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PORTLAND, MONDAY, SEPT. 9, 1913
' NO ITGHT; NO VICTORV.
The Emergency Board which met In
Salem Saturday and authorized ex
penditures aggregating $13,900 in ex
cess of appropriations grantea Dy tne
Legislature and rejected applications
for J5000 more, exists by virtue of. a
law passed In 1911, vetoed by Gov
ernor West and passed in 1913 not
withstanding the Governor's veto. In
his veto message in 1911, Governor
"West said:
Inasmuch as . there are going to be no
deficiencies during this administration, un
less tbey are caused by acta of God or the
public enemy, the passage of such a bill
Is unnecessary and wouid only Incumber
our statute books with useless laws and
further complicate our already complicated
system of government.
The action of the Board at Salem
justifies the passage of the law. With
out additional money no more rewards
for capture and conviction of crim
inals could be granted by. the state;
the law enforcement duty Imposed
upon the Governor by the constitu
tion could not longer be performed
at state expense; a building burned
at the University of Oregon could not
be replaced: necessary repairs on the
heating plant at the Tubercular Hos
pital, could not be made; . transporta
tion of the state's Insane wards would
be hampered, and a gas franchise in
vestigation' by the .Governor required
by law would not be practicable by
his office.
None of these matters denote ex
travagance; only one need of funds
that caused by the fire at Eugene
could possibly, be ascribed to "act of
God." Errors in calculations; undue
laxity among county officials; un
foreseen breakdowns in state equip
ment and other contingencies which
legislative forethought might at' any
session fall to meet were responsible.
The expenditures authorized were
not to repay deficiencies. By the
Ironical fate that often overtakes
gcrod Intentions the only deficiency
presented for consideration was one
created by Governor West, who had
promised there should be none.
By deficiency herein is meant the
expenditure-in behalf of the state of
money In excess of that appropriated
for .the purpose, such expenditure
having ' been " made without authority
previously granted by the Emergency
Board. Governor West has exceeded
the $1000 allotment for law enforce
ment purposes by $1500. He asserts
he has paid this excess out or his own
pocket and will be resigned to its loss.
Nevertheless he proposed that the
Emergency Board reimburse him or,
failing that, recommend its repay
ment by the Legislature. So far the
Board has declined to do either, and
we think with propriety.
The Oregonian approves the con
stitutional requirement that the Gov.
ernor see that the laws are enforced.
We would go even farther. We would
give him power to suspend any
county officer for neglect of duty.
But the law creating the Emergency
Board is ' plain and unequivocal. It
prohibits any officer exceeding the
appropriation provided for any de
partment of his work, unless he has
the sanction and authority of the
Emergency Board. Violation of this
provision imposes, under the terms of
the act, personal responsibility for the
payment of the deficiency upon the
officer and his bandsmen. The act
gives the Emergency Board no power
tot pay deficiencies already created or
refnit any penalty imposed by the
statute. It "tn provide money for sim
llr future work and it has done so.
Bt it cannot correct errors of the
past.
-.This Board has been In existence
since about June 3 of the present year.
It! could have been called together at
any time by the Governor giving writ
ten notice to the Secretary of State
that its deliberations were required
The appropriation for law enforce
ment purposes was not exhausted
until. after the Emergency Board had
become a duly empowered body. The
Governor has had four months in
which to apply for aid, but he has
preferred to go ahead on his own re
sponsibility and create an embar
rassing situation for the Board, even
though such course induced him to
conceal receipts and vouchers out of
unwarranted fear of attempt by
enemies to jail him.
The Governor's idea that a formal
effort to put him behind the bars was
someone's purpose has as little
sound basis as had the appar
ently Inspired articles from Salem in
which political and personal animosi
ties toward the Governor were re
counted as likely to. influence the de
cisions of the Emergency Board. In
the deficiency law there is no Impris
onment penalty provided for viola
tions. The only punishments are per
sonal responsibility for the deficit and
a fine. The proceedings of the Board
disclosed no other purpose than to
provide an orderly administration of
state affairs. Whatever there may
have been of lack of confidence in the
Governor's Judgment there was no
open personal hostility Indicated. The
character of the men on the Board
ought to have been sufficient guaran
tee against petty bickerings to induce
the Governor to lay his need of funds
before that tribunal as soon as it be
came apparent. Anticipation of a
bitter contest has cost the Governor
31500, and that is exactly what the
law says shall happen when the law
is .Ignored in that amount. But there
has been no victory. There has been
no fight.
practical finance from Mr. Henry's
scheme and planted it in their own
soil. Enlarging their crop of Spring
wheat, -they -take it to the elevators,
obtain warehouse receipts and use
them as cash in paying bills. Had the
revived Populist scheme of Govern
ment currency based on stored grain
been adopted, it would have ended in
Government or bank control of sup
ply and prices. Passing through few
hands In a restricted locality, the ele
vator receipt serves the same purpose,
but is open to no such dangers.
It
GETTING RID OF A SURPLUS.
The Underwood tariff and income
tax are expected to yield a surplus of
110.000,000 to 316.000,000. What will
the Democrats do with this money
when they get it? They surely will
spend It, for the very thought of a sur
plus is abhorrent to the Democratic
mind.
