach came when
Murphy demanded the appointment of
James Gaffney as Commissioner of
Highways. Mr. Sulzer refused and Mr.
Murphy exclaimed: "I'll have you out
of office in six months."
The Democrats controlled both
houses and Tammany controlled near
ly all the Democrats. A pretended
direct-primary bill, which contained
no essential part of the direct nomina
ting system, was 'passed and was ve
toed. The bill submitted by the Gov
ernor was rejected by a combination
of Democrats and Republicans, at the
dictation of Murphy and Barnes.
Every appointment made by the Gov
ernor was refused confirmation by the
Senate in response to Murphy's orders.
The Governor was deprived of power
to appoint any officials but his own
stenographers and of funds to inves
tigate state departments. Salaries re
main unpaid because Murphy's State
Controller refuses to pay them, and
the work of the State Prison, High
way and Labor Departments is crip
pled for lack of funds or of men.
After an appeal to the people the
Governor called a special session of
the Legislature to pass a direct pri
mary bill and certain othei measures
which he recommended. The consti
tution limits action at an extra ses
sion to subjects recommended by th
Governor for consideration, but the
Legislature has refused to act on those
subjects and has acted on others. At
the regular session It appointed the
Frawley committee to investigate state
institutions and departments and re
port a"t the next session, which the
Governor holds to mean the nTt
ular session in 1914. At the extra
session, the Legislature ordered this
commit"-- '"vestigate the Gover
nor and report at the same session.
The Governor declares this resolution
void. The Governor having vetoed
bills appropriating funds to pay ex
pf'ws - the extra session, the Legis
lature has borrowed from banks. Be
ing denied funds to pay the cost of
transporting prisoners, the Governor
has induced the New York Central
Railroad to carry them by promising
to see that the bill is paid somehow.
The climax has come in the charges
made by witnesses before the Frawley
committee that Mr. Sulzer received
campaign . contributions which he did
not report in his expense account as
required by law; that he gambled in
stocks and lost, and that he used some
of these contributions to pay his losses.
It is proposed to impeach the Gover
nor at the extra session.
Mr. Sulzer now denies having specu
lated in Wall street. He admits hav
ing applied certain campaign contribu
tions to his personal use, but says he
made the amount good. He says his
dealings with one firm of brokers were
limited to borrowing money on stock
which he had owned for years. He
denies the authority of the Frawley
committee to investigate him and of
the Legislature in extra session to im
"peach him. He accuses the Legisla
ture of having passed bills with no
quorum present, and by less than a
majority of the members of each house
and of voting a recess from July 23 to
August 11, when no quorum was pres
ent. He holds this to be an abandon
ment of the extra session and that the
Legislature cannot legally meet again
this year unless he summons it.
The charges against Mr. Sulzer put
him in a most evil light, but it must
be remembered that there is every mo
tive for malice against him, both on the
part of Tammany and of the brokers
who have testified against him. Tam
many is notoriously unscrupulous in
the choice of political weapons and
would not hesitate to use the worst
when it is fighting for political exist
ence. The brokers may be inspired
by revenge, for before the break with
Tammany the Governor had procured
the passage of bills strictly regulating
their business.
One's opinion as to the truth or fals
ity of the charges must be guided not
only by knowledge of the motives of
their makers, but by study of the
character of Mr. Sulzer himself. The
JCew York Sun says his most Implaca
ble enemy must admit that he is abso
Jutely honest and sincere, but Collier's
pronounces him weak and flabby,
"vain, a ranter, a poseur, quite with
out power of thought."
That journal admits that he does
not love money, though it says he
"'doesn't know that such a thing as a
political principle exists."
1 Are the charges true? Would a
jman who has served five years in the
iNe-w York Legislature and 18 years in
Congress, and who must, when run
ning for Governor, have had in mind
legislation against Wall street, put
weapons into his enemies' hands by
gambling in stocks and by misapply
ing campaign funds received from
stock brokers? He sljould during his
long career have acquired enough po
litical wisdom to avoid such a pitfall.
If he ignored all the dictates of pru
dence and did that of which he is ac
cused, he must be an inveterate gam
bler, who blindly gratifies his passion.
If Sulzer be such a man, he is indeed
an enigmas
BEARDING THE UON.
Were John Llnd the hero of some
new American thriller, he could not
walk through a few breathless chap
ters with more compelling dramatic
effect than has marked his journey to
Mexico City. When he set out, irre
sponsible Mexicans began to threaten
his life. The President of Mexico an
nounced officially that his presence In
the country was undesirable. Lind ar
rived at Vera Cruz in time for the
journey to Mexico City on Sunday, the
day when trouble usually is started
in that country of many revolutions
and more assassinations. There are
those who would have waited over a
day.
