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I-OHTLAM, I "KID AY, SEPT. It. Ml.
DEATH Or MAYOR GATJTOR.
The death of Mayor Qaynor, of
jCew Tork, removes a man whom ou
lty and personal Qualities gave him
a larger place In the eyes of the
American people than U usually held,
even by the official head of the larg
est city In the United States. Ha was
a man of force and character, yet he
loved popular applause and sought it
He was a man of honesty and inde
pendence, yet that d!S not prevent his
acceptance of a Tammany nomination.
He loved to make friends, but no man
hit a foe harder or with greater de
light In inflicting a lasting sting. H
was a scholar, but ho used his schol
arship to good effect in fighting po
litical battles. He was a good Demo
crat, but not too good to bolt and
run on an Independent ticket when
bis party turned him down.
Mayor Gaynor's sudden death re
duces to two the number of candidates
who ara really In the running for
succession to his office, but It rather
confuses than simplifies the political
situation In New York City. Repub
licans have been 111 pleased with the
nomination of John Purroy MltcheU a
Democrat, by the fusion forces with
which they are allied. Many Demo
crats who like neither Tammany nor
fusion balked at supporting either Mr.
Mltchel or Mr. McCalL Tammany
ought to disclaim responsibility for
the police scandal by refusing to re
nominate Mr. Gaynor, by thus mak
ing him the goat" and by Indorsing
Mr. Whitman, the prosecutor of the
grafters, for District Attorney. Dis
gruntled Republicans and disgruntled
Democrats, under these circumstances,
found a welcome haven of refuge In
the Gaynor camp when the Mayor be
came an Independent candidate. His
large personal following among men
who Ignore party ties in municipal
campaigns made Mr. Gaynor an im
portant factor m the campaign. While
he may have had no chance of suc
cess, his presence In the field was
bound to have -an important effect on
the chances of fcls rivals.
The large army of voters "which
was rallying to him Is now left with
out a leader. His personality and his
record were his chief elements of
strength and no man can fill hU place.
The Gaynor Republicans must either
accept the fusion ticket with a grim
ace or nominate a ticket of their own,
knowing that choice of the latter al
ternative will probably cause a Tam
many victory. The Gaynor Demo
crats must make a like unpleasant
choice between fusion and Tammany,
though their leader was the object of
attack from both sides. Both they
and the independent voters who were
moved by personal admiration for the
' dead Mayor will shrink from Joining
their recent foes, but whither can they
goT They are as sheep without a
shepherd.
Til B SCHOOLROOM DRAWL.
Some of our more thoughtful con
temporaries have been lamenting In
recent editorials the decay of read
ing aloud. It Is remarked dolefully
by one that many girls who have no
voice for singing spend years and
dollars in trying vainly to acquire
that art when half the effort would
make them delightful readers. Xot
elocutionists, not public performers of
any species or degree, but Just read
ers for the home circle or the quiet
little party of Intelligent friends.
We have been in circumstances
where a good reader was the best en
tertainer imaginable. A camp in the
woods on a rainy afternoon brings
his skill Into excellent use. On Win
ter nights he, or she, shines with a
mild beam which only the open fire
Itself can rival. In other days there
was almost always some member of
the family who was a good reader,
good by nature. Art had nothing to
do with it. The public schools never
have done much toward teaching
pupils to read aloud. The schoolroom
drawl Is unpleasantly notorious. It
Is unintelligent, bored and distressing.
How Johnny and Lucy manage to ac
quire It la mysterious to some people
but not to anybody who has frequent
ed schools.
The drawl begins by that lingering
which Is Inevitable when a pupil
comes upon a new word which ' he
does not quite know how to pro
nounce. He begins It, hesitates with
the sound half Inside his mouth, half
outside, and by the time he Is fully
ready to speak the syllables have de
generated Into a disagreeable parody
of human utterance. Now and then
the pupil holds fast to the last syl
lable of a word while he figures out
In his mind how to pronounce the
next one. These two habits combined
account largely for the schoolroom
drawl, which Is all we have now to
substitute for the lost art of reading
aloud.
The remedy is not so obvious as the
disease. A teacher who can make
children acquire a crisp, vigorous ar
ticulation In speaking and reading has
done her country a better service than
if she had led Its armies Into Mexico.
The decay of reading aloud and the
- decay of family life have progressed
in parallel lines. If we can restore
the first we may help restore the sec
ond. The cold-storage warehouse adapts
modern methods to the policy of Jo
seph, when he stored up the surplus
crop from seven years of plenty to
provide for seven years of famine.
But, wrongly used. It withdraws large
quantities of food from the market
and by creating an artificial scarcity
or preventing a natural abundance It
creates an artificial price level. The
Pennsylvania Dairy and Food Com
mission has condemned more than
100,000 pounds of eggs and meat
which has been In cold storage In
Philadelphia since 1906 and 40.000
pounds of game which has been
stored since 1911. The withdrawal of
that food from the market and its
final destruction iwas not simply a wise
provision for the future; it was fore
stalling the market, which is a crime
at common law. The law might well
be used to regulate the quantity of
food placed in cold storage and to
limit the time of storage.