When Cleveland found a torrent of
money pouring In on him faster than
Congress could spend it, he demanded
tariff revision until he got it and
changed the surplus into a deficit.
But the Democrats have labored so
long with the tariff that they would
have no heart to tackle the Job again
soon.
Then the estimated surplus is
trifling by comparison with the
Democratic appetite for pork
could all be spent on improvin
creeks in the South, in erecting build
lngs at such towns as Jellicoe, Tenn
or In increasing pensions. As the
appetite grows with that upon which
It feeds, the hated surplus could soon
be changed into the familiar deficit.
It would then be necessary to raise
more revenue, ivotning wouia oe
easier. As reduction of duties
known to increase Imports to such
degree as to Increase revenue until
certain minimum scale of duties is
reached, the Democrats may, if con
Unued in office, again revise the
tariff downward on the revenue-only
principle. Or they may increase the
Income tax. They have already been
smitten with the beauties of that
means of raising revenue. Simply add
one to the percentages of tax all along
the line, and the trick is done. Or
raise the percentage of tax on large
incomes and everybody not affected
will applaud. Nobody in politics loves
a rich man nowadays, or at least, if
any man does, he carefully hides his
affection.
is
North Dakota farmers have not
ratted till Representative Henry and
his -friends In Congress secured an
amendment to the currency bill
basing currency on warehouse re
ceipts for farm products. If they had,
they would have waited a long time.
They' have extracted the germ of
DOLLAR DIPLOMACY IN ACTION.
Rebels . In Santo Domingo have
been given to understand by President
Wilson that they will gain nothing by
upsetting the government- The United
States collects the customs revenue
and after applying 31,200,000 to the
sinking funds pays all receipts up to
33.000,000 to the government of Santo
Domingo. From last year's income
there is nearly 32,000,000 due to that
republic, but the rebels have received
notice that. If they succeed, it will not
be paid to them.
This Is salutary discipline and is
apt to prove effective, for what la the
use of rebelling if the rebels can
capture the revenue? But what is this
but dollar diplomacy? It makes the
United States practical dictator to the
people as to what government shall
rule them. A president not approved
by the United States can be starved
out. Santo Domingo is In the grip of
the money power, personified by
Uncle Sam.
Control of the finances was no more
than was proposed by the Honduran
and Nicaraguan treaties, which still
slumber in the Senate. Those treaties
would have given the United States
the same power which Mr. Wilson
now exercises in Santo Domingo. That
power could, and probably would
have been used to squelch revolution,
just as Mr. Wilson Is using it.
What difference is there between
Mr. Wilson's dollar diplomacy in
Santo Domingo and Mr. Taft's dollar
diplomacy in the other two republics?
If that style of diplomacy Is good for
the one republic, why not for the
others ?
DISCREDITING MK. BRYAN.
President Wilson is coming to be
recognized as one of the most skilful
politicians who ever occupied the
White House. This opinion is based
on the success with which he has held
his party together -on the tariff bill
and steered that measure through
Congress; also on the ability displayed
In getting Congress to act on the cur
rency and to prevent that body from
digressing to any other measures. He
has induced both parties to give him
a free hand In conducting Mexican
affairs and has smothered all sput
terings of criticism.
No reflection is cast on Mr. Wilson
by saying it is reasonable to assume
that he has had in mind in working
for these successes not only the per
formance of his duty as he sees it.
but the forwarding of his political
ambition. To suppose that he does
not desire a second term Is to credit
him with less ambition than any of
his predecessors. That he nourishes
this .ambition is implied by his ab
stention from any direct indorsement
of the single-term plank of the plat
form on which he was elected and
by his statement that the platform
was not to be taken as a programme.
The greatest obstacle in the way of
a second term for Mr. Wilson and the
greatest champion of the single term
has been Mr. Bryan, who put that
plank in the platform. Mr. Wilson
could not ignore the services which
Mr. Bryan had rendered in bringing
about his nomination and election, or
the strong hold which the Nebraskan
had on the allegiance of a large body
of the Democracy. But with his keen
Insight into character he could not
help perceiving the essential shallow
ness of the man. He must have seen
that Mr. Bryan, intrusted with heavy
responsibility where actions, not
words, would form the basis of Judg
ment, would surely expose his own
weakness. Mr. Wilson could feel sure
that Mr. Bryan would so discredit
himself as to destroy his own influ
ence, eliminate himself as a Presiden
tial possibility and render any plea
for the single term ineffective as com.
ing from a man of thwarted ambition
making a last effort for that prize
which he had thrice missed.
Mr. Wilson's game seems to have been
to give Mr. Bryan plenty of rope. He
therefore sent the Secretary of State
to California for the purpose of ad
justing the Japanese question. Mr.
Bryan failed, as could have been fore
seen. Tnen Mr. vuisont himself .un
dertook to straighten out the tangle.
He let Mr. Bryan muddle with Mexi
can affairs, then took charge and
began carrying out his own policy, be
hind which there was at least a clear.
firm purpose. He let Mr. Bryan go
fishing for glory in the diplomatic sea
with his peace pact and watched the
gleeful Secretary land one poor little
minnow. Salvador. He permitted Mr.
