THE MORXIXG- OREGOXIAX, WEDNESDAY, ATJGTJST 13, 1913.
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PORTLAND, WEDNESDAY, Al. 13, 1813.
THE MATTER WITH SULZER.
Why has Tammany had the cour
age to lead an attack on Governor
Sulzer, who champions the cause of
real popular self-government by his
advocacy of the direct primary? The
"World's "Work explains this fact by
saying:
The people have not abandoned their
belief In this reform. The plain fact Is
that they have little enthusiasm for Mr.
Sulzer. They have no great confidence in
his fundamental sincerity. . . . His whole
career has seemed to Indicate that Mr.
Sulzer was prepared to play the particular
kind of politics that seemed most likely
to advance his politiclal fortunes.
Had Mr. Sulzer won popular sup
port as did Governor Hughes, would
Tammany have dared to go to such
extremes in fighting him? It Is ex
tremely improbable. Tammany Is led
by some of the most sagacious poli
ticians in the United States. They are
in politics for "what there is in it,"
but they know that if they run counter
to an overwhelming public opinion
they will be swept out of power. None
of the crooked devices they have
adopted to turn things their way can
stand against a wave of popular in
dignation any better than a child's
hill of sand can stand against the ris
ing tide. But Tammany . accurately
gauges public opinion. It knows how
much the people will "stand for"
without such an uprising. It some
times goes too far, but its continued
supremacy proves that it usually
Judges correctly.
Tammany sees that Mr. Sulzer has
not caught the public ear; that the
people as a masskdo not boil with
enthusiasm for him and with indig
nation against his opponents. It there
fore cynically issues orders to its
members of the Legislature to tear
him down, and those members, as
cynically, obey orders, fearless of con
sequences. Contrast this situation with that
which existed when Governor Hughes
was fighting for his bill against race
track gambling. Mr. Hughes appealed
from the Legislature to the people, and
the people nobly responded. Then one
legislator after another deserted the
opposition and fell in behind him until
victory was his.
The reason is that the people be
lieved in Governor Hughes; they
knew he was "straight." They do
not believe in Governor Sulzer; they
do not know how soon he would stop
the fight and go over to the enemy,
for they suspect that he is actuated
by political expediency, Jiot by convic
tion. They will not follow a leader
whom they cannot trust. Therefore,
they regard the fight now in progress
at Albany as a fight between two self
seeking political leaders, and their In
dignation at the high-handed proceed
ings of Tammany is chilled by their
distrust of the Governor.
FOREIGN BOOKS AND TRADE.
The protest against the proposed
duty on books printed in foreign lan
guages comes chiefly from foreign
born citizens who speak those tongues.
But others might well Join in it.
Knowledge of foreign languages is be
coming more and more a means of
extending foreign trade, and if we
extend our trade abroad, as defenders
of the Underwood tariff predict, it
will become necessary in our large ex
port houses.
Being first to occupy the field of
foreign commerce in modern times,
the English imposed the use of their
language on those with whom they
dealt and began to yield only when
the Germans, ready linguists, won
away customers by corresponding and
conversing with them in their own lan
guage. They are still slow to change
their practices, for their inborn con
tempt for everything foreign still
fights against business expediency. The
Germans in the seventies sent thou
sands of young men to England to ac
quire English business habits and flu
ency in the English languge. These
young men carried their knowledge
home and to foreign lands, and to
them are due in large measure the
inroads which Germany has made on
England's foreign markets.
We in the United States have been
so absorbed in the development of
our own country and the supply of our
home market that we have felt no
need to acquire foreign languages as
an aid to business. The contempt felt
by many native-borns for immigrants
and the fact that these immigrants
are generally poor and illiterate help
to explain this neglect. When a stray
letter in a foreign language woold
reach an American firm, a translation
would be obtained with much diffi
culty and the reply would be written
in English. That would not conduce to
the cultivation of business relations
with the foreigner.
A change is coming over business
conditions. Our foreign sales of man
ufactures already exceed those of food
products. Our factories must more
and more look abroad for their mar
kets. They must conduct regular cor
respondence In foreign languages,
which will require clerks familiar with
those languages. They must send
abroad salesmen able to converse in
the tongues of the countries they visit.
The Panama Canal will increase the
volume of trade with Latin-American
countries, and Spanish will need to
be used in our intercourse with those
countries. Spanish and German are,
next to English, the languages of com
merce, and will soon need to be made
part of the curriculum of a young man
training for a business career.
Then foreign books should be per
mitted to come in at such prices that
'hey may fall into the hands of the
masses. Duties on such books will
hamper us in acquiring the tools with
which we are to conquer foreign mar
kets. If a revenue duty must be im
posed upon them. It should be so
small as not to add appreciably to
their price and therefore not to check
their coming.
EASY TO RECOMMEND.
Commenting on Secretary Daniels'
statement that he has visited every
Navy station yard and training school
in the United States and will now
set about preparing his recommenda
tions to Congress, the New York Sun
says: -
That Is easy enough, but the difficulty
is not only to make recommendations that
will really benefit the service but to -persuade
Congress to consider them seriously.