Yet the representative of President
Wilson did not hesitate. He coolly
proceeded "to Mexco City, even more
coolly went to a public inn and put
up for the night, whereas he might
have gone to the American Embassy
had his nervous system been out of
trim. Meanwhile Secretary Bryan sat
anxiously at his desk until long after
midnight awaiting reassurance of the
envoy's safety. Nor did Mr. Lind see
fit to remain in the seclusion of his
room. Bright and early in the morn'
lng, long before the stores were open.
he was about the streets of Mexico
City, unattended.
The only detail lacking to make him
outshine the hero of a best seller is
an occasional cigar. He may have
lighted one at precisely the right mo
ment, but that detail is omitted in the
dispatches. It-is safe to assume that
the gentleman was wholly unarmed
through the whole ordeal.
WOMEN POLICKMKV.
Chicago has a woman policeman who
refuses to equip herself with a club or
cane. She says men are terribly afraid
of her and that she has no difficulty
effecting arrests when necessary. Very
likely she is entirely right and has lit
tle or nothing to fear. What can be
more formidable, more awe-inspiring
than a female policeman? Her mus
cles may not be especially strong, nor
may-she be able to engage in a hand'
to-hand encounter with some disor
derly ruffian. But then, her sex will
protect her in such emergencies. What
mere man, no matter how lacking in
chivalry, wants to fight a woman?
The chances are that did he resist,
the average man would be able to do
so successfully. The weaker sex is still
man's inferior in prowess, if in noth
ing more. But what man could sur
vive the stigma of having publicly
fought a woman? Some particularly
low type of thug might not be dis
mayed by a mere matter of sex, but
the woman policeman is not called
upon to treat with these vicious crea
tures. Mashers are her game, for the
most part, and while these despicable
birds of prey are on a little better
moral plane than the gun-toting thug
they have not the highwayman's blunt,
savage courage and disregard of con
sequences. Aside from fearing to clash with a
woman, policeman a majority of men
would entertain a profound horror of
being arrested by her. What could be
more racking to a dudish young chap
with a loose eye and a propensity for
addressing unknown women than to
be led to the police station by a woman
he had accosted? Not only is the
woman policeman unusually safe in
her vocation, but her existence has a
wholesome effect.
PROHIBITION- AMI SLAVERY.
Nearly as puzzling as the letter from
Mr. Reicher, which gives F. G. P. a
text for a communication today on
prohibition, is the letter from F. G. P.
itself. We cull this paragraph:
The truth Is, that by clever manipulation
or weii-organizea macmnes. the Republican
and Democratic parties have succeeded in
keeping prohibition from becoming a po
litical issue by entirely ignoring It in their
platforms and working against it with
clever, well written misrepresentations. Pro
hibition Is a political question as well as a
social and moral one. Slavery was a social
and moral problem. But it might still be
In existence in the -United States If, as you
suggest, each man settled it for himself. It
was settled only after it became a political
question.
By condensing these statements we
obtain the advice that prohibition has
been prevented from becoming a po
litical issue, and yet is a political is
sue. But as criticism of such logic is
more or less of a quibbling order we
pass on to the more important com
parison between prohibition and
slavery. .
Slavery was denial of the political
rights of franchise and other func
tions of true liberty. The liquor prob
lem does not embrace these. But not
withstanding the political distinction
between slavery and prohibition, sla
very per se was no more recognized
as a political issue by the dominant
political parties of 1856 and 1860 than
Is prohibition today. Neither Republic
an nor Democratic platforms in 1860
opposed or indorsed abolition of slav
ery.
In his first inaugural address Lin
coln declared he "had no purpose,
directly or indirectly, to interfere with
the institution of slavery in the states
where it exists," and he quoted the
Republican platform as guaranteeing
the right of each state to order and
control its own domestic affairs. Ex
tension of slavery, fugitive slave regu
lations and other collateral questions
were the political issues of the time.
The emancipation proclamation was a
war measure and it was so stated In
that- document. It iwas not until
eighteen months after emancipation
and at a time when the backbone of
the rebellion was broken that a declara
tion against slavery found its way
into the platform of a political party
of material strength. The slavery-
problem was settled outside the po
litical field.
Prohibition is nof"?revented by in
trigue from becoming a National po
litical issue. The people make the
issues. If the people ever should
place the abolition of liquor traffic
above every other National problem
that party which refuses to recognize
it will surely die. Nobody is bound
with chains to Republican or Demo
cratic party. The voters go where the
policies on vital issues best suit them,
If a majority in the last election had
favored prohibition and deemed every
other question subordinate, the Prohi
bition candidates would have been
elected.
Secretary of the Interior Lane pro-
dom for them would mean disentangle- 1
ment from Government paternalismj
crafty agents, meddlesome officials of
a dozen varieties and permission to
paddle their own canoe, with Mr.