FiaST GET THIS BBIDOH.
The Columbia River bridge project
ought not at this time to be Jeopar
dized ny a controversy over the ap
proach, or approaches, from the Ore
gon side. The Oregonian is Indiffer
ent, and the great body of the public
is indifferent, to the arguments and
contentions of any local Interest which
wants the bridge to be built with ref
erence to one street or another.
The bridge is not to be built for the
benefit of Union avenue or Patton ave
nue, or any other avenue or thor
oughfare. It Is a great enterprise pro.
Jected for city, county and state. The
bridge should be constructed at the
most available place for the crossing
of slough and river, consistent with
the convenience of the wnoie puonc,
If that place, so far as the Oregon ap-
nroach la concerned, shall be -atton
avenue, let It be Patton avenue. Or if
It shall be Union avenue, let it ne
Union avenue. Or if it shall be both,
or neither, let It be both or neither.
But we have no idea, as a correspond
ent recently suggested, that two Ore
gon approaches are to be built costing
from 1400,000 to J500.000 each. That
Is out of the question.
The County of Clarke, In Washing
ton, has voted a bond issue of 1500,000
for the bridge. The proposal for
Multnomah County is 11.250,000.
making a total of 11.750,000. The
main structure 24-foot roadway
will cost 11,666,700, according to the
estimate of Engineer Modjeskl. There
is not much left for two J500.000 ap
proaches. The County Commissioners
will, of course, undertake nothing of
the kind.
But The Oregonian Is confident the
Commissioners will do the best that
can be done for all concerned. Let
the friends of Union avenue and Pat
ton avenue he content until the bonds
are voted for the bridge. Then the
matter of the approach, or ap
proaches, may properly be determined.
But first get the funds for the bridge.
BEATING TUB STAXDSTILLEB.
ThA Vfnlnn election sneaks for Itself.
The Oregonian Is rebuked by a Demo
crats contemporary for attempting
to deceive the public as to its real
meaning. It had instituted a com
narlson of the recent Congressional
special election with the Presidential
election of 1912.' "It was a KepuD
llcan who was elected to Congress
from the Maine district in 1912," says
our Democratic friend, "and his plu
rality over tha Democrat was then
709. The plurality of the Republican
over the Democrat in jvionaajrs elec
tion was only 663, a falling off of 166
In the Republican plurality."
There was no Congressional cam
paign In the Third District of Maine
last year or any preyious year In
which a. Proeressive was a candidate.
There Is therefore no such basis of
comparison. The Congressional elec
tion in 1912 was in iseptemDer ana
the Republican party was then nom
inaiiv united: vet the actual disor
ganization reduced the usual large
plurality over the Democrat to 709.
This year there was an outright bolt,
lust a there was In November last
year. Then the Republican candidate
for President (Taft) got 7169 votes;
now the Republican candidate for
RAnresentatlve frets 15.106 votes and
Is elected over the Democrat by 600
odd plurality and over the Progressive
by nearly 9000 plurality. The Demo
cratic vote in the several recent elec
tions has been substantially the same.
Tha Maine election is a demonstra
tion of conditions throughout the
country. The signs'are everywhere
obvious that the Progressive party is
not gaining, but Is losing steadily and
heavily. Yet It would be roily to say
that the Republican party has en
tirely recovered from the disaster of
ion Thp are vet division and un
certainty, dissension and demoraliza
tion. A part of the Progressives have
rnmA hack, but until all. or nearly all
come, or until there is a definite re
alignment between the two old par
ties, the Republican party will not be
Itself again.
The Democracy Is the party that
stands still and wins when the oppo
sition is united. It has stood still
n Maine, but last Monday It did not
win.
THE FARMER'S INTEREST IN SHIPS.
The Panama Canal iwill be open to
ships In December. Probably a large
proportion of the vessels which carry
Pacific Const wheat from Portland to
Liverpool will pass through it, saving
6666 miles, or more than one-third,
of the distance through Magellan's
Straits. That will be money in the
pockets of the farmers, for it is esti
mated that freight will be reduced in
an amount equivalent to 6 Vs to 7H
cents per bushel of wheat.
Obviously then questions relating to
merchant shipping, concern not only
dwellers on the seaboard, but the
farmers and others In the interior,
whose products are exported, or the
price of whose products is affected by
the world market price. Though a
farmer may never see a ship, he has
as direct personal Interest in the ship
ping question as In railroad rates. Any
measure which tends to reduce ocean
freight rates will benefit him, as the
producer, as much as, or even more
than, the exporter In the seaport iwho
buys and ships his wheat.
