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PORTLAND, MONDAY, JUNE 1. 1914.
Il'RN O.F l'niE AX HAND. -There
are several signs that the
turn of the business tide is at hand.
Banks in the East are loaded -with
money and are shipping gold to
Europe, not only because Europe de
mands it to finance Its own affairs or
because we owe It to Europe, but be
cause there is at present no work
offering for that gold in this country.
Investors have been holding off ln
hope of lower prices for securities,
but have recently snapped up attrac
tive new Issues and a quiet' buying
movement has begun.
After all allowance has been made,
the Winter wheat harvest promises to
exceed any In history. Railroads are
putting every engine find car in con
dition to move it. Banks are prepar
ing to finance It. Merchants are
making many Inquiries for goods for
future delivery in the expectation
lhat farmers will spend a liberal pro-
rtion of the - proceeds - with them.
anufacturers keep their working
rces in hand, ready to supply an in-
reased demand. A period of liquida-
ion and retrenchment 13 closing.
which leaves credit unusually sound.
stocks are at rock bottom all along
the line from manufacturer to re
taller and, when the demand begins
with the money let loose by the flood
cf wheat, activity will extend from
country store to factory, comparable
to the bang of one car-coupling after
another when a train is set in motion.
.- All depends on the size of the load
of wheat and on the ease with which
it can be financed without causing a
scarcity of funds for other needs. The
bulls have made the most of damage
by the Hessian fly and it is generally
agreed that the forthcoming crop re
port will show a condition 6 per cent
worse than the 95.9 per cent as shown
in May. Some experts estimate a loss
to date of 50,000,000 bushels, though
the Kansas agricultural department
says there has been no loss so far from
Hessian fly in that state. Deduct
60,000,000 bushels from the estimate
of 650,000,000 made by the trade or
630,000,00 by the Government and we
still have a total of 580,000,000 to
600,000,000, which far exceeds last
year's yield of 523,561,000. Only one
expert places the total as low as 550,
000,000 bushels.
Though ordinarily the rule applies
that, the larger the crop, "the lower
the price to the farmer, but the more
work for the farmhand, the thresher,
the railroad, ' the miller, the dock
worker and the shipowner, this year
the abundance will profit all others
without reducing the farmer's profit
as much as 1t ordinarily would. The
reason is that the stock of old wheat
is more nearly cleaned up than ever
before at this season and is therefore
removed as a bear influence. The
farmer will get a good price for a
bonanza crop and prosperity will be
passed around in Unusual measure.
Had we to depend on the old sys
tem of banking for the financing
of this crop, its demands would
check general revival until the opera
tion was turning the funds back to
the banks, but almost simultaneously
with the harvest will come the open
ing . of the regional reserve banks,
with their Improved facilities. The
organization committee names August
1 as the date but bankers generally
place it nearer September 1. The
Government has every motive for
hastening the preliminaries but even
if these cannot be completed before
September the new banks could im
mediately render valuable aid. Mem
ber banks could rediscount paper they
already held and could obtain cur
rency against their collateral. The
"West would become more nearly inde
pendent financially and the East
could apply its funds to financing
manufacturers, exports and new se
curity issues instead of starving those
interests while it finances the crops as
ln the past. Three months after the
regional banks are opened a second
installment paid on their stock will
increase their .capital, hence their
ability to supply the needs of business.
This general relaxation of business
tension should soon work a revival of
activity all along the line. Ere the
crops have begun to move, the rail
roads should know whether the rate
advance is to be allowed. If it is, the
way will be clear for them to raise
money at reasonable interest on long
time for new equipment, terminal
and track improvements and new
branches, and the investor will be In
spired with confidence to buy bonds.
Should it not, the increase of net earn
ings due to the crop movement and
the resultant revival in manufacturing
and merchandising will still restore a
measure of confidence in railroad se
curities. The railroads will give a
fillip to the steel trade, which will
pass it along to other industries.
The people have been "cashing in",
and are holding their money, willing
to invest but waiting for the next fel
low to make the first move. There is
every prospect that next Fall nature
with her abundant crops will set the
ball of business rolling. When she
does, everybody will give it a push.
Then the. difficulty will be, not to
keep it rolling but to prevent it from
rolling too fast.
APPLACSE A IVMCXT.
When President Wilson spoke to
the old soldiers at Arlington, the dis
patches say, he was applauded. When
Speaker Clark spoke, his reception
was tumultuous. The difference rep
resents the difference in the popular
attitude toward the two men. The
president inspires respect and wins
the restrained applause of the well
bred intellectuals; the speaker wins
the tumultuous plaudits of the mul
titude. Both are democratic in their
sympathies, but the President studies
the people and their needs in the
closet, while the speaker does so in
intimate personal contact at the cross
roads store and the village mass meet
ing. He makes, them feel that he is
not only for them but of them, but the
President is merely a friendly out
sider. There may have been another rea
son for the moderation with which
the audience at Arlington greeted the
President, in contrast with the un
bounded Joy with which Mr. Clark
was greeted. The President attended
only after having once declined and
because his declination had been) un
derstood as showing lack of sympar
thy with the purpose of the gather
ing. There had been no need of a
second invitation to Mr. Clark. By
declining this and similar invitations
the President has given cjuse for a
belief, mistaken perhaps, that he is
averse to contact with the people and
that he considers he is doing hia full
duty as President by sticking to his
desk and working for them. As head
of the Nation, as the one man chosen
by all the people, he is expected to do
more-than this. The people wish to
meet him face to face and to hear his
voice, not merely to read what he
says. Mr. Wilson has frequently said
that he wishes to be regarded as a hu
man' person, but he does not always
act in such a way as to be so regard
ed, while Mr. Clark is abounding in
human nature and even his human
failings win him a stronger affection.
