Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937, May 04, 1914, Image 8

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Newspaper Page TextVKiLAAD, UBECOK. altered at Portland, Oregon. Fostoffice aa second-class mattar. Subscription Kates Invariably la Advance : (Bf HAIL.) pally. Sunday Included, one year. .... .88.00 pajly, Sunday Included, alx months.... - pally, Sunday included, three months.. 2.25 LJauy, Sunday included, one month. -Daily, without Sunday, one year...... JJaiiy. without Sunday, six months.... IJaily. without Sunday, threw monUu.. wl"ut Sunday, ona month. Weekly, one year... kunday, oue year. . ......... fcuaday and Weekly, ona year......... .75 B.IHI 3.25 1.7& .60 lill (ST OAHBlEa) Dally, Sunday Included, one year. . .. . .89.00 Xally. Sunday included, one month. ... - .15 How to Remit Send postofhce money or ner, express order or personal cneclc on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at Bender's risk. Give poutomce ail arena in lull. Including county and state. i'nt axe Untrm la to IB paces, 1 cent: 18 to oii pases, i cents; 24 to 48 pases, 'A cents; SO to ao paxes, 4 cants; to 7ti paves, a aants; 78 to id'i pages, a cenLa. orlsu post a, double rates. Juaatern Uttalnesa Oflen Verree Oonk lin, Mew York. iiruuaw.ck building. Chi cago. Stoger building. ban frruucltoo Ouice R. J. Bldwell Co, 4-t Market street. POKTLAXII. MONDAY, -1IAY 4, 1M.4. 1 WAITIN'O FOR KVIDENCK. Committee consideration of the canal tolls repeal Is concluded. Sen ate consideration will soon be under way, and it is therefore an opportune time for Senator Lane again to hear Irom home. Late In March the Marshfield Chamber of Commerce telegraphed Jlim an urgent request to vote against repeal. Senator Lane replied that the question had not yet come up In the Senate and gave a rambling statement of his opinion. In which he indicated that he would sacrifice the interests of his state in this matter as he did 3n revision on the tariff. It would be possible to point out to Senator Lane the grave error of his understanding- of the tolls problem. He certainly ought to be Informed on a few points in history. Senator Lane's understanding of the case, as indicated by his telegram to the Marshfield Chamber of Com merce, is that the United States brought about a revolution in Nicar agua and thereby acquired the Canal Zone; that by such course t "in fringed upon the rights of England and Germany" and waa compelled to yield in regard to tolls, that conces sion being in the Hay-Pauncefote treaty in terms which "obligate us to permit English vessels to use the canal on the same terms as our own." If Senator Lane were advised that his humble constituents happen to know that the Canal Zone acquire ment grew out of a revolution in Co lombia instead of Nicaragua, and that infringement of foreign rights did not compel us to accept the "equal terms" clause in the Hay-Pauncefote treaty because that treaty was. ratified near ly two years prior to the Colombian revolution, another explanation from him would be due. Senator Lane, too, is waiting for evidence before he definitely makes up his mind. This is learned from a brief staement by him which appears in the Congressional Record for April 24. He says: Mr. President, I wish to say that the ma jority of the people whom I represent are In lavor ot exemption of tolls lor coastwise shipping, yet I ha waited for the evi dence before deciding: what I will do. I am entirely Independent and free in the matter, and feel myself so, and stated in my cam paign that I would be; that I would vote ior what I thought waa right, quite regard less of my future political lata or anybody's objections to my course. So it seems to be the duty of Senator Lane's constltutuents to sup ply some evidence. Facts of con temporaneous history are unknown to him. Probably he haa not informed1 himself in order that he may keep hi mind in a beautifully receptive 'rather-be-rlght-than- be- President" condition. Obviously it is useless to tell him how his constituents feel about the matter. He already knows that a majority are in favor of exemption of coastwise traffic, for he says so. All he la waiting for is evidence. While we say that the Oregon Senator ought to be instructed in matters of evi dence, we still have misgivings that it would do much good. The peculiar type of Lane Independence is well known. It is very strong on matters of no particular consequence and quite weak when a decision, of moment to his state is to be made. Senator Lane is intensely independent of the wishes and interests of his con stituents but thoroughly submissive to party control. There is an old fancy that a state is always better served if its members t Congress are of the same political faith as the administration. But its fallacy haa been demonstrated by Oregon, to Oregon's sorrow. Oregon's isterests are not the Interests of the Democratic, party. We have been hit below the belt by our Democratic Senators, in tariff revision and ap parently must sustain another blow that Democratic party fealty may not d ecay. But let us do our part' in giving Senator Lane the evidence he la wait ing for. If he Is for tolls for party's sake It should be made clear. Gar bled history is nq.t the right shield for one whoee courage mounts higher than his future political fate. With another open record before us of the hlndlng force of political ties we may j et elect Senators whose hearts are in Oregon Senators who will try to do as much for their state as they do for Alaska and the Bureau of Indian Af fairs. Another explanation from the Junior Senator is desirable. While he has small regard for his political