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Eastern Business Offlcea Verree Conk. Hn, New York. Brunswick building. Chi cago. Stager building. ban Francisco Of lice R. J. Bldwell Co.. 743 Market at. I'ORTUM), ilONDAY. OCT. 6, 1913. FOUR LAWS BEFORE THE VOTERS. The' Oregon voter has Just four weeks to devote to making up his mind how he shall vote on the four measures to be submitted at the spe cial referendum election November 4. Of these four laws, two at least, have been withheld from Immediate operation by persons or interests that have elected to conceal their Iden tity. Each of the four has been ref erended largely by appeal to the un wary or uninformed voter. Signa tures have been solicited under false representations, not necessarily with the direct connivance or instruction of the men who employed the petition circulators, but the public interest in the defeat of the laws has been so slight or apathetic that misinforma tion was naturally the ready Imple ment of solicitors who were paid so much per name. While under such circumstances a rebuke to referen dum abuse without parley or study of issues would be Justified, information will not hurt, but rather strengthen the cause of good government. The compensation act Is one that has been attacked from ambush. The bill as presented to the Legislature was the product- of an able commis sion directly representing employers, employes and the public. It was passed by the Legislature with only minor changes and by a large major ity. The voters are now asked to re ject it practically on the sole ground that some patriots of Indefinite Iden tity will later submit another meas ure of so far Indefinite betterments and indefinite details. The Oregon compensation act is a state - administered industrial insur ance measure, elective in form, under the terms of which the employer, em ploye and the state contribute pre miums which provide the fund for compensating injuries. The employ er's premium is 3 per cent of his monthly payroll; the employe's Is one-half of 1 per cent of his monthly wage and the state's Is one-seventh of the total of the two in addition to a direct initial appropriation of $50,000. Each employer and each employe in specified hazardous industries wih come under the operation of the act unless a written rejection Is filed within a stated period by either or both. The payments from the Indus trial fund provided in the act for death or injury are in lieu of all claims against the employer. Com pensation rates are graded down ward from 150 per month. These are the chief features of the law. The compensation act will be ap proved or rejected undoubtedly ac cording to the manner in which it ap peals to the workers. Outside the ranks of employers and employes, sentiment Is unquestionably favorable to the compensation principle. Within the ranks of the hazardous employ ments opinion is divided principally on questions of detail. There is room for dispute as to whether all the working features of the "act are the best that can be devised, but such controversies must be largely matters of theory. Compensation Is new in America. There is no adequate prac tical experience by which the vary ing phases of the industrial accident problem can be definitely solved. The law possesses a strong foundation. Its errors, if it has them, may far bet ter be corrected step by step as they develop than by sweeping away the entire measure and adopting another equally experimental. But the workers as a class need have little concern, in any event, over real or fancied defects In the law. The elective feature permits them to reject It and rely, in the event of injury, upon the present liability law. If the compensation act be defeated the workman will have only the lia bility law to protect him until a new compensation act be adopted. The employe has every liberty and ad vantage with the law that he has without it. But a new compensation law can be as readily adopted with the existing act in force as if the lat ter did not exist. Let this be thor oughly realized: There is nothing to be gained by anybody, except by the insurance companies and the damage suit lawyers, in destroying the ref erended act. In respect to the referendum on university appropriations, the oppo nents of Improvements at the institu tion at least are known. But other elements found in the compensation referendum exist. The petitions were handled in part by the same solici tors. Names were secured among idlers in the park blocks and where other indifferent voters congregate. The chief excuse for the referendum Is the professed intent to submit at another election a measure consoli dating the university and agricultural college. Yet buildings and equipment are needed at Eugene for the benefit of the present university generation. It is proposed to hamper, perhaps discourage, them in their pursuit of higher knowledge during the entire period they are at college, for even if the unlikely consolidation were ac complished, adequate facilities could not be provided before those now go ing to the university had completed their course. The appropriations at tacked are the following: For a new administration and class room building, $100,000. For an addition to the Library Building, 130,000. For repairs. Improvements and ad ditions to men's dormitory, $10,000. For repairs and addition to Engi neering Building, $15,000. For repairs and improvements to "Deody Hall." $10,000. For- extensions