The American people do not want a
mere thinking machine for President,
or a man who makes himself an offi
cial drudge, no matter how faithful.
They are intensely human and they
like their President to show that he
has like affections, passions and frail
ties with them. Therein lies the ex
planat'on of the stronghold which
Colonel Roosevelt has on the popular
heart; the people feel that he is one
of them and the very things ln him
which they criticise are half condoned
because, they prove this to be so.
SMALL, BIT SIGNIFICANT.
The following notice appears daily
In an Eastern newspaper:
Correction Readers are requested to call
attention to any errors appearing ln the col
umns of the Evening Sun.
It is but a little thing, yet it tells
more than one might at a glance sup
pose. The Oregojnian has never felt
the need of publishing such an invi
tation. Not that Ther' Oregonian Is
never guilty of error. But a like sug
gestion in The Oregonian would be
about as pertinent as one that the
reader always hold the sheet right
side up when perusing it.
No error, no matter how obscure,
or whether of historical date or fact
or of less consequential character
seems to escape. We recall one item
concerning the count of a cribbage
hand which occupied about one inch
in space and carried a one-line head.
It contained an error. More than
fifty subscribers wrote to the editor
to call his attention to the mistake,
innumerable persons telephoned
about it and several called in person.
This is not a complaint but a con
gratulation, for two things perhaps
are signified. The Westerner is more
alert and is bolder in his criticism
than his Eastern cousin for one. The
other is the fact that the morning
newspaper Is read more closely than
any evening publication.
THE PLIGHT OF THE ORTHODOX.
A Democratic friend asks us why we are
not supporting Dr. Smith for Governor. The
first and biggest reason is that we either
desire a Democrat or a Republican ln the
office no more half-way articles go with us.
If Smith could show us a clean, straight
forward Democratic record we would be glad
to support him, provided further than he
could prove that no strings were attached
to him. We want the best man we can get
for Governor that it Is possible to obtain.
From the outlook now we are left without a
candidate.
The foregoing is from the Polk
County Itemlzer which at the head
of its editorial page carries the an
nouncement that it is the only Demo
cratic newspaper in Folk County. Its
editor is y. P." Fiske, Democrat and
Postmaster at Dallas.
A Democratic newspaper in Demo
cratic times without an acceptable
Democratic : candidate for the leading
state off ice. is an object of sympathy,
but the position of the Itemlzer is one
more indication that less than usual
of the non-partisan bunk is to be of
fered this year in behalf of Demo
cratic candidates.
There has been more heard lately
than for a long, long time about the
orthodoxy of Democrats in relation to
their fitness as candidates. It invad
ed the contest for Democratic com
mitteeman with great fervor, it has
developed in Senator Chamberlain's
candidacy and it appears in the Gov
ernorship contest.
"Nonpartisanship" or political in
dependence has had its advantages in
Oregon elections, but it has also had
its drawbacks in office. Senator
Chamberlain forgot his nonpartisan
ship and that he was a "Roosevelt
Democrat" until it was time for him
to seek votes again. He dissatisfied
Republicans who supported him by
his earlier course and has now turned
against him certain Democrats who
look with favor upon a Wilson-Progressive
as a suitable successor.
Governor West has often ignored par,;
ty in dispensing patronage and fa
vors. Naturally his string on Dr.
Smith is a matter of concern to
Democrats.
However, all this is of small con
sequence at this particular time. It
is a Republican year. .
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CAN OLD GUARD COME BACK?
If any man doubts that the Repub
lican party has changed Its leaders
and, with them, its attitude toward
the political questions of the day let
him compare the party In Congress as
it is today with the party as it was in
1909. Of the stand pat Senators head
ed by Aldrich, who" rejected every
amendment to the Payne-Aldrich tar
iff proposed by an insurgent, twenty
one have disappeared and only sixteen
who can thus be classed remain. A few
have been eliminated by death, but
the great majority have been driven
Into retirement or have voluntarily re
tired in order to avoid the humilia
tion of enforced retirement or of ex
ercising small influence where they
had formerly led. "
In the Senate Aldrich "has been suc
ceeded by the equally reactionary but
far less forceful Lippit; Burrows,
Heyburn, Frye and Flint by progres
sive Republicans; Piles by a third
party progressive, and Burkett, Car
ter, Depew, Dick, Hale, Kean, Scott,
Briggs, Burnham, Cullom, Curtis and
Guggenheim by Democrats. Only
Crane, Elkins and Gamble have stand
pat successors. There remain of the
old guard Du Pont, Bulkeley, Lodge,
McCumber, Oliver, Page, Sutherland,
Warren, Brandegee, Dillingham, Gal-
linger, Penrose, Perkins, Root, Smoot
and Stephenson.
