Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937, September 17, 1913, Image 10

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Newspaper Page TextTHE MORNING OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1913. 10 mm PORTLAND. OREGON. Kntered at Portland. Oregon, postofflca as second-class matter. Subscription Rates Invariably to Advance. tBT HAIL.) Daily. Sunday Included, one year ! Dally Sunday Included, six months. ? palli) Sunday Included, three mouths ... Duly, Sunday Included, one month. - " Dally, without Sunday, one year .,, Daily, without Sunday. lx month! gjauy. Wlinvu; ouuu.j " Dally, without Sunday, one monm Weekly, one year Sunday, one year Sunday and weekly, one year . IB Y CARRIER) .60 1.50 .... 2.50 S.60 bill permitting a savin? of a million dollars In the disposal of garbage That city has enriched its contractors at its own expense. Its best hope of escape lies In the election of a com- mission-at-large, each member of which will be directly responsible for one department. Then a reform ticket is more likely to be elected en tire, while under the old system the wards are apt to elect men who will frustrate the efforts - of a reform Mayor, as In Philadelphia. Dally. Sunday Included, one year . Dailv. Sunday Included, one month . , nA.,nffuji money or now o nruut r - n.,r d.r. cTDrrii order or personal checa on your local baok. Stamp., coin f "f enuen riatL, i w r j i i u..a anrl fl.tlL iuii, inciuuinK - u . 14 tn IA nlfM. 1 Cent . to37iTi2nt.; 4 to 48 pages, a .cents ADVICE AND PRATER. Three weeks ago. before the Con- gress of the United States, President Wilson read a long message on the I Mexican situation. Among other things the President said: We should earnestly urge all Americans to leave Mexico at once and should assist them In every way possible. The New York Times, a newspaper friendly to the Wilson Administration cents'; 78 to fc2 pages. 'cents. Foreign post- and earnestly opposed to intervention age. double rates. I in Mexico, on September 8 printed a Eastern Business unices--- hl. diSDatch from Mexico City, in Dart as Vnt-lr HfUIlJlWlCsa UUUU' - 11 tl. NW n Hrsa hulldinaZ. ten mtdmco Office R. J. BldweU C. 74 Market u EurorxMa Office Xo. 2 Recent trt W.t London. POBTLAXD. WEDNESDAY. SEPT. 17. 1913. I follows: v American Cootuli in this country were advised today by the Department of State to use their Influence to prevent an exodus of Americans from Mexico. The Department Instructed them not to let Americans think they were ordered out of the country, but to make them under stand that the United States merely was solicitous for their welfare, and that they might take plenty of time to settle their CAUSE AJfD CURE OF HIGH PRICES. Tpu- rMt rfl!1cM 0f rtftrh I business affairs and need not rush away. What axe the real causes or niga American. In tho Mexican capital are furious Diices? Is the Question, which Arthur I and disgusted, not knowing- what to think nnr whul antlnn tn tab. The President and his Secretary of M. Evans asks and endeavors to an- wer in tne cnicago nUru-nc,.u. S(4te Qught t haye a better under He takes 1897 as the year wnen tne standing All that remains clear is cost of living began to rise and dis- that whatever the Americans in Mex- roisses as having existed prior to that ico do must be done on their own re date many of the explanations hereto- sponsibility. The unfortunate Ameri- fore offered. Such are middlemen, un- 1 .... T hiiir1rtr rnllrnnH ratfiS. Pol fl ,tr. waste of ' food on the farm I willing to pray for them. and In the home. He looks deeper and causes, whlcn may De con-i yiiiisiu! iiiuijj.iris sruus. that hope should be dashed, the I able. As long as a playwright ad- standpatters would have to face a re- I heres to these conventions no police volt compared with iwhich that of official would dream of interfering 1912 was a mere sputter of Insurrec- with, him, although the unavoidable tion. The great mass of the party will influence of his plays must be the co- not longer tolerate perversion of its ruption of his spectators. But the in- machinery to private ends or the hold- stant he seeks to portray vice with ing of the balance of power in, con- some approach to the hideous facta ventions bv states which have a mere- he is haled into the courts and ly nominal Republican voter If the charged with promoting immorality. standpatters should be so blind as to The ancient philosopher who taught persist In standing pat, they will find that mankind was crazy had grounds themselves at the head of a shat- for his doctrine. tered remnant of a party: But there is another superstition which helps to account for the inev IrartlA nnltoa inrrtcltlrir t n nlavs whlnh IT 18 UP TO MR. STADOO. K "ia Ttl, th rnn- When brought face to face with the ... .ii n .vr. choice between the spoils system and whe that , ce can be kept mo mem ovoiciii m n.o ojjKuium.om . t nf -ty.t 1t -nn o, nnnthilat- or income tax employes, tne oenato e(J Thig species of hypocrisy has passed the responsibility along to the pIayed so profItably into the hands of OTCreuiryiu.ireBu.,. xi una ji- commercialized vice that we cannot vided that for the first two years after wonder at tha determined efforts the enactment of the Underwood bill tn t-. lt Bltv(, , in Kome such employes "shaU be appointed by mlnd3 u ,3 no mere hypocrlgy. It ls tne commissioner ot xiitenmi xt.bv- an &rUcle of tne deepest faith. enue, witn tne approval or tne becre- We fihouid 8ay that Magistrate Mc- tary or tne .treasury, unuer sucn ruies ...h Wht-n. h sees and regulauons as may De lixea Dy soclal ylce deplcted truthfully at the tne oecreutry