and repairs, to heat ing plant. $10,000. It is sufficient argument in favor of these appropriations to say that consolidation of Institutions Is a re mote possibility; that no new build ings have been constructed at the unl. versity for six years; that students are woefully cramped in living and class quarters; that the present plant is inadequate as result of state growth In recent years, and that the total of $175,000 appropriated 'is not excessive or extravagant. The other two measures are of lesser significance. The sterilization law has been grossly misrepresented as to the character of the operation defined in it and those on whom it may be inflicted. The voter is ad vised to take no one's word for what the law contains, but to read It. The fourth law referended provides for a prosecuting attorney in each county of the state and fixes salaries. At present several counties may be in one district and be served by one dis trict attorney. The motive for at tacking the law is partly personal and partly political. Some district attor neys now in office suffer reduction of salary under the terms of the act. The newly created offices are to be filled by appointment by the Gover nor and these appointees hold office until 1916, although a general elec tion occurs in 1914. In the opinion of The Oregonian neither the personal nor the political objection Justified a referendum on this law. A JOB FOR THE TWO LANES. Senator Lane has undertaken a task which will be rendered easier by his namesake, the Secretary of the Interior, in beginning war on bureau cratic rule over the publio land. The Secretary has announced his purpose to break down precedent and cut red tape In his administration of the publio land. By so doing he will de stroy the favorite Implements used by the bureaucrats in preventing the people from acquiring land. The Senator can give him valuable aid by procuring the enactment of laws which will require compliance with the spirit of already existing law and will sweep away the mass of regula tions and precedents in which the Land Office has become entangled. In order that the Senator's work may bring results. It is necessary that the Secretary be in sympathy with him. Former Secretaries have so in terpreted laws and so framed regula tions under them as practically to nullify them. Senator Borah can tell something about how that is done. His three-year homestead law, as passed, was a boon to the settler. As administered by Secretary Fisher and his subordinates, it was a nullity. It Is fortunate, therefore, that we have a Secretary of the Interior who will give the genuine settler a square deal, while showing no mercy for the mere speculator who seeks to acquire public land in the guise of the settler. The two Lanes may find a com plete reversal of administrative meth ods impossible without knocking off some of the barnacles which have fas. tened themselves on the Land Office and substituting new men men who know what It is to pack supplies over a forest trail, to clear land, grub stumps, build a shack, plant the first potato patch and make the beginnings of a farm. If such men were to be given, charge of the Land Office, . the back-to-the-land move ment would gain impetus and the exodus to Canada would cease. OREGON UNDER THE NEW TARIFF. Now-that the new tariff ia law, it is time for Oregon to consider the changes in the position of Its leading industries wrought by the new dutleB. We must adjust our business to new conditions, which open the markets of our chief Industries to the competi tion of the world. We had a duty on raw wool equal to five to seven cents a pound on the scoured fleece; now we have free wool. We had a duty on lumber ranging from $1.25 to $2.75 per thousand feet; now we have free lumber. We had a duty of twenty-five cents a bushel on wheat; now wheat comes in free. The duty on flour was forty-five cents a barrel; now it is wiped out. There were duties on milk of two cents a gallon; cream, five cents. a gallon; eggs, five cents a dozen; now all are free. ' Butter and cheese formerly paid a duty of six cents a pound; this is re duced to two and one-half cents. Oats will now come in at six cents instead of fifteen cents a bushel, and oatmeal will pay only one-third cent instead of one cent a pound. Cattle formerly ' paid $2 and $3.75 a head; sheep, seventy-five cents and $1.50 a head; hog-s, $1.50 a head; now all come In free, as does fresh meat of all kinds, which was sub ject to a duty of one and one-half cents a pound. Apples, peaches, cherries, plums, pears and quinces paid a duty of twenty-five cents a bushel; now they pay only ten cents. We had a duty of 30 per cent on canned fish; now it Is 15 per cent. Fresh, dried, smoked, salted or frozen salmon paid three-fourths cent to one cent per pound; now all are free. On Jute bags we paid seven-eighths cent a pound plus 15 per cent; now we pay 10 per cent. Wheat comes in free; the bags in which we ship our wheat are still taxed. These are a few examples of the bearing of the new tariff on Oregon's leading industries. Watch how it works. POLISHED RICE AND THE DEATH RATE. According to the latest news re ports, a surprising reduction has been effected In the death rate at Manila. Some time ago It was 35.43. At pres ent it is only 22.06. The reduction is about 37 per cent, enough to fill the souls of the health officials with en couragement. The cause of this progress ought to be interesting to the people