In the House the chief apostle of
standpattism. Cannon, is gone. The
slaughter in the standpat ranks is best
illustrated by reviewing the fate of
the men who drew and put through
the Payne-Aldrich tariff. Of the Re
publican members of the ways and
means committee of 1909, Dalzell, Mc
Call, Hill, Boutell, Needham, Calder
head, Gaines, Longworth, Crumpacker
and Cushman are all in private life
except Cushman, who is dead. Only
Payne and Fordney remain.
With few exceptions the survivors
of the old band are no longer among
the leaders and are seldom heard in
Congress. Lodge and Root still hold
considerable influence due to their
unquestioned ability, integrity and
knowledge of public affairs. Gallin
ger and Smoot ftre frequent speakers
but Penrose is making the fight of
his life for re-election and the rest
are simply "in the ruck." The men
who are heard most on the Republi
can side and who put things over on
the Democrats are Borah, Bristow,
Norrls, Cummins, La Follette, Clapp,
Burton, Jones and Kenyon. Demo
crats recognize that these men are
with the tide of public opinion and
therefore dare not antagonize them.
In the House also new men have
come to the front. Mann has sup
planted Payne as floor leader and the
men most heard and who receive most
attention are those of progressive ten
dencies. Fordney and Humphrey occasionally-make
an attack on the Un
derwood tariff but theforce of their
arguments is weakened by their
known standpat views.
The question before the Republican
party now is whether, having got rid
of more than half of the standpatters,
including nearly all the leaders, it will
get rid of the rest or permit the out
casts to come back. It is generally
conceded that the political pendulum
is about to swing toward Republican
supremacy. Will the reaction from the
revolt of 1910 and 1912 go so far that
the party will forgive the men whose
conduct was the prime cause of de
feat or will It continue to reject these
men, send all men of their stamp
packing after them and call new men
to reinforce the younger element ln
place of the remnant of the old
guard ?
The political disasters of 1910 and
1912 had their beneficial uses to the
Republican party, as have all times of
adversity for those who will draw a
salutary lesson from them. They en
abled the party to rid itself of its
most pernicious elements and to prove
that it is not the party of reaction.
It remains to be seen whether this
work it to be completed by the rejec
tion .of .Penrose, the refusal to rein
state Cannon and Foraker and the
deposition of Barnes, who still sits
enthroned in New York. It is for the
Republlca-n party to decide whether it
will persist in the course on which it
has started- or, in its eagerness to de
feat any Democrat, will accept any
man calling himself a Republican
without inquiring what kind of a Re
publican he has been.-
WHAT 'PROVOKED COLORADO'S WAR.
The source of the bitterness which
caused the striking coal miners
of , Colorado to convert what might
have been a peaceful struggle into a
civil war, which again has resulted in
a clash with troops, appears from an
article which Clair Price has contribut
ed to the New Tork Evening Post. It
begins by saying that .two years ago,
when a mine accident at Trinidad
killed one .man and injured . four, all
that the local paper said about it was:
A Jap was killed by a rock-fall in the
Sopris mine last night.
That shows the general attitude
toward employes of the mines cal
lous indifference to the fact that they
are human beings made of the same
flesh and blood as their employers.
That spirit is shown by the fact that
nationalities are so mixed. Mr. Price
says of the 8000 striking miners all
foreigners:
Most of them are Italians and "Austrians,"
the latter term in Colorado standing for all
Slavs, and particularly those from Auatrla
Hungary. There are large numbers of "-Mexicans,"
ranging all the way from the most
mongrel Indian- to the purest Spanish. Also
there are Japanese, Greeks, negroiss, Poles,
Finns and Russians; 8 different dialects are
said to be spoken ln the Southern Colorado
coal fields.
Evidently the employers have
"pickled" their men; that is, deliber
ately mixed nationalities with a view
to rendering concerted action difficult,
if not impossible, through difference
of language and race animosity. The
motive may be found ln the fact that
this Is the third great strike in the
same region, the others having broken
out In 1892 and 1903. Mr. Price says
the races hate each other cordially
and each race has its own organiza
tion in each camp and preserves its
own feast days and national habits,
but "during a strike every racial an
tipathy vanishes." A common cause
defeats the purpose of "pickling."