For example, other Secretaries of
the Navy have recommended aboli
tion of useless Navy yards, but Con
gress has not taken away from its
members their precious bits of pork.
Other Secretaries have pointed out
the necessity of maintaining- our
rank as a naval power by building two
or three battleships yearly, but Con
gress has stinted the Navy while
wasting money on pensions and build
ings. Other Secretaries have shown
the necessity of building torpedo
boats, destroyers, collies and other
auxiliaries in a certain ratio to the
number of battleships and cruisers,
but our Navy is still lopsided.
Secretaries can recommend without
end, but will Congress heed their
recommendations?
MELODRAMA SPOILED.
It is a cruel Jblow Tokio has given
Mexican vanity and schoolgirl diplo
macy. Up and down the western bor
der of the United States one Felix
Diaz has been proceeding with great
mystery en route to Japan. He In
sisted with suggestive reserve that his
mission was devised purely to extend
thanks from Mexico for Japan's par
ticipation in an ancient exposition.
Members of his suite let drop an oc
casional hint about the errand being
of a far greater significance. Com
ment was heard from many quarters
of the globe -and suspicion was not al
layed when it developed that a party
of Japanese officials would Journey on
the same boat Diaz had arranged to
board for Japan, even though the
Japanese said it was a mere coinci
dence. Now the little Mexican melodrama
has had an anti-climax. Japan will
not receive the handsome, dashing
and mysterious Felix except as a pri
vate citizen. If, in the bottom of his
heart, he had hopes of alliances or of
concocting a neat little intrigue di
rected against the United States his
ambitions pass up In smoke. Having
Deen advised of Japan's atti.ude, he
even speaks of abandoning his trip
and has cabled Mexico for Instruc
tions. We surmise that if Felix does not
make the trip to Japan it will be
solely because he doesn't want to. We
can hardly picture Huerta recalling so
dangerous an adversary into the zone
of a tottering administration.
When things get a bit more shaky
Huerta might find in Diaz another
Huerta. It is difficult to conceive of
the distinguished Felix slipping a
stiletto into the presidential back, but
then queer practices are followed in
Mexican politics. Henceforward Diaz,
en route to Japan, will be a less sus
picious figure than Diaz on his way
back to Mexico City.
IMPROVING OX MARRIAGE.
Marriage is the most convenient and
best solution of a difficult problem
that society has been able to devise.
It is a growth, a product of the cen
turies, and was evolved out of human
experience. Those persons who would
revolutionize marriage as they would
rearrange the furniture in a house
recognize the inadequacies of mar
riage without having the Intelligence
to affix a true appreciation to things
as they are. Those who would, strip
marriage of its shortcomings by stir
ring in new love potions are shallow
faddists who will not benefit them
selves or anyone else.
There are many causes of married
infelicity that have been discovered
and alleviated in a measure. The new
movement for hygienic marriage is a
step In that -direction. Out of long
experience many warnings have sprung
up and are sounded to the young as
they approach the age when marriage
is to be contracted. But the limita
tions of married life are the limita
tions of human nature. So long as
human nature has its errors and
shortcomings these will be reflected in
the married state as well as in the
single.
Common sense in selecting a life
mate and in pursuing conjugal se
renity are th'e great safeguards, but
then common sense is a human virtue
that everyone may not enjoy. Anyway,
newly devised and untried fads for
promoting domestic felicity, unless
backed by those qualities which in
sure happiness, are a waste of time
If they are not dangerous as giving
a wrong viewpoint.
POLITICAL GALLANTRY.
Somebody has favored The Ore
gonian with a marked copy of the
Sacramento Union, and the article
which our thoughtful friend deemed
of particular interest is an interview
with Judge W. A. Anderson, In which
Judge Anderson give's his impressions
of Portland. Some of the Judge's re
marks are gratifying, others discon
certing. He says, with much misgiv
ing, that there seems to be' a dispo
sition to make Portland "chemically
pure' or morally pure; that he found
members of Portland's "boost club"
not inclined to pay attention to vis
itors and that the streetcar conductors
are not very courteous to information
seekers. On the other hand, he ad
mires The Oregonian and thinks Port
land has a firm Mayor and brave
Sheriff, while, of course, the beauty
of the city's setting is complimented.
We are not so modest as to be sur
prised by the Judge's compliments.
but as to his discovery of failures
in courtesy can only believe he was
exceptionally unlucky. We shall,
therefore, pass by these observations
more quickly to reach the important
statement that "Portland cannot boast
of as many pretty and well-dressed
women as we have in our city of
Sacramento."
This charge is made to seem graver
by our failure to recall having ever
heard of Sacramento as a center of
feminine beauty. If the Judge had
been comparing Portland with San
Francisco in this respeot the remark
might have been credited to personal
gallantry and a slight local prejudice.
Everybody has heard of the one re
deeming feature of San Francisco's
climate. It promotes bright eyes and
rosy cheeks. But who ever heard of
Sacramento as a haven for males of an
appreciative ej'e?