of the United States, inasmuch as the principal factor involved plays a part here also. The disease which has been combated successfully is beri berl. By putting an end to its rav ages the authorities have saved thou sands of lives in our island dependen cies. The cause of beri beri, as science has demonstrated, is the consumption of polished rice. The polishing proc ess removes some of the essential nu triment of the grain and leaves those who subsist upon it subject to fatal in firmity. Since rice is the principal food of the Filipinos, the conse quences of using the polished sort were disastrous, as the high death rate of former years showed. The evil has been counteracted by persuading the inhabitants to use the grain in its native condition. It Is not then quite so white and clean looking as It is after the polishing process, but It is a great deal more wholesome. Much of the rice consumed In the United States is of the polished sort. Housewives prefer it because it is more (pleasing to the eye. But when the brown outer covering of the grain Is removed, the best part of the kernel goes with it. Nothing is left but pure starch, with some Inconsiderable par ticles of the more substantial ele ments. Nor is that all. In order to Improve the appearance of the rice still fur ther, various Ingredients are applied to it during the beautifying process. It is said that some of these articles are actually poisonous. Certainly none of them add to Its wholesomeness. Our markets are supplied with rice which has not been subjected to the polishing process and housewives who wish to look after their families' health are careful to secure it. The other kind is not a proper article of human food. BLIND PARTISANSHIP AGAIN". "The cardinal sin of Governor West is that he is a Democrat, and a crime of this magnitude is never forgiven nor condoned by the old-line Repub licans," declares th; Albany Demo crat. The cardinal virtue of the Gov ernor is that he is a Democrat, in the opinion of the Democrat. Therefore it supports him always. It has no other reason. The approval of the Democrat and other partisan' newspapers takes the form chiefly of" abuse of newspapers like The Oregonian, which find them, selves frequently in disagreement with the Governor. Tet they oUghrto have a broader view and discuss the Gov ernor's policies and actions on. their merits. . . - - The Oregonian, for example, sug gested to the Emergency Board that it support the Governor in his so called law enforcement policy by making an - emergency appropriation, so that he could continue the work. It had no Idea that the Governor had exhausted the fund months ago and was $1400 or more in the hole, and that he wanted the $1500 or more and his own $1400 besides.' The board gave $1500 for future work and it was immediately pronounced by the partisan press as a great victory by the Governor over the board. It was nothing of the kind, of course. But th hoard undoubtedly knew that in one way or another the Governor's newspaper and other friends would misinterpret its motives and misrepre sent Its actions. Tet it did its duty as it saw it, undeterred by partisan misstatement and undismayed by the political' opportunity the Governor would seek to seize and utilize. Let us have from the Democrat a candid discussion of the propriety of Governor West's action in usurping the function of the Emergency Board by himself In effect creating a de ficit and demanding that his extra nrrllnarv action be anDroved by out right reimbursement. Let us have from the Democrat its Interpretation of the plain intent of the law creating th Fmere-enev Board, so that we may know whether it is the duty of the Board to authorize the Governor or any publio officer to continue any necessary work after the approprla rlnn has been exhausted throueh the expenditure of funds by orderly proc esses? Or should the Board wait until the Governor or any other of ficer is $1600 or more out of pocket mnnilii after fL enApiflc legislative appropriation is spent and then give him back money already spent, how ever much or little It may be? Or should It make an appropriation of money thereafter to be spent, reserv ing to itself the right to investigate and define the emergency, ana to place a reasonable and specific limit upon the amount to be used? Is it for the Governor or the board to create deficits? Let us hear from the Democrat. WILL. ULSTER FIGHT? The question in British politics now is: "Would Ulster (meaning the Protestant half of Ulster) fight against Irish home rule?" The sign ing of the Ulster covenant by half a million men, the organization of the Ulster Volunteers, the parade of 11, 000 men in military formation through the streets of Belfast and the solemn declarations of their leader. Sir TEd ward Carson, ' encourage the belief that it would fight. The facts that the volunteers are armed only with dummy rifles; that, if they were to be armed with real rifles and fight, they would be in rebellion, while professing the most devoted loyalty; that they would expose themselves to danger of being utterly crushed; that their prep arations for resistance have been qon ducted with the greatest publicity all suggest that they are bluffing and aim only at political effect on English and Scotch public opinion. But the Orangemen, who compose the backbone of Ulster Protestantism, are not of the kind that bluffs, for they take everything very seriously. Nor are they to be frightened