fate, Oregon has some interest in' its in dustrial future. Tin; rnx points mission. The Five Points . Mission House, which will soon be demolished to make room for improvements in New Tork. has an interesting history. The singular arrangement of streets which produced five angles at the spot was made in 1817, but its no toriety runs farther back into the past. In the year 1792 a man named Coulter erected a brewery there which soon became infamous for the criminals whom it sheltered. An alley hardly five feet wide ran round the building and in its dark corners many a hideous deed was done. Later on the brewery was trans formed into a tenement-house with Intricate passages and murky rooms where the vilest characters hid them selves. The Five Points neighborhood be came a byword for its evil tenants. It was unsafe for decent people to go near it without the protection of the police and sometimes even an officer was killed by the roughs. When Charles Dickens visited the United States in 1S42 one of the first places he asked to see was the Five Points. It must have reminded him of the old London "Alsatia" which he has de scribed with so much relish. The infernal glory of the Five Points began to wane in 1844. That was the year when the Methodist Ladies' Home Missionary Society of New Tork founded the Five Points Mission to teach the neighboring chil dren morals and manners, with per haps a little arithmetic and geogra phy. After four years of preparation the ladies hired a room nearby and started their work, which produced much the same impression as a flock of cherubs in Hades. But they, per severed and by I860 had grown cour ageous enough to think of buying the old Couter Brewery itself. The price was $16,000, of which Daniel Drew, the pious stock gambler, gave part. The rest was raised by Henry Ward Beecher and John B. Gough, who lec tured to elicit contributions. The reader will perceive from these names that the Five Points Mission has been closely interwoven with American history. The old brewery was torn down and the new mission building, erected on the spot, was opened In 1853. Forty years after ward, when the city cleared a space for a park' and playground in the neighborhood, the ladies rose to the occasion by building a new six-story mission-house, which still stands. This Summer it is planned to erect a Courthouse and Civic Center on the site of the old brewery and the Mis sion House must disappear to make room for . them. tCET-HOtB DAY FOR CBtLDSEN. A worklngmen's political club again has endorsed Mr. Lafferty for Con gress. There was an endorsement of Mr. Lafferty by the same club two years ago, and Mr. Lafferty contrib uted J 300 to the club treasury. Per haps the endorsement and the con tribution were merely a coincidence. We hope so. But this year Mr. Lafferty has con tributed something more precious than money if he has not contributed that also. It is the announcement, "I favor an eight-hour day for men, women and children." The blessed little children! Mr. Lafferty will rush to their rescue. No longer will little tots waste their' strength and impair their minds for ten hours every day in the Southern cotton mills. They shall waste their strength and impair their minds for only, eight hours every day, if Mr. Lafferty has his way. It looks like a promising, conserva tive solution of the child-labor prob lem. Limit the hours of children to eight a day! While in Oregon there is no child labor, sympathy for the little o-.ies in the mines and mills else where is deep-rooted. It is no won der that a man who can conceive of such an intelligent way out of a dis tressing labor situation should gain the support of a workingmen's polit ical club. ONE TEAR. Brother Bryan gives to a weekly periodical of Nation-wide circulation not the Commoner a peculiarly Bryanesque survey of the Wilson first year. It makes good reading; but there are some things our amiable Secretary of State forgot to mention. They are Just now much in the public mind, and have a prominent place in any fair statement of the achieve ments, or otherwise, of a Democratic President and a Democratic Congress. Here they, or some of them, are: I The South firmly seated in the saddle. The empty dinner bucket, caused by stagnation of commerce and industry, due to a Democratic tariff. Political manipulation of the Fed eral reserve banks; so that minor Southern cities are given unmerited and unearned financial power. Growing tenderness toward the trusts. Gross extravagance of Congress, which unblushlngly repudiates its pledges of retrenchment and economy. Surrender of exclusive National control of the Panama Canal through repeal of free tolls for American vessels. Stumbling and invertebrate foreign policy, exciting resentment and dis trust of foreign nations, and bringing on war with Mexico. The Bryan overload. Failure to promote vigorously a sane conservation of the National nat ural resources. There are others; and there will be more. Tet the Progressives and Republi cans have not been completely divert ed from the task of annihilating each other to the duty that obviously con fronts all of them. MEDIATION WITH AN rLTWATl'M. When two nations accept the medi ation of one or more other powers for settlement of a dispute, it is pre sumed that one or both are willing to yield something for the sake of peace. In the case of Mexico, however, there is no prospect of yielding on the orig inal point in contention by either the United States or Huerta. On the day when Secretary Bryan accepted the mediation of Argentina, Brazil and Chile, the Washington cor respondent of the New York Times said in a dispatch to his paper: It was made