We have no faith in the accuracy
of the Judge's comparison, yet we do
not blame him one bit. Doubtless
the advent of woman suffrage will
hereafter spare us repetition and re
iteration by every returning traveler
that "Jonesville is good enough for
me." In all states where equal rights
prevail no man after visiting some
other state will fail to - express his
conviction that nowhere else than
home does feminine loveliness so flour
ish and gratify the ocular sense par
ticularly . when the interviewed pos
sesses a political handle to his name
or has political ambitions,-
ON A BUSINESS BASIS.
A remarkable illustration of the
benefits accruing from commission
government, where one man has full
charge of each department of the city's
airairs and devotes his entire time to
it instead of making his office a
mere side issue, is the plan by which
the city is to become the purchaser of
its own bonds. On the face of it, the
sale by the city at a discount of bonds
against one fund at 4 and 6 per cent
while the city has money in another
fund drawing only 2 per cent is ab
surd. The city can save the discount
on the bonds it sells and can Increase
the interest accruing to the sinking
fund for which it buys them by caus
ing one department to work with the
other in financial affairs.
Saving of the discount on the bonds
sold will reduce the cost of improve
ments made with the proceeds, for the
city will actually be paying 4 or 6 per
cent interest on each $100 realized
instead of on each $88 or $90, as would
be the case if the bonds were dis
counted to that figure. The difference
will remain in the pockets of the prop
erty owners .who pay for street and
sewer improvements or water rates.
The additional 2 or 4 per cent real
ized by the sinking fund on which
the bonds are bought will hasten the
date of redemption of the bonds
against which the sinking fund is
created and will thus reduce the ag
gregate amount of interest to be paid.
This is a second saving to the taxpayer.
This is only one of many economies
which are being effected by the City
Commission. All contribute to, rather
than detract from, efficiency. They
prove that it pays to hire a $6000
man for Mayor and four $5000 men
for Commissioners. It takes a $5000
man to think out such economies and
to have the devotion to duty required
to carry them out. If the Commission
goes on as it has begun, those persons
who threw up their hands In dismay
at the suggestion of paying the Com
missioners such a salary will soon
acknowledge that Commissioners are
cheap at the price.
HOW TO LITE LONG.
If Lord Strathcona were one of our
American potentates we should call
him an empire builder. Since he is
only a Canadian, he goes by the title
of a railroad builder, but in his mod
est way he has done wonders, perhaps
not less marvelous than our own J. J.
Hill. Lord Strathcona emerges into
prominence Just now on account of
celebrating his ninety-third birthday.
At .that ripe age he is still hale. His
body is lithe and his mind active.
Like others who have surpassed the
scriptural limit of human life he has
been at some pains to explain the
secret of his longevity. Some cen
tenarians ascribe their length of days
to copious tobacco chewing, others to
the free use of strong liquors. Lord
Strathcona says he has reached the
ninety-third milestone because he has
always lived a hardy and abstinent
life. In his many exploring trips he
has fared the same as his men, sleep
ing on fir boughs by a campfire and
eating beans and bacon.
In the course of his explorations he
has penetrated to wilds never before
trodden by engineers, blazed the way
for new railroads by which the Cana
dian Northwest has been opened to
settlement and great communities of
happy people have been founded, and
acquired a fame that history will
never forget. His life has been passed
in this way, laying out paths for
others to tread, and during it all he
has "never turned out of his way to
avoid stress or distress." The spites
and favors of fortune he has borne
with an equal mind and through all
the tricks of fate he has kept his
heart warm and his soul peaceful.
From his long and varied experiences
Lord Strathcona deduces the lesson
that the way to live to a great age is
to keep the body well in subjection,
never pamper it and often compel it
to undergo real hardships. Once
given the rein the flesh soon seeks to
be master and quickly commits sui
cide by its love of indulgence.
Most men who have accomplished
great things have been temperate at
least, if not abstinent. They have
taught their bodies to stay in the
background and brought their spiritual
part to the front. There is a story of a
famous French commander who always
went into battle trembling with physi
cal fright. His hand would shake and
his legs totter, but he managed to
forge to. the front, dragging his re
luctant limbs along like cringing
slaves. One day, when a battle was
beginning, an attendant heard him
say to his cowardly members, "What,
quaking already at the mere sound of
the cannon? I am going to take you
right up to their mouths." It has
seldom been found that too great con
sideration for the physical being does
it good. The body is like an ill-bred
dependent who makes every new fa
vor an excuse for demanding more.
Locke, the father of English philos
ophy, taught the same theory as Lord
Strathcona about the value of hard
living. He was particularly zealous to
apply it to children. According to his
doctrines the best way to bring up a
boy was by inuring him to coarse
food, hard beds and outdoor life. To
be sure some would sink under such
a regime and cut their education short
by dying, but what of it? A boy who
could not survive the experiences that
would make a robust man of him
was not worth keeping in the world.