Lane's blessing. The American Indian
is a sad mollycoddle. He has been so
softened and enervated by kindness
that he has lost much of the capacity
for self help. But no doubt he could
find it again if he were .thrown on his
own resources.
THE NA3CE OREGON.
The hypothesis made by a contribu
tor to The Oregonian that the name
Oregon is of . Spanish derivation is
curious and interesting. He supposes
that it comes from the Spanish word
meaning "wild thyme.J which is a
pleasant fancy, even if it is not very
probable. But upon reflection there
seems to be little likelihood that the
name Oregon can be traced to the
Spanish language. The people of that
naticnality had comparatively little to
do with the exploration and settlement
of this region. In California they
were everywhere present and attached
names from their tongue to hundreds
of places, but even in that state it is
to be noticed that they usually chose
appellatives from saints and Biblical
characters, not from natural objects or
plants. It was rare indeed for a Span
lard to vary from this practice.
The pioneers in the Oregon country
were the French voyageurs from the
wilds of Canada. Some of the names
they gave to localities have survived to
this day, but many others must have
perished. No doubt they had a desig
nation of their own for Mount Hood,
as they had for The Dalles. Naturally
they would have affixed some appella
tive to the Columbia River and the ad
jacent country. If we could learn
what this was, perhaps the mystery
surrounding the derivation of the word
Oregon would be solved.
Many suppositions have been made
about it, but none of them has been
entirely satisfactory to anybody but its
author. Jonathan Carver boldly as
sumed that the Indians called the Co
lumbia the "Oregon," but it is known
that his statement had no foundation
in fact. From whatever source the
name comes it is certainly not Indian.
Some have seen a -- omblance
to Oregon in the French word "Oura
gan," which means hurricane, but
where is the applicability? Hurricanes
are as rare as wild thyme in this re
gion, perhaps more' so.
Very likely there was some obscure
word or phrase in use among the voy
ageurs which naturally passed into
"Oregon" when the American colo
nists heard and tried to pronounce it.
The process appeared so natural to
them that they nM no attention, to it
and thus the original expression was
lost, perhaps irrevocably.
THE CLERGY AND THE DOUBLE STAN
DARD. Those Episcopal clergymen who
have initiated warfare upon, the double
standard of morals are beginning to
discover that they have undertaken no
holiday task. Not only do the world,
the flesh and the devil oppose them,
as they naturally expected, but a party
f their own anointed brethren have
attacked them from the rear. This
internecine strife seems to have
waxed hottest in Richmond. - In that
city of melancholy memories, where
the Confederacy expired amid the tears
of its supporters, one party of Epis
copal ministers has flatly refused to
perform any marriage ceremony with
out a physician's certificate that the
bridegroom enjoys sound health
Nothing is said about the bride. Being
a mere woman, no doubt her health is
deemed a matter of minor importance.
Another wing of the Richmond
clergy, of whom- Dr. Mason is the
spokesman, repudiate the idea of phy
sicians' health certificates. Dr. Mason
opens the combat by inveighing
against a weak admission which his
unwary opponents have made. In a
moment of blindness they foolishly
conceded that "a general acceptance"
of their hygienic regulations would
satisfy them.
Of course a "general acceptance"
means a farcical acceptance. Un
pleasant details would be slurred over.
Distressing facts about the bride
groom's past and its consequences
would be smoothly omitted. Pliant
doctors would issue certificates which
meant nothing and would end in empty
noise. Dr. Mason aptly calls the
health certificate a "Quaker gun which
won't shoot anybody," if it is to be
understood after this manner. It
would be an excellent thing for the
Episcopal clergy, and other ministers
as well, to form the habit of standing
by their guns when they have once de
clared themselves. If they are not
ready to do so, the cause of righteous
ness and hygiene will suffer less if they
let it alone entirely than by their wa
vering friendship. In this particular
thoughtful people must agree -with Dr.
Mason that a pretended health certifi
cate, which Is, after all,, nothing but a
hollow sham, "is not calculated to ele-i
vate moral standards."
But Dr. Mason dislikes a genuine re
quirement almost as much as a decep
tive one. He believes that if men were
atftually obliged to obtain doctors'
health certificates before the clergy
would marry them, civil weddings
would come into universal fashion.
The church would lose her children
and the clergy their fees, -while Justices
of the Peace, who are notoriously sons
of Belial, would grow rapidly rich.
We must confess that this does hot
strike us a3 being especially undesira
ble. We are as reluctant as Dr. Ma
son can possibly be to see wicked Jus
tices of the Peace enhance their wealth
at the expense of the clergy, but there
is a moral question involved which it
seems to us that he slights.