oi mo ncusurj to I thpn.tr tho ffwt nnnn him is the sure faithful and competent service." m it rha hart nositivelv By omitUng the proviso that ap- -nmmlttPri tho nin which thpv at out. pointments shall be made without To y,.m th. -.pnlIin. horrors of the complying with the civil service law, slums nonexistenL because they the Senate has left it optional with Secretary McAdoo to require that ap pointments be made In accordance are never mentioned in .the polite world, while the counterfeit sins of the theater are intensely real because the pledge contained in the Demo cratic platform by making merit the sole guide. He has the alternative of. distributing the jobs .among the office seekers. There is no doubt that those Senators who have endeavored to re- can residents In Mexico must admit, vise the spoils system will bring pres- witn tne conditions ram aown oy tnai he sees and hears them It ls by ths law. iie can, u ne wisnes, live up 10 curlous mental process that some of us come to the conviction that it la a great deal more depraved to tell the truth about sin than it is to commll sin. - however, that the Administration . is sure to bear on the Secretary in favor of the spoils system and, if they should succeed, those Senators will no doubt have a list of favorites whose appointment they will urge. It is up to Mr. McAdoo to decide names densed as follows: The Oregonian has a letter today in ,hi. eountrv trom a correspondent justifying Sena- whether a step forward shall be made Thl BouS African! RusTo-Japanese and tr LaFollette for voting with the Iu adoption of the merit system Balkan wars, which affected the world's Democrats for the Democratic tariff or a step backward in return to the TOari?xlniun?dJr2aaContnnaBtfona bil1- 841(1 complaining that 'The Ore- Bpol8 8ystem. Let us watch and see ".r . soTd ruction? whlcn ha. sonian had sought either to read the whlch way he wl,i decide. or whether doubled in the last as years. Wisconsin benator out or tne itepuou- j,e will try to mollify the civil service Growth of cities in greater proportion than party or to show that he had com- reformers by appearing to comply AstSnishinTncrea, in land values. ni1" political suicide. wjth their demands while really gratl- Exhaustion of the supply of free, ood II Mr. Laf ollette is now witnout fying the spoilsmen iana ior seiners. tne itepuDiican DreastworKS ne, ana :T"t0tt:L '-Mnot The Oregonian, is responsible. If Depletion of the soli. Mr. LaFollette has signed his own po- Growth in industries, which drains labor lltical death warrant he cannot and irom country to city. wiI, ot k t flx tne blame else- Waste of natural resource forests, oil, , . r. .nrf .nrt mnnoivilr of Iron mines. Where. In Voting for the tariff bill There is probably some story behind the laborer's "find" of that $650,000 necklace in London. It was lost and of course stolen from the mail. Through what devious ways it trav eled from the mail bag to the sidewalk where the lucky workman picked it up may never be known, sbut it ought to be, for it would make a first-rate story. Did the thieves quarrel among themselves and lose it in a fight? Or did one of them throw It away to spite the others? M MORA I, PIAY8. Out of the contention over two new plays, "The Lure" and "The Fight,' It looks very much as if Thaw were going to get away after all. Save for the benefit of an army of lawyers, it would have been just as well to have let him go in the first place. If he is Insane he cannot be extradited for crime, since he is unable to commit a If he is not Insane there ls a new kind or stage censorsmp naa i crime a higher scale of llvm. h. rlpfinitplv ahandonded all his Re- been evolved in iNew iorK. it iouks no ground ior snuiung mm up in an Sanitary regulations and pure food laws. I ...vu... .niionriiu nnH Tnnrin what ho I as though it might be a little cumber- asylum. So there you are. The one Increase In combinations that manipulate . .. , y. enmo In nrarllKo nnil irot It will nrob- Inminnim rav In the murkv hnsiness the markets. f -ueu a jjuauciii sucruiui:. ii u w - ' t ' A elanrn ovpr this nortpntnnq list be assumed that the Senator believed a-uy iul "" """" - uus -til" - I . , i ii.i.ti fA. ri than ho n d.raQh nrtArl fpnfir- I rl.'h i .Li i i i i I n ;j I niH acuan womn De DoiiLica.iiY t - . . - i . " Where we have not sown and gather- costly to him. We think It will be. Ul; method, present n Kurope Ing where we have not strewn. Wore senator ioiietw P "-7T "V " " than that, we have destroyed bv war ls'- tar" 13 lnH 1Bsue wiucn nao - r- -"---'"---- o ' " malnlv rlividprl the two irreat rjarttes J rested on. a cnarge or onenng an ira- STt Thlch ;rhave reaped ad foential el.ecUo, Protec- 1 gatnerea. we call a man a prodigal ' " , ' ,V1 o,o, t thm h Lay of the Anxious Fan By Dean Collins. With joy I watched you Beavers climb. And shouted gaily every time You gained a peg, until Indeed You had what looked a lovely lead; Then Bump! A slump! My spirits dump! You're still on top, there is no doubt But goshermighty! Please watch out! The sunny skies turned bare and bleak The while you hit that losing streak, And my poor spirits Hully gee! I couldn't keep them up on tea. Those slumps And bumps Give me the dumps; Oh, spare my nerves today, I shout; ' Oh, have a heart and please watch out. Once you were well beyond the pale; Now Venice treads upon your tail: And one whole week, nigh to its finish I saw the Seals your lead diminish. Take care, Beware, My feelings spare. Peace from my soul no longer rout; And, for the love of Mike watch out! A caucus decision is a holy thing which binds the vote and the