by great odds, for they are of Scotch ancestry and the Scotch have been accustomed to fight for their supposed rights or for their religious convictions regard less of odds. For centuries they have been the dominant "minority in Ire land. To surrender control to the ma jority over which they have ruled, and to become the subject race is abhorrent to their souls. Perhaps their leaders hope for concessions by making a strong bluff, but more probably the followers are prepared to make the bluff good if driven to ex tremes. This critical situation has led Eng lish statesmen to seek some means of settlement without calling the bluff, lest It should prove not to be a bluff. They have good reason for doing so. The Liberals know that the noncon formists of England and the Presby terians of Scotland are the bulwark of their political strength and are aware that these same people, being of prac tically the same creed as the Orange men, will find religious sympathy fighting political convictions In their minds and that they may balk at for cible subjection of their Irish fellow Protestants to an Irish Parliament controlled by a Catholio majority. The traditional loyalty of the Conserva tives causes them to shun the thought of countenancing open rebellion. They fear also that the Asqulth government might after all use force and not only crush Ulster but 'place on the Ulster Unionists the stigma of "rebel," which the Unionists have so often placed on the Nationalists. Thus a stain would be put on the Unionist record which could not soon be wiped out and would militate against them in future elec tions. Hence has arisen a movement among the moderate Liberals and moderate Unionists to compromise. Liberals have proposed a conference of leaders of both parties. Unionists are willing to talk with them. The Times, always opposed to home rule, tells the Unionists they must make concessions. Sir Edward Carson says: "Great Britain must be accepted as the arbiter between the two (Irish) parties." Unionists have been de manding an appeal to the people through an election, but this would settle nothing. If the Unionists should win. the extremists among them would Insist that that ended the home rule question, though their san. est leaders now admit some form of home rule to be Inevitable. If the Liberals should win, Ulster would dis pute the verdict and not yield an inch. Compromise seems the only way out, but that bristles with difficulties. Were Ulster to- be given a separate government, there would be almost a tie between Catholics and Protestants In that province and religious bitter ness would thereby be intensified. Any English statesman who can solve the Irish question by pacifying both the Nationalists and the Unionists must be a genuis of no, common order, for he will, have to settle differences which have with scarcely a known exception been settled by bloodshed. The Anglo-Russian agreement is in danger from friction about both Tibet and Persia. " England has al ways aimed to surround India with buffer states. She desires Tibet as the northern buffer, but Russia is trying to break it down, taking ad vantage of China's weakness as a suzerain. Afghanistan and Belu chlstan are the Western buffers, but Persia as a united nation is desired as a buffer to protect them. North ern Persia is Russia's sphere and is much the better half of the kingdom. Russia would like to partition the country and Russify her half. Eng land has the southern half, which is thinly peopled, unproductive and In fested with ' brigands. Negotiations are on foot for a railroad across Persia, which would help' to end dis turbance and to develop the country. Meanwhile England strives to keep Persia united and the strife with Rus sia has diverted attention from Ger many, with which country relations are more friendly since the Bagdad railroad agreement. The Progressives are accused by the Boston Transcript of playing devious politics in the Massachusetts primar ies. While professing to prefer A. P. Gardner to Colonel Benton for the Re publican nomination for Governor, they held him responsible for all the sins of .his party. Knowing him as a Progressive Republican, they no doubt realized his power to weaken their already attenuated ranks, and preferred a candidate whom the Democrats could more easily defeat. Then they could exclaim: "We did it." Publicity has had a beneficial ef fect on the New Tork City Judges. Since it was made known that the Tombs prison was overcrowded while they were taking long vacations - or holding short sessions, they have held two sessions daily and have disposed of twenty-three cases In three days, as compared with thirty-four in a week during the good old loafing days. If New Tork had the recall as a gun behind the door, they might do even better and the constitution would not crumble. The farmer assuredly has a hard time of it. In these days of elec tricity it Is hard to get a competent man to look after your generator and do other farm work. Then, too, chauffeurs are so unreliable and ex acting. In addition to these minor annoyances the same trials beset the countryman as the cityman in the way of extravagant children. The boy at the -university and the girl at fin ishing school . are writing constantly for money. As in New Tork, so in Massachu setts, the New Tork state convention sat upon Chairman Barnes, by recom mending party reorganization. Mr. Gardner, the progressive Republican candidate for