known by Secretary Bryan that the United States Government would not consent to the settlement of Mexico's troubles through mediation on any terms short of the elimination of General Huerta from the Presidency, and the re-establishment of government in Mexico In accord ance with the terms of the National Con stitution. On this point both President Wilson and Secretary Bryan are obdurate. Mr. Bryan still says "Huerta must go." Huerta has said all along he will not go. The New York World correctly describes the action of the Administration when it says: To accept mediation and at the same time deliver an ultimatum la most unusual. It Is more, it is contradictory. Ac ceptance of mediation should bar ulti matum; delivery of ultimatums should only follow failure of mediation.. The fact that the three mediating repub lics have, like the United States, re fused to recognize Huerta, and the fact that Mr. Bryan accompanies ac ceptance of their good offices with an ultimatum suggests that they are not really to mediate but are to aid this Nation by moral suasion in inducing Huerta to eliminate himself. As Andrew Carnegie says in a letter to the. Times: We accept the mediation of the three moat advanced of our Southern sister na tions with one hand and withdraw consider ation of the most vital questlou with the other. Mediation under such circum stances can hardly .but fail. What then? The World suggests the an wer when it says: When the President made the removal ot Huerta a condition precedent to mediation, he Indicated very clearly his determination to promote that end by every means within his control, even to the point of usins torce. So If the mediators fail to induce Huerta to go, we are to abandon the pretense that our object in interven ing was to compel Huerta to salute the flajr und we are to drive him out by force, -with a frank acknowledg ment that such is our purpose. That is me cosummatlon to which the Wil son policy has been leading ever since it was announced. . It was plain to everybody except the President, his Cabinet and his echoes in Congress and in the press. There is one possibility which may save us the trouble of a march to Mexico City and all its momentous consequences. That is that the con stitutionalists will close in on Huerta so rapidly and that his defense will collapse so utterly that elimination by flight will Jbe his only alternative to elimination on the gallows, which Villa has promised. Then we should have to deal with Villa, the trium phant bandit behind Carranza, and in order to prove true to the second con dition of Mr. Bryan's ultimatum, we should have to insist that he and Car ranza hold a constitutional election. If they did and if Carranza was elect ed president, would Mr. Wilson scru tinize the manner of election carefully before recognizing Carranza? If he found the elections invalid, would he Indirectly support a new Carranza and a new Villa in a new revolution? If he recognized Carranza, how much better off would Mexico be, ruled by Carranza with the backing of the bandit and murderer Villa instead, of ruled by the murderer, Huerta? Consideration of all these contin gencies impresses upon us that when Mr. Wilson refused to . recognize Huerta he entered upon a maze of of difficulties, and when he accom panied acceptance of mediation by an ultimatum he rejected a way of es cape from the maze. Much as he abhors bloodshed he has increased the risk by his obduracy. ERROR OF THE COAX. COMPANIES. While the report of the military board on the battle of Ludlow In the Colorado coal strike places responsi bility for the fatalities on the strik ers, it rightly places the ultimate responsibility on the coal operators, "who established in an American in dustrial community a numerous class of ignorant, lawless and savage South European peasants." These peasants have created the reign of terror, from which the operators ask relief, but the operators brought them to Col orado. , History Is only repeating itself in Colorado, but many employers seem unwilling to learn Its lessons. Again and again has a strike of intelligent, English-speaking people been defeat ed by the importation of foreigners speaking divers languages, uneducat ed and of a decidedly lower order of civilization. It has not taken these newcomers long to learn how to or ganize and to strike. When they strike, they scorn moral suasion and resort to physical force. . They see armed guards arrayed against them and they resort to arms. In some cases they were armed, on their ar rival, by their employers for defense against those whom they supplanted, and they have later turned these same arms against those who gave them. Surely by this time employers should have learned that it does not pay to supplant striking workmen with others of a lower order. The new importations may be docile- at first, but In a few years they, too, be come strikers, and each strike is marked by more violence than the one preceding. The clannishness of the ' newcomers and the barrier of language render amicable adjustment or disputes more difficult. - Violent disturbances like those in Colorado arouse public antagonism to the em ployers and make their lot harder. IXPT APPRECIATED SITUATIONS. ' Rich material awaits our novelists and dramatists in the complications set up by modern inventions if they ever learn how to use it. But we fear it will be a long time before they master this branch of their business. Just as the ordinary college profes sor of economics knows a great deal more about everything else than he does about practical human affairs, so the ordinary playwright or novel ist is woefully ignorant of the chang ing