Had the United States rational laws
governing the merchant marine, this
would again become a great ship-owning
Nation. Without a merchant ma
rine we are dependent upon British
and other ships to carry our produce
to market. If the nations under whose
flag these ships sail engage In war,
they call In ships to carry troops and
military supplies, and commerce suf
fers a famine of tonnage. Ocean
freights go up and the producer's price
goes down In proportion. Had we a
merchant marine to carry our own
produce to market, not only would the
shipbuilding . Industry revive and im
prove the home market for farm pro
duce, but the freight and Insurance
money which now goes abroad to cre
ate an adverse balance of trade would
stay at home to create a favorable
balance. When foreign nations became
involved in war, American ships
would be available to carry American
crops. Withdrawal from commerce
of ships belonging ato belligerent na
tions would still enhance freight rates,
but not in as large measure, for the
aggregate available supply of tonnage
would be greater. There would not
be a famine of ships, as there was
during the Boer War, due to with
drawal of ships from Paclflo Coast
wheat traffic to carry troops to South
Africa. It Is estimated that that war
cost the farmers of the Pacific North
west 14.000.000 In higher freight,
which cut down the price of wheat on
the farm to that extent.
We need no artificial stimulants to
the American merchant marine, such
as subsidies, bounties, preferential du
ties. We need only to emancipate the
shipping business from the shackles
with which law has bound It, We have
begun by admitting foreign-built ships
to American register. We should con
tinue by repealing every law which en
hances the cost of operating American
ships beyond that Of foreign ships. We
should pass the bill to emancipate
American seamen from the species of
peonage in which the law holds them
and to require skilled men on all ships.
Then we should again become a sea
faring Nation, for men who now shun
the sea would take to it. We should
then build up a body of seamen as a
recruiting supply for the Navy ana
should not be compelled to tie up war
Bhips for lack of crews or to send
them to sea short-handed.
THE JOYS OF OLD AGE.
The esteemed Ashland Tidings phil
osophizes with serene sagacity upon
the blessedness of old age. "We're not
at all convinced," it observes with
tempered confidence, "that ripe old
age isn't the best estate of all, for
then the heart is mellowed, the mind
matured and the spirit seasoned, while
in the treasury of memory are stored
innumerable Joys the better for the
enchantment which distance lends."
This Is put forth to chasten the
forward enterprise of the enthusiasts
who seek for the secret of perpetual
youth. Some of them, the Tidings re
marks with pardonable displeasure,
promise themselves through a regime
of "diet and exercise a life span of at
least 200 years, with a sneaking hope
of eternity." But no eternity for the
Tidings, whose hopes are unalterably
fixed, we take It, on a better land.
Forgetful of the sapid peaches which
bloom on the hillsides around It and
the delectable pears, whose flavor
even now is such as to make the pil
grims in Beulah envious, our ascetic
contemporary cries "away, vain Joys,"
and lifts its eyes In Inflexible renuncia
tion to the hills of Paradise.
What Is youth? A mere fever, an
unquiet dream, a hot Summer after
noon of passion which ends In satiety
and leaves naught behind but sad
memories and black regrets. The
only time when this vale of tears yields
anything like true happiness is old
age. One Is deaf then, happily deaf, bo
that he cannot hear the roosters crow
In the morning and the motorcycles
explode at midnight. If his wife
scolds it makes no difference. If the
neighbors quarrel he can interpret It
as a love scene. Blessed is he who has
no hearing.
Sight, too, goes with the years and
one Is relieved of all the disagreeable
visions it unfolds. Who cannot re
member seeing things that remain a
baleful blot In the recollection 7 In
old age, when the eyes are gone for
good and all, no such painful inci
dents occur. Happy old age! Cicero
wrote In praise of it after his youth
was Irrecoverably gone. Solomon de
nounced the worthless delights of
youth when his hair was gray and his
limbs withered. "Vanity of vanities,"
said the forlorn old preacher, tottering
on the edge of the grave from which
he knew "there was no return."
Shakespeare sets forth the charms of
old age as well as anybody:
. . . , 'Last acene of all
That end thl strange, eventful history
Is second childhood and mere oblivion.
Sana teeth, aana eyes, aana taste, sans every
thing.
RITUAL MURDERS.
The debasing effects of superstition
upon human intelligence are being
fearfully Illustrated Just now by the
progress of the Bellis case In Russia.
This man Is a Jew, who has been ac
cused of committing a ritual murder.
The circumstances are these. On
March 12, 1911, a Russian lad named
Yuschlnsky was found dead In Kieff.
The first and most natural supposi
tion was that he had been killed by
his own stepfather to collect his life
insurance. This theory, which was
commonly believed by the neighbors,
explained everything connected with
the incident except the savage mutila
tion of the boy's body. Why should
his stepfather have gone to such an
excess 7 Another theory also gained
some little credence. Yuschlnsky had
been in the habit of playing about the
premises of a courtesan who harbored
a band of criminals. They may have
suspected that he had learned some
of their secrets and to prevent any In
convenient disclosures they perhaps
put him out of the way. If this was
the true story of the murder one may
suppose that the ruffians mutilated
his body from sheer delight In cruelty.
Thus the matter stood for a time. The
crime was not fully accounted for and
the public mind was ready for any
new explanation which might accord
with Its prejudices.
At this stage the story came to the
ears of a Russian politician named
Markov, who was exerting himself to
prevent the abolishment of the "Jew
ish Pale." This Is a barbarous Rus
sian institution which confines the
Jews within certain territorial limits.