Governor, demands the resignation of the reactionary state chairman, that he may appoint a man of his own stamp to conduct the cam paign. The old guard must go. Kansas' corn crop is only 30 per cent of normal, but the wheat crop is 15,000,000 bushels above the average, the state has made two big cuttings of alfalfa, has a fine se,ed crop and has built 2500 silos this year to use the spoiled corn as fodder. Kansas knows how to "copper her bets" on corn. A third Balkan war is threatened. Greece suspects that Turkey and Bul garia have combined to rob her of her conquests and is preparing to fight. There seems to be no limit to the possible combinations of the Balkan States against each other.. In many particulars it seems Impossible to conduct the affairs of the unlveree without giving personal offense to G. Bernard Shaw. ChlcaL'c Tribune. A Bureau of Cosmical Research might be organized to employ Mr. Shaw as an expert to devise a plan of reorganizing the universe. The man who can .mortgage a team and obtain money three times, o a T.lnntnn man ia alleged to have done, is wasting time teaming. He Is a high "financier" wnose energiea are spoiling. Somebody is booming Vice-President Marshall for a Chautauqua lec turer. Is his purpose to damage Mr. Marshall's political prospects or to di minish Mr. Bryan's gate receipts? 'As an adviser to some people what books to read and what pictures to buy, Anthony Comstock has his value, but 'that fact makes him a boomerang as a moral reformer. Discovery that radium and meso thorlum rays will cure deafness will bring a ray of hope to millions of af flicted people who have many times been disappointed. Many arrests are being made of hunters who kill hen pheasants, which means that many more are be ing killed and the killers go unpun ished. Thft bov hit by the President's automobile had a narrow escape from the secret service men. as a probable protege, he is In luck. The latest means of locomotion is the aerobus. Only too often it will be more correctly spelled by adding a "f" to its name. Peru at last is a free field for the missionary, which may or may not be a blessing. ' Sulzer is planning a coup with enough publicity to make it spelled "soup."' All these eugenic winners must be entered in a grand championship series. KILLED FOR HISSIX.G THE FLAG Color Bearer Strikes Off Offenders Head and Carries Body Away. The truth of this anecdote is vouched for by M. M. Palmer, now treasurer of Baker County, Oregon, who was a color bearer In the same regiment in Sher man's Expedition. The Army was nearlng the end of Its famous "March to the Sea," The neces sity of foraging for its support no longer existed as abundant supplies were now at hand. Strict orders had been Issued against all forms of forag ing by the soldiers in camp or on the march. A certain noted Illinois regiment was ordered to make a half day's march to form a lunctlon with a detachment of the Army a few miles to the south of the general encampment. me coior bearer of one of the companies was un. able to report for duty and Joel Parks, a member of the company noted for his valor and withal for his staunch loyalty to the flag, was detailed for the nost Before the regiment started on Its march the order against foraging was again - proclaimed to each com pany. As the regiment was passing through the fields of an old Georgia farm a flock of geese stood In a shallow pool valiantly hissing the passing soldiers. As Joel riassed the Keese he quickly sfdeBtepped, drew the iron ramrod of his musket and lopped tne outstreicneo neck of a particularly insulting gander, siezed the goose by its broken neck and tied it to his haversack and con tinued his march with the flag floating proudly above him. TInon arrival of the regiment at its destination that evening, and before breaking ranks for the nights camp, the captain of Joel's company stepped In front of his men. "Joel Parks, stet) to the front." Joel stepped forth still holding the flag aloft, the dead fowl In plain view strapped at his side. "Joel Parks, did you hear the orders issued this morning?" Joel saluted. "I did, captain." "Have you obeyed them on this march?" "T have caDtain." "How came you In possession of that gooser "I killed him on the march, cap tain." "That was a violation of the orders, Joel and -" Net. cantain. I'll leave it to yourself. It was no violation o the orders to kill this goose." "What do you mean? Tou knew the orders, yet you deliberately killed that goose while on the ' march. I am obliged " "Captain, as I was marching In order at the head of the company, bearing this flag, this gander insolently nissea the colors, and I'll kill any d man, rtihfil or aroose that hisses the flag." There was grim silence on the part of the captain for a moment, 'men a broad grin took the place of the threatening frown which he was as suming prior to sentencing the color- bearer to punisnment." "Joel Parks." .TobI a-ravelv saluted. "Joel Parks,, go to your quarters and and cook your goose. IT'S . MARTYRDOM ALMOST DIVINE, Slatera Suffering to Pleaae Man In Dress Congratulated by Sar castic Writer. PORTLAND, Oct. 6. (To the Editor.) In reply to the letter written by C. Al. 1 11 Alio csviii.1. ) : "TV,. T.iirA of Flimsv Dresses" may I extend sincere sympa thy to tnis gentleman anu iu mo vi"ci0 ii - wUa r, mnHA tn sniffer hu- KIl Ilia bca niiv ... - miliatlon through the perfectly dis tressing knowledge mat tney ro inno cently responsible for the