circumstances of the world he pretends to describe in his works. The only machinery, means . of transportation and mechanical utili ties that we read about In current fic tion are those which were in fashion a century or so ago. Or if the auto mobile and flying machine are some times mentioned it is without any understanding of the psychological changes they have made in the world. How modern inventions can compli cate a routine situation is exempli fied by an entanglement that hap pened the other day between the Lackawanna Railroad and the Fed eral Navy. The railroad with com mendable enterprise has been exper imenting in wireless telegraphy, hop ing by its use on trains to avoid acci dents and Increase the safety of passengers. It happened that the wave-length produced by the Lackawanna wire less Instruments was 600 meters. It happened also by an extraordinary coincidence that this was precisely the wave-length used by the Navy in communicating from the shore with distant vessels. On a certain day at the exact moment when the railroad was dispatching messages to an ex perimental train the Brooklyn Navy Yard was trying to transmit an order to a battleship in the Gulf of Mexico. The waves sent out from the two sta tions, being of the same length, in terfered with one another and dire confusion ensued which was only ended by a peremptory command from the Naval authorities that the railroad should stop its experiments until it had altered its instruments. Suppose for the purposes of ro mance that a battle had been pend ing and that victory depended on the battleship receiving its orders prompt, ly and accurately. Suppose also that a dying heroine was expecting her recreant lover on the train which the Government held up. What a situa tion for a genius to thrill us with. SULZER . PROCLAIMS HIS RECORD. Ex-Governor Sulzer, of New York, has published the public papers of his brief but stormy term of office, which was cut short by his removal. The book is really a defense of Mr. Sulzer and an exploitation of his work as Governor in the cause of clean gov ernment on behalf of the people and against corrupt Tammany rule. It opens with a biography by Edgar L. Murlin, which tells in " laudatory phrase what he did as Assemblyman, Representative in Congress and Gov ernor. Mr. Murlin calls the court of impeachment a "court of infamy" and Mr. Sulzer's election as Assemblyman a vindication. He claims for Mr. Sul zer the chief credit for Tammany's defeat in the New York City election last Fall. The body of the book is made up of the record of Mr. Sulzer's work as Governor in removing dishonest offi cials, in exposing corruption, in pro moting efficiency and economy in ad ministration and in advocating laws whch would dethrone the bosses. It Includes many addresses of the Gov ernor, in which the pronoun "I" is most prominent, though the biogra pher says Mr. Sulzer is ' a very mod est man concerning his own achieve ments." These addresses abound in protestations of the speaker's hon esty, such as are seldom heard from a truly honest man. The most Interesting part of the book, is Mr. Sulzer's defense against the charges which brought about his removal. We had a right to expect the production of evidence, even at this late day, which -would disprove the specific charges on which he was impeached. What he gives is a hith erto unpublished reply to Colonel Roosevelt's appeal for "a full and straightforward explanation and an swer to the charges made against you." This is a long, rambling letter. In which he does not meet the charge that he personally solicited campaign contributions and then applied them to his personal use. He persists In calling these contributions personal loans, though the testimony at his trial showed that they were made be cause he was running for Governor by men who might expect to profit materially by his official action. The testimony also showed that these con tributions which he personally solicit ed and received for campaign pur poses were applied to his personal use. The' letter to Colonel Roosevelt Is made up principally of a recital of Charles F. Murphy's attempts to dictate- appointments and legislation, of his refusal to submit to this dictation and of Mr. Murphy's conspiracy to "get" him. His conduct in these mat ters is deserving of the highest praise, and Mr. Murphy's of the deepest con demnation, but that does not dispose of the fact that Mr. Sulzer was guilty of acts which unfitted him to serve as Governor. Proof that his accuser's motives were bad does not exonerate him from ilams in the handling of campaign funds. It is moBt significant that, although Colonel Roosevelt was unsparing in his denunciation of Tammany and had offered to take the stump in support of Mr. Sulzer's direct primary bill, he said not a word in defense of Mr. Sulzer after receiving this letter. He evidently recognized that Mr. Sulzer's defense was in effect a confession and that he could not afford t o appear before the public as a champion of' such a man. The fate of Mr. Sulzer Is a warning that any man who attempts- to lead an attack on entrenched corruption must himself be above reproach. The fundamental error of such em ployers as the Colorado coal oper ators is that they regard labor as a commodity to be bought, when in truth they must have human beings to do their work, to be regarded as men with whom the employer must live In harmony in order to succeed. Enlightened employers keep peace by reaching their employes on their hu man side and by making the self-interest of both parties identical. This Is done by profit-sharing, bonuses and regard for the welfare and, above all, for the rights