Markov conceived the hideous thought
that he might use the murder of
Yuschlnsky to arouse anti-Jewish
prejudice and thus prevent the im
pending reform. He hastened to Kieff,
where he held a conference with the
Black Hundred leaders, who have
time and again deluged Russia with
blood In defence of tyranny and soon
afterward posters appeared which ac
cused the Jew Bellis of slaughtering
Yuschlnsky In order that his core
ligionists might use his blood In
their religious ceremonies. Race and
religious prejudice Is always strong
against the Jews In Kieff. The city
has already been the scene of fright
ful massacres incited by the Black
Hundreds and It was therefore com
paratively easy for Markof to obtain
credence' for his malignant falsehood.
The Russian Minister of Justice,
whose bigoted credulity seems bound
less, eagerly devoured the libel and
reported to the Czar that it had been
fully verified. Nicholas became his
easy dupe. The mind of this monarch
presents a strange mixture of good
Intentions and cowardly relapses into
vicious cruelty. After making a pre
tense of bestowing liberty upon his
people through the Duma ihe . coun
tenanced the murder of some of its
progressive members by the Black
Hundreds. His officials were present
at the Kieff massacres and made no
effort to check the mob, but Nicholas
never reprimanded them. He is more
completely under the domination of
a dire and unscrupulous priesthood
than any powerful monarch since
Philip II of Spain, whom he closely
resembles in the intense fury of his
Ignorant bigotry.
Without inquiring into the truth
of the ritual murder story Nicholas
swallowed it whole and set the entire
legal machinery of the empire at work
to convict Bellis. In the first place,
a special detective was sent to Kieff
to patch up a suitable framework of
the case. But this man happened to
have some vestiges of a conscience, in
spite of his training under the Rus
sian priesthood, and after Inquiring
into the circumstances thoroughly he
reported that there- was no evidence
whatever against the prisoner. To
punish him for his honesty he was
sentenced to a year's Imprisonment.
Such are the working of Justice under
a divinely-ordained autocracy. The
creatures of Nicholas and his Holy
Synod are now busy weaving such
shreds and tatters of falsehood as they
can make available into a plot which
they hope will suffice to convict
Bellis before a Russian Jury. Consid
ering the resources at their disposal
they ought to succeed, but there is
I some slight prospect that tneir in
ternal machinery will break down.
Meanwhile the eyes of all Europe are
fixed In contemptuous horror upon
this wretched revival of pagan and
medieval superstition. The Intelligent
clergy of all the great nations have
repudiated any credence In ritual
murders. They know very well that
the Jewish religion Is utterly repug
nant to anything of the sort. To
make the accusation still more ri
diculous the leading physicians and
anthropologists of Europe have de
clared that there are no traces of re
ligious ceremonial in the mutilations
of Yuschlnsky's body.
But superstitious hatred is superior
to evidence and common sense. The
Czar fatuously believes that the Jews
killed the lad in Kieff to use his blood
In the worship of Jehovah and his
legal machinery will go on manufac
turing evidence. The acousation
of ritual murder is old and high
ly respectable. The pagans brought
turlng evidence ad majorem gloriam
It against the early Christians and It
lent fury to the fires that consumed
tha martvrs. The Christian love
feast, which still survives after a
fashion In the Methodist Church, was
said to have a roasted pagan baby for
its piece de resistance. The reaction
ary Chinese accuse the Christian mis
sionaries of all denominations of kill
ing babies for their blood, which Is
utilizer! in the church rituals. The
peace-loving Quakers, of all people
in the world, were formerly accused
In the same way of committing holy
murders. When theological hatred
note nnf to malltrn an adversary it
does not permit small improbabilities
to turn Its course. Russia, writhing
under the double tyranny of its Czar
and theocracy, affords the world a
warning example.
Just to remind the Bulgarians that
the Turkish army of today is very dif
ferent from that which they routed at
Kirk Killsseh and Lule Burgas, Bnver
Bey has held maneuvers at recaptured
Adrlanople. An eye-witness says of
the Turks:
These are no longer the laggards who
tramped, sunken-eyed and stupefied, with
their backs bent under empty knapsacks.
These men are vigorous and alert; well clad,
clean and ven spick and span; completely
accoutred, maneuvering competently tinder
the direction of their officers. The exer
cises were most capably carried out, and at
the end of a hard day. of torrid heat, I
saw very few stragglers. , . ' . If the Bul
garians should attempt to retake Thrace
and Adrlanople they would find no longer
the sick men and the Asiatic hordes who
faced them before, but vigorous, disciplined
troops, that have been training for nine
months, and whose soula are hungry with
the desire for revenge.
This goes to prove that prepared
ness prevents war, while unprepared
ness is an open Invitation to attack.
Knowing the Turkish army to have
been regenerated and their own army
to be depleted and exhausted, the
Bulgarians do not attempt to retake
Adrlanople.
A pleasant little rivalry has sprung
up between our two National songs,
"America" and "The Star-Spangled
Banner." Zealots are debating which
Is the more entirely suitable. "Amer
ica" has the advantages of a strong
spiritual tone and a compass adapted
to men's voices. Its highest note is
only C. which everybody can sing
easily. As for "The Star-Spangled
Banner." there are very few male
voices which can manage both It3 low
est and highest notes. Its melody is
really for sopranos. This considera
tion may ultimately prove decisive In
favor of "America."