immodest display of womanly "defects" as he puts it through the present-day mode of cress: T a naaHm, that t V, ( . rpnttfl 11 WO "IO-? o man speaks from his own experiences it is inaeea most uniununoio ivi mm that his personal charms have served him no better purpose, than to have made of him that unenviable type of man In whose eyes many women strive ... Something stringent in the way of . -VnnU V, a Anna tn Rnarp ureas iciui ui duvu'u ww these oversensitive, overmodest males the repulsion oi reeling tney mum nec essarily experience from the many shocking exposures of female "collar bones and anKles. i . . . oil Af i- TnnrA hasi said 11UI .1-1 L , " . - . of woman let us forget all the unkind things in view oi mis, niai. hc n.o i . , v. Aahan iinlnrAntlnnnllv -left UlUUftll jci imv0 ............... in his woman of the "flimsy gown" one little sparK or tne aivine, iur wiin.-n 1 V- trratafnl T4a flflmlln we Biivmu n . "i. "that he has seen her shivering in the ccla Wltn oareiy enuufi" viulhob wu-i .V,nai,. ' TVilnlr nf ft mlttPTfl. Wnu OUU18UU. j. ....... v. .., .. bly uncomfortable because of her great aesire to pieaae mei mawi MRS. ANIM SNETAG. SUCCESS HELD NOT AUTOMATIC What I Back of Impulse That Gives Correct Judgments Repeatedly T GOBLE, Or., Oct. 4. (To the Edi tor.) As a possible contribution to the ever-recurring discussion of the question of freedom or causality in human action I would submit the following: I have been told by one who knows him of the method of work of a news paper man In Chicago. His position calls for the making of . countless Judgments. He keeps the position and the good salary by deciding al most instantly "yes" or "no," as a thing is put up to, him. Acting thus on the first clear Impulse, he finds that he decided correctly nine times in ten. Is that an example of freedom or necessity? Incorrlgble dogmatists like Burroughs would, I suppose, dismiss it as "automatism." Conditions being right. It is said that a happy result follows as inevitably in the inner as the outer world. Very true. Napoleon said that God was on the side of the heaviest bat teries, but how about getting the bat teries into action, brlrtglJg them up from somewhere? Why lh it that one man. Napoleon himself, for instance, habitually gets there on time with his forces, while the most of us ex cel In explaining how it happened? Success, whatever may be said of failure, does.not look like it came about automatically. On the other hand, it is not the result of luck. The Chi cago man does not win out by flip ping coins, literally or mentally. No doubt, there are years of the most rig orous dicipline back of his capacity to utilize his powers at will. Again I ask the question: Is his work an example of freedom or ne cessity? PLURALIST. Bible Not Sectarian. PORTLAND, Oct. 5. To the Editor.) Let me utter emphatic protest against the groundless assumption that the Bible is a sectarian book, support ing particular creed or church. In the name of transparent historic truth let the ocean, air and sky be described as narrow and sectarian before we so charge that catholic or universal old book on which our civilization rests. Let us have done with this quibbling about versions even of this one holy record of divine revelation. There is no shadow of excuse for any religionists objecting on any ground to the accepted English Bible fount of English undeflled. Ours is Western civilization and a Christian Nation (so declared by our hlgheBt tribunal.) The common Bible stands or falls with all the first principles of this Republic's life. The Bible has imperceptibly entered into the moral air we daily breathe. Is this a time this age of wanton In surgency to deny our youth this vital moral oxygen? . F. M. B. SHAKESPEARE AND SCRIPTURES Partial Llat Given to Show Ha ftnoted Voluminously From Bible. PORTLAND. Oct. 6. (To the Edi tor.) This list of Shakespearean al lusions to passage In the Bible la for the enlightenment of the writer who signs himself "Profound Student" In The Oregonian. Furthermore, the Bi ble referred to ts none other than the one which is responsible for the be ginning of the Christian era In con formity to which "Profound Student" dates all his letters. ' Here la the list, the verifying of which will keep him moderately busy awhile If he carea to undertake It Bible- Shakespeare II Ken. 6:2-1 Ham. 6:2. Ham. 6:2. as You Like it, 2:3. Macb. 2:8. . Hen. VIII. 2:1. Rich. II. 6:8. Jul. Caesar, 8:1. -Hen. Vlil, 8:2. Rich. III. 1:3. Rich. III. 1:3. Rich. II. 6:6. Hen. V. 1:2. . II Hen. VI, 8:8. I Hen. IV, 2:4. . Ham. 3:3. Meas for Meas., 1:1. Mer. of Ven., 6:1. Loves La'r Lost, 4:8. Maob., 2:8. Ham., 6:1. Mer. of Ven., 4:1. Mat. 6:8. Luke 12:6. ' Matt. 10,29. Matt. 6:11C I. Sam. 28:11-1. John 2:19. John 2:21. Luke 6:37. Matt. 6:12-14-18. Matt. 6:84. Matt. 6:44. Rom. 12:21. Matt. 5 :!. Matt.l9:24. Acts 22:16. Rom. 3:28. Matt.l2:3a. ISO. 1:18. Matt. 6:15-16. Rom. 13:10. P8. 