So Locke thought. Since his day some
lives that mankind has called valuable
have begun in feebleness and con
tinued in pain. The poet Pope was an
invalid all his days. Gibbon was a
valetudinarian. Herbert Spencer never
was robust. Mere physical fitness is
rather a poor standard by which to
estimate the worth of a life and yet
it is true that ' for" most people life
without physical fitness ' is hardly
worth living. Geniuses like Pope and
Spencer- can accomplish a great deal
in spite of weak stomachs and crooked
backs, but for most of us good bodily
health is a condition precedent to
both happiness and mental achieve
ment. And there is no doubt that in the
main good health depends upon hardy
living. The rule among the Euro
pean aristocracies is to spend two
thirds of the year breaking down their
health by riotous indulgence at the
gay capitals and pass the other third ,
restoring it at Carlsbad or some other
"cure." The medicinal effect of these
"cures" depends theoretically upon
magic waters which bubble from the
ground. Practically it depends upon
early bedtime, simple food and monas
tic habits. There are very few people
In prosperous circles who would not
be benefited by a day's fast once a
month. It i3 an excellent plan to go
without a meal at short intervals.
The habit jf omitting breakfast is
growing upon the sensible world and
it is usually helpful to both brain
and stomach. The principal advan
tage of an outing comes from the
hardships It Imposes. A trip which
subjects a person to no break of his
usual self-indulgent habits scarcely Im
proves his health or refines his spirits.
One of the strangest facts of our
psychology Is the delight with which
we all remember the most miserable
experiences in- the woods or on the
road. A rainy night without tent or
fire is not pleasant to go through, but
it is an imperishably joyous thing to
recall and describe. The medicinal
effects of hardy living may be traced
back to the habits of our ancestors
who dwelt in treetops and wore no
clothing, even in Winter, with acorns
and slugs for their food. But it does
not follow that our children will
always be like ourselves in this par
ticular. A time may come when the
human frame will thrive best on cod
dling. The growth, of cities fosters
ease and luxury, and, as likely as
not, evolution will kill off those who
cannot adapt themselves to such a
regimen. If that should happen the
Lord Strathconas of the future would
ascribe their longevity to the lobsters
and champagne they had consumed.
Those who formerly proposed that
we solve the race problem by deport
ing tine negroes wholesale to Africa,
Cuba or some other country will won
der at themselves when they read of
the progress made by the negro race
in the last fifty years, as shown by
the Negro Year Book. This volum
by Monroe N. Work, of Tuskegee In
stitute, shows that negroes in this
country own hundreds of millions of
dollars worth of property. They own
half of 42,000,000 acres of land they
cultivate in the South and $57,000,000
worth of church property. They have
built or helped to build numerous
educational institutions, they maintain
charities and fraternal organizations,
they own banks and many of their
race nave won triumphs in music, art,
letters and the law. The ratio of
crime among negroes is little greater
than that among whites and less than
that among many classes of immi
grants. The negro has taken root in
this country and is proving his fitness
for citizenship.
The Journal of Electricity, a techni
cal magazine published in San Fran
Cisco, speaks in complimentary terms
or the Portland Y. M. C. A.'s courses
in electrical engineering, which, it
says, attract students from many di
rections. "Some are married and
have families. Some are supporting
widowed mothers and sisters. Others
are college graduates. All these
classes of men and many more have
presented their case to the Y. M. C A.
as the one institution which Is free
to act according to Its conception of
men s needs."
Governor Sulzer may be corrupt, but
nobody can say he is a coward. To
defy Tammany when he must have
known Murphy had evidence that
would ruin him required no mean
courage, if Murphy really had it.. Men
or nis stamp have been known to man
ufacture facts when circumstances
seemed to require it, and their imita
tion of the truth has been so adept as
to deceive some very, wise people. Per
haps the esteemed New York World
may find by and by that this shrewd
old game has been played upon it. .1
Intimations come from Washington
that Secretary Bryan canceled one
third of his Chautauqua lecture en
gagements and is seeking an easy way
to cancel the rest. How is he to
keep the pot .boiling in Washington
if he sacrifices so much of his in
come that he will have little to live
on beyond his paltry salary of $12,
000 a year? Texas may have to come
to his relief in earnest.
In addressing the newly-appointed
policewomen of Chicago, Chief of
Police McWeeny impressed upon
them the value of silence. He seems
to have forgotten that he was talk
ing to women, or did he intend to be
sarcastic ?
Statements of condition of the Port
land banks under the recent call of
the Controller of the Currency explain
why Portland bankers express little
need of participating in the proposed
dispensation by Treasurer McAdoo.
In explanation of the robbery of an
aged farmer from San Francisco by
two thugs on a side street of Portland,
all need be said is that previous to
being victimized he had twice been
arrested for being drunk.
The Mikado doesn't want to see Diaz.
Neither does Huerta. He might go on
a diplomatic mission to the blonde Es
kimos. Rebellions are breaking out In many
parts of China, but up to press time
Mexico still held the world's record.
After twenty years of exemplary
conduct an Oregon convict has been
released. He has formed the habit.