consci ence, provided it is a Democratic cau cus decision. When It is reached by any other party, it is a oamnaoie I . . . . . . . aloacroi- T rv .nnv rT T n OTT1 nilT in.STPH.fi fl I I , Vi i o rlnn.l t-.r (hn r!cht r r inliVlrt- Mrhn whllo nrnrliirlntr nothing ennan- PUOllcans, ana me counter policy is ro" " , """6, - ....i. WHO, Wmie producing noining, squan- - , j-f-nJi.,. tho onso In tho wav usual ol nr.lrnn clinin nf norannnl tarni-ior-revenue ior tne imocrais. i -n ... v........, . ...... vi .w... ons tho Apumiilatlnns honupAthptl hv . ...... mL , s , , . Tho Rpniihlican who. In a reoresenta V VLtS W:"J tive caoacitv. aligns himself on any resenting the Shu.berts, proposed among lawyers, Mr. Untermyer, rep- victions. In other words, there are two kinds of caucuses, one good, nrodhrals That s whv it took 11 69 Wat issue with the opposing party compromise, which was accepted by which is Democratic; the other bad, f m to luy w ht we could have -ay expect to be classed among the the court Th moral ity r immora,ity whJch ls Republican. ,o surjDortem of that nartv. ' The Lure is to be decided upon Mr. LaFollette says the Wilson bY the grand Jury. The play will be I .Errors of Judgment on the part of tariff is a nrotective tariff. But he ls acted before them and if sixteen out those who pronounced the insanity of alone among Senators in that opinion. t twenty-tnree memoers pronounce j,on W- Davis and Oswald fj. Hansen The Democratic caucus does not pro- 11 moral tne prosecutions are to ue cured have cost the lives of two uselul claim lt a protective tariff; nor does discontinued. But if fewer than six- citizens. Thttt is a warning to give any other Republican. If the Wilson teen of the grand Jurors approve of it the benefit of the doubt to the rest of - ... C3s..vAw.M wnvfA y- nrlthrlrtiinf rha I . . . a.- -a i i I J J i Increased nrodnction of srold reduces tariff Is B"ood enough protection tor ,7V" lno no1 lo lno noiruciuai , io r o. r.n...n. in any Republican, there is no tariff is- P'? Irni tne stage, it ja aoaumeu nlac, when the question arises wnem the price paid In that metal or lt3 sue between the parties and Wilson is that the grand J"? r the mania is cured. eauivalent for commodities, thourh Nusl souna a nepuuucau on wio tariil as l tri 1 1 uat, ur uuuge, or um1 bought for tl in 1897 While many cry peace, there is no peace, for the waste of war has gone on at an accelerated pace. Wars ac tually destroy capital and Increase the rate of interest to be paid on what remains. So does needless armament. FIGHT OX KU3I IS DISCUSSED. Pull Together and Hit Hard Is Idea of II. I Sheldon. PORTLAND, Sept. 16. (To the Edl tor.) A circular letter has recently been sent out from W. C. T. U. head quarters, stating in substance that a campaign will be launched very soon for state prohibition and that the of ficers of the W. C. T. U. believe that 1914 ls the time for such a move, and offer the following reasons therefor: First That a large horde of aliens will soon be dumped on our shores be cause of the opening of the Panama Canal and that we should have the election before they can vote. Second That the women will cast a larger vote before they become en tangled in partisan politics. It is our opinion that our good W. C. T. TJ. women are mistaken on both propositions. An amendment to the constitution requiring full citizenship (five years' residence in the United States) to vote, will be placed on the ballot in 1914 by order of the Legisla ture and there is no doubt of its adop tion, so that none of those aliens who hereafter come can vote in 1914, and many of those who can vote on their declaration of Intentions in 1914, will also be barred from voting in 1916. It does not appeal to me that because a woman votes the Republican or Dem ocratic ticket, she will be less likely to vote dry. The great majority of the male voters who vote dry are either Republicans or Democrats. The fact that they are party men does not pre L.A FOLLETTE'S COURSE DEFENDED Senator Has Acted With Rare Courage, Says Mr. Lewis, ST. JOHNS. Or Sept. 15. (To th Editor.) Under the title, "Senator La Follette's Future," The Oregonian. on September 11, either attempted to read the Senator out of the Republican party, or to convince its numerous readers that the real bulwark of the progressive forces, due to one act, had committed political harl kari. What are the facts? Let us be fair and not try to deceive ourselves When Mr. Taft was nominated the first time for the Presidency, he stood on a platform that pledged the Repub lican party to make an honest down ward revision of the tariff. At least that is the way he construed the plat form, and that ls what he wanted done. But the power behind the throne said "No!" and, instead of a downward re vision, a measure that should have been entitled "An Act for the Aid and Relief of the Exploiting Interests," was handed to the people. The voters at once knew they had been buncoed, as they -were afterwards told they had been by such Republicans as Borah Cummings. Bristow, Hadley, La Fol- lette, et al.; and even The Oregonian at times severely criticised the same. Mr. La Follette knew that the Aldrlch tariff measure was not a fulfillment of party pledges, and that the act was not Republican in principle, and had the courage to say so. He had learned his party lessons too well to be fooled by any such makeshift, framed and passed for the benefit of the exploiting in terests. He was a member of the ways and means committee with McKInley that framed the so-called McKinley bill that gave almost instant relief to lan guishing industries, and during Its