28:35. Heb. 1:14. P. S. 63:10. Prov. 26:13. II. Cor. 11:6. Prov.l:20. EccL 10:16. Pa 8:4. Heb. 2:6. Rev. 2T:8. Pa I. 19:28. EcoL 8:1. Luke 16:10-23. Rlch III, 1:4. Othello, i:o. I Hen. IV. 1:?. Rich. III. 2:8. Ham., 2:2. Rich. II. 1:8. Com. of Era. 2:2. I Hen TV, 8:8. t Hen IV. 4:2. Rich. II. 4:1. John 18:40. Matt. 28:68. Matt. 27:62. Ps. 22:15. Job 10:21. Ps. 90:9. Ps. 144:4. Job 7:8. I Cor. 18:31. John 14:80. Matt. 7:14. I. uke 8:24. Ps. 146:8. Prov. 22 :B. Prov. 12:15. T Cor. 3:18. Num. 32:23. Ex. 20:6. Acts 27:84. Ps. 19:1-8. Job 38:7. Prov. 22:1. Eecl. 7:1. Oen. 49:4. Josh. 8:1. Matt 4:1. Matt. 3:7. II Cor. 11:14. Num. 27:8. Oen. 2:18. Gen. 3:18. Gen. 8:23. Mer. or ven.. e:i. Merry Wives, 1:8. Ham., l:i. Macb., 6:6. Ham.. 8:1. Macb., 6:5. Merry wives, 6:1. Maob., 4:8. All's Well. 4:5. All's Well. 4:6. . Hen. VIII. 8:2. KIne John. 4:8. As Tou Like It, 6:1. Ham., 2:2. Mer. of Ven., 3:6. tctno- John. 2:1. The Tempest, 1:2. Mer. of en 0:1. Othello, 8:8. otnello, 5:2. Rich. III. 6:3. Rich. III. 4:4. Trol. 4b Cress., 8:1. Ham.. 2:2. Hen. V. 1 :2. Rich. II, 3:4. it Hen. TV, 8:8. Ham., 5:1. Oen. 4:10. Ham.. s:b. Rlrh. II, 1:1. rll Hen VI.. 2:8. Oen. 4:11. Oen. 4:12. Gen.. 7:13-IT. Ex. 20:18. Matt. 19:18. Fx. 20:18. Susanna, Verses 61-84. I Hen. VT. 1:8. iRlch II. B:. As Tou I.!ice it. o:. irom. of Errs, 8:2. Rich. III. 1:4. Teaa. for Meas., 1:2. Mer. of Ven., 4:1. Note Hallam sneaks of this passnite as "The most sublime," perhaps. In Shakes rere. . Pusanlia la tn the apocrypha. My limited knowledge of Shakes peare will not permit of a larger list at this time, as I have had to take valuable time from other pressing matters In order to Jot down these few. but I trust enough has been given to satisfy any open-minded per- Bon that Mr. Weyburn's reference to Shakespeare as a voluminous quoter from the Bible is amply siinnnrted by the facts. C. TROXELL. TWO FACTORS TO BE CONSIDERED Public Convenience and Company's In terest Locate CroMtowa Line. PORTLAND, Oct 8. (To the Editor.) In The Oregonian October 2, It was announced that the crosstown carllne would utilise the track already down on East Twenty-eighth street. This of course was welcome news to many, not to one locality, but to the whole popu lation of the East Bide from the Reed Institute south to Woodlawn on the north. Many thousand people rejoice at the prospect of this great improve ment and few realize the magnitude and importance of this line and the large number of people It will accom modate. The location chosen, being satisfactory to both the Portland Rail, way, Light & Power Company and the representatives of the East Side or ganizations is final. There are, as Is invariably the case, some localities . which do not enjoy proper car service, and this Is to be regretted. A notable Instance of this lack of sufficient and deserved car service Is the vicinity of East Thirty third street, north of the Sandy road. But for a crostown carline there Is no Inducement for the line on either East Twenty-flrst, Twenty-second, Thirty-third or Thirty-ninth streets. It Is unfair altogether to overlook or fall to take Into con sideration the Interest of the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company. The only location that offers any hope to the company of a line that will ever be self-sustaining Is the line selected on East Twenty-eighth street. There should be unanimity of public sentiment as there was at the time this location was flrat selected by C. M. Clark and the Greater East Side Im provement Associations as the most economical and practical route for the car company and the accommodation of the largest portion of the population. C. B. LA FOLLETTE. BOL'XDARY LIXE3 IS NOT BARRIER Vancouver as Much Part of Portland as Snbnrba in Oregon. VANCOUVER, Wash., Oct. 4. (To the Editor.) I notice In The Orego nian a letter from C. H. Plggott In op position to the interstate bridge. I am surprised that anyone in the City of Portland should be opposed to the bridge. It Is true that Clarke County, Washington, and Vancouver are In a different state, but it is also true that we are in every other, sense as much a part of Portland as Oregon City, Lentz, Gresham and other outlying towns. The merchants of Vancouver and the country stores of Clarke County get the bulk of their goods from the whole sale stores of Portland, and the retail trade from this county Is very large. In regard to building the bridge for autos, which seems to hurt him, I wish to say that I do irbt own an auto, but I do know something of the con gestion of traffic on the ferry, and also that every good road ana Driage added to the country not only helps ihe auto but helps everyone, whether he lives in the country or city. JNow we people over hers In the little City of Vancouver are looking to you our big sister to do your part toward the bridge, which, when completed, will mean a bigger Portland and Vancou ver, a closer business relation between us and the building up of the entire country. I feel that the time has come when we should tear down the "Chinese walls" of business opposition and little personal spite, get the mosB off our backs and all pull together to build up this, the most beautiful and health ful part of the great Northwest. Talk for the bridge and vote for the bridge., W. a WOOD. Breaking a Contract. WILBUR, Or Oct 4. (To the Edi tor.) If a person is engaged to take care of a young orchard at a certain price per acre, and the party falls to Day. what recourse has he to collect It? A SUBSCRIBER. Sue him for It. I j Twenty-fivo Years Ago Prom The Oregonian ol October 6, 1SSS. Washington. Oct. 5. The House- to day discussed the Mil incorporating the Maritime Canal (Cmpany of Nica ragua, but rose when the point of no quorum was raised. Olympta, W. T., Oct. 6. Governor Semple today received the annual re port of the coal mine Inspectors. Albany, Or.. Oct. 6. S. E. Davis, of this city, will leave in a few days for Pennsylvania, from which place he ex pects to return tn the Spring