It is either a sin for a minister to
marry a diseased man to a healthy
woman or it is not. If it is not, there
is nothing more to be said about the
subject except that the catalogue of
sins seems to need revision. But if it
is a sin, then the sole care of the
Episcopal clergy ought to be to see
that they do not commit it. As soon
as they have refused ,to perform the
iniquitous ceremony their skirts are
clear. Let the parties go to a Justice
of the Peace and have a civil marriage
If they wish. Surely that does not
concern anybody but themselves.
The point for the clergyman to think
about is that the consequences of their
wickedness and folly cannot be
charged up to him. It sounds extra
ordinarily odd to argue that a minister
must soil his conscience to prevent the
secular officials from soiling theirs.
His duty is to set a good example to
the worldly, not to relieve them of the
trouble of committing their own sins.
We are in somewhat better accord
with Dr. Mason when he says that "on
the whole our good women hold this
matter largely in their own hands." He
means the matter of the double stand
ard of morals. As long as men whose
lives are known to be dissolute are
admitted to the Aiest of homes, petted,
lionized and glorified for their trans-
jtressions by women who ought to -exe
crate them, "there can be no law of
church or state that will raise the
morals of men to a higher standard."
This is true, in part at least. But we
invite Dr. Mason to consider how
women can be brought to a more fit
ting course of conduct in this partic
ular. Is it a necessary part of their
nature to exult in the exploits of the
rake, or is there some way to make
them see him as black as he really is?
The old maxim that women love best
the men who misuse them worst is still
partially true, and has been so ever
since facts were recorded, but it may
not always remain true. We may take
It for granted, however, that women
will not change their views of this
matter without teaching, and who is to
teach them if not the clergy? And
what better way can the clergy find of
enforcing their lessons than to say out
right to their fair parishioners that if
they want to marry rakes they must
get somebody else to perform the cere
mony? A minister who was highly re
garded by the women, as so many are,
could in this way exercise an almost
incalculable influence for good. Even
if he lost a wedding fee now and then,
he might find the approval of his con
science a sufficient recompense.
If the world is ever to be taught to
abhor unhygienic marriages, somebody
must set the example of refusing to
countenance them. A minister who
rails against such unions in his ser
mons and complacently celebrates
them at his altar does not offer an edi
fying spectacle to the world. In the
vision that John saw of the Kingdom
there was "nothing that defiled or
worked abomination or made a lie."
Marriages in which the bridegroom
has a communicable disease do all
these things, and it is difficult to un
derstand how a clergyman can recon
cile it with loyalty to his Master to
perform them.
The timorous adventurer who first
paddled a hollow log upon an ante
diluvian lake would not recognize his
craft in the forms it has assumed of
late. The motorboat was far enough
from the primitive canoe, but a new
contrivance driven by a propeller
whirling in the air is much farther. It
was devised by a Yankee boy who
wanted to combine aeroplane machin
ery with navigation by water, and it
is said to work well. The love of sport
is a great incentive to invention now
adays, just as it has always been.
The New York World reads Wall
street a. deserved lecture for criticis
ing the action of Secretary McAdoo in
turning loose the treasury funds for
use in moving crops. Wall street's
"grouch" is due to the fact that Mr.
McAdoo spoiled its excuse for the an
nual talk about tight money due to
crop-moving. New York banks had
the necessary funds, no doubt, but
made a play for stiff interest. Then
Mr. McAdoo "butted in" and spoiled
the play. Yet Wall street wonders at
its unpopularity.
By ordering in advance of closing
hours. Sacramento tinnlprs onn rlt-inlr
until opening time as set, by law. But
ot wnat. avail is a coia-Diooa drunk
arranged according to programme? To
become intoxicated is a work nf
hilaration and possible joy, the de-
iignts or wmch come as the hours and
drinks pass. Only a sot can arrange
a menu, and 1 n w RhnuM nnt v An.
strued to make the sot worse. This
ruling simp,iy favors the liquor-seller
wuu is itittjr uie money.
District -Attorney -Whitman is in
formed by the New York Evening Sun
that he has good excuse to bolt, but
tne bun believes he will support the
fusion nominee for Mayor and accept
the nomination for District Attorney,
That is hardly the way to promote
harmony in the fusion ranks. The
New York fusionists promise to rival
the Democrats in throwing away op
portunities.
Chicago is conscience-stricken over
a legal outrage, and well it may be
Victoria Wantrabia was attacked by
a man, whom her brother killed in de
fending her. She-has been held in jail
as a witness for five months, during
which she contracted an infectious
skin disease from a cellmate. At last
a judge discovered the facts and re
leased her.
A log building for Oregon at the
San Francisco Fair will not be much
of an advertisement, for all the world
knows Oregon is the home of the giant
fir. A structure made of Oregon stone
would, call . attention to another indus
try that needs development.
Sagehens are reported plentiful in
Eastern Oregon and the poorest
marksman easily can secure the limit
-f five a day. If he would eat them,
however, he would better buy a pre
scription, which will be cheaper and
just as palatable.