The seven demands of the strikers
have simmered down to one recog
nition of the union. This would not
seem to be adequate cause for plung
ing a state into civil war until one
reads the following from Mr. Price's
article:
Years of secret agitation have been re
quired to bring about the Industrial warfare
which now prevails. When they could be
discovered, "organizers" for the United
Mineworkers have been thrown Into Jail
by camp marshals, or beaten or spied upon
or robbed of their membership rolls and run
out of the camps. Their union meetings
have been held with all the secrecy of
nihilist meetings in Russia. One of the
oldest of the miners' organizers in the Trin
idad district i a German, named Robert
Uhlrich, upon whom camp marshals have
visited every Indignity possible ln an Amer
ican state.
The theory of the companies is that
they operate open-shop mines and
that no miner is ever discharged for
Joining a union, but Mr. Price says:
This story, as put Into practice by the
companies' camp marshals. Is yet something
else again.
These marshals. . paid and appointed by
the companies, possess full police powers ln
the coal camps, and during the present
strike they have been taken Into the militia,
so that they perform their duties in the
state's khaki. In times of peace they form
the base of the political structure of the
coal counties, whose administrations are
verily owned and operated by the coal com
panies. The Colorado Fuel & " Iron Com
pany is . wealthier than the corpora
tion of the State of Colorado and with
other rich corporations dominates the
state. It is given credit by Mr. Price
for having done much welfare work
for its employes, for Mr. Price says:
Forty thousand dollars- Is spent annually
by the sociological department of the C.
F. & I ln helping Its miners in the Trin
idad district. When It first came into con
trol of its present camps It found the most
vicious, criminal and filthy conditions pre-
vailing; it tore down all the vermin-laden
adobe bunkhouses and erected in their place
long lines of clean, square cottages. It sup
plies every worthy want of its men, except
their desire to organize. It gives them ex
cellent schools, free entertainments, travel
ling libraries, kindergartens, and superior
medical advice. Its camps have but one sa
loon apiece, and the county Issues its camp
license only after the company has made
the most rigid investigations into the char
acter of its applicants. Its Minnequa hos
pital at Pueblo is counted one of. the finest
hospitals ln the world.-
Here are corporations which play
upon race-hatred to keep their men
divided. Through the state's abdica
tion of Its police power to them they
rule their employes and stamp out
every movement to unite, deny the
miners the natural rights of men and
then seek to keep them In good hu
mor with 'welfare work." When a
strike breaks out, Baldwin-Felts
strikebreakers are imported with ma
chine guns to fortify the mines, the
strikers are evicted from the company
houses and build tent camps on the
mountain sides, where the company's
searchlights play upon them by night.
When the militia were first sent
Into the district, last October, Mr.
Price says, they were welcomed by
both sides; all ranchers, miners and
other citizens were disarmed and im
portation of strikebreakers ceased.
But the companies' guards were not
disarmed, and acts of violence began,
culminating in the recent pitched bat
tles. In the face of this record of stamp
ing out unionism, so that union
meetings had to be held with the se
crecy of Russian Nihilist plots, John
D. Rockefeller, Jr.) says:
The only point at Issue so far as the Colo
rado Fuel A Iron Company Is concerned
is that - of unionizing, and unionizing at
the behest, not of our employes, less
than 10 per cent of whom were
union men, but at the demand of an outside
body. We do not question the right of any
workmen to freely associate themselves in
unions for the furtherance of -their common
and legitimate Interests, but we do assert
the equal right of an Individual to work in
dependently of a union if he so elects. We are
contending against the right of unions to
Impose themselves upon an Industry by force,
by assault and murder, and not against the
right of men to organize for. their mutual
benefit.
His company weeds out union men
with its camp marshals, yet he boasts
that less than 10 per cent are union
men. It denies men the right to
combine, yet he asserts the right to
work independently of a union. His
company hires - a private army,
usurps the police power with the
state's connivance. transfers its
guards into the militia, imports ma
chine guns and dominates state and
local administrations, yet he writes in
a .lofty strain about "the constitu
tional guarantee of law and -order"
and saj-s "funds are being openly
raised and citizens are being' armed
with the avowed purpose of resisting
the authorities of the state" those
authorities which have permitted the
coal companies to do all the things
which have been cited.
The Colorado coal companies have
reaped what they have sown. So has
the whole State of Colorado. The
state has evidently fallen under the
rule of an oligarchy against which the
coal miners rebelled. ' How great
must have been the provocation when
It united men speaking fifty-eight lan
guages and dialects!
As the returns come ln as to the
effect of the Underwood tariff on
American and foreign industry, Re
publicans in the House find some
telling arguments ln the reports pub
lished by the authors of that tariff.
Representative Fordney quoted from
the report of the United States Consul
at Leeds, England, the statement that
in the quarter ending March 31 ex
ports from that city to the United
States were $613,388, as compared
with -$297,259 in the corresponding
quarter of 1913. He quoted a manu
facturer of mohair and alpaca who
has mills in both this country and
England, as having warned the ways
and means committee a year ago that;
if the Underwood bill passed, he
would have to close his- American
mill and supply this country from his
English mill. , Imports of that class
of goods ln March. 1914. were $3,083,
000, as compared with $800,000 ln
March, 1913.- It seems that he and
his competitors are sending the orders
to England.