of workmen. It is all very well to say there Is no senti ment In business, but this kind of sentiment has proved to be good busi ness. One of the troubles with electro magnets la their tendency to heat If a strong current la passed through them. A French scientist has over come this difficulty In a huge mag net made for laboratory use by wind ing the iron core with copper tubes instead of wire. Through the tubes cool water runs unintermlttently and thus the apparatus can. be used at Its full capacity for hours at a time without danger of heating. If the highest court sustains the decision of Judge Albertson, of Seat tle, that the modern Y. M. C. A. build ing is not used strictly for religious purposes, and must therefore be as sessed for taxation, the effect will reach far. The Institution Is not In tended to be a money-maker; yet business methods compel It to have that semblance. Referring to the Administration's friendliness for Villa, the New Vnrir Herald reminds Presrdent Wilson that In 1147 Santa Anna was permitted to return to Mexico In expectation that he would make war on Paredea, but he turned his arms against the Amer icans. We would better bewnra f such friends. If civil war should come In Ireland as the result of the home rule bill, both armies would march under the same flag, for the Ulster Covenanters carry the British Imperial flag and call themselves "soldiers of the King." They might tie an orange streamer to it as a mark of distinction. Jeff W. Hayes is an old-time tel egrapher, working under a serious handicap and everybody will be pleased to see his venture in Los An geles succeed. He has a fund of rem iniscence arising from more than 40 years of mora or less active life. Charles Edward Russell calls the American flag a dirty rag and says he wouldn't enlist. No recruiting of ficer would pass him. But why call the flag dirty? It is clean so long as it is kept out of the hands of traitors. That man Horton in England is "some" pedestrian when be makes a record of more than 72 miles in IX hours. That is at the rate of more than two Portland blocks a minute. Opening the canal to important traffic Just now may take the edge off the glory of the formal af fair. Nevertheless, this country can develop exhilaration on demand. With a total registration that ap proximates 220,000, the candidate for Governor faces a situation that will keep him up nights with problems in arithmetic. M4y is a month of important af fairs. The primaries will be held on the 15th and the dogs are muzzled a week later. Secretary Bryan, who loves peace, must be ashamed of Colonel Bryan, who yearned for military glory is 1898. Nevertheless and notwithstanding, the fan cannot lose faith in the Beav ers, for the season is young. Army recruits' teeth are examined to make sure that they are strong enough to bite hardtack. Half a Century Aga Prom Th CYrvm nr i . a 1 U By prlvata letter under date of April 25 from Canyon City we learn that Indians are still committing mur ders and thefta on the road to that mining camp from The Dalles, despite the presence of a detachment of troops on the South Fork. Jones Edgar have completed ar rangements to run an express from The . Dalles to Owyhee via Canyon City as far as Canyon in Concord wagons, thence on pack animals. Colonel Maury and staff have left Fort Dalles for Fort Boise, where the Colonel will make his headquarters when not in the field. A train of 2 mule teams also left Fort Dalles on Monday for Captain Drake's expedition, which is now encamped about IS miles beyond the Warm Springs reserve. They will remain there until Joined by Lieutenant Waymlre, when they march for Crooked River. Lieutenant Waymlre, with a detachment of men. will remain at the reserve as a guard against marauding bands of the Snakes. On Tuesday the Onward discharged 64 tons of freight at Albany. A part of this was machinery for a planing ... 111 i . ;, , . . . ,uu.s vfc crcvuun oy . .1.11- house t Co. New York, May 2- Deserters who came in yesterday report Lee's army 80.000 strong, with 22,000 cavalry and railroads running night and day bring, lng In reinforcements. New York May 2. New Orleans ad vices state that a refugee from Shreve port reports that place protected by 14 miles of fortifications, which the rebels consider lnpregnable against anything short of ISO, 000 men. Government is making great havoc among dishonest contractors, seizing upon their ill-gotten gains and con signing their worthless carcasses to Fort Lafayette without fear or favor. -. The Watson G. Hunt. This eld fa vorite of ours reached her wharf last evening from her last trip to the Cas cades for some time. Her stores were transferred to the New World and she dropped down to the boneyard to be repaired. The O. S. N. Company's new steamer New World will leave on her first trip to the Cascades this morning. A band of music has been engaged and a bevy of ladies and gentlemen will honor the salons with their presence. The old log causeway over the ra vine on First street Is being made the receptacle of rubbish of all kinds. If we continue to prosper as a city, some of these days arched bridges will take the place of rotten logs and rubbish at such crossings. The treasure shipments per steam er Pacific last evenlnar amounted to 112,48ti. as follows: Wells, Fargo & Co.. $75,000; Ladd & Tilton. 