life brought prosperity to the Nation. Mc Kinley praised him for his work. Thus it happens he learned his tariff lessons in a school with a master for a teach er, and the people know these things, and now, while fighting their battles, are not going to be easily convinced that, because he refused to follow the leadership of Senator, Penrose, of Pennsylvania, in an effort to leave the Aldrlch lemon unplucked, he has gone far wrong or strayed from the fold, The language of your editorial in part ls as follows: "Many progressive Republicans have looked upon Mr. La Follette as a future leader of the party, reorganized under their control, and as still in the run ning for the nomination for President. His vote on the tariff puts him out of consideration. It gives good cause to deny that he ls a Republican. The above seems strange Republican doctrine under the present stress and conditions of the party, and, simply because another political organization has been delegated to redeem broken pledges of a now broken party, and has brought forth a measure that hap pens to meet the approval of a Demo cratic President, must a Republican Senator skulk at the crack of the predatory whip to retain decent Re publican standing? The measure, as passed, contained provisions for an income tax, which, probably, was a factor with Mr. La Follette in determining his vote. Re Twenty-five Years Ago From The Oregonian of Sept. 17, 18SS. Chicago. Sept. 16. Dr. H. S. Tanner, who performed the wonderful feat of fasting 40 days In New fork, is here. McMinnville, Sept 16. Three ' new cases of smallpox have been reported here in the past week. Yesterday Mayor Wheeler and Coun cilraen Rankin, Crosier and Lewis and a number of invited guests went over to Vancouver on the newly-constructed railroad. The marriage of Mr. M. M. Hunter, of East Portland, and Amelle Morgan, of McMinnville, took place yesterday at the residence of Thomas Hunter, the services being performed by Rev. I. D. Driver. The Chinese gardeners who have long occupied the shanties on the property recently purchased by the Industrial Fair Association have been ordered to move, as the association will improve the grounds. David Cole has a very handsome young elk in a pen at his place at the west end of Taylor street. J. E. Bangs, of the controller's de partment of the O. R. & N. Company, left yesterday for Denver to visit his mother. Nearly 3000 people saw- the decisive game of the Salt Lake - Willamette series for the Northwestern champion ship at Clinton & McCoy's park yes terday. It was another victory for the Latter Day Saints, the score standing 6 to 1. F. J. Goodnough "yesterday returned from Latourell Falls. He brought an account of a large forest fire which oc curred last Friday and Saturday. vent them from voting out the saloons, as they have done In 70 per cent of the territory of the United States, so that 46.000,000 people live in dry territory. They have gone right along voting ( garding an Income tax. The Oregonian their party ticket, at the same time on September 13 closed an editorial as votine to close the saloons. roliows: We should secure the repeal of the "An income tax is the most equit infamous so-called home rule amend- able, because lt can be proportioned to ment in 1914. The election in 1910 ability to pay and to the stake which shows that we are 15,000 votes stronger each individual has in the country. It on this proposition than we are on is the most convenient because it can state prohibition, and there ls no doubt be most easily raised or lowered in that we can repeal this amendment by accordance with the exigencies of the a l inalaritv and o into the state government, it is tne wisest as an osmnnle-n with the nrestisra the victory Incentive to National economy.1 will bring Senators . Penrose, Root, Lodge all With this amendment repealed, we Republicans voted against that idea 1 j r nntiin oWtinn- of the bill, and Senator La Follette this reduction is subject to a discount for the greater amount needed to do the business of a larger population and for the greater proportion con sumed in the arts. The excess over these- deductions appears in higher prices. All those causes relating to land axe practically one, and all work to gether towards the same result Ex haustion of the supply of free land has led to settlement of the ranges and to the increase in land values, and wastefulness with our National resources has contributed to that re suit So also has monopoly. With less. In the aggregate to eat. we pro linger, or Borah, or Cummins. If Mr. LaFollette is right as a progressive Republican in supporting a Demo cratic tariff, Senator Borah and Sen ator Cummins have violated their duty as progressive Republicans in oppos ing it. It is only a step further to zens and it will be taken for granted Scientists tell us the Big Dipper will that the impression made upon their pasa away in 200,000 years. By that minds by "The Lure will be about timo( perhaps long before, If Edisons, the came as audiences wouia expen- Marconis and others continue to mul ence at the theater. titilv on earth, the stars will not be This assumption may not be quite noeded as truides to earth, water an accurate in the present instance. "The aerlal travel: there will be a. system L,ure- nas appealed very strongly to ,,, transmission that will annl Hoflno n. nrorrpssive Rennblipan as a particular class of people in New hilate suace and time. one who stands in with a Democratic :. ui iU..u Administration. ' ers. wno nave attenaea tne periorm- The Louisville Courier - Journal Tint Mr Twls has Tnisf onroivprl the ances in large