The one consolation for such dis
asters as befell the Empress of Ireland
Is that they bring out the noble qual
ities ln some men and women which
lie hidden until a great emergency
arises. All honor to the "heroes who
gave their lives for others and to
those whom only chance prevented
from doing so, as was the case with
Captain Kendall.
After attending to his- light social
duties in Spain, Colonel Roosevelt
promises to plunge into politics up to
the neck. Slashing at the Democrats
on "the one hand and at the detested
standpat Republican bosses on the
other, he will certainly put some
"pep" into the campaign. Where the
Colonel is, there is always some polit
ical fur flying.
Seattle's municipal trolley line' is
losing only $12 a. day. But think of
the self-satisfaction of ownership it
gives the taxpayer who lives off the
line and never uses it. He can watch
others ride and enjoy that philan
thropic feeling which Andrew Car
negie and other money distributors
must feel.
Mrs. McClaughrey who is about to
scatter some of "Lucky" Baldwin's
money around the world, says she
would not marry the best man in the
world. Has he asked her and Is he
likely to ask her?
An association of local bakers with
the avowed purpose of giving the con
sumer a larger -and better loaf for the
same price is the most meritorious
proposition advanced for many a day.
The belief that almost anything can
be done with money will be tested
severely in the experiment of a Santa
Barbara man to move the trees of his
fifteen-year-old orange - grove.
As that hen owned by Mrs. Fox at
Glenada contemplates her record of
305 eggs In a year, she is justified ln
the pride" of knowing her comb is on
straight.
With numerous electrical trains at
their service Portland people who
miss a sight of the Valley at its best
lose much of one of the joys of living.
It may be the Beavers will do bet
ter this week. An increased attend
ance will give them heart, at least.
The call of Chairman Moores to
Oregon Republicans sounds like the
"good, old stuff" of the right sort.
Since only 18,919 arrests were made
in Portland the past ten months, the
rest of us can appreciate the luck.
The people who open that vault at
Eugene in 2914 will wonder what was
done with silch outlandish things.
President Wilson's remarks at Ar
lington were better, than a prepared
oration, ln sound and quality.
Alfonso expresses desire to meet the
Colonel and he need not worry". The
Colonel will show him.
A good Democrat is being cheated
of his rights in tying up of the Pen
dleton Postmastership.
"Lucky" Baldwin's daughter Is go
ing abroad to paralyze the tip grab
bers. ,
As Press Sees Candidates
Up-State Papers Comment on Pri
mary Results) and" Other Political
Events.
Marshfield Record."
From this time forward every Re
publican newspaper ln Oregon should
endeavor to bring about the election
of R. A- Booth to succeed Senator
Chamberlain. One should not fool him
self Into the belief the task is not go
ing to be a hard one. Senator Cham
berlain is a strong man, politically,
and a united party must get behind
Mr. Booth to land him. ln Washing
ton." Both Candidates Good Men.
Hermlston Herald.
From any angle the Republican and
Democratic nominees for Governor look
good. They are both good men and
carried in the primaries by a nice mar
gin. A warm campaign is sure to re
sult and the winner will have won a
good- fight. At that, though, the lead
of the winner will be small. Whether
Wlthycombe or Smith be our next Gov
ernor, and we believe it will be the
former. Oregon will lose nothing.
He Has Balance Wheel.
Hillsboro Independent.
Oregon Republicans made no mis
take when by a decisive vote last Fri
day they named Dr. James Wlthycombe
as the party's- candidate for Governor.
He is a man of proven ability, experi
ence ln publio affairs and has repeat
edly given evidence of possessing a
poise and mature judgment which will
render unlikely the impulsive and ill
considered acts such as ln the past
have given Oregon undesirable ad
vertising. j
Good Losers, All.
Heppner Gazette-Times.
In the primary election just passed
a number of good men failed of nom
ination. All could not be nominated,
and It was plain to be seen that there
should be a large number of disap
pointed ones. This disappointment,
however, is but for the time being, and
we rejoice over the fact that those
defeated in the race are ready to do
all they can for the winners and help
them in the race for the Fall elec
tions, thus proving that they are good
losers.
So Better Feeling; Exists.
Baker Herald.
Mr. Wlthycombe Is one of the best
known and best-respected men in the
state and his conduct during the pri
mary campaign promises that he will
have a clean, forceful campaign next
Fall. He is a capable and conscien
tious official who will fill the posi
tion ln a manner that will be satis
factory. He has caused no bitter feel
ing on the part of the other Republi
can candidates at the primaries be
cause his was not a campaign of per
sonalities. Choice a Good One.
Lakeview Examiner.
Dr. James Wlthycombe, the success
ful candidate for the Republican nom
ination for Governor, is a man who has
long been held in high esteem by the
people of Oregon. His connection with
the Agricultural College at Corvallis
has made him many friends In all sec
tions of the state, and he has always
been very popular ln the farming dis
tricts. Should he be elected, of which
there seems to be no doubt, his admin
istration of state- affairs will reflect
credit upon himself as well as the state
generally.
Wlthycombe Is the Man.