Bryan to publish his Nicaragua treaty
before the Secretary had sounded the
REACTION BY DEMOCRATS.
Senate leaders on its prospects of rati- had come to such a pass throughout
fication and saw all Central America the empire that some semblance of re
rise in protest, while mutterings of form was unavoidable. So Nicholas
imperialism and dollar diplomacy established the Duma, but at the same
were heard among the Little Amerl- time his creatures set going a counter
can Democrats. revolution. The leading progressives
But the ereatest stroke of all was were massacred in hundreds or towns
Mr. Wilson's tacit consent to Mr. Bry- at the same time upon a common sig
an's Chautauqua tour. Though of nal. There is no question wnatever
Scotch descent, Mr.- Wilson has a but that Nicholas was privy to the plot
sense of humor, and he could see that thus executed. It was devised by his
Mr. Brvan would destrov himself by Intimates and carried out Dy nis on
making himself ridiculous. How dis- cials.. The design was to lay low every
gusted would be the proletariat at the head that contained any brains
revelation of the Commoner's greed throughout tne empire, ana it came
for dollars. How wounded would be pretty near succeeding, men, women
the National pride at the sight of the and little children were slaughtered on
Secretary of State's name sandwiched the streets. Where massacre failed to
on Chautauqua programmes between do thorough work the gallows was set
those of Tvrolpsn vodelera and aero, up and the forms of law were made to
bats, and at the sarcastic comments of mock at justice. The best blood of
European newspapers. I Russia was shed to gratify the malice
Mr. Bryan has become the whipping I of Nicholas ana his inramous lavomes.
boy of the Administration. Not only The czar ana nis vne satellites par.
have Republican newspapers jumped ticularly hate the Jews. The astonish
eleefullv noon him for his vaudeville lng thing which they call their "relig-
performances hut manv of the most Ion" makes the Jews "Infidels," and
influential Democratic newspapers that is enough to put them outside the
have stormed wrathfullv at him. The pale of humanity for a man like jMicrr
misstep of other members of the Cab- olas. Nobody who doubts the lmbe
inet are -forgotten, while all belabor cue raoies or nis creea nas any ngm
the dollar-chasing lecturer. Who says to live. Again, tne Jews are a re-
a word now of the Attorney-General markably intelligent people, even in
and the Diggs-Caminetti case; of the Russia. They know what liberty is
Pntirmstir.Rnrai nnrt th fourth- and strive to attain it. They know
class postmastershlps and the deficit what benefits science has conferred
which he could not find; of the Secre- I upon tne worm ana nunger to stuuy at.
tary of War and the speeches on an I They love poetry and the arts. The
adequate army, which aroused the Russian Jews nave aone more man
anti-militarists? Who cares to pursue any . other race to . give the empire
such small game while Mr. Brian is literature and a rational scholarship
in the pillory? For these reasons the Czar loathes
them. What he wants is a people wn
will never think, make no protests and
aspire to no reforms. The dark servil
The Democrats seem determined to itv of superstition is his ideal. Nicho
abolish the Commerce Court, which has' cruelty to the Jews, as the Inde
has reduced greatly the exasperating pendent well says, surpasses anything
delays experienced by shippers m se- that happened in the Middle Ages
curing final decision in railroad litiga- The miserable Spanish bigots banished
tion. Let it be clearly understood that the Jews, but they never organized
this court was created in the Interest systematic massacres of them. Nich
of the general public, not of the rail- 1 0las ' has actually helped to plot po
roads. Its abolition is most desired groms in more than one city.
by the railroads and only by the small At the Klshineff massacres, for ex
number of shippers who have lost ap- ample, the mobs were led by his offi
peals to the court. . clals, who acted under his orders. The
This court was established to hear beauty of it Is that while Nicholas1
appeals from the Interstate Com- I conscience urges him to slaughter the
merce Commission which hitherto decent Jws of his empire, it permits
have gone to the District Courts, then him to give his complete confidence to
to the Circuit Courts and finally tola gang of Jewish outcasts who have
the Supreme Court. Appeals He dl- filled his palace and mastered his Im
rect from the Commerce Court to the beetle intelligence. The Jews Azeff
Supreme Court, hence one tep in se- and Bogroff, who murdered Nicholas'
curing final decision is eliminated. As uncle, the Grand Duke Serglus, are his
railroad cases were required to tane most trusted favorites today. To com
their turn with suits of all kinds in pensate for this exhibition of kindness
the ordinary Federal courts, there he has forbidden the Jews to enter the
was .further delay, which is now I universities in all the cities of Russia
avoided. A prostitute of the race of Judith Is
The Commerce Court was created I free to go and live where she pleases,
to hear appeals on questions of law, but If Judith herself wished to pursue
not of fact, the Interstate Commerce her studies at St. Petersburg she would
Commission's decisions on points of be driven out of the city by the police.
fact being final. But the court began Such Is Nicholas and such is the state
wrong by assuming that its jurisdic- 0f the country over which he rules. It
tion extended to questions of fact, and is a scandal to the modern world
In several of its earlier decisions it
reversea tne commission on sucn ques- nn,... fnnndlini- bank in Ohio.