Wa have lust been reading about a
new kind of Itinerant preacher. He
la ft vmintr man who sroes about the
country with staff and scrip preach
ing the gospel of beauty. His text
is, "The things most worth while are
one's own hearth and neighborhood."
Tn molcA nnn'jt dwelling and carden
good to live In, to help one's neigh
bors clarify their lives or nate ana
fear, to build up brotherly kindness
nmnntr the n(orile we see everv dav.
this is his mission. . We think many
such itinerants could find work. The
harvest Is plenteous.
At last "a new and entirely suitable
substitute" for gasoline has been in
vented. In Great Britain the new
fuel for motors costs about half as
much as the old. If It is all that the
reports claim, It will make motoring a
more popular sport than ever. The
next desideratum Is a tire that will not
puncture or explode. Durable tires
and cheap fuel will make the automo
bile available to thousands who now
hesitate to purchase the attractive ve
hicle for fear of heavy running ex
pense. Dr. Kellogg, who Is a good man and
honest, says the world will run out
through saving the weaklings; while
scientists, also good men and honest,
say there will be only standing room
centuries hence. All now present and
accounted for will be dead a long time
before either happens.
What is said to be a "clever" coun
terfeit 20 bill is in circulation. If
you get one, give It to your wife. She
will make the Iceman change it.
Confining a man in the City Jail for
stealing a Testament is not enough
punishment. The Judge should make
him lay reader of the court.
Tf bh scientists say. the world will
be filled In a century. Just think of
the value of a corner lot in ortiana.
Four valuable paintings have' been
discovered In the home of a plumber.
Well, why not?
Th "Vlrl" who lives In or near Pen
dleton Is the envy of Portland boydom
below 15.
September Morn Is beautiful, but
the whole September day in Oregon
beats it.
The East Side owned Broadway
first.,
WAV TO SOLVE LIQUOR PROBLEM
Education and Supervision With Law
Enforcement Is One Recommendation,
CORNELIUS, Or., Sept. 10. (To the
Editor.) With great Interest I have
been reading the different articles in
The Oregonian pertaining to the traffic
of liquor. It amuses me that some of
our prohibitionists like Mr. Coe think
the use of intoxicants ran evil which
Is deep rooted and diffused amongst all
civilized races could be annihilated by
voting on a constitutional amendment
prohibiting it. Spasmodic efforts have
seldom proved a specifio remedy. That
prohibition has not prohibited, is shown
by increased revenue, in the Increased
consumption of liquor. The measure is
simply coercive and unpopular with
American ideas.
' Education, strict supervision in mak
ing and distribution and the enforce
ment of the law will do more to solve
the liquor question than all other force
ful measures. If liquor was used mod
erately, In a mild, pure form, without
the many Vile eoncoctions made from
tobacco Juice and other poisonous
drugs, the harm done would be nom
inal. How can we expect other results?
As a source of revenue, we tace uw
saloonkeeper with a license screwed
reason the saloonmen often will stoop
to petty measures in order to make
money will use inferior goods to make
me mosi proi.it, uiuueh -act.
and injurious to the drinking public
No doubt strong liquor is a curse
tha human rflra nnit hftftn thn lnCBnti'
to many crimes. But we cannot hold
liquor the cause of every disease ana
mnlrA 1 1 ....nenrv to everv crime com
mitted in this country. Mr. Coe stated
that there is less liquor used in Amer
ica than in European countries (except
Tt.lvl CM11 hnmirHriA 1 rated hieher
here per capita than in Germany and
infanticide wnicn tenas 10 enermiuoio
f. 1- nra.tlinlTv linlcnnwn in
iru. .a j
most of the European countries where
llminr la used extensively. It is claimed
by high authority that the American
people . are degenerating at a fearful
rate. After we attain middle age our
teeth are decayed, our Btomacns ar
hAi-nme altoe-ether artifi
ciai, hopeless derelicts. We cannot lay
nil t th. iiba nf llminr.
Apparently Mr. Coe means to show
by the larger consumption or liquor
In European countries the effects of
prohibition in America. But that Is
misleading. In Europe everybody from
the clergyman to the common laborer
uses some kind of liquor in moderate
way. In Germany farm laborers get
their regular quantum of liquor every
forenoon ana arternoon, wunoui seem
ingly bad effects. That does not prove
that the Germans are a race of drunk
ards, and in the beer gardens we might
see their families gathered Sundays
and evenings drinking beer and en
joying themselves socially, as is only
known among the Germans.
A. BENSCHEIDT.
BE OPTIMISTS AT DRAWBRIDGE
Hinged Smokestack Plan for Steamers
Rejected by Writer.
PORTLAND, Sept. 10. (To the Edi
tor.) I noticed in The Oregonian Sep
tember 9 an article entitled "Long
Waits for Little Boats," and signed ' L
E." Having seen a number of other
articles of a like nature lately, which
seem totally to disregard the steamboat
man's point of view on the subject. I
take this opportunity to point out a
few errors In thought upon the part of
"L E." and the other writers.