Salem Statesman. .
Dr. Wlthycombe is known through
out the state, ln city and country, as
a man well versed ln rural conditions,
for he has spent a great portion of his
life in furthering these Interests. In
stock raising and general farm condi
tions and needs he is thoroughly
posted.
The Republican candidate is a man
of unassailable character and reputa
tion, strictly moral ln his life and hab
its and will see that the laws are en
forced. Those who know the kind of
man he is know this. He will be just,
because he is just, and if elected Gov
ernor of Oregon' those who want law
enforcement will find nothing lacking
ln him.
How Dr. Wltkycombe's Kelgfhbora Keel.
Corvallis Gazette-Times.
Although the splendid vote given
him ln Benton County on Friday was
good evidence. Dr. Wlthycombe prob
ably did not suspect until last night
just him much of a hold he has on the
hearts of 'those who know him best.
The people everywhere are delighted
to honor a manly man. a God-fearing
man free from cant and hypocrisy and
not overburdened with piety, and they
are ever pleased 'to honor ability,, sin
cerity, ripened wisdom and true worth.
Corvallisites have learned that all these
qualities are combined ln Dr. Wlthy
combe, and last night they were happy
to tell him so. It was a magnificent
demonstration, sincere, a glorious tes
timonial to a citizen worthy ln every
sense, and it will go out to the people
of this state as a guarantee that he Is
at least one not without every honor
in his own county. .
Too Much Pepper.
Medford Sun.
Pepper is a useful stimulant to di
gestion. But a diet of pepper alone
would raise nothing but the life in
surance rates.
Oswald West has been a highly-seasoned
Governor. He has added spice
to the life of the state, has over-stimulated
the flow of certain moral ele
ments, has booeted moving-picture ma
chine stock materially, but has left the
people of Oregon where they don't care
to look the political pepper box in the
face again.
Dr. Smith, the residuary legatee of
our spicy and pungent chief executive,
will therefore find the public appetite
decidedly hostile to his inherited port
folio. If the Eastern Oregon physician is
wise and we are informed he is he
will make a strong effort to concoct
some political dish of his own, free
from Governor West's favorite brand
of Mexican paprika.
"Why Dr. Smith "Won.
Union Scout.
After the primaries many of us are
disappointed and it would have been so
no matter what the result. First and
foremost we lost our man Bennett,
and, he was a good man. Bennett was
a candidate that had incurred the an
tagonism of the railroads and corpora
tions throughout the state, while the
people protest that they are against
corporations it is hard to get them to
vote that way. Then, again, Manning
and Bennett divided the opposition
against the administration candidate,
while either of them would have beaten
him had the other been out of the way.
But no one is to blame for that. Dr.
Smith will no doubt make a good Gov
ernor, although it is Impossible for him
to come up to the high standard of
such a man as Bennett.
Dr. Wlthycombe Is by far ,the most
popular man on the Republican ticket
and as such will prove a formidable
candidate. At least his candidacy was
won on the level and without the taint
of trickery. It would have been dif
ficult for any Democrat to carry this
county against him this year.
Half a Century Ago
From The Oregonian of June 1, 1864.
There are two tickets in the field,
both headed "Union." At a mass meet
ing of the citizens of Willamette pre
cinct on Monday several of the candi
dates from either side spoke, among
others Mr.' Risley. Independent Union
candidate for the Legislature. He was
asked by John Powell how he should
vote for Representative to Congress.
He replied. "For J. K. Kelly, if I live."
Now it behooves the Union voters to
criticise the sentiments and language
used in support of his candidate. We
quote from the State Journal a synop
sis of the speech made by General Lane
at Eugene on the 21st Inst. He declared
that secession is a constitutional right,
denounced Lincoln as a traitor and per
jurer. . waging war to destroy. the Na
tion and establish a monarchy, and said
abolitionists were not Christians.
On Sunday, May 22, the extensive
sawmills of George A. Meigs at Port
Madison, W. T.. were destroyed by fire.
Mr. Meigs is loser to the extent of $200,
000, but has already commenced the
erection of new mills.
The Union citizens of Portland will
meet a.t the Willamette Theater this
evening. Hon. J.- H. Mitchell and other
eloquent speakers will be heard from.
II. G. Struve has accepted the Union
nomination for Prosecuting Attorney at
Vancouver In a letter declaring himself
an unconditional Union man, having
left the Democratic organization some
months ago.
Washington, May 28. A dispatch from
headquarters of the Army of the Poto
mac states that our Army had with
drawn to the north side of North Anna
and moved toward Hanovertown, the
place designated for crossing the Pa
munkey. Sedley's brigade met with a
repulse In crossing the North Anna.
Washington, May 30. A dispatch from
Grant dated Hanovertown the 29th.
states the Army has successfully crossed
the Pamunkey.
Washington, May 30. A telegram
from Sherman, dated Dallas, Ga., the
29th, reports that on the 28th an en
gagement was fought between the
enemy and McPherson's corps. The
enemy were driven back.