tions. These decisions and the Arch- .M-y, nnr,nnv ryire to own It ia in
bald scandal caused a demand for its charge of s. p. solliday at "Murray
Douuon, mcn was tanen up uy city. Hocking County, Ohio, who says
tnose nepuoiicans wno couia see no h. nn,aMnir it for Josephine Miller.
good in any measure recommended but the iatter aenles ever having had
Dy resiaent ran ana supponea Dy any interest In it. A contract madt
the Republican leaders In Congress of ln Aprll 1913 has been discovered
that time. But the Supreme Court .,-,., t1- y,aT,u nvas nolo1 hv W. A
reversed the Commerce Court on the whir unri a o. French, of Canton, to
decisions mentioned and ordered It to Rnnirtv and Miller for $2000. hut the
confine itself to questions of law. The latter 8ay tne paper was a contract
new court nas since Kepi witnin tne and that they were only principals.
limits or us jurisdiction, ana tne legit- Tne expianation of the unwillingness
imate abolition of the-Commerce Court to ownership is that the bank
will not be a step forward, but a step Hermslrnrs noo 000. hut has as-
backward. It will not be progress, but gets of ony jsg.ooO and the owner is
reaction, ii tne jjeraocraia tane "H liable for the debts. Some Austrian
step they will do so either to please depositors complained that they could
tne rauruaoa or irum uuuu, partisan nQt draw their money, and the Aus
opposition to a Republican measure, trlan consul stirred the state bank de.
wnicn was passea in tne genuine pup- partment into activity.
lit; til tercet.
The politically agile Francis J
plain TALK TO the czar. Heney Is kept busy casting the horo
It would be a blessed thing for the scope of the parties that he may ally
czartJNicnoias lr ne couia do maae to himself with tne prospective winner,
read the open letter which . the Inde- Originally a Democrat, he became a
pendent has addressed to him. It con- Republican under President Roosevelt
tains more salutary truths than he has and, when that gentleman . wandered
ever seen or heard in all his life. Some I from the reservation, followed him
of them, most of them, in fact, are So many Progressives are wandering
necessarily unpleasant, but they would back that he feels lonesome and fol
sit all the better upon his soul for that, lows their example. His movements
Nicholas Is the finest living example of may have been hastened by a desire
blighted promise. When he ascended to get back into the fold ahead of the
the Russian throne everybody sup-(great Hiram Johnson that he might
posed he was a progressive man. His attract all the Senatorial lightning to
disposition was humane, as far as peo- his own rod,
pie knew anything about it, and he
had given grounds to expect that ne i what has become of the movement
would Introduce reforms in the great , KDrinkle Daved streets with sand,
empire to which he had succeeded. that horses may not stumble and fall
That such reforms were required there when the pavement Is wet? Smooth
was no aouDt in any mmas Dut tnose pavement is very convenient to auto
of the black reactionaries, who for mobiles, but it is cruel to horses.
the moment had slunk away into hia-Man-s TOOst useful servant is entitled
ing. The Russians were sick of tyr- t0 some consideration.
anny. They were eager to see their
country take ranK witn tne civinzea Some of the malcontents who come
1 Ul L11C
nations or Europe, iney iongea to from th- East and return to write in
see the end of ecclesiastical and polit- a dismal strain of the Valley are com
ical aDsoiutism ana tne mtroauction mended to Mr. Kelly, of Shelburn,
of something like modern liberty. The who has made a net profit of J1800 on
throne had always existed apart from . e30oo farm this season. It is all in
tne peopie, sometimes a terror, some- th. ma though the soil helps,
times a source oi transient cnanty, ai-
waj s an instrument or extortion, a ne But u CVery American girl made her own
Russian nation fondly hoped that their clothes, as a club reformer recommends.
young monarch would transform these "hilt jrould women wno ,e r llvlnf
i.i.- . ,. . I do? There are usually several sides to such
i cauvi.o juiV oumcuuujs mui o questions. New York World,
tian. I Tn c-rt hltrhtv ImnrnhahlA Avonf tlipv
The writer in the Independent shows wnl,i, , u-nt husv for several vears
now one Dy one an tnese nopes were ta-hlnr th HrIs to aew.
uruiteii iii tne tuiiiiiinent. micnoiaa
1 . 1 ..
n not oruugiit to uai,s a solitary u. e The oI(J B,ur agalnst woman that
of the progressive measures which his ghe u e t make much of her
people expected of him. His reign has b0(J11 aiIments js refuted in the case
ucc.i uuiiiiu.iw uy mo wiiwi ui I ty,- WoVilnrtnn wnninn with a
ow .i. tn rcaim ot .inuosiure. t,nr- broke arm for 10 days and no know!
latans. miserable fortune-tellers, illit
erate and cruel priests have been
constantly at his ear, like the toad at
Eve's, and he has obeyed their sug
gestions only too faithfully. In all es
sentials he lives the life of the dark
ages. He believes all the foolish su-
edge of what was the matter.
Attention of the native boy who
thinks he "has no show" is called to
the case of the Norwegian farmer
who walked to his claim ln North Da-
lrnta tn 1879 o m H Vi o a left an aetata
lici.uuuiia "im:" v CI c llieil Jlullumr. worth 1700.000
no liuiiiu iiirio a.i e suun llllji9 tL3
At least one wreck has occurred
that was not due to spreading of the
rails that of the Rock Island at Man
hattan, Kan., which the Commission
declares was caused by a "mystery.
ghosts and witches. All the hideous
old slanders against the Jews, long ago
laughed out of countenance in the rest
of the world, are gospel at his court.