numDers ana nave man- -lapa isroW Yorkers as below Ken purpose of The Oregonian's 'previous tested their satisfaction by voting tucky mountaineers in the scale of article. It was an attempt to ap- viiy ivor oi tne py wneu. io clviUzation by saying: praise the effect of Senator LaFol- question or its morality was suommea In the primltlve sectlons of the Kentucky to mem oy tne management. It ls hardly doubtful that social workers are more familiar with the facts treated in "The Lure" than most mountains men are shot In the back, as they are In New York, but nowhere in the Kentucky mountains are women aismem- bered alive, put In pillowslips and thrown Into the river. its effect upon the mind of the spec tator. The theme of the play is cer- The San Francisco Chinaman, thrice rejected by parents of a girl he would marry, showed rare delicacy in solving lette'a action upon his own political fortunes, and no more. We think Sen duce less in. proportion to the number ator LaFollette has weakened his in- m - - I fine nets with th a Rpnuhlirftn nflrtv unrl mourns iu do iea, yet we are more . " " "r "1 ' ' 7 : mnri -h,r-v-mn r iikAtv hA and ai i a. - a a i Irs T ri pfi twit ri i ri iT T rn m TnA i iatti nrraiin I o - - particular aoout tne quality or -wnat " " . 7.T . .Z aro therefore hotter able to hidire of . , . . . . . i 1 1 mi i v niiii. we ni n 1 1 1 i i ri.i i iii I, i --- otm. ttuu. ucct iu ea.b u mucn. Ja- I " - u cation has Inspired the millions with l i.tui)uu.is which BtrinuiM Jtnln nsnor-ts ,f vlr. Tt is not rtonied n.nhUm Mo InhaloH ,0 onH Dm J1 tneir nanus or onng tne 1 a test of the strength of the move- hv m-hv that tho si,hwt la nn. ji.j tu, i ,oii ,m,o "Zt. " , . 1 'Vf " mo ment ror KepuDiican reorganization sented truthfully and temperately, but ment on the white man's method of " ' .uatl.,, nas oeen maae oy means oi a pou or )t i3 supposed by Magistrate McAdoo killing the girl first w J - v.uw. sevemeen tne miriy-iour meinuera i nrt nthp.rs tnn thA truthful rfpniotinn "ri ss a. -i a 1 I 1 T ...... .ol tno new concessional committee, 0f vtce is in ltself Immoral. Their if Junction Citv were nearer Port- aid there would be a large attend --w wv0i...unbj I LRU ldVUr O. UmJltLl UUllVCIUlUn lUlU. Imrn'riniiF -il-Q rt1-0i rV tV nltlirlntr a m lll.ii . M a.1 a 1.: 5 . j . "iwitiucuv u a 11 v- witn an occasionm minor reservation. 1 tam no emivooa mirth 1 - , 1 . .n 1. r . VL iavor tno reiorm programme It i scarcely possible to believe that man rnw th h.va nf hi vnnth Infl. tnnuffh rflrrlArt tn o-rnoas annntl . J v. .. C 1 irkl. I ...... 1 J J ' - u.i..v.. v 1 j iyjaM. uv acua.i.ui vuiuiiiiiio. i 1 1 .o ia m... 1 ih not, .inonimmia on. .i.....s o. ooulw, xiic provioes ror reauction oi coutnern proval of the New York social work Daca-io-ine-iarm movement nas taken representation in National conven- o, r, ho (mmr,ri h.,t th. .v. v, j aatnuugu uons. seating or an delegates electee most aridly conventional sense. If we a large proportion, are more enthusi- at orimaries held under state law tnd ,k. ,v, c no t- astio In urging others to go back to the seating of National committeemen at m a let that silAnoa flnri fnnniVirnr i or farm than in going themselves. The the time required by state law. Of the Ln moto tho ho.t trm,.ni t An eclipse of the moon was visible in Portland at 2:2 A. M. It is not uncommon to see an eclipse of half a dozen moons at that festive hour. fcieh nrtr. of lanrL oxh,.sHon nf tho I ", ,.., v... orcnara, tne Aicisamaras ana jmc- - ----- oc.cmcc". uui. vice ana lis consequences, or course ,r.,i n TrpJl,r,t Hnrl nprounted BUDDly of free land and denletlon of thn nno of thom t hoo on. . Manigai are ail present ana accountea -- ' I - " " .. .. .. "t- 1 we cannot approve ot acting sucn soil, all prompt men to scientific farm- proved and none has expressed out plays as "The Lure," "The Easiest ing, wiuca wm utilize me productive right disapproval of the programme, way." "Damaged Goods" and "Mrs. vyuui.jr ml Liio iiuiu to ms utmost, wnen lt ls remembered that the I w onfoooton" n m.hiin r,,t wuuv roiuiius luaieou oi uepieung majority or the committee ls com- the fertility of the soil. nosed of members of what the Boston Settlement of the range has so en- Transcript, which made the canvass. Jianced the price of meat as to tempt calls the reigning oligarchy of the farmers to raise cattle. We are now Dartv. it ls aDDarent that this oli- working out plans by which our nat- garchy has realized the necessity of if we believe in the power of truth to purify life we must deprecate all efforts to prevent the exposition of truth on the stage as well as in lit erature and the pulpit. One of the characters in Henry Ar- for, so an amateur must have sent the infernal affair to Colonel Otis. Auto speeders are being fined a dollar a mile for fast driving. Why not make it a day on the rockpile for each mile in second-offense cases? All the editors of the world in congress at the Panama-Pacific Ex- tiral resources Can be both conserved I rpnrimntatlnn nn nrnirranln linos I 1 t ... int.. 11 .n ,ln v-l . - lurjuira mcuui pay, iue xrypo- ns)tlnn , -.ofco a. o1s that Mars " , """5 muuupunwa. xnese men are not naturally inclined crites," declares roundly that civiliza- VI ' " , We axe improving methods of distri bution to the point where all will have as much food as they need and none will have too much, and iwe are finding uses for that which is un fit to eat. We are making war on to support tne progressive movement, tion ls a tissue of lies and it follows but they know that, if they do not that the instinctive otDositlon of our yieijv to it, tney iwni only