Cleveland. May 30. From present ap
pearances the Radical convention to
morrow will be large. Apparently the
delegation of war Democrats from New
Tork will be large. Indications are that
Grant will be withdrawn and Fremont
nominated without much opposition.
The Oregon Iron Works will soon be
carried on in th npw nnH (.nmninmiia
itructure Just erected by the company.
The pile-driver has been sinking a
pile on the bottom below the gas works
to attach the guys of a mast 175 feet
high, which is being raised for swing
ing the telegraph wires across the
river. The opposite connection will be
made from a tall pine, which has been
stripped of its branches to a similar
altitude. The wire will be suspeuded
to a sufficient height to admit of the
tallest masted vessels passing unmo
lested. The depressed condition of business
on the Fraser Is likely to give our Vic
toria friends plenty of steamers to ply
on the route between their port and
ours. The steamer Gov. Douglas has
been sent to Port Ludlow for the pur
pose of having her bottom American
ized, and soon the Colonel Moody and
Union will undergo a similar process.
Mr. Thomas has contributed his mite
toward the improvement of Front street
at the junction of Madison.
The steamer Empress will take alive
load of freight to Montlcello today, con
sisting of about 400 head of sheep that
will proceed to Vancouver Island.
CROC FIRST VSF.I) IJT IE A It 17 lO
Admiral Vernon Made the First to Keep
Ills Sailor Fighters Sober.
Kansas City Star.
Secretary Daniels' order prohibiting
alcoholic liquors on board ships of the
Navy and at Navy-yards has given rise
to the question regarding the origin of
the word "grog."
Vlce-Admlral Vernon, of the British
squadron operating in the West Indies
In 1740. the man for whom Washing
ton's home was named, issued an order
from which the word "grog" originated.
His purpose was to regulate the naval
ration in order to Improve the per
sonnel, to remedy existing conditions
and promote temperance.
Because of the demoralization of the
men brought through overindulgence
in rum the order providing for the use
of diluted liquor was given. According
to this order a quart of water had to
be mixed with each pint of the West
Indian beverage, and the usual ration
was divided, half to be given before 11
o'clock in the forenoon, and the other
half to be given late ln the afternoon.
The men, ln their resentment at the
Interference on the part of their su
perior. Ironically dubbed the diluted
drink "grog" in bis honor. Admiral
Vernon had been nicknamed "Old Grog,"
because it was his custom to wear a
heavy storm coat of "grosgraln" or. as
the common English form was, "gro
gram." Little Total Abstainer.
Life.
Speaking of a time when alcohol was
more used than now in business, young
John Rockefeller said the other day to
his Bible class:
"Now all that Is changed. Great cor
porations will not employ men who
drink, and their emphasis is on total
abstinence." "
Of course, the change is for the bet
ter, but it seldom extends to total ab
stinence. People who have work to do
eat and drink what contributes most to
mental clarity and energy. Most of
them are sparing of food and abstinent
during working hours. And even after
working hours intelligent men are apt
to be very restricted ln their potations.
Nevertheless, among the able men here
about, leaders in the professions, man
agers of corporations, employers of
men. there seem to be very few total
abstainers. Most of them drink a little
every night at dinner. As a rule, the
more successful men are thoroughly
schooled ln all kinds of self-control,
and can, and do, drink just as little as
Is good for them, and seldom any more.
Appointments to West Point.
PORTLAND, May 29. (To the Edi
tor.) Kindly let me know how many
appointments there may be to the
United States Military Academy at
West Point in the next two years.
R. F.
Each Senator, Congressional district
and territory, including Porto Rico,
Alaska and Havana, is entitled to have
one cadet at the academy, the District
of Columbia two, and in addition there
are 40 appointments at large conferred
by the President of the United States.
Why Should the City Payf
PORTLAND. May 29. (To the Edi
tor.) It is considered good business to
Insure your property before a fire. The
City Council thinks so. too, but City
Commissioner Bigelow evidently does
not. He failed to insure the Haw
thorne bridge, even though the City
Council ordered him to do so ln Decem
ber last, and now the city will have
to stand the expense of repairs as a
result of the recent fire.
Will Mr. Bigelow as Commissioner of
finance approve of such a bill? I for
one most vigorously protest against it.
AN INDIGNANT CITIZEN. "
Twenty-Five Years Ago
- From Ths Oregonian of June 1. 1SS9.
Pittsburg, Pa. May SI. A flood
caused the South Fork dam on the
Conemaugh River to burst today, send
ing a huge torrent down the valley. It
destroyed Johnstown and all Interven
ing towns and many hundred persons
were drowned. The wreckage took
fire and destroyed more lives.
Seattle. May 31. The Northwestern
Electric Supply & Construction Com
pany has been awarded contracts for
the construction of seven and one-half
miles of electric street railway ln Port
and. Three and a half miles are for
the Willamette Bridge Railway Com
pany and four miles for the Metropoli
tan Street Railway Company. James
Steel, of the latter company, has re
turned to Portland ln company with
S. L. Mitchell, president of the elec
tric company.