He knows nothing of modern science.
History is a sealed book as far as he is
MAnnAna All 1.1b lr . A n.1 a J ( .. -
of th. o7;tta roo,;V a. T o, hT. ;Vr' . When hostilities begin in Ulster, all
oj ,r,.0n-. Tkui, the Government need do is reassemble
man ruling over 'the great Russian a ew regiments of Boers a great
Empire. Nicholas Is particularly hos- rattny . " 1 '
tile to men of genius. As Milton said WCI -" "
et oil t vro nil ha faara anil hofo, 0-t-aq I '
abilities, and therefore surrounds him- ine , ,T, . n,
self only with grossly inferior men. Fifty-eighth General Assembly of Ten
His court is a living picture of the has ended without anti-liquor
French palace under the most wretch- leBU5lauon "
ed specimens of the degenerate Caro- cunea to can anoti.c..
lfn.rin.nti 1 "
With hlr Ignorance, as the writer ln Postmaster Myers Is laying In his
tha Tnrlanannant nolnta out onlv too holiday Stock Of Stamps, Which Will
clearly, there naturally goes bigoted inciuae an tno tne cUu,
crneltv. The mase. of crimen whlrh
can be charged directly to Nicholas' Clatsop County has done quick
account is incredible. It will be euffl- work with the murderer of Judge
clent for our purpose to select an ex- I Taylor.
amDle or two out of the astonishing
list. As everybody knows, he prom- Lecturing may nurt Brians pros
Ised his people a representative parlia- pects, but he never will admit it.
ent to escape the peril of impending
revolution. The abuses of tyranny I The Joke Is on the State Fair.
DANGERS LURK IN LITERATURE
Stern Censorship Required to Bar Rje
Ileiona Thought From Schools.
PORTLAND, Sept. 27. (To the Ed
itor.) I wish to express my ap
preciation of the courageous and
noble sentiments voiced by one of
those protesting against the use of
the Bible in public schools. Perhaps
my own reasons are not the same as
those of this gentleman but he cer
tainly shows himself a deep and schol
arly thinker. Very respectfully let
me exprese a fear that he did not go
quite far enough in his noble protest
It seems to me quite a risk to read
selections from the Bible to impres
sionable children, even in the home,
even though the parent read in a con
trolled and unimpassloned voice, (per
haps leaning a little way even toward
the other extreme and discounting the
statements read, by appropriate par
ental parentheses.) It would seem
quite dangerous, if he does not wish
his children to think the Book divine
because he does not think so. (Ah,
what a noble utterance!) There are
very few In all history that can com
pare with It, and those few, unfor
tunately, are in ill favor with the
majority of American citizens; so I
will not repeat them.
I repeat, is It not dangerous to per
mit the live coals from this volume
to fall in the tinder of young hearts,
even though the words be read with
an extreme lack of emphasis? What
havoc was wrought in the life of King
Robert of Cicily by the mere clerical
translation 'mumbled in his ear of the
words "Deposuit potentes de sede et
exaltavlt humiles!" That old incident
might be ln danger of repeating- it
self and we should, as guardians of
childhood, prevent the lodgment of
such seeds in the mind.
But we would go still further and
suggest that it were wise to bar ou
Shakespeare from our libraries as
quotes so voluminously from the Bible
and of course Browning and Tenny
son are impossible, If we wish to keep
the child mind untainted, for the pas
slonate utterances and the scholarly
reasonings upon Bible themes that sat
urate the poets' verses display not
only whole sections of Biblical teach
lng. but quotations with comments far
from unfavorable. Alas! and our ow
classic American poets (for we will
not mention Dante and Milton and th
great classic lights of other nations.)
must we bar them out? Yes, for th
safety of the minds of our youth. Som
of these poems are so much stronger
than even a sermon from the high
school platform could be we ought to
bar them out forever or run the risK
of having the tender minds turned into
grooves of thinking foreign to ou
own!
But pardon me if I really cannot
stop here. Even into some of ou
textbooks, particularly those in Eng
lish, a quotation from the Bible will
Inadvertantly creep because of Its lit
erary merit," of course. It is Strang
that the compilers of our textbook
have not yet awakened to the fault
less and wonderfully thrilling liter
ary style of the Koran and Buddhistic
writing. We really should expurgate
our textbooks. The writer as a child
read one day in the grammar, th
sentence, "O thou that nearest prayer,
to thee shall all flesh come," and that
single sentence has haunted and fol
lowed one susceptible life till a dear
delusion has taken root in the mind
so deep that it absolutely refuses to
be torn out, even though it is remind
ed again and again that the seeming!
wonderful deliverances, prosperitie
and benefits, which it thought a direct
sequence of the secret of that sentence,
are only a delusion.
And then all works of art must b
censored that nothing will arouse a
intelligent Biblical question in th
child's mind be allowed to remain, an
the old artists are too eloquent. We
can well afford to let Raphael go from
the youth's art gallery for have w
not the modern Christ?