In the first place, I would like to
say that if this particular boat which
caused "I. E." so much lnconvenieru:e,
not to speak of the literary effort, were
small,, as he says, it would certainly
have cleared the Broadway and upper
deck of the Steel bridge, thereby caus
ing the public of only the three re
maining bridges any delay whatever.
As to the regulation of the heights of
the hulls, this we know to be merf
child's foolishness; and the writer of
that article would probably be the
ftrst one to complain, were he to bump
his head upon the cabin celling.
And now we come to the vital ques
tion of smokestacks, or "chimneys," as
"I. E." calls them. Now wjiile I admit
that the stack of every steamboat
could be provided with a neat little
polished brass hinge, I question the
good of such an article for purposes
other than purely ornamentation, for
on every steamboat there are always
two, generally' more, large, round
posts, known to steamboatmen as hog
posts, protruding from the hurricane
deck to a height about equal to that
of the smokestack. From these posts
large cables, called hog-chains, lead
down to the hull, and are bolted to the
keelson. Upon these hog-chains and
posts depend the rigidity of the boat,
and were these suddenly to break
while the boat was under way the re
sult would probably be the boat's
breaking her back.
So, you see, it would be unwise to
abolish the use of hog-posts and chains
in order to clear the bridge, and at the
same time mere folly to lower the
smokestack while the hog-posts still
stood. Therefore why not use a little
more optimism when a steamboat
passes through the draw; and a little
more thought before writing condem
natory articles concerning smoke
stacks? A READER.
MRS. PANKHtRST SOMETIMES MILD
Writer Tells of Her Visit to America
' IS Months Ago.
PORTLAND. Sept. 11. (To the Edi
tor.) Having read an editorial in The
Oregonian called "The Impending Mrs.
Pankhurst," I was much amused at the
manner in which you treated the ar
rival of Mrs. Pankhurst in the United
States amused, since to use slang
language, you hit the nail on the head,
and also because it brought back to
me pleasant memories of a previous
visit of Mrs. Pankhurst at Harvard
College one year and a half ago.
Now Massachusetts la an anti-suffrage
state, and when Mrs. Pankhurst
announced her address,, we wondered
what the outcome would be. The day
of her address my brother, who is a
college news correspondent, commis
sioned me to try to get into the stu
dents' meeting. I had no ticket, but
trusted to luck to get by the doormen
and to the thught that some tickets
would be distributed by the students
to their lady friends.
As I approached the hall crowds of
students stood about laughing and
cutting up in a refined manner. Like
monkeys, they boosted each other to
the windows and looked in, then fell
in head first. The hall doors were
closed, but would open every now and
then, as If a bargain sale were going
on within, and admit a few more, then
close tightly on the noses of those
left outside. There were many women
present. In the mad scramble at the
door I got by and found myself on the
platform with others, back of the
speaker, Mrs. Pankhurst.
She 'was a very refined looking per
son and did not Impress me as a
menace. Speaking In an anti-suffrage
state, naturally she might be tempted
to urge violence but she did not. That
she is clever, no one can deny. I don't
think she would be classed with Carrie
Nation, but if she does not create more
of a havoc among the women in other
cities than she did among the college
boys and girls In Cambridge, Mass.,
she will have to go to another country.
Any address that she may give In this
country would have the appearance of
the ordinary street meeting. Many peo
ple who were not In sympathy with
her would go Just to create a stir, but
I don't think there would be violence
displayed. HARVARD.
i
Wast the Physician Took.
Life.
"Did the physician tell you what you
had?" No. He took what I had with
out tellinir me."
MORE AS TO VVTY OS GRAIN BAGS
Falrplay " Think We Should Be
Pleased by Relief tn Part.
PORTLAND, Sept, 8. - (To the Ed
itor,) The writer apologizes for a
careless reading of the editorial criti
cised. He wrote from the Impression
made by a hurried reading rather than
from a careful analysis of tha lan
guage used. However, he yet fails to
see any Just ground for eritioism of our
Senators for their votes on the jute
bag provisions of the tariff bill, either
from the standpoint of a tariff for
revenue or from the protection stand
point, unless it be in the latter case
for any reduction at all in the duties
on this Item.
Taking The Oregonian's figures, the
duty at the present prices amounts to
1 6-10 per sack, while the proposed
duty, for which our Senators voted. Is
only 6-10 of 1 cent per sack. It
would appear that our Senators should
be commended for reducing the duty 1
cent per sack from the Payne-Aldrich
rate, rather than condemned for sup
porting the bill leavmg a duty of 6-10
of a cent per sack.
The Payne-Aldrlch bill was a Re
publican measure, supported by prac
tically all of the Republicans in the
Senate, including our own Senator
Bourne, who so kindly abdicated in
favor of Senator Aldrlch on all tariff
questions. But your criticism is not
that the Underwood bill, as amended
by the Senate committee, reduced the
duty 60 per cent, but that it does not
put Jute sacks on the free list Well,
a free trader might Justly make this
criticism, but a protectionist never.
We do not raise Jute In this country,
and we put it on the free list. We
are trying to establish the industry of
making jute bags, so we put a duty
on the manufactured article to protect
us against the "pauper labor" of other
countries. Can any protectionist find
fault with thatT
In the criticism of our Senators
which horn do you take?