strengthen DOUce officials to the Dresentation of the "third party and postpone indef- social truth comes from their uncon initely restoration of the Republican scious conviction that too much of it Dartv to cower. This necessitv wils I n.n..i di,nim tho hM. t. u.. . , I I nvuiu 130U. ...V JL lllO 11, j. n.u, oe no rorcibly impressed upon them by Del- mg world. Upon this hypothesis Mag- " , , . ,? egace w lcaersnam, or AiasKa, ror ne lstrate McAdoo's hosUIity to the per- j j -.. reiuaea to serve on uie committee ior l fnmati nf "Th T.iira" Is oosiiv ,,w. In short, most of the causes of high the reason that he ls -no lonsrer a Re- I ht horiiw nn .. . ... I - - viv-i j uu, wuv ivi; uuj viiici. vlw 1w.11 mi. tviua enumerates publican, but considers himself a I Though we may take it that a great have already been identified by states- third party Progressive. deal of police hostility to the modern """ K"!"usu' B"u. " m extern, Dy The success of the movement to re- drama, which deals frankly with vice .ii bucioi, o.uu n mo oj- I QUC6 SOUUiem reDresentaUon in tne I inH Its nnnsonnonroa o.1so. fnn. o Production of gold in this country is lowest since 1907. More and better products are being taken from the ground. The man who, like ex-Mayor Wright of Salem, has read The Oregonian for fifty-seven years, can "read his title clear." Scientists declare the Big Dipper will last only 200,000 years more. So ready setting the opposing Influences National convention depends largely kind of superstition, the officials are let us hasten for a last longing look, to work. The effect of those lnflu- on the committee's choice of members rinminntori Tnontoiix.-' h .i tj. ences will be felt only gradually, for from those states which have no Re- called "the idols of the market niaoo " " would seem that Thaw is quite how miict maAii, Iw Am ftA ..111 w,, . . t . r I . 1 . 1 V.- 1.. fciiv- u j "" iui. i puoucati representation in congress. 1 in other words, they are under the 11 I Hecuro o vmj mo must prooaDiy enuure xnere ls mucn sentiment among the lnsinn thnt whatovor is nnnvontinnoi American courts to oeai witn. iur auius jtrs iu cme tne eviis wnicn nonomce-noldlng Southern Republi- mUst be right and moral, while every- are mamiy or our awn creation, but cans in favor of this reform. The dis- thing that is different from the usual the transition has already begun and position of the committee to make se- and accepted must be wrong. To a lt will go on at accelerated pace until lections from this element or from the nnrmai nnsnnhistirnton inriivin.,..! it a rough balance is struck between our officeholders who oppose reform will seems evident that the way to make yrouucuuu uur neeua. e nave indicate wnether It lS controlled bv the vloo nhhnrront tn tho vnnno- Is tn no . j .1 . ii.. ji I - . . - I o xuuuu mi utusca ui mo uueue, we i stanopat reacuonaries or toy the pro- In Mexico "Viva Independencia" means "hurrah ror the right to nave perpetual revolutions." are applying the remedy, and we must gressives, patiently persevere until we have ef- RepubUcans In Congress mav as fected the cure. well make ud their minds that the progressive movement is stronger in Two more persons slain by former pict its hideousness as truthfully and inmates of the insane asylum. Keep vividly as possible. On the other hand, inaw in if we wish to make It attractive the natural process would be to surround Holland will soon give women .the it with delightful circumstances and right to vote. The movement is ir , i - - - w w o w q o 4m ! v l Lit uchq a a ,s. i(iii,r,g CL l-l - 1 o w How ineffective are reform move- the rank and file of the party than keep Its deadly consequences out of resistible. menu in ciues wmcn nave ing oio among tne senators and Representa- sight. uouiiaunnmu evstciu min vinra rep- lives. Aiany tnousands of Republl- resentation can be seen by the experl- cans who stood by their party last year ence of Philadelphia. That city elect- did so only in the hope and belief that ed Mayor Blankenburg, a reformer of a change of leadership would come the best type, but at the same time before another Presidential year ar- chose a Council of spoilsmen, which rived. Many of those who have since lias done Its best to thwart him. He returned from the third party have recently caused the introduction of a done so in the same confidence. If The usual pictures of vice seen on The I. W, W. is holding a conven- the stage are as false as dicers' oaths, tion at Chicago. Down with the unl- They represent brothels as scenes of verse! bright and beauteous enjoyment. Drunkenness ls made to appear hu morous. Marital infidelity is the sub ject of Jests and merriment. Promis cuity between the sexes ls made laugh. Every dog will wag in the Mayor's honor when the muzzles come off. It ls good to be alive such weather. in 1915 and close the saloons in 24 or 25 counties and thus get rid of these rallying places, this fire in the rear. and center our attack on the few coun ties in which the saloon still remained. Some seem to fear that the countle having got rid of their saloons, would take no interest in the state Ilgnt. Thev apparently are not Informed upon this K-reat Nation-wide movement against the saloon. Nicholas County, West Virginia, had no saloons for 24 years, and last year cast 13 dry votes to each wet vote. Preston County never had a saloon and rolled up a dry majority of 4000. All the states now planning voted for it. Now, which one of the above-named Republican Senators is most free from closeness to tho allied Interests, and which one, in your Judgment, would make the safest and strongest Re