The Pennant Winners are again at
home and fans will take notice that
only the umpire is to be abused.
The iceman and the dog catcher
are useful members of the community,
but everybody has it in for them.
City employes will have to report on
a time clock. These public jobs bid
fair to lose their popularity.
Dr. Sun embarrasses the Japs and
they do not want Felix Diaz. The
two are off color.
Most of a Jury draft in Washington
was of women. Suffrage is not all
milk and honey.
Perhaps there'll not be another Mex
ican crisis until an auto tire blows up
in Mexico City.
Tally one more for the didn't-know-it-was-loaded
rifleman.
Prince Sulkowskl has changed his
name. He's right
Vacation time draws to an end.
Thanksgiving next.
In that sign the Knights conquered
Denver.
We'll soon be free of the despotic
iceman.
Want tamed the Bulgars.
Felix is the goat-
TREND TOWARD VEGETABLE DIET
Colon Bacilli Will Vet Rout the Beef
Trust, Says Writer.
PORTLAND, Aug. 12. (To the Edi
tor.) I am sure that every reader of
The Oregonian is rejoicing that you
have taken advantage of the tempo
rary lull in the recent tempest of eco-
nomlcs, flags. Industrialism, etc., and
raised the curtain upon a new scene,
to wit dietetics.
The editorial, "Meat and Bacilli." in
The Oregonian of August 7 furnishes
tooa ior reflection. The investigations
of Metehnikoff regarding the effects of
a meat diet upon the human svstem
bids us pause. We read that it is
estimated that 160,000,000 colon bacilli
are born every second In the intestinal
tract, and that for this Inconceivable
number of retainers a meat diet is
largely responsible.
One hundred and fifty millions of
these unwelcome little strangers every
second! I sat down to figure what the
total would be at the end of the next
24 hours, but the array of figures was
so appalling that I abandoned the task
In terror ere It was half completed.
rushed into the garden to cool my
heated brow, when Oh, the horror of
it from a neighbor's kitchen floated
tne fragrant appetizing odor of a fry
ing, rare and Juicy beefsteak. Like
Mark Antony in "Julius Caesar," I
"fled to my house amazed," amazed
that my neighbor (a reader of The
Oregonian) was intrepid enoush to
Indulge in meat, with the ink of that
editorial scarcely dry.
In the succeeding calm I pondered
long and earnestly over the fact that
these parasites lie at the bottom of
many serious physical disorders. The
Idea presented Itself that these Inde
fatigable workers of our Internal world
may be largely responsible for our
I. W. W.-lsm and the Innumerable
other IsmB, for the temperate and in
temperate letters and comments that
have almost monopolized ti.e current
newspapers. Anything that affects
the physical body, communicates with
and affects the mental and spiritual
man. They may even be responsible for
the great prevailing unrest afflicting
the masses. I have not mingled much
with my wealthy brethren, financial
standing and sartorial limitations will
not permit of such a thing, but those
who know assure me that there is as
much unrest among our gilded breth
ren as among the submerged three
fourths (of the whole).
Serious reflection will make It very
clear that our physical bodies respond
ing to evolutionary laws are gradual
ly becoming refined. One of the earlier
results of this etherealizlng process
is meat is rapidly becoming a deadly
poison to the human form divine. Many
are realizing this to be true, and have
discarded it, and are reaping a reward
in the possession of cleaner, more en
during todies, brighter, keener Intel
lects and increased spirituality.
Doubtless the beef trust will Indig
nantly refute this, but all of the In
dignation and ridicule that can be
brought to bear will not di.-turb the
majestic upward march of evolution;
like Tennyson's brook, it goes on for
ever. A W. NEALE.
476 Davenport street.
SITE FILED OX FOR CITY USES
Mr. Church Explains Matter of Water
Power Gift to Municipality.
PORTLAND, Aug. 10. (To the Edi
tor.) In The Oregonian, August 8,
you say:
Since the recent announcement that the
city is looking for a rood power site, many
proposals have been made. The most recent
Is that of C. P. Church, who claims owner
ship of a power site in the Mount Hood dis
trict. He has offered to donate the site
to the city. A number of offers of sales
of sites have been made, all of which are
to be investigated.
I have kept a filing on from 10,000
to 15,000 horsepower on a watersite on
the Sandy and Zig Zag rivers for the
past four. or. more years, often express
ing In the refiling, "For the uses of the
City of Portland," as Mr. Lewis, the
State Engineer, will verify.
As you may remember. The Oregonian
bore the brunt of some peppery con
troversies relating to light and power
rates prevailing here, and that on April
3, 1912, I offered to give this power
to the city under the restriction that It
would be used in the interest of the
public as to rates of hire.
Referring now to the above excerpt
will say that on July 17 I assigned my
filing on the aforesaid water power
to the City Board of Commissioners, on
which, as I understand, Mr. Daly re
filed, August 2, when my date expired.