121,000; Oregon Steam Navigation Company, 89886; A. Cohn & Co., 14800; Elfelt, Weil & Co., 11500. The" annual meeting of the Oregon State Bible Society will be held at the Methodist Church on Wednesday next. The anniversary sermon will h delivered on the following Sunday evening by Rev. C. C. Stratton. of Ore gon City. MAKING GOOD USB OF GARDAGE. Itlllsatioa as Fin Material for Gnlrhes la Susarested. PORTLAND, May S. (To the Edi tor.) Among the first problems that confront society upon the establishment of intensely populated urban com munities is tha disposal of domestic waste products. Being true also of even temporary camps where the health of those con cerned must be Jealously guarded. It becomes a matter of much more mo ment when applied to our modern city Ufa. To avert the scourges and plagues that were so blindly accepted as a matter of course by the ancients, we must bring to bear the light of science and applied research. It la primarily a household duty for each citizen to observe auch'regu latlons as will best benefit tha com munity, and he should not, under cover of darkness, dump his garbage on his neighbor's lot. Dirt has been aptly defined as mat ter "out of place" and though house hold waste may seem to have no mar ketable value, yet practice has dem onstrated that it may be utilised for the public good. Over a year agoi the writer worked out a tentative plan for filling in un sightly gulches In South Portland and submitted it to the City Council, but nothing waa ever done. The system required no additional plant except that owned by the Port of Portland and the idea was to em ploy dredges that we already have to deepen the river channel and deposit the waste material where It could be required for fills. In conjunction with this method, much garbage that Is now carted to the other end of the city could be utilized instead of being burned at the crematory at public expense. One of our most far-sighted pioneers, the late W. K. Smith, filled in many a block of low land In South Portland and adjoining the Union Depot in this manner, and what he worked on in a limited manner can be done by the community at even less expense. It is the most practical solution of the unsanitary mosquito - breeding gulch problem and furthermore will not only beautify many an eyesore, but will render unnecessary the erection and maintenance of costly steel bridge structures, and also obviate the con struction and operation of more Incin erators with the ever-attendant bond issue. Tha slight inconvenience that the lm- mediate neighborhood would be sub jected to during the course of figura tion is no mora unpleasant than those in in vicinity of an incinerator have to stand all the time. GEORGE B. THOMAS. President South Portland Booster Club. Information All He Wants. PORTLAND, May 2. (To the Edi tor.) If tha guardian ad litem of the hydromel Democracy will openly and candidly state whom he wants aa nom inees in tha primary election, we of the diaphanous crowd, who taka a drink without hiding our faces or legs be hind a screen, may give his nominees prayerful consideration. But we are getting tired of being lined up with the devil: we are" not looking for a rebellion within a rebel lion, or any of the "I am a pilgrim and I am a stranger" dope to the mumbo-Jumbo bunch of sinners, or the truly and purely good. These ara days of mediation, of Ideals of the 14th story order, of en forcing the law with a yelp and a yerk. Very well. Let's agree, whack up, don't be a hog. Otherwise when it cornea to weeping our way . Into the hearts of the people, to the trembling lip and heart-rending stuff, we are neither mushrooms, midgets nor bum neologlats. We can be Wllsonlan moralists or rodomontade saints, and if needs be, Munchausen our way to victory. All we want Is decent treat ment, but if we are to be spurned, spat at and shoved aside, then wel come the sob campaign, we'll make this stats look like a cemetery that ain't yet dead. J. HENNESSY MURPHY. POLITICAL DISEASE GIVEN XAMB Colonel Horrr Catalogues New Malady OHietiMkfn Have DevrUstd. SALEM. Or, May S (To the Editor.) A new disease has appeared In thia primary campaign that no one appar ently has taken note of. Like any other new rash or ailment that has never manifested itself before it has no name, and will have to be catalogued in order to be identified when It appears here, after,, so, for convenience of future recognition, let us label It "sanacullo tltis," a word Invented to save using a longer term, "playing to the gal leries." The diagnosis of the new po litical complaint that Is liable to cost us a goodly sum of money to extirpate ....... ...c iiiu. n-aousea Dody politic, un less we absolutely refuse to believe in its necessity from the very start, may be made in thia way: Embodied in the Oregon constitution is the direct legislation power named the Initiative and referendum, which at the very opening of the section is dfeclared to be a "reserve power" In the hands of the people. Mark the words, a reserve, power like a bank reserve to be used only in dire emer gency, when there Is danger of a run or a panic; like an army reserve, to be fallen back upon In great emergency. The words "reserve power" have a definite meanine- in th. It is a strange fact that the term the! uu or nnouia nave also a deii nlte meaning in English. Not every aspirant or even nfiu-nv,.,! - - ...v. . people." This was proven by the rejection of all the amendments proposed to the Portland ph u ... . . . - . . - .t.c me special election held In December. Some 23 .uicuuiiKnia maae Dy persons suppos ing they spoke for the people proposed to use this reserve power in the City of Portland, and all were defeated by votes of four to one even good propo sitions were swept Into limbo because this reserve power was being abused. Similarly, there were swept into blank-ety-blank darkness some 20 amend ments and laws at the last two state elections all proposed by persons and officials mistaking themaelves