Above all things let us as progres
slve Portland people, saluting the com
lng- cosmic religion, fnara to aerin
it, but still we are told it is coming,"
forbid our children ever to look at a
dollar or any gold or silver coin of
the realm, lest here they should read
the old cry of the writer of the Psalms,
"valuable as a literary document," "In
God we trust." Who knows the length
to which investigation of the history
of its inscription might lead all im
pressionable youth?
R, T. WETBUKX.
LA FOLLETTE EXPLANATION WEAK
Either He la Wrong or Democrats Have
Abandoned Old Principles. ,
PORTLAND, Sept. 24. (To the Edi
tor.) Senator La Follette voted with
the Democrats for their tariff bill, and
In the first number of his paper there
after he has a two-page article endeav
oring to justify his action. To me his
apology Is not sufficient. I cannpt un
derstand how he or any other person
can vote with the Democrats on the
strongest partisan question possible
and still remain in the Republican
party. If he votes with the Democrats
for conscientious reasons and honestly
believes the free trade principles of the
Democratic party are the best for the
people, how can he honestly, consclen
tiously and reasonably remain in the
Republican party? Why does he nol
sever all connection with the RepubH
can party and affiliate with the Demo
cratlc party?
I am sure the Republican party
would be much better off if he, and all
others who are sailing under its ban
ner, but are -enemies of the principles
It stands for, would" get out and make
an open, fair fight, and not pretend to
be Republicans when in truth and fact
they are not. I will quote from the
Senator s apology:
It Is obvious, therefore, that this "com
Detitlve tariff bill" is constructed upon a plan
that is not so wiaeiy at variance witn tne
strict aDDlieatlon at the principle con
tended for by progressive Republicans: that
is, the ainerence in me cost ot proauuuou
at home and abroad.
I cannot see why he endeavors to
claim that progressive Republicans ex
clusively contended for tariff adjust
ment to the difference between the cost
at home and abroad. That position
was first taken by ex-President Taft,
and was argued by him all through the
1912 campaign, but was not the issue in
the 190$ campaign, as he claims. The
Republicans stand upon that principle
that American labor is entitled to
that amount of protection. The Demo
crats are the original standpat reac
tionaries. They all through the last
campaign held the same position that
they have been fighting for more than
30 years, that protection was uncon-
tltutional and robbery. If it Is a fact
they have offered the kind of a tariff
bill Senator La Follette claims they
have in his apology, we would be glad
to know that after years and years of
fighting they, at the very hour of their
success, would acknowledge their er
ror and pass a moderate protective
measure a Republican measure and
according to the Senator, this is what
they have done.
But no one else aside from Senator
La Follette and Senator Poindexter be
lieve that they have. The Senator's
defense is about the weakest article I
have read from his pen. A few years
hence, when the Senator is a candidate
for the Presidency and still running as a
Republican, he will stand before his
audience and advise allegiance to the
principles he espouses those of the
Republican party. I think he made a
mistake, and he being a strong par
tisan there are so many statements in
his defense that would look so differ
ent to one not guided by self-Interest
and interpreted by a person who was
isinterested.
C B. LA FOLLETTE,
ADORNMENT ONCE MALE'S PART
Women Will Ultimately Think More of
Time, Money and Intelligence.
PORTLAND, Sept. 27. (To the Edi
tor.) As I sit in my office window and
watch the feminine display of wearing
apparel on the street below I am at
times amused, indignant or sorrowful.
Being a woman I know the sensation
of wearing clothes that attract the
attention of men and women on the
street. It is this sensation that most
of them are looking for when they
appear in slit skirts and X-ray gowns.
I suppose that it is the same quality
of feeling that the male gallinacea ex
periences when adorned in gay plumage
he struts among his lady loves to in
spire love and admiration. Women
have now the only female of the ani
mal world, I believe taken the part
the male has heretofore had, and ar
rayed herself in gorgeous attire, there
by usurping the privilege nature has
bestowed upon the male. The colors
with which she adorns her hat as well
as the articles themselves are from the
male bird. However, she is going na
ture one better insomuch as she has
the whole of nature to pluck from and
many mechanical devices working night
and day to outstrip what has hereto
fore been accomplished in this direc
tion. With bird or flower-like hat and
feathers with spitz-dog tail effect she
is to be recognized. Many claws and
heads of animals go to make up her
furs.
We have to return only a few hun
dred years ln the history of our race
to a time when the male was ln about
the same mental status as we find the
female of today. The gentlemen of
leisure wore slippers with buckles set
with precious stones, silk stockings,
knee breeches, gaily colored silk and
velvet coverings, wigs, powder and
paint and hats with long plumes. But
it seems that the men have freed them
selves from the primitive disposition
I to attract by outward show that daz
zles the eye. He has learned that with
his present mode of dress he is more
Twenty-five Years Ago
From The Oregonian of Sept. 29, 1SS8.
Washington, Sept. 2S. Eastern Ore
gon and Washington are expected to
derive much benefit from an appropri
ation of $100,000 to defray the expenses
of locating and surveying sites for
storage reservoirs at the headwaters
of streams west of the 100th meridian,
which can be used for purposes of ir
rigation Chicago. Sept. 28. The boom in
wheat continued this morning. Sep
tember touched $1.50.