Accompanying my assignment I gave
a written statement to Mr. Daly, giving
comparisons of cost in power and light
here as contrasted with the city-owned
plant at Tacoma and the relative cap
italizations between the two systems.
that of the Portland Railway, Light &
Power Company and the City of Ta
coma. I obtained the information on a
visit to Tacoma, of my own volition,
and I therefore ask that Mr. Daly sup
ply It to any one who applies for it.
In the same communication I gave
the Board of Commissioners a detailed
statement Showing that the 1500 horse
power that can be availed of, already
In their control between the upper and
lower reservoirs at Mount Tabor, can
be utilized for our own electric light
ing, installed and substantially housed
at the reservoir, for very considerably
less than one-third the $185,000 the city
now pays annually to the Portland
Railway, Light & Power Company for
Its hire for city lighting at the pres
ent time.
This 1500 horsepower is sufficient, or
nearly so, to supply the power now
used for lighting by the above-named
company, and leave It for 14 hours of
work daily in day service for power
uses which should yield a large revenue
to the city.
In the meantime you will observe
the assignment I made preceded any
Inquiry from the Board or any offer
of sale of other sites. It could have
been had as a gift any time within the
time of my first filing the earlier the
better, financially, for me, if men hav
ing, as a majority, the true interests
of the City of Portland in their keep
ing were In control, which unfortun
ately was never the case.
CHARLES P. CHURCH.
Drinking From Cover to Cover.
"The Avenger," by E. Phillips Oppenhelm.
Page 10 With a little laugh, still not
altogether naturel, he moved to the
spirit decanter and drank off half a
wineglass of neat whisky.
Page 17 "There is one point," he re
marked, filling his glass
Page 21 Wrayson turned to the
waiter and ordered a liqueur brandy.
Page 2o Heneage, Mason sighed,
"is always cynical after kummel."
Page 27 Heneage . . . was play
ing idly with his wineglass.
Page 29 A gold-foiled bottle ap
peared. Page 46 "We'll have one whisky and
coda."
Page 47 With a srreat effort, and an
almost reckless resort to his host's
champagne.
Page 63 "You must come In and
have a whisky and soda," she said to
Wrayson.
Page 64 Whisky and soda, wine and
sandwiches were upon the sideboard.
fare o4 "You want whisky and
soda, of course or do you prefer
brandy?"
Page 70 The baroness helped her
self to whisky and soda.
Fishing; License Required.
PORTLAND. Or., Aug. 12. (To the
Editor.) Please answer the following
question through the columns of The
Oregonian. Is a license to fish with
hook and line for catfish and carp in
a lake in Oregon on private property
where a 'man has permission of the
owner to do so? Please answer the
above and oblige." A SUBSCRIBER.
Yes.
1 CALIFORNIA IS GREAT BORROWER.
Not Only Seesei, Bnt Krnlt Have Been
Credited to Wrong State.
HILLSDALE, Or., Aug. 11. (To the
Editor.) In The Sunday Oregonian ap
pears an article dated Medford, August
9. headed, "Oregon Scene Borrowed,'
containing two indictments which
should not be permitted to pass unchal
lenged, and yet we Oregoniana are not
altogether blameless for permitting
California, to acquire this "borrowing"
habit, especially upon which she built
up her reputation as a great fruit pro
ducing state.
In the earlier days of Oregon's fruit
industry, in fact up to recent years,
most of our fine apples, pears, peaches.
cherries and prunes were bought by
Californians and shipped direct to the
eastern markets labeled as California
fruit. Even our own shippers followed
their example. This pernicious prac
lice was not counteracted until we edu
cated the Eastern buyers and consum
ers, by the horticultural exhibits Ore
gon made at the various international
expositions, and It was a hard figrht un
til we were awarded the famous "Wild
er Medal" for our fruit exhibit at the
Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo, in
which all the fruit growing countries
of the world participated. This award
is made by the Pomological Society of
America, by its own members, strictly
on merit and quality only, and now our
fruits go to the world's markets under
their own name.
To further illustrate this California
"borrowing" habit: When Oregon de
clined to participate in the Exposition
at Paris in. 1900, Mr. Stubbs, of the
Southern Pacific, was very anxious that
all territory in Oregon tributary to
their lines should make a fruit exhibit
which he agreed to exhibit under Ore
gon labels, with their California ex
hibit, and asked -me If I would lend
him several hundred Jars of the exhibit
I at that time maintained on Washing
ton street, to which I agreed, provided
he would return them to me at Buffalo
for the Pan-American Exposition, held
In 1901. Imagine my surprise and cha.
grin when all of the Jars that came
back were labeled "California Fruit."
Our Oregon labels had been turned to
the wall and the California label pasted
in front, several or these jars so la
beled are still in the exhibit In charge
of the Chamber of Commerce. This
brings us to the second indictment.
The article in question further says:
"While Oregon has no reputation as a
grape-producing state, etc., etc."; to
which we plead "Mot Guilty." At the
World's Fair at Chicago in 1893, we
exhibited a very fine lot of grapes on
which we were awarded the - Grand
Prize. Among these was one jar con
taining a bunch of Tokay grapes weigh
ing 7 pounds, grown by William
Fleck near The Dalles, others grown by
A H. Carson, Grants Pass; W. K.