for the people and abusing this reserve power. Now. to locate this new political skin disease or hallucination of persons sup posed to have political sagacity! We behold in this campaign numerous can didates initiating measures and amend ments to the selfsame constitution. using this reserve power which the people have kept for themselves as a club in their own hands to be used In their dire struggle with the common enemy the taxeaters and the would-be-more-eaters or less-eaters, as tha case may be. We behold the new dls. ease full-fledged of would-be candi dates defraying out of their own pocket the expense of circulating peti tions and placing on the ballot, as part of their ante-election or primary cam paign, divers projects in the way of legislation and amendments to the con. stitution. It ia bad enough to have these can didates troubling tha voters with their platforms and filling; the newspapers with their dire incoherencies. And ordi narily when we vote them down at the primary we are rid of them forever Only unusually strong and able men survive the burial by direct vote at the primary election, and with most of them it is good riddance to worse rub bish. But this new disease; if we kill the candidate at the primary, stays with us at the election In November. As part of his primary campaign he has conceived something that was to help htm with tbe soft-hearted, well meaning voters. But now he is gona and the thing he hatched and spent his money on to put it before us stays to torment us. It must be printed on the ballot after the candidate who sprung It Is gona and forgotten. It must be printed In full in the campaign book and run the state in debt, a poor foundling that no body will respect, and It, too. muat be fired into oblivion. If these candidates when they are defeated for the nomi nation and election, aa 14 of the 15 must be. could only take their miscon ceptions with them, there would be no great harm. But they cannot. If all the measures that are being put on tbe ballot by tha abuse of the re lerva now In (h, v. n . i . known as tha Initiative are paid for by imhiuih mamseivea. What Is the matter with making the aama candl ing" a blanket sheet ballot and lumber- u mo voters DOOKiet, wnich will be larger than the New Testament? Who will read their rubbish in that book after the candidates have been forgotten? Should there not ba a law to curb sanscullotltis? Have we got to amend thu nnnitltiidnn . n , .- . ...... . V. ft,WUb vui- clals and candldatea from abusing the yuwor wnicn naa wisely been placed In the hands of tha people? A man nffrlnff a .. - . i should never lose sight of tha first isiiuiius ot ma relation as a servant not a master or dictator of new poli cies. It would be the part of modesty to offer to serve under the laws and tha constitution as ha finds them, and wait for further orders from those who are in charge of the reserve power the people themselves. It was long ago decreed that the three tailors of Tooley avavui. .vrg nvi ma people ot England, yet here we have half a dosen aspirants for Governor, out of the IS, initiating and proposing at great expense to themselves the new eonditiona under which they would serveas part of their wooings of bashful voters at the primaries. If sanscullotltis Is not smitten in the bud, the next campaign will open with increased virulence. Instead of each candidate making his own platform, he will have prepared a group ot measures that he will Initiate and get behind. As only one finally la nominated for each party, there will be left the remains of all the propositions to be printed on the ballot. Our present immense vot ing sheet will look -like a postage stamp compared to tha one we shall have four years hence. The ISO-page voters' pamphlet will be swelled to a political encyclopedia. We will spend more for public printing than we do for good roads. E. HOFER. FH.Y WANTED FOR T.PPER YAQTJITf A No Trout Now la Stream Above Falls, Though Plentiful Below. SUMMIT, Or., May I. (To the Edi tor.) Recently I saw in The Orego nian that the United States Fisheries steamer was expected soon at Newport for tha purpose of examining the hali but and other fishing banks off Ta qulna Bay. Doea this vessel carry trout fry for general distribution? If so, to whom should application be made for young trout? The Yaqulna River at the place I would like to plant fry is a wild moun tain stream, with several large water falls, above which there are no trout at least I have been unable to catch any, nor has any been taken, , accord ing to the oldest Inhabitant here. These falls are In section 18. T. 10 S-, R. 7.W.. and about 150 feet high. I have made two applications (1913 and 1913) to the state game warden and in each Instance was promised some fry, but so far no attention has been paid my request. The fact that there Is a stream like the Upper Yaqulna without any trout ia certainly strange and we cannot account for It. Below the falls are many trout, the fishbogs taking as high as 400 In a day and still tha stream ia not fished out. If you can give ua any help in se curing trout fry for this beautiful stream, which heads near my home stead, we will bo thankful. JOE BRANT. Moment of Indif f crrmce. Sketch. Wife John! John! The ship's going down! John (sick unto indifference) WelL never mind; it isn't ours. Twenty-five Year Ago Prom The Oretonian of May 4. 