Tacoma, Sept. 28. Colonel J. C
Haines was arrested this morning,
charged with being one with others in
the great conspiracy of smuggling
opium at Buffalo, N. Y. Colonel Haines
is the leading lawyer in the territory.
McMinnville, Sept. 27. At 1:15 this
morning fire broke out and destroyed
the following buildlnfrs: Dr. G. F.
Tucker. $11,000; S. C. Force, $2000; W.
A. Bingham, furniture, $3000; Logan
Brothers & Henderson, livery, $4500;
I. O. O. F., building and furniture,
$2000.
The hophouse of Dr. II. A. Davis at
Harrisburg was burned Thursday
morning.
Charles R. Hoyt has returned after
an absence of several weeks at the
Coast and ln Eastern Oregon and
Washington. His health is much bet
ter. In Hon. George Waggoner's quarry,
about 20 miles from Corvallls, at the
foot of Mary's Peak, a quartz vein has
been discovered. The assay shows
$724.97 gold and $1.29 silver.
William Kern, the well-known pio
neer, who voted for General William
comfortable, that it demands less of his i Henry Harrison in 1840 and who in
attention and that there are far greater
things in this world than making a
dandy of himself. Time, money and
intelligence are items with him.
Women have considerable to learn.
That which is a lasting attraction can
not be put on and ott at pleasure, but
is an adornment of the mind and heart
that requires a great deal of attention
and study to become self-sustaining
and Independent of the material and
frivolous things of life. She is some
degrees behind men in this respect, but
being, as I believe, more endowed po
tentially with a disposition for love,
justice and sympathy, Bhe will come
to her own ln time; the manners and
life of the male and female will become
more and more alike. When her sense
of values are aroused she will not
thereafter take pleasure in reckless
and extravagant adornment.
In summing up we can see that this
useless expenditure of money for
clothes amount to an enormous sum.
and that It is the manufacturers who
are reaping the immense harvest. Mil
lions of dollars are being milked from
the cities to supply a few with the
most expensive luxuries. A half a mil
lion may go for a necklace or a work
of art Imported from abroad, or spent
in travel in Europe, where the returns
of the wealthy are in no proportion to
the money expended.
When the awakening does come and
women realize the value of money and
the useful and needful way ln which
it should be spent for the happiness
and benefit of mankind, she. will no
longer appear on the streets as a
thoughtless, self - centered creature,
striving to create a sensation and try
ing to be more attractive than some
one else, but ln a way that one might
say that she looked beautiful but really
did pot notice what she wore.
BLANCHE E.
WO-VDERS ARE TOLD IN INDIANA.
of
Newspaper Publishes Impression
Oregon Gained by Visitor,
Muncie (Ind.) Morning Star.
Detailing their impressions of the
great Northwest, together with bits of
Interchanging history dealing with the
beginning of life in America's newest
territory of expansion, J. R. Martin, of
Daleville, who is now visiting on Rural
Route No. 3, Gresham, Or., writes of
the country where he and Mrs. Mar
tin are now visiting. His letter fol
lows:
'On the fifteenth of April Mrs. Mar
tin and I left Daleville for a visit to
the great Northwest, where two of our
daughters live. We arrived ln .port
land. Or., five days later. Not being
able to write to all of our friends.
thought perhaps a letter to the Star
would be of interest to all."
Portland is a city of 207,000 and
as modern and up to date as any city
in the world. In the Winter of 1844
A. S. Lovejoy built the first log cabin
in Portland. We went to Oregon City
on the electric line and from a high
elevation in one of the large paper mills
we got a splendid view of the great
Willamette Falls of the Willamette
River.
The Columbia River is the second
largest river in the United States and
along its banks are the greatest sal
mon fisheries in the world. No other
river on earth is navigable so far in
land by ocean vessels. We made the
trip to Cascade Locks on the Bailey
Gatzert, a steamer with a capacity
of 600 tons. The scenery to the locks
Is grand. The poet has written of it
n these words: We need no brush of
artist here, for nature's pen has
painted scenes so grand they so are
beyond the reach of other hand.
'The grand ramparts or mountains
6000 and 7000 feet high, rising from
the bank of the river, and their sum
mits assuming the shapes of turrets,
towers, domes and castles, present a
wonderful panorama to one on the
deck of a steamship plowing Its way
n midstream up the mighty Colum-
mia. To add to the varied mountain
scenery, we pass three great water
falls, one of them plunging through
the mountain gorge and falling per
pendicularly 800 feet.
At Cascade Locks more than 150
miles from the mouth of the river.
which at that point is 16 miles wide,
large steamers have to avail them
selves of the Government locks to
avoid the fearful whirlpool of rapids
at that point. There are many fine
trips about Portland. The one to Port
land Heights and Council Crest is un
doubtedly the grandest and by many
old world-girdling travelers Is said to
be the finest in the world. From the
trreat heights at Council Crest one
can look across the level plain on
which the city is situated and trace
the mighty Columbia in its windings
for many miles. And beyond the great
eternally snow-capped mountains.