publican candidate for the Presidency? Mr. La f ollette believes in the often declared Republican principle of a tariff law that expresses the difference in the cost of the American and the foreign product, with the benefit of the difference going to the wage earner, and, if the Republican party had redeemed its promises to the peo pie, Mr. La Follette would not now be found in the embarrassing position of for state prohibition have a large per- belnK compelled to vote for a Demo centage of their territory dry under craUc measure in order partially to local option ias. - carry out previous Republican prom iMinteen uuuuieu 0.1m ises to the people. Presidential year, farmers win come Garfield once said "he favored a sys to the polls to help save the country tem of tariff taxation that would ulti- by electing their canaiaate ior i-resi- mately lead up to absolute free trade. dent and while there, 70 per cent or jjas La Follette gone farther than them will vote dry. Why not use their that? And, surely, Garfield was a Re partisan zeai to increase tno ary votei publican. We seldom lose a temperance election it takes rare courage for a man In but what we can count up stay-at-home public life to do as La Follette has dry votes enough to have changed the done, and to such a person the Repub- result. lican party ought to look and ought to When the temperance rorces agree follow, that early success might crown that the time has coma for a campaign, party effort. D. C.LEWIS. then a pull, a strong pull and a pull all together will win a lasting and glorious victory. H. L. SHELDON, Superintendent Anti-saioon ieague. QUESTIONS OX BIBLE READING. In Lite. Mrs. H. A. Demln. Why all this toll lor triumphs of an hour? tor.) Being interested in the Rev. Del- mer H. Trimble's proposal to have the Want Edition Would Be Used Schools? Asks Mr. Uthoff. PORTLAND, Sept.- 16. (To the Edi l'ouns. Life's a short Summer man Is but a flower. JJr. Johnson. By turns we catch the fatal breath and die. Pops. Tha trsdlo and the tomb, alas! how nigh. rnor, To be is better far than not to be. Sewell. Though all man's Ufa may seem a tragedy . SDencer. Bit light cares speak when mighty griefs are aumo - womci, The bottom is but shallow whence they come. olr waiter rlaielgn. Thy fate is the common fate of all; Longfellow. Unmlngled Joys here no man befall; . Southwell. Nature to each allots his proper sphere. Congreve. Fortune makes folly her peculiar care. Churchill. Custom does often reason overrule. Rochester. And throw a cruel sunshine on a fool. Armstrong. Live well; how long or short permit to Heaven. Milton. They who forgive most shall bo forgiven. Ballev. Sin may be clasped so lose "vre cannot see Its face "rencn. Vile intercourse where virtue has no place; somervllie. Then keep each passion down, however dear. 1 norapsun. Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear. Byron. Her sensual snares let faithless pleasure lay. amoiteii. With craft and skill to ruin and betray; craDoe. Boar not too high to fall, but stoop to rise; Aiassinger. We masters grow of all that we despise. Crowley. Oh, then, renounce that impious self-esteem. Beattle. Riches have wings and grandeur Is a dream. cowoer. Think not ambition wise because 'tis brave. sir William uevenant. The paths of gloryfeaa but to the grave Bible read in the public schools with out comment, I would like to "ask the following questions: 1. Would he have the Bible presented to the publio school children as divine revelation or Just as supremely excel lent literature of strictly human origin? 1 2. Which version of the Bible would he use in these readings the Maso- retic Hebrew version, the Samaritan Israelite version, the first CatholUc version of St. Jerome, the present Cathollo Douay version, the Luther Bible, the Protestant King James ver sion, or the Revised American version? Of course there are other versions. Is it not Important to specify which shall be used In the schools supported by all the taxpayers? 3. Would he have passages read from both the Old and the New Testaments? 4. What passages would be selected and by whom? 5. Would he have passages read from those books and chapters regarded as Inspired by Catholics and apocryphal by Protestants? 6. How would the interests of moral ity be better served by reading the Bible than by making a clear, direct. personal appeal to the intelligence of the children, and teaching them that a moral life is that way of living which is based upon obedience to natural and social law? H. C. UTHOFF. Half a Century Ago From The Oregonian of Sept. 17, 1863. SALEM, Sept. 15. The third annual fair of the Oregon State Agricultural Society was opened today under aus pices more favorable than any of its predecessors. Salem, Sept. IS. The largest and most enthusiastic meeting ever held in this state is still assembled in front of the courthouse and has been addressed by Governor Gibbs, the chairman; Gen eral Alvord, Judge Williams, Mr. Pres ton and others. Every sentiment in favor of sustaining the Administration was heartily cheered. Knoxville. Tonn., Sept. 6. The cam paign for the possession of East Ten nessee Is over. A great and glorious victory has been won. Such was tho rapidity of our movements that the rebels, taken unawares, fled before us without destroying property. The whole march of our troops was an ovation. Cumberland Gap, Sept. 10. General Ferris with 2000 men and 14 guns sur rendered on the 9th to Burnslde's ad vance. The following postmasters have been appointed: Jesse D. Walling, Valfontis, Polk County, and Thomas McMeenen. Pocahontas, Baker County. We were shown yesterday