1SS. New York. Mar Ward McAllister severely criticises the management of tha Washington centennial banquet and ball. Seattle, May S. Judge Hanford last evening rendered a decision which re sulted today In a bloodless battle be tween two rival ganga of railroad la borers for possession of the broad gauge atrip. Albany. Or.. May 8. W. P. Smith, a druggist of Halsey. was found today lamisneo. in tha mountains, . " '"' " naa Deen lost a week ago. John Kellv telaerrannrf i...in. - D-,1,Punna that he ia to sail on the uallia on tha th Inat. on his way to the exposition at Paris. Ha haa been studying French with great assiduity. Burrlars attmrH . v.i . . . - - w tivr. IIHJ H1C at the flour mill nf vt r on North Fourth and H streets Thurs day night. At tha headauartera nf th . Christian Temperance Association thia evening a farewell reception will taka place In honor of Miss Jana Waeden. city missionary. Miss Weedan starts for the East soon. Police Judire Tntl,r v-V. r 1. ............ for General Rufus Ingalls. said yes- lD,uttJ ' it naa not yet been decided Whether tn annnl fi-nm l. -t . i . . County Judge Catlin rejecting General Ingalls' application to be appointed ot ino eatate ot Mrs. Esther Holladay. George B. Marble ha i.i.f from EUensburg, w. T. ' , The motor of the Portland A. Van couver Railway, while being wooded ui uotumma Kiver end of the line, ran off the end of the wharf Into water 13 feet deep. City Surveyor Paget has surveyed a slto for the new city hall on the south Plasa block. John V. Crelghton, traffic manager of tha f"kr-n a. -I7 .. V. I . . . . . - o .. . nonuinji .territory Railroad, arrived yesterday from Walla Walla to meet his wife and daughter, Perle. and Mra Creighton'a mother Mrs. T. . J, returning irom their trip to China on the bark Coloma. New York. May S. George Francia Train has passed his fourteenth day of total abstinence from food and drink except water and a little weak lemon ade. A tramp yesterday attempted to rob the residence of Frank J. -Stevens on the corner of Seventh and J streeta. East Portland. Mra Stevens put him to flight with a revolver. Mra Angelina Buckman haa signified her willingness to dedicate that por tion of East Twelfth street fronting on her property between D and A streets. This practically insures tha opening of East Twelth street acrosa Sullivan's gulch and on to Halsey. A WAR EVERY THREE YEARS la Spite of Civilisation. Man Remains A Fta-htlns; Animal. Kansas City Tlmea In spite of the progress of civiliza tion man remalna a fighting animal. Peace societies begin to think they are making progress toward taming his In stincts, and they are confronted by another war. Hera is a partial list of the wars of the Northern Hemi sphere In the last 80 years, exclusive of the minor revolts In Northern South America. In Central America and the West Indies, and In Africa: Crimean War, 1S54-6. Sepoy mutiny, 1857. Italy and Franca against Austria. 1859. Civil War In America. 1S60-S. Mexico Invaded by Austria and allies, 1861-7. Prussia and Austria against Den mark, 1884. Seven Weeks War, Austro-Prussian. 1866. Franco-Prussian. 1870. Russo-Turkish, 1877-8. Servo-Bulgarian, 188S. Japanese-Chinese, 1894-S. Graco-Turkiah, 189". Spanish-American, 189S. Filipino-American, 189H. China against tha allies, 1700 Boer War, 1899-1902. Russo-Japanese, 1904. Balkan statea against Turkey. 1912. Balkan atates against Bulgaria, 1913. Mexican War, 1914. This, aa has been said, is only a partial list. Britain has had several small wars. Including the Important conquest of the Sudan, which are not Included, and there have been num erous minor disturbances ot one sort and another. But tha list includes 20 fair sized wars, or one every three years. There has been no falling off in recent years. Take the laat two de cades, for instance, and there have bean ten wars, or one every two rears. Perhaps there is soma encouraging lesson for the peace societies to be drawn from this fairly bloody record. Perhaps it means that wars are vanish ing from the earth. But it would taka a pretty incorrigible optimist to read thia prediction In the history of the last half century. Apparently the world isn't going to be able to get on for some timo to come without fighting. SPARROWS BEING USED FOR FOOD English People Turning Feathered Peat to Profitable Account. London Globe, In certain country places In England, especially near towns, a new source of food ia being exploited. At ona stock yard after another you may see village -laborers stretching foldnets for spar rows, and the birds are being caught simply for food. They keep down the butcher's bilL The number of sparrows is now im mense, probably greater than it ever has been. The regular Winter popula tion of one small stockyard near Lon don is estimated by tbe farmer at over 2000. These 2000 mouths he fills large ly with his grain. The sparrows have completely driven away almost all other varieties of bird except a few finches. The sparrow is said by the trappers to make an excellent stew, or pie, or soup. It is a clean feeder, subsisting all the year, except for a month In tha Spring, on grain, and it takes from the farmer an enormous toll. Considering the enormous population of sparrows, it is not surprising that this source of food Is belniar tapped. Dealers Must Be Identified to Get the Cash National advertisers have made their goods favorably known in this city by continuously employing tbat powerful educational force newspa per advertising. A share In tbe benefits of this publicity belongs to you. Mr. Dealer. It'a like a check waiting to be cashed. ' But to realize on it, you must first be Identified identified in the readers' minds with the goods they have learned through the news paper advertising to favor aud want. To be properly Identified, it is necessary to remind your customers constantly that you cacry the ad vertised brands on your shelves. Use your windows and the columns of The Oregonian.