St. Helens, whose white dome rises
one mile and three-quarters into the
clouds, and still along the same line
tands Hood, over two miles nign,
and away to the north stands Rainier,
hundred miles away, out its wnite
summit, nearly three miles high, is
plainly visible. The city irom tnis
point at night gives a view of an
alectric-lighted city, nowhere else
found in America.
This country out here has so many
mighty water powers that the elec
tric illuminations are wonderful. We
went to Cazadero, where one of the
great power plants Is located. It de
velops thousands of horsepower. The
dam across the great canyon flows
the water back many miles - and is
100 feet deep. A number of other
trips are planned for us before our
return to Hoosierdom. One of them
will be to the ocean, to Astoria, Gear
hart and Seaside."
tends to vote for General Benjamin
Harrison in November, offers to bet a
two-horse buggy, which cost $300,
against $250 which any Democrat
wishes to wager on Cleveland.
Monday the following named young
law students will go to Salem for ex
amination before the Supreme Court
for admission to the bar: Sanderson
Reed, Harold Pilklngtori, Henry F.
McClure, Harry Hogue, J. F. Beothe, J,
G. McGinn, S. M. Shipley. G. W.
Rowan.
Richard Clinton, formerly manager
of the Tivoli Theater, yesterday pur
chased the saloon of Herman Schneider
on Third and Alder streets, and in two
weeks will open a variety theater ln
the upper portion.
Half a Century Ago
Gold Coined In 1890.
FORTLAXD, Sept. 24. (To the Edi
tor.) Considering your publication a
medium for settling disputes: A con
tends $5 gold pieces were coined in
the year 1890. B contends they were
not G. B. E.
A is right.
From The Oregonian of Sept. 20, 1863.
Washington, Sept. 25. Dispatches
from Rosecrans dated the 22d say
the enemy's attack on Thomas' corps
on the 21st was repulsed handsomely
and Thomas' forces marshaled to the
position they were about to take when
assaulted. In two or three days Rose
crans will be able to resume the of
fensive. London, Sept. 12. The Government
has certainly resolved to stop the
steam rams ln the Mersey.
From the expedition in the Snake
River country: Camp No. 82, Camas
Prairie, I. T., Sept. 9. Our trip, so far
as chastising the. snakes, has been
fruitless. As we went south a detach
ment under Captain Curry found a
camp of perhaps 100 snakes at the
falls. But they showed no right; in
fact, they would not fight, so the cap
tain took two of them back to camps
Governor Conner has established a col
ony at Soda Springs on Bear River
for the especial benefit of disappointed
Mormons, particularly those called
Merrlsites, who disapprove of polygamy.
United States Circuit Court met yes
terday. E. W. McGraw, W. W. Payer,
J. J. Hoffman and A. C. Glbbs were
admitted to the bar.
We saw yesterday ln our streets
Dugald Mactavish, Esq., for many years
the popular chief tactor or tne riua-
son's Bay Company at Fort Vancouver
in its palmy days. Mr. Mactavisn is
now chief factor and manager ot tne
H. B. Company at Victoria.
A train of emigrants, consisting of
eight teams, arrived ln this city last
evening. They are from Nebraska.
ARGUMENT APPLIES TO ALL LAWS
Lax Enforcement Not Canse for Re
pealing Statute, Thinks Writer.
PORTLAND, Sept. 28. (To the
Editor.) In The Oregonian I no
ticed a contribution from a Mr.
Bruce Turner regarding blind pigs.
He is a traveling man and ln
his travels has taken note of the ln
efflceincy of the officers of the law
in various counties and makes it a
plea, presumably, for the license sys
tem as opposed to the prohibition or
local option system.
For a traveling man I want to com
mend him for his familiarity with not
only the names but even the number
of laws and what house they originated
in. A liquor attorney would not be
much better versed in these things
which, usually, do not concern a lay
man. For his powers of deduction I cannot
commend him. To reason that because
officers of the law do not enforce the
law makes the law bad would repeal
all criminal laws. As he points out the
transportation companies have to keep
a record of all liquor shipments and
this record is open to the officers of the
law, making it easy to see who is
receiving such amounts of liquor as a
blind pigger would have to receive to
gain wealth. In fact, the law he In
veighs against makes it easv for an
efficient officer to locate the bllnd
pigger. '
I sympathize with him in his deep
concern over the evil work of the
blind-Digger and as there are about 500
of them in license Portland, or were
a couple of years ago, he has a fertile
field here at home to work out the
salvation of his friends and neighbors.
E. T. JOH.NBOX
It DOES Make
a Difference
Not so very long ago it didn't
much matter, according to the
scheme of things, what kind of an
article we bought. A hat was a
hat, a suit of clothes was a suit of
clothes, one kind of food was ap
parently as good as another.
That Is all changed now. We
somehow feel as if we aren't get
ting our money's worth unless our
purchases are backed up with a
reputation. - We feel we have a
right, that it is profitable for us,
to know with whom we deal and
what the reasons are for doing
business here or there or anywhere.
Speaking colloquially, "we're from
Missouri."
' Nowadays we read our newspa
pers with care and we know a
thing or two about quality, service,
reliability, reputation, etc.
Let the careless buy where they
will, but we prefer to take no
chances, so long as we may keep
ourselves informed by the adver
tising columns of reliable newspa
pers like The Oregonian.