a very fine specimen of sweet potato, grown on the farm of G. W. Walling. MAX'S FUTURE LIFE IS CEB.TAI.V Investigation of Noted Writer Held to Have Proven the Point. PORTLAND. Or.. Sept. 14. (To the Editor.) Thompson Jay Hudson was "the Faraday of the future life." Since his "Law of Psychic Phenomena" was first laid down, there has not been a single fact or argument against the truth of his hypothesis; and carrying to their legitimate conclusion these principles, he follows with a scientific inquiry concerning man's prospect of continued existence. He adheres to "the strictest rules of scientific deduction, taking nothing for granted that ls not axiomatic, and holding that there is nothing worthy of belief that is not sustained by a solid basis of well-authenticated facts." He has studied the science of the soul precisely as the physical sciences are studied; namely, from an attentive observation, and a systematic classification, of the facts pertaining to the subject-matter." He has "an alyzed the mental organization of man and shown that from the very nature of his physical. Intellectual and psychi cal structure and organism any other conclusion than that he is destined to future lite is logically and sclenti- cally untenable." It has been many years since Mr. Hudson first laid down tho law gov erning psychic phenomena, but Judging from Maeterlinck s observations tno field has not changed. The idea of re incarnation might be comforting if there were any way of demonstrating its truth, which so far has not ap peared there seems to be absolutely nothing to show that after attaining the evolution of consciousness in the human staie the life principle re turns to carnata existence. And as Hudson explained and Maeterlinck re iterates, there is nothing In spiritism that may not be accounted for by tele pathy; and nothing In faith or mental healing, religious or otherwise, that Is not embraced by the powers of the subjective mind of man himself. If the wonders of the natural were better understood the tendency to lean on the supernatural would decrease. Yours truly, A. T. What ia ambition? 'Tis a glorious cheat Willis. Only destructive to the brave and great. Addison. Whafs all the gaudy glitter of a crown? Dryden. The way to bliss lies not on beds of down. Francis Quarlea How Ions we live, not years, but actions tell watKins. That man lives twice life welL Painful Method of Snlcide. Journal of American Medical Associa tion. Some weeks ago, considerable pub licity was given a case of accidental poisoning from bichloride of mercury tablets. The case was so -featured" as to lead the publio .to infer that cor rosive sublimate poisoning was not only a sure but -also a painless route to the other world. Since this accident. who lives the first tn0 Papers have chronicled, almost daily Merrick. cases 01 suiciae in wnicn Dicnioride of Make, then, while yet we may. your God mercury was the drug used. There is wr, , i- ?ilAnfl. William Uninn I . ..... ... Whom Christians worship, yet not comnre- "u uuuul persons hend. Hill. who, in lita of depression contemplate The trust that's given guard, and to yourself suicide, are restrained from taking the For livb.e w3now w. may. yet die wemust. fatal 8te.P the dreAd ot. th unknown Shakespeare. Canton tment. A little log cabin in de woods. Close by a splashln' stream, Whar I can lay dis soul an' res" An' of far heaven dream. No cares C dis cold wort' I feel, My heart am light an' gay Contentedly I set an' watch My oldes cblllun plajfr ity wife hoi's lovln on ner knea Our wee 111' baby blossom My ban' I'se got deep In de pot O taters an' C possum! Exchange, agony they may suffer in committing It. To such, the knowledge of a sure and painless metnod of death removes the only restraining influence left It ls fitting, then, that the public should be acquainted with the fact that there are few mooes or suicide more painful and in which the agony ls longer drawn out than that due to the taking of bichloride of mercury. If this fact were given the same publicity that was accorded the case of accidental poisoning, there ls little doubt that the corrosive sublimate method of self-destruction would cease to be the fatal fad It has recently become. j Banishing Lotteries In Italy. Omaha (Neb.) World-Herald. It ls probable that the lottery will be abolished in Italy. There can be nothing more demoralizing than lot teries supported by church and state, and the church has often endeavored to continue them after the state has abolished them, to forward charitable movements or pay church expenses, but a lottery conducted at stated times, according to law, encourages gambling of every kind and has always had dis tressing effects upon the poor, for most of the tickets are disposed of among them. . Money Thrown Away Every time you buy something carelessly or foolishly the chances are that at least part of your ex penditure ls thrown away. If you pay more for something than it ls worth, the extra amount ls practically thrown away. If you buy something that, through haste or carelessness, ls not at all suitable, a large part of the money rightfully may be said to have been thrown away. In all the varied expenditures you make, the more nearly you under stand what it is that you require, where you can buy lt most con veniently, and what the value should be, the more nearly you approach satisfaction and economy. With the wealth of information and suggestion always before you in the advertisements of this and other good newspapers, it ls possible prac tically to eliminate the wasteful and unnecessary habit of throwing away your money. Adv. A