An organized war clique is busy stir
ring up the Mexican trouble, is the
charge at Washington. Without a list
of the clique's personnel at hand we
feel assured that anyone who would
have to participate in the trouble isn't
Involved.
A Silverton editor is defendant in a
suit for $50,000 damages. If he loses
and pays, there will be a stampede to
get into the business, for the world in
general has little idea of such money
to be made in it.
Parents who go from home leaving
small boys and a loaded shotgun in
the house must expect a fatality. The
killing of a younger brother at Drain
is deplorable and must serve as an
other warning.
A Kentucky Congressman drew a knife
and sliced a House doorkeeper with it
cutting his clothes. Here we have another
Democratic slash at wool. New York Sun.
Can a mere doorkeeper afford to
wear clothes made of real wool?
Women policemen are to have a
fashion all their own. The "mashers' "
squad should Include slit skirts and
dropstltch waists.
Fifteen Japanese were sighted off
San Diego in an ancient sampan. May
be it was the long predicted invasion.
With a couple of yellow journalists
in jail, the situation in Mexico may
not appear so grave for a few days.
It is a little early in the season to
exhibit a white chrysanthemum, yet it
has a familiar look.
A whole day went by without a sin-,
gle Mexican crisis. Something wrong.
Women bathers discarded stockings
and skirts. Stop right there. - -
Lind is the chip on our shoulder.
Ideal Fall weather.
THE- REAL SITUATION IN MEXICO
Writer Familiar With Country and
People Telia Causes of Trouble.
PORTLAND, Or Aug. 10. tTo the
Editor.) 1 have followed with much
interest the chronicle of events in
Mexico during the last three years, and,
desire to give out some ideas and ob
servations relative to Mexican affairs.
There seems to be no great issue upon
which Mexican people are divided, no
National policies conflict with eacn
other that divide sections of the coun
try, nor classes of her citizens. The
turmoil which has prevailed since the
overthrow of the Diaz regime has de
veloped from various centers, in each
of which some military chieftain was
leader. Madero was hardly considered
a national figure at the time he start
ed the insurrection, but only became
one alter he had Belied a part of the
machinery of government.
After Madero s election to the presi
dency there followed other insurrec
tions in various parts of the republic,
each one engineered by a local leader
whose followers consisted largely of
the adventurous, restless individuals
who had no grasp of national affairs.
Their horizon was circumscribed by
state lines, ana they were inspired by
the glamor of warfare and the pros
pect of spoils. Madero was overthrown
because there existed no nation-wide
cohesion to sustain a national govern
ment that was not fortified by an
overwhelming military organization.
He counted on the patience and soli
darity of the Mexican people while he
should build a government based up
on the elective franchise, but in this
he was disappointed. They lacked the
national vision, and turned from their
president, whose assumption of power
had been later indorsed by an elec
tion, to follow new chieftains with old
promises.
Thus it may seem that the curse of
Mexico is the responsiveness of the
people to provincial leaders who do
not come up to the stature of national
advisors. In nearly every case this
provincial hero has military aspira
tions; no captain of industry who con
cerns himself with manufacture or
production has aspired to leadership in
government. One fact of importance is
that during Mexico s three-year period
of disturbance a comparatively small
number of her people has actively en
gaged in the strife, which shows the
absence of great issues and great
leaders. Porfirio Diaz and Reyes no
doubt have been the greatest men in
Mexican governmental affairs since
Juarez. Both were military men and
both believed in relying on an army
to sustain government. Diaz, who is
Spanish-Indian, came from the State of
Oaxaco, where Juarez and other fight
ers grew up; Reyes, who, I believe, was
of Spanish descent, was for years gov
ernor of Nuevo Leon, and had aspira
tions to become president, but was
held in check by Diaz, who kept him in
high positions in the government- He
opposed Madero, was imprisoned by the
latter, and was ki.'.led during the fight
ing at Mexico City when Felix Diaz
attacked Madero.
Both Porfirio Diaz and Reyes be
lieved in advancing the industries of
Mexico, and for this purpose offered
special inducements to Americans and
other foreigners to open mines, build
railroads, develop power and start fac
tories. Diaz, especially, hoped thereby
to make his country prosperous and
teach his own people to become effi
cient in productive operations. This
course led to much of the anti-American
feeling, as the many 1 concessions
and franchises granted to Americans
resulted in a great influx of people
from the United States. The Mexicans
perceived that most of the big indua
trieB of their country were in the hands
of f oreigner.-i, who necessarily gave
most of the good positions to their own
men and employed Mexicans at common
labor. Being bossed by foreigners in
their own , country aroused antagon
ism, and also led to some of the oppo
sition to President Diaz, who was gen
uinely friendly to Americans and did
not hesitate to afford them complete
protection.