with a. colony of 40 families, who will locate on bottom lands on the Santlam River, In the Greenhorn district St Paul. Oct. 6. Henry Vlllard will not be able to' extend his visit to the Pacific Coast All preliminary negotiations were concluded yesterday and a contract en tered into between G. W. Lynch, of San Francisco and the Portland Cable Rail way Company looking to the early completion of the cable car line to Portland Heights. "T"he School for Scandal" was pro duced at the new Park Theater lant evening by the James Walnwrlght Company. The Transcontinental Company Is showing great confidence In the future of Portland by the thorough and ex tensive track-laying they are now do ing on their streetcar lines. A double track is now ready from the south end of the Third street line clear to P on S street and to Eighteenth on the O street line. Improvements at and around Mount Tabor are constantly being made. Sev eral streets have Just been dedicated by Ladue Royal. S. L. Oilman and A. Matteson throueh their land on the north slope of Mount Tabor. Yesterday the Perkins sawmill and grounds south of East Portland were sold to Mrs. R. L. Hawthorne for $13. 000. The grounds are 410x200 feet and have an extensive river frontage. Among the exhibits at the Mechan ics' Fair is the dinplay of dried fruits by S. P. Sladden, of Eugene City. The Knights of Pythias Grand Lodge convenes here on the 8th. The ad dress of welcome will be delivered by T. A. Stephens. Articles Incorporating the Puget Sound Flouring Mill Company wore filed yesterday by William S. Ladd, Charles E. Ladd and Theodore B. Wil cox. Half a Century Ago From The Oregonian ot October 6. 1863. A private correspondent at Cannock of September 23 says a miners' meet ing was held yesterday for the purpose of changing the laws which bound them to work dry diggings one day in every seven and thus enable miners to lay their claims over till Spring, but the effort did not prove successful. Headquarters, Army of Potomac, Sept. 27. Everything Is quiet 40 miles in front Washington, Sept. 27. There was female bread riot at Mobile on the 4th. Government ordered the Seven teenth Alabama to put down the dis turbance, but they refused. The Mo bile Cadets essayed It. but they were forced to fly by the women. The riot ers openly declared they would burn the city if sorue means was not de vised to relieve them of their distress. The following are the amounts of gold dust and bars shipped yesterday by the steamer rtierra Nevada: Wells, Fargo & Co.. $117,000; J. Seller & Co., $28,000; Ladd & Tilton, $21,310; Allen & Lewis, $11,000; Oregon Steam Navi gation Company, $0041 ; A. Cohn & Co., $6000; H. W. Corbett, $1600; other shippers, $45,000; total, $236,751. The attention of the Street Com missioner Is called to a nuisance In the shape of a dead cow, which lies on Seventh street, a little south of the academy. The Sword Swallower The gentli man who performs this great feat and his Inseparable companion, the 8tono Eater, will give a series of perform ances this afternoon and evening at Armory Hall. THINGS THAT BIBLE WOULD TEACH Net Secularism, Bot Patriotism and Sacrednesa of Laws. MONMOUTH, Or., Oct 4. (To. the Editor.) From The Oregonian under the caption of the "Bible Is Not for Our Schools," I quote the following: "The effort to Inject the Bible Into our public schools overlooks the fact that the first allegiance of the citizen is due to the Nation, and not to any creed or church." The patriotism of the author of the quotation is unquestionable, but in the face of that patriotism she forgets that every institution that withstands the storms that beset this world has a firm foundation. And that foundation of this Nation or any other nation; that pillar of strength Is the Bible. It Is the purpose of our public school system to Instil In the minds and hearts of our Nation's children the love of country and the sacredness of the Na tion's laws. These laws are based on what? Noth ing more than "Thou shalt not," banded down by our Mosaic fathers. Why, then, dismiss from sight and bearing a book that teaches patriotism and sacrednesa of laws? Again, will the teaching of the Bible breed secularism? In answer let me call attention to the fact that nowhere within the covers of our Bible is aught said as to the church or creed. Why, then, should the book that has stood the test of ages; the book upon which the leader of our Nation swears allegiance to his country, his duties and his God be trampled under foot? ' H. M. MABRAT. What One Manufacturer Did A successful manufacturer decid ed, after careful consideration of the various ways to advertise, that he would choose the simple, direct method of the newspaper. At first he wasn't big enough to cover the country, so he divided North America into sections and be gan by advertising in the section nearest home. He did a thorough Job, and soon his name and the arti cle he made were In everyone's mind. His produce was good, of course, and so It wasn't long before the dealers were scrambling for the line. Then the scope of this advertised campaign was widened. Another sec tion was Included, and the best newspapers In the beat towns were used with the same result. Presently the manufacturer, through bis successive, thorough going stages, became tn fact a Na tional advertiser of flrat Importance with a name that Is now an Inspira tion to all manufacturers who are working to make a National market for their product Adv.