Astoria. May 31. The surfboat this
morning rescued Captain Peterson and
his boat-puller, who were struggling
lu the water off Sand Island.
Spokane Falls, May 31. William
Hainsworth, a steel manufacturer of
Pittsburg, has arranged for shipping
a carload of ore to that city for tests.
Salem, May 31. A son of Alex La
Chappele was taken down with small
pox yesterday.
Spokane Falls, May 81. Judge W. B.
Heyburn. one of the delegates to the
Idaho constitutional convention, is in
the city to meet Delegate Dubois.
Independence. May 31. At the grand
picnic fully 2000 people were assembled.
Professor J. L. Campbell made an ad
dress which was highly appreciated.
Captain R. B. Lamson, clerk of the
United States courts, was at his post
yesterday for the first time since July
last. He is much improved by his trip
through California.
Ed D. Crandall, who is a member of
the Cecilian Operatic Company, now
playing in the city, is an Oregon boy.
the oldest son of Captain C. P. Cran-
dall, for some years editorially con
nected with The Oregonian. He was at
one time connected with the Evening
Telegram.
One of the beautiful elm trees on the
Yamhlll-street side of Hon. H. XV. Cor
bett's residence block has been badly
damaged by some horse.
George H. Thomas has been appoint
ed manager of the V estern Union tel
egraph office, vice Mr. Hayes, resigned
Mrs. B. Thomas was knocked down
by a brewery wagon at Main and First
streets yesterday and her shoulder dis
located. Portland is to have another academy
in charge of Rev. J. R. Wilson. D. D..
and Professor L. M. Thompson.
James G. Woodworth, assistant gen
eral frnlcht u LTAnt rtf tiA l T? jf. XT
Company, has gone East.
Claimants to the estate of John Fens
termacher. which escheated to the
state, are becoming numerous.
State Senator R. M. Veatch, of Lane
County, is in the city.
The fund has been completed for a
bell for the Baptist Church at Mount
Tabor and tomorrow the bell will ring.
Charles J. Graham, the old colored
barber, who for many years has shaved
thousands, died suddenly in his shop. 30
Yamhill street, yesterday.
Professor F. Konrad. the well-known
zither player, died yesterday.
POf.ICl NOT GOOD FOR CHILDKE.V
Gift of School Necessities Likely "
Destroy Initiative.
PORTLAND. May 29. (To the Edi
tor.) On June 15 next I understand
that the question of granting free text
books to the school children of Mult
nomah County, both public and private
schools, will come up for decision.
The rearing of children is fast be
coming a "state affair," and it will not
be very many years before the respon
sibility of parenthood will pass into the
hands of the state. The pupils In the
schools of the City of. Portland have
been given fireproof buildings, free
playgrounds. domestic science and
manual training instruction, and now
some people demand that the taxpayer
be saddled with an additional burden
of free text books. What can we ex
pect later? Children will soon become
so accustomed to having things given
them that they will feel no incentive to
exert themselves to provide for their
necessities. If people have children,
why not provide for them? N 1 surely
have had to deny myself many things
in order to provide books and clothes
and other necessaries for my child, and
I certainly object to being further taxed
to provide for the children of other
parents.
Why do the papers have long columns
of advertisements reading "Wanted,
furnished houses?" Because people have
long awakened to the fact that it is far
cheaper to rent both house and furni
ture than to own same, because after
having voted taxes upon your property
if they do not like the run of things
they can readily pack their small be
longings and move along.
Property today does not bring 4 per
cent on the investment, not to mention
the constant trouble and burden of
ownership. Owning property ln the City
of Portland is a luxury, when we figure
state taxes, school taxes, street im
provements, insurance, upkeep, expense,
of elections and city taxes.
Better call a halt and let the parent
realize that children must be provided
for by the parent and not by the state.
PHOEBE FELCHER-JONES,
786 East Thirty-second Street.
A Tribute.
(in memory of the Rt. Rev. Charles
Scadding. D. D.. late Bishop of Oregon.)
O brave, big-hearted man, true saint
of God,
Good Shepherd of these sheep Christ
died to save.
Thy last watch kept, lay down thy
staff and rod.
And seek him. as he sought thee.
through the grave.
True to thy trust thou would'st have
others true.
And, seeking, dld'st not fall ln them
to find
Thy hearts desire fulfilled Just trib
ute duo
To thy pure soul, large heart and
saintly mind.
Earth must to earth. Amen. In heaven.
God's granary.
The harvest of thy life, safe housed.
awalteth thee. K.
"The BunggJoafer"
And now the happy "Bunga
loafers" begin to think of getting
away to their Summer homes.
No matter how much they have,
it always seems as If a great lot
of things must be provided if the
Summer is to be passed in com
fort. Why not go at the solving of
this problem scientifically?
Make out a list of what seems
neded and then turn to the ad
vertising columns of The Ore
gonian for guidance.
Check off the most inviting of
fers and act accordingly.
It Is surprising how useful the
advertising ln this paper is. More
people are learning this fact each
day.
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