The operations of Americans, Eng
lishmen and others in Mexico were of,
lasting benefit to Mexican people, as
they resulted in the creation of ave
nues of employment for thousands of
persons at wages far better than Mex
icans had ever known; and the in
dustrial and business training many
young Mexicans obtained under "grin
goes" opened to them . the door to am
bition and advancement
There are demagogues among Mexi
cans, as among other peoples, and it
has become the fashion in that country
to ascribe their internal troubles, hard
times and poverty to intrigues in the
United States, and this anti-American
cry serves to shift responsibilities from
where they belong to the alleged ene
my north of the Rio Grande. Huerta
is just now trying to strengthen his
forces by a pretense of defending Mex
ico from a threatened invasion, while
as a matter of truth the Government at
Washington is Beeking every avenue to
escape from intervention.
1 remember that Wall street was ac
cused of maintaining Diaz in the presi
dency, and later of financing the Ma
dero insurrection. Aside from the an
tagonism on account of the industrial
foothold obtained by Americans, the
most of the anti-American feeling in
Mexico is attributable to false and
prejudiced reports concerning Ameri
cans and the attitude of their Govern
ment. A little of it results from mis
chievous talk of some Americans dur
ing the last 10 years, who frequently
asserted that Mexico -would be taken
eventually by the United States.
Having been in 15 states of Mexico
during a time when conditions were
orderly, I learned something of the
country and her people and cannot help
entertaining the hope that interven
tion will not be necessary and that
the right man will rise to re-establish
order in Mexico and afford the pro
tection that civilization demands.
W.. A. SCOTT.
519 Lumber Exchange.
Over tne Telephone,
Chicago Tribune.
"Hello! Thatchoo Kit?"
"Sure. Sill, ain't it?"
"Betcherlife! Whenja gitback?"
"Smorning; wenjoo?"
"Lilwilago. Javvagoodtime?"
"Uh-huh."
"Wherja gokit?"
" 'Sconsun. Werjoo?"
"Mishgun; jewer go?"
"Javvanyfun?"
"Uh-huh. Lots. Wenre yuh cummin
over?" "Safnoon."
"Srite! Well, slong."
"Slong."
Applfea fn Portland.
ROCK A WAY, Or.. Aug. 10. (To the
Editor.) In regard to the article in
The Oregonian August 9, will you
kindly tell me if the dog quarantine
established by the State Sanitary Cora
mission will mean that the dog owners
of Portland will have to muzzle their
dogs for six months, or is it only in
effect in the country?
CONSTANT READER.
The order applies in Portland.
Keeping; Up With the Procession,
Detroit Free Press.
"Do you approve of the tango?" "No,
I can't Bay that I do." "But I saw you
dancing It the other evening." "That's
true, I don't dance it because I approve
of it, though. I do it because I don't
want people to think I'm getting slow
and old fashioned."
Slater's Benn Calls Tonight.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
"I knew you were coming tonight to
call on my sister," said Willie. "How
did you know?" Inquired Mr. Staylate.
"Because Sis has been asleep all the
afternoon."'
OBSTACLES OB" DIRECT BUYING
Proposed Cure for Hin-h Prlcea Rapped
by Mr. Duncan.
PORTLAND, Aug. 8. (To the Edi
tor.) In the contribution of C. E. Cline
we have another prescription for re
ducing the high cost of living. But
there is nothing original about Mr.
Cline's suggestions except his coffee
economy. Buying bacon and eggs and
fruit direct from the farmer is a ques
tion that is ever before us, with us
and behind us. Though thumped on
the head a thousand times with the
hammer of Thor it. would bob up as
serenely as Banquo's ghost. It will not
down.
Mr. Cline's letter is a sample of what
they all say. "Buy direct from the
farmer." Let us suppose we can find
a farmer who has home-cured bacon
for sale; that we write a letter ordering
the bacon, use paper, envelope and
stamp; that the farmer gets the order,
weighs, slices, wraps and ties the pack
age, hitches old Dobbin to the shay
and delivers it to the postoffice. At
the postoffice a man will juggle the
package, put it in a bag, fling it on
the car; the mail clerk will give it an
other turn over and deliver it to a man
who will convey it to the postoffice.
where, after being kicked into the cor
ner it will be manhandled by a dis
tributing clerk and given over to the
tender mercy of a parcel post auto dis
patch, which in time brings it to my
door and deposits it on the front step
in the hot sun, where it is left to exude
grease until my wife returns from the
matinee.
After receiving this treatment ba
con really ought to be good, but I fear
me it would savor somewhat of cur
rency taste like greenback. It may be
all that is claimed for it, others may
like it, but for my single self I will
keep to the packing house product.
Thirty years on the farm convinced
We that "skippers" never skip home
cured bacon and hams; that hens lay
eggs that are sometimes a bit off smell;
and that occasionally you will find a
Titian hafr or two in fresh country
butter. I also know that our old friend.