F AIRPLAY,
The Oregonian does not perceive a
dilemma or any horns in the grain
bag duty question. Our correspondent's
premises are wrong. We are not trying
to establish the Jute industry in this
country, or, if we are, our attempts
have failed under a high protective
tariff that has not been changed for
18 years. Neither protection nor free
trade principles would be violated by
placing grain bags on the free list,
and the Underwood duty thereon Is not
supported by either Oregon Senator as
a revenue measure. One opposes the
duty but refuses to Ignore the caucus;
the other supports It because one firm
has asked him to do so. Mere reduc
tion of a duty does not aid an Infant
Industry that cannot make progress
under the higher tariff, nor does it
give the consumer the full measure of
benefit to which he is entitled upon
abandonment of effective tariff aid to
moribund manufactories. The half loaf
has Its best attraction only when the
full loaf cannot be obtained, and the
recipient is not pleased when he
knows that the giver could and ought
to have provided the whole.
ATROCITIES BY GREEKS DEFIED,
Stories of Massacre Laid to Untruth-
fulneas of Bulgarians,.
CAMAS. Wash., Sept. 10. (To the
Editor.) In the Oregonian September
1. I noted the telegram from Sofia cast
ing reflections upon the integrity of
the Greek Boldiers, and attributing to
them the atrocities, the massacres and
the dishonors of whicn the Bulgarians
themselves are guilty. For the past
number of years the Bulgarians by
means of their money and their hired
reporters have endeavored to make the
whole civilized world believe that they
are the Prussians of the Balkan Penin
sula, and their purpose was to be at
the head of the Peninsula or Amos, ttut
the last Greeco-Bulgarian and Servo
Bulgarian wars have stripped them
of the lion's mask, and shown them In
all their madness and barbarity, and of
what kind of people Is composed
the Bulgarian nation. The Bulgarians
fleeing everywhere before the Greek
bayonet, succeeded only In inspiring
terror to the Greek villagers and all
the disarmed populace. They succeeded
in spending their mad fury against
the helpless women and children, and
In destroying everything by fire and
bayonet. Now the Bulgarians see how
they have Incurred the displeasure of
the whole civilized world, and they re
sort to their old methods of trying to
cover their own atrocities, and show
their faces as guileless lambs, and
thereby contradict the scores of honest
European and American reporters.
The Greek soldiers, In liberating their
brothers from the hateful Bulgarian
yoke, never put their hands on the dis
armed Bulgarian people, or Inspired
them with terror, but took care of them
as of their own countrymen, revealing
to the whole world the true Hellenic
nobility. One great demonstration of
the Bulgarian fierceness Is seen by the
way poor disarmed people are flocking
by the thousands to saionica, ana not
only Greeks and Turks, but many Bul
garians as well, knowing that without
exception they will find help and pro
tection under the Greek flag. When the
Bulgarians left the port of Kavalla,
they destroyed the town of Doxato,
and of 4000 people only about 200 re
mained. They would also have de
stroyed the city of Drama had not the
victorious Greek army arrived in time
to prevent such a disaster. Even the
Bulgarian priests welcomed the Greek
soldiers as liberators, imprecating their
countrymen for their barbarity and
fierceness. The truth is the sun, and
though it be covered by the clouds,
the clouds will pass away, and the
bright light will shine In all its
splendor. MICHAEL T. MASSEOTES.
FACTORY PROMOTION FlTSfD TAX.
Property Owner Willing to Pay to En
courage Induatrlea.
PORTLAND, Sept. 10. (To the Ed
itor.) What Is Portland's greatest
need? More parks and playgrounds?
No. More boulevards? No. More
bridges? No.
I contend that if one-half of the
money soent for the above propositions
had been put into a factory promotion
fund, would have furnished employ
ment for many more men and women
than are Idle here today, and that a
vacant house would be a rarity.
I would like to propose a plan for
raising say $2,000,000 as a factory pro-
otion fund, to oe nanaiea oy a com
mission, or set of men, to be named by
the voters, for encouragement of fac
tories to locate here in the city that
would employ thousands of workmen.
As a taxpayer I would be willing to
pay a small yearly tax say oi i or
2 mills, for this purpose.
I would suggest that factory sites
be furnished free to any persons who
would establish factories here, ana bind
themselves to employ 100 or more
workmen for a definite term, of years
not less than 10 years. It would
relieve the situation very much and
enable the men and women who have
bought property on the Installment
plan to pay out, build homes for them
selves and families and help to improve
the city at the same time. Something
of this kind must be done, or many will
lose their homes. I don't believe any
body in the city or county would ob
ject to a tax of this kind for this pur
pose. L. M.. DAVIS.
Cbanglne III Political Views.
Washington (D. C.) Star.
"This man has made a speech con
tradicting what he said some tinia ago. "
said the paste-and-sclssors editor. "All
right," said the headline artist, "we'll
print it under the caption, 'Atmospheric
Change.' "
Half a Century Ago
From The Oregonian of Sept. 12. 18(13.