Newell, Dilly, and A. E. Ru'eter, Forest
Grove. The grand prize awarded to
California on grapes at Paris, was
given on these very Jars of grapes
"borrowed" from my exhibit by Mr.
Stubbs. It has been thoroughly dem
onstrated that grapes grow to perfec
tion in all parts of Oregon notably
Eastern and Southern Oregon and the
foothills on the Willamette Valley,
large vinyarda existing there now.
Even the wines consisting of Riesling,
Muscat and Burgundy made from
grapes grown by Mr. Rueter near
Forest Grove, were awarded the gold
medal by the superior, jury at the
Omaha Exposition in competition with
California.
Personally I do not concede anything
to our sister state on the south either
in climate, scenery or in horticultural
lines, except citrus fruits, based on ex
perience. It is up to us further to educate the
world at the Panama-Pacific-International
Exposition at San Francisco that
there is no place anywhere on earth,
where fruits of all kinds, whether ap
ples, pears, peaches, cherries, prunes,
strawberries, grapes or walnuts grow
to greater perfection, more wlney.
aromatic, toothsome or keeping quali
ties than in Oregon and possibly we
can convince our California friends that
It Is no credit to them to persist, in
the "borrowing" habit.
HENRY E. DOSCH.
EXCLUSION LAW MUST BE ADOPTED
Writer Believes Presence of Orientals
In United States Not Desirable. .
CORVALLIS, Or., Aug. 11. (To the
Editor.) The foreign land owners in
California who incorporate their land,
thus defeating the alien land law, re
cently passed, are In fact hastening the
day when all the Pacific states must
In self-defense exclude them. Any per
son who by reason of color, religion or
race prejudice cannot assimilate with
the native white population is not a
desirable citizen. All such should be
excluded. They but give for a day's
wage a day's labor. Out of every $1 at
least 75 cents goes to the Orient,
whereas a native white man spends
out of every $1 earned 100 cents at
the place where he earned It.
These foreigners do not assist in
any way to upbuild the country's In
stitutions, either in a religious, educa
tional or progressive sense. They be
come domestic servants, they rent land
and fake its proceeds and ship the net
returns to their homes in the Orient.
This is not In accordance with the
American idea. I believe in America
for Americans.
It is not true that with this popu
lation gone the country will go to the
dogs, or that the labor will not be per
formed. These foreigners simply crowd
out the deserving white man. The white
man has no chance against them. They
live on what we throw away, and to
compete with them we have to descend
to their level in the way of eating and
of living.
The American people are indeed a
great conglomeration of races. They
compose the most adventurous blood
of the most progressive foreign states,
as well as some of their offscourings,
out generally the American stock is
better . than any one nation can pro
duce. Out of 1000 Americans and 1000
of any other nation, I -submit that the
general average of intelligence, of re
finement and of progress will favor
the American. I have no Btatistics to
prove this by. Then why house and
shelter under our flag a class-of per
sons who pick a living where these
Americans cannot do so, who live in
the most humble manner and whose ra
tion would .be turned away from by
most white folks? They crowd out our
white labor, and the country which
shelters these aliens cannot furnish the
necessary white labor to take their
place, at once, but exclude them, and
very quickly the white labor will re
turn to those localities now practically
shut to the white man.
These sentiments I appreciate are old.
and time-worn, they are even thread
bare, but unless we would have a worse
calamity befall us let us begin to pre
pare for the time when all Orientals
must be excluded. J. H. WILSON.
Descent of Property.
PORTLAND, Aug. 12. (To the Edi
tor.) (1) How should real property
be deeded in order that It may pass
automatically to either the husband or
wife upon the death of the other?
(2) Is it necessary that they be de
scribed in the deed as "husband and
wife?"
(3) If not so described, would the
children or heirs have a claim against
the estate?
(4) Does real property deeded to John
Smith and William Jones, or the sur
vivor, pass automatically to Smith up
on the death of Jones, regardless of the
claims of Jones' widow and children?
(1) Let the property be conveyed to
them Jointly as husband and wife, the
property will go to the survivor with
out probate proceedings.
(2) No.
(5) No; the children will not.
(4) Weight of authority indicates
that it does,
Twenty-five Years Ag
From .The Oregonian -of August 13. 1SSS.
Minneapolis, Aug. 12. Details of one
of the most, gigantic trusts ever de
vised have just come, to the surface.
It is a combination of all the principal
lumber interests of Minnesota with
those of Wisconsin. Fred Weyer
haeuser Is at the head of the company.
After an absence of about three
months In Europe, Rev. Dr. J. Bloch.
the well-known Jewish rabbi, returned
a few days since.
Washington, Aug. 6. There must be
an election coming- off In Washington
Territory ere long. So thought every
one who heard the biennial effort of
Delegate Voorhees the other day in
behalf of the admission of that com
monwealth to statehood;
John Wilhoit, of Wilhoit, sends to
Te Oregonian a cure for diphtheria
which he pronounces certain.