Salt Petre, is prevalent in home-cured
hams and bacon; that farmers are not
prepared to cure meats;- cannot save
the bacon in the torrid season, and
that sanitation is not their specialty.
As a matter of fact, farmers know
less about more things than any other
class of people who have so little to
worry them. They do more work for
smaller results than any other class
of men. I have spent enough time tak
ing the bone out of hams and smoking
bacon to have mastered mining en
gineering. Of course, I thought the
bacon was good, but I know oetter now.
ROBERT G. DUNCAN.
PROHIBITION AS POLITICAL. ISSUE.
Correspondent Thinks Dominant Party
Intrigue Keeps It Down,
PORTLAND, Aug. 10. .(To the Edi
tor.) Your editorial answer August 8,
to the cryptic letter under the cap
tion of "Puzzle Letter," is inter
esting. Just what Mr. Relchen is
trying to- impart is indeed a vague
mystery. But, since you make it the
occasion of some observation, I would
like, in answer to your last paragraph,
to offer an observation.
Your statement is: "They (the people
of the United States) were and are
unwilling to have every other National
and State problem subordinated to a
question (prohibition) that is essen
tially social and moral, and that may
be easily and forever settled by each
individual for himself."
The above quotation is a half-truth.
The truth is that by clever manipula
tion of well organized machines, the
Republican and Democratic parties
have succeeded in "keeping prohibition
from becoming a political issue by en
tirely ignoring it in their platforms and
working against it with equally clever
well-written misrepresentations. Pro
hibition is a political question as -well
as a social and moral one. Slavery was
a social and moral problem. 'But it
might still be in existence in the Unit
ed States if, as you suggest, each man
settled It for himself. It was settled
only after It became a political ques
tion. Now that the prohibition party has
acquired a sense of organization and
is, through its nation-wide enrollment
campaign, becoming formidable, I
would consider your statement more ot
a hope than a truism.
Prohibition is rapidly becoming a
national, political problem and must
be decided nationally.
The United States, the country of
enlightenment and advance, should
stand in shame because of its present
attitude, before the statement made by
the Swedish Prime Minister. In a
public meeting before the delegates to
the Scandinavian Prohibition Congress,
at Stockholm, he said thati to him,
prohibition seems to be the only means
of suppressing alcoholism. He hopes
that the commission which was consti
tuted two years ago, will present suit
able propositions that the government
may endorse, and propose them in a
prohibition bill., to the Parliament.
(From a letter of Dr. Hercod, of Swit
zerland.) Evidently in Sweden, Prohibition is
a political question to be settled as
other political questions.
F. G. P.
HOBO'S LAMENT,
When Winter winds .
Commence to blow
And every box car
Has a "bo,"
I wonder ' where
On earth I'll go.
. Oh, tell me friend.
For I don't know,
When Winter winds
Are blowing cold
And hungry bos
Are growing bold.
Oh. tell me. friend.
Where I may go
When Winter winds
Commence to blow.
When Winter winds
Are chill and bleak
How sad I feel
That I must creep
To vacant Bheds
Or box cars foul
When Winter winds
Commence to howl.
When Winter winds
Commence to bite
And policemen
Are full of fight.
Oh, tell me friend,
I'd like to know.
Where Winter winds
Less bitter blow.
When Winter winds
Commence to roar
And housewives close
Their kitchen door.
It angers me that
I must snore
In hay ricks damp
Or stable floor.
When winter winds
Commence to sweep
I feel so teased
I almost weep.
Oh, would I skip
To other climes
Where Summer sun
Forever shines.
GEORGE H. SANDS.
Society Note From Texas.
Houston Post.
"Gracious! That skirt Is so tight that
I can plainly see what you have in your
pocket."
"But I have no pocket."
"Then what is that lump?"
"Oh that's a mosquito bite."
Romance of the Horse,
Chicago Record-Herald.
"The automobile will never com
pletely fill the place of the horse." "No;
I don't Buppose the time will ever come
when any one will fasten an old tire
above the door for good luck."
Half a Century Ago
From The Oregonian of August 12, 1S63.
New Orleans Telegraph The people
of this state will be glad to learn that
there is a good prospect of the early
establishment of a new line from St.
Louis to San Francisco.
Pittsburg, Pa., Aug. 5. The union
state convention renominated Governor
Curtin.
Cape Race, Aug. 5. The steamer
Hecla. with dates from Liverpool to
July 28 has arrived. The news of the
Federal victories has caused the Con
federate loan to decline from IS to -'0
per cent and a panic in that stock has
ensued.
Milwaukee, Aug. 7. The Democratic
state convention yesterday nominated
A. S. Palmer for Governor.
Portland, Me.. Aug. 6. Boon Bradley
was nominated for Governor by the
Democratic state convention yesterday.