The order issued by the Secretary of
War to prohibit the exportation of cat
tle has been rescinded so far as this
Coast is concerned. Hereafter the peo
ple of Victoria can get beef from Puget
Sound without resorting to smuggling
or war.
The following named gentlemen have
been admitted to practice In the Su
preme Court of the State of Orcsron:
E. F. Russell, Jacksonville; J. F. Wat
son, Douglas County; J. J. Walton. Jr.,
Lane County; I. N. George, Linn Coun
ty; Messrs. Bellinger. Knight & Apple
gate, Marlon County; J. Locy, Clacka
mas County; D. W. Lichtenthaler, Mult
nomah County; J. S. Reynolds, Wasco
County. The examining committee were
Gov. Uibbs, W. W. Page and S. Ells
worth. A grand Union meeting at Pioneer
City, Idaho Territory, was held on Sat
urday, August 2!). which was called to
order by W, R. Keithley. H. D. Martin
was called to the chair and W. R.
Keithley was chosen secretary.
In the year 186S there were 187 stal
lions and Ave jacks in the State of
Oregon.
Contracts have been awarded to the
following parties for furnishing sup
plies to the Umatilla Indian reserva
tion: Ladd. Reed & Co., Fulling &
Hatt. W. H. Mead & Co., H. W. Corbett.
Baum & Bro.. Alex Dodge, J. L Parish
& Co, A. M. & L, M. Starr, Lord & Co.,
Henry Law, Eif elt, Neil & Co. and W. F.
Burnham.
Wesley's war drama has arrived in
the state, and will proceed to the towns
on the Columbia River Immediately.
After returning from that trip it will
be exhibited in Portland, Salem and
other places in the Valley.
There is a great demand in this city
and vicinity for hired female help In
families. Good working girls command
from 135 to M0 Per month. We pre
sume that 40 or 50 girls could obtain
permanent situations.
Twenty-five Years Ago
From The Oregonian of September 12. 1888.
Indianapolis, Sept. 11 General Har
rison's letter accepting the Republican
Presidential nomination was made pub
lic today.
Tacoma, Sept. 11 A mass meeting
was held in the opera-house this eve
ning and adopted resolutions declaring
that Chinese hopplckers would not be
tolerated.
Ellensburg, W. T.. Sept. 11. John B.
Allen, of Walla Walla, was nominated
for delegate to Congress by the Re
publican territorial convention. He re
ceived 15 7votes. T. J. Humes, of
Seattle, received 25 votes; R O. Dun
bar, of Goldendale, 84; Judge George
Turner, of Spokane. 27, and Thomas 1L
Brents, of Walla Walla, 3.
A force of 14 men has commenced
the work of grading E street. East
Portland.
Colonel Dudley Evans, formerly of
this city, has been appointed general
superintendent of the central depart
ment of Wells, Fargo & Co.
Commencing today, there will be held
at City View Park some of the finest
trotting races ever , witnessed here.
A lot of elk meat was displayed In
front of a market on Morrison street
yesterday, which Is believed to be the
first ever offered for sale here.
Girl Opposes Segregation.
PORTLAND, Sept. 10. (To the Ed
itor.) I see by The Oregonian that
there is talk of separating the boys and
girls of the high schools. I, for one,
oppose It, for if such should be done
the lady teachers would be so cross
with us girls that we could not study.
If there are no boys around to make
them "keep smiling," they are regular
thunder clouds.
A PUPIL OF HIGH SCHOOL.
Marrying a Man to Reform Illm.
London Sketch.
"Kate says she intends to marry Mr.
Plunks to reform him. "What is his
vice?" "He's a good deal of a miser."
Interesting Features
IN THE
Magazine Section
OF
The Sunday Oregonian
Oregon Girls Making Hay on a
Summer Day. Not all girls are
thinking of wearing X-ray gowns
and other frivolities. The picture
shows three who are useful to say
the least.
Life With the Big Circus of To
day. Leone Cass Baer contributes
a full-page story with illustra
tions describing her peep behind
the scenes at a big show. Tha
story is written in Miss Baer's
usual diverting style.
Colonel Roosevelt draws aside
the curtains of the Spanish War.
His autobiography is now com
mencing to brush aside the prelim
inaries and get into the thick of
things. The installment this week
deals with preparations for war,
and tells how he prepared Ad
miral Dewey for hi3 part in the
battle of Manila.
Lavish American Spenders.
How men and women .born with
gold and silver spoons in their
mouths throw their dollars around
with a prodigal hand.
Putting the Sun to Work. Do
you know that solar plants are
already at work in the Nile Val
ley? And that the commercial de
mand for such plants is develop
ing? What Makes Men 'Think a
Woman Beautiful? A psycholog
ical study of men and an effort to
find out what charms of women
they first perceive. A hopeless
task perhaps, but interesting nev
ertheless. Better Schools Are Coming. No
longer will the teaching of the
three R's .suffice to satisfy the
demands of the American people.
A revolution in school methods is
now under way.
Doctor for Sick Churches. A
story which tells of the newest
profession.
Tips They Come to $100,000 a
Day in New York. A study of
the excesses which the tipping
habit has developed in our large
cities.