F- N. Humphrey, of North Salem, and
Charles Claggett, of Salem, are mak
ing a tight race for the biggest peaches
this year.
Dr. W. E. Everette, of Tacoma, con
sulting mining engineer of the Northern
Pacific Railroad, is at the Esmond.
Coroner A. P. De Lin has just moved
into his new residence on Corbett and
Gibbs streets.
Grants Pass, Or., Aug. 11. I will bet
$1000 that Harrison is elected Presi
dent. John C. Boyd.
The soldier nine from "Vancouver
Barracks came over yesterday and de
feated the Portland baseball club by
a score of 9 to 8.
Mrs. a. W. Bates and Miss Hattle
Menzles have gone to Spokane.
John Miller Murphy, of Olympia, ter
ritorial auditor of Washington Terri
tory, is in the city.
John B. Allen, of Walla Walla, a
leading candidate for the nomination
for delegate to Congress, is at the St.
Charles.
Half a Century Ago
From The Oregonian of August 13. 1S63.
Washington, Aug. 7. The Chronicle
says a movement is in progress which
is morally certain to result in the cap
ture of Mobile.
Chicago, Aug. 7. Yesterday's New
York Herald says the Government de
signs sending a naval, force to the Pa
cific and with this view the command
ant of the naval rendezvous on that
coast is directed to make strenuous ef
forts to procure 200 men. ;
Fortress Monroe, Aug. 6. A Charles
ton letter dated August 2 Bays firintr
commenced on Fort Wagner that day.
On Saturday a column of rebel infan
try made a sortie on our batteries in
course of construction, but were hand
somely repulsed. -
Yesterday afternoon a portion of the
scaffolding used in building the" new
Presbyterian Church on Washington
street suddenly gave way, precipitat
ing two of the workmen a distance of
12 feet below. One of them escaped
uninjured, but the other, W. L. Card
well, fell upon the sharp-pointed stakes
of a fence and remained Impaled there
on for several minutes. He was very
severely injured.
The steamer Julia. . on her arrival
from The Dalles last evening, brought
a large number of passengers and $50,
000 In gold dust.
The steamer Brother Jonathan sailed
last evening for San Francisco 'via
Victoria -with a very - large number of
passengers and upwards of $200,000 In
gold. -
PRESERVES OPPOSE DEVELOPMENT
Southern Oregon Project Objected to by
Ashland Correspondent.
ASHLAND, Or., Aug. 11. (To the
Editor.) rl learn from . correspondence
In The Oregonian that someone in
Grants Pass is trying ; to promote a
monster game preserve In Southern
Oregon and Northern California.
VY hat Oregon needs is not more re
serves and huge game preserves, but
more development of the natural re
sources. The territory named to be set
aside is rich in mineral and timber and
grazing land. No one in Oregon need.
worry about the game and fish proposi
tion, for with Its many streams and
vast area of rough - mountainous terri
tory with dense undersrrowth. what few
deer are killed by the scanty popula
tion or uregon nas no errect whatever.
But for the cougars and other var
mints, the deer would soon become a
nuisance. More deer are killed every
year by hunters in some of the Eastern
states in an area the size of. Jackson
and Josephine Counties than are killed
In the whole state of Oregon.
To make a game preserve of a large
territory surely retards its develop
ment, for game and fish are two of the
prospectors best resources. The an
noying and worrying of homesteaders
have stopped the settlement of public
lands In Southern Oregon, and the rail
road lands, nearly one-half of the un
settled area, are tied up In litigation.
Let ns encourage development rather
than a wilderness. Wise game laws,
well enforced, are a good thing, but
there is something wrong with the fish
laws of Oregon when the dealers . of
Ashland and Medford ship salmon from
Seattle and retail It at 17 cents a
pound, while Rogue River is full of
them, many dying and going to waste
along the shore.
The game and fish should have rea
sonable protection, but they were put
here for the use of the people here.
Southwestern Oregon Is not developing
as it should, and it will not help It to
make a vast game preserve of it.
E. T. MERRILL.
Logrlcal Surmise in New York.
New York Sun.
Stella Why do cows wear bells?
Bella To call the calves to dinner,
of course.
Where Igrorance is
NOT Bliss
Suppose you could run back,
pver every purchase of every
kind you have made in the past
twelve months. Suppose you
could classify them and analyze
them Just as the purchasing de
partments of big business con
cerns do.
Do you not think that you
would check up many a purchase
made unwisely, many an Item
that costs too much, and here
and there some article bought
that wesn't at all what you
thought you were buying?
Family expenditures and per
sonal expenditures, of course,
aren't made -with anything like
the ajcuraoy or system that
would mark the purchase! of a
well organized business. But this
very fact ought to Impress upon
every fKmiiy, every Individual,
the necessity of closer attention
to their annual expenditures.'
In this matter the newspaper
is one's best friend. The adver
tising columns point the way to
economy and satisfaction.
Where ignorance is not bliss,
It Is better to be wise.