The Portland & Mllwaukie Macadam
ized Road Company will receive toll on
the road and ferry on and after this
morning.
Protection, No. '4 At a, meeting of
this fire company, held on Monday
evening, H. G. Miller, second assistant,
was elected first assistant foreman,
vice D. J. Malarkey, resigned, and H.
Ballough was elected to fill the vacancy
occasioned by the promotion of Mr.
Miller. W. T. Patterson was elected
secretary, vice J. McGowan and R. Hen
drie, member of the board of dele
gates. After the first of September the price
charged for gas will be J7.50 per thou
sand instead of $9, as heretofore.
We received yesterday from Messrs.
Carr & Reynolds, lessees of the fine
farm belonging to A. G. Wailing, a
large box of choice apples of almost
every description.
Twenty-five Years Ago
Prom The Oregonian of Aug. 12. 1888.
Tacoma, Aug. 11. The cedar shingle
manufacturers of Oregon and Washing
ton Territory today formed a trust.
Seattle, Aug. 11. Reports that the
Southern Pacific would build from Port
land to this city were today verified.
Articles of incorporation were today
filed by the Seattle and Southern Rail
road Company. The first trustees are:
W. E. Brown, Thomas Ewing. J. p.
Hoyt, L. S. J. Hunt and H. G. Strune.
The reduction works have been In op
eration continuously since the first day
of August and will probably continue
two weeks more. A good c'.eal of bul
lion has been shipped to San Francisco.
H. Marbell has just returned from
the Cascade Mountains.
The cable road Rumors were afloat
during the past week that an early
movement will be made on this line and
as a consequence holders of real estate
are firm. William Labbe has nearly
completed his store on Seventeenth and
Laurel, and hopes to open about Sep
tember 1. Hon. M. C. George has staked
off the ground for his elegant residence,
to cost about $25,000. Willard Young's
fine residence will be completed shortly.
The Linseed Oil Mills Company were
yesterday asking for bids for the con
struction of a lot of iron tanks for
storing oil.
The Skldmore fountain arrived yes
terday. '
Everybody wtio has visited Bull Run
is in favor of. having the water brought
into the city. The latest convert is Mr.
L. Henricksen.
The work of laying the Second-street
railway track on Washington street is
progressing rapidly.
WAGNER. STORY OF CAB DRIVER.
A Frugal Fee for a Ride Was Increased
By a Good Tip.
London Standard.
A story of Wagner known to very
few is brought to the light by the Vos
sische Zeitung. When the composer
was in a really merry mood, the right
mood for story telling, he used to say
that being in -Berlin on a very hot
Summer's day, and finding himself in
the Donhoff splatz, he summoned one of
the first-class droschkes that were still
fairly numerous at that time, and told
the driver where to go. His destination
was at the very furthest point of a dis
trict, within which only the lowest fare
could be demanded.
It struck Wagner immediately that
his driver was taking a very affecting
leave of one of his fellows, as though
he wore starting on a life or death
Journey. "Goodby, William," he said,
"we shan't see each other again for a
long time."
After the carriage had rattled on for
a good while it came suddenly to a
standstill. The driver got down from
his box on the right hand side, opened
the carriage door and banged it again:
then he went round to the left side and
repeated the performance, climbed up
onto his box and resumed the journey.
At the end of the drive Wagner asked
him what this dumb-crambo show
meant. The driver, with a sly look,
made answer, "I just wanted to bam
boozle my old nag; he would never have
believed that the whole drive was for a
minimum fare and would have refused
to go on. But by banging the doors
I got him to imagine that one fare had
got out and another got in."
Wagner laughed heartily over this ex
planation, and the driver, in spite of his
greed, over which the composer made
very merry ' in his letters, realized the
handsome tip on which he had been
speculating.
Raising; of Good Citizens.
Kansas City Journal.
"Why don't you raise something on
that vacant lot potatoes, for Instance,
or beans?" "I am raising good citi
zens," said the owner. "Don't you see
those boys playing ball?"
Danger Signals
In Business
"When I 8 tart out to buy a
toothbrush, or a hat, or a gown
no matter what I steer a clear
course to the place where I know
I shall receive dependable qual
ity and intelligent, honest serv
ice." So spoke one of our readers a
few days ago. Continuing, she
said:
"Z keep away from places that
are unprogressive, places where
the very atmosphere repels be
cause it does not Invite confi
dence. 1 don't mean that these
places I avoid are dishonest.
They are not that. But they are
dead or asleep. I want to do my
business or my shopping where I
am sure of quick, down-to-date
service and satisfactory methods.
"I find the advertising col
umns of the best newspapers are
the greatest guide to me, and by
pointing the right direction keep
me away from "the undesirable
places."