Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937, June 06, 1914, Image 10

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Newspaper Page Text10 THE MORNING OREGONIAN, SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1914. POBTLAND, OREGON. Entered at Portland, Oregon, Poetofflca econd-clau matter. Subscription Rates Invariably in Advance: (BY MAIL) Dally, Sunday Included, one year ...... Lally. Sunijay Included, six montbi ..... Uaily, Sunday included, three months . - - V-?? iJaily. Sunday Included, one montli ..... - Daily, without Sunday, one year O.OU aily, without Sunday, six months 8.25 Xiaily, without Sunday, three months l.e lally, without Sunday, one month ...... Weekly, one year ..............- -ou hunday, one year ...................... 2.50 bunday and Weekly, one year .S0 (BY CARRIER) Dally. Sunday Included, one year S9.00 Daily, Sunday included, one month ..... .75 ' How to Uvmlt Send postofMce money or der, express order or personal checlt on your local bank. - Stamps, coin or currency are at sender's ;-isk. Uive postoffice address in lull. Including: county and state. l'ostaica Kate 12 to 10 pases, 1 cent; 18 to 82 puges. 2 cents; 84 to 48 pages, 8 cents; CO to Go pages, 4 cents; 62 to To pages, 5 cents; 7a to t2 sages, o cents. Foreign post age, double rates. Eastern Kutsiness Offices Verree Conlc lin, New York, Brunswick building. Chi cago. Steger building. San Francisco Office R. J. Bldwell Co T42 Market street. JOBlLAXD, SATURDAY, JOE 6 1814. PARTY EECSIOX OR BOSS RULE. Colonel Roosevelt's statements that lie has work to do in the Nerw York campaign find that he will continue the war on the bipartisan ma chine of Barnes and Murphy makes New York more than usually the cen ter of political Interest this year. There are some symptoms of a get together spirit among both Republi cans and Progressives, although the latter party keeps up a show of firm ness lest it be suspected of feeling dire need of the other's help, and al though the Republican machine Is still dominated by the boss, who stifles the fuslonists. Many Progressive leaders, includ ing the Colonel, evince a. disposition to join hands with the anti-machine Republicans in electing a ticket hos tile to Mr. Barnes. There was some talk of their nominating Colonel Rooseveit for Governor, but he has thrice affirmed that he will not be a candidate. There was then a dispo sition to Indorse Harvey I. H In man Jf he should be nominated by the Re publicans in defiance of Barnes, but Colonel Roosevelt's declaration that "right-minded people ought to act to gether wttliout regard to ordinary party differences" in an effort to de stroy the machines was followed the next day by Charles S. Whitman's announcement of his candidacy for the Republican nomination. One of the Progressive leaders, Charles H. Duel, sponsors the Whitman move ment and quotes Colonel Roosevelt as positively assuring it his support. But Progressive leaders insist that any candidate they indorse must be thoroughly in sympathy with their principles and they doubt whether Mr. Whitman would make such a dec laration, for ' they consider him too nearly an out-and-out party Repub lican. They also propose to make Re publican indorsement of their nomi nees for some offices a condition of their support for the Republican nom inee for Governor. They consider that a Congressman or two and a few state legislators in New York would greatly strengthen their party's standing In the country at large. Some of them, led by George W. Perkins, oppose any alliance and favor keeping in the middle of the road. Others of the more radical turn of mind are equally opposed to Mr. Perkins' pro-corporation proclivities and to the Repub lican alliance. The more practical minded, apparently including the Colonel, see that they have no chance of electing a straight Progressive Governor, but believe their party holds the balance of power and is in a good position to bring about the downfall of Mr. Barnes. The Republican state committee, however, shows no disposition to dicker or to dispense with Mr. Barnes, for it is still dominated by him. That body called a state convention to meet In August for the purpose of consider ing the National committee's reor ganization plan, recommending can didates or delegates at large to the constitutional convention and adop tion of a platform, but when the anti Barnes men, headed by Herbert Par sons, proposed a resolution prohibit ing the convention to name candidates to be voted on at the direct primary they were defeated by a vote of 162 to 181. Instead, there was added to the purposes of the convention this paragraph: 4. To transact such other business as nay properly come before the convention. , This was understood to leave the convention Itself to decide whether it could "wisely name a ticket for the primaries. That resolution received thesupport of the "old guard," which was conspicuous by Its activity and Influence, while the fuslonists were conspicuous by their absence. No mention of Mr. Whitman seems to have been made, but Job Hedges TiLa.de an open bid for nomination for Governor and was warmly Indorsed toy Senator Root. Thus the Progressives bid for alli ance with Independent Republicans to dictate nominations and defeat Barnes, while the old guard, confident in its ability to gain the united sup port of the party for Its ticket, ig nores the Progressives. The latter may be counting on the skill with which, the twin bosses. Barnes and Murphy, "fixed" the direct primary laiw, or they may be counting with out the disposition of the people to use the direct primary as a weapon to smash machines and slates. Should the old guard control the con vention and present a ticket at the di rect primary, independent Republican voters in concert with Progressives may name Mr. Hinman or Mj. Whit man against its wishes. In that case the old guard, which never surren ders, may die, and the way may be opened for the return of Colonel Roosevelt and his followers to a re organized Republican party. Thus it Is for the independent Re publican voters to decide whether the bosses shall ruin in order that they may rule or whether the party shall be reunited by the permanent retire ment of these last relics of a discred ited system. ' GEORC BRANDES' VEEWS. Georg Brandes, the great Danish critic of literature and life, has brought an extremely radical set of opinions -with him to these shores. Like Ellen Key, Anatole France and many other leaders of European thought, he detests compromises and groes directly to the roots of every question. Speaking of the numerous divorces which sometimes horrify superficial observers of American life, he. says that he wishes there were more. Nothing displeases him so much as the sight of an ill-mated couple straining at their matrimonial fetters. Mr. Brandes also believes In woman suffrage, but not with implicit faith. He is of the opinion that women must Justify their voting privilege by the results I they attain. Affairs in Colo rado do not seem to have been greatly nullified by woman suffrage. And yet an impartial critic must admit that without it they might perhaps have been -a great deal worse than they are, dimcuTt'as that may appear. Our three best novelists, according to Mr. Brandes, are Upton Sinclair, Jack London and Frank Norris. The two former names remind one of Tolstoi's opinion that Adin Ballou was the greatest American who ever lived. TEACHERS ASD MARRIAGE. Marriage is, or ought to be, in It self no reason for disqualification to a teacher in the Portland public schools. But the conditions of a par ticular marriage may render the services of such a married teacher inr efficient or undesirable. Is efficiency the sole test, without regard to marriage? We think not. Character is an element. So are the outside ties, habits and associations of a teacher. Such influences may or may not have a direct bearing on the instructor's work in the schoolroom; but they have an unquestionable relation- to his or her fitness to be a monitor and instructor of the young. The critics of the School Board's plan to dispense with the services of certain not all married teachers plainly assume that it is none of the Board's business whether any teacher is or is not married. We think It is. But we do not think marriage ought to be an insuperable bar to em ployment. A principal gets a good salary from the district. He has a wife who is employed as a teacher. They have no children. We wonder if it will be maintained that the School Board must ignore outright such a situa tion?' Should it continue to employ a childless couple? Or should it ar range matters so that a family may be reared ? The School Board has not set out to dismiss married women who have de pendent husbands. But it has seen fit to take cognizance of the fact that it has on its pay roll more than one breadwinner in the same family, or at least one breadwinner in a family that has another breadwinner, or per haps more than one other. Probably the Board has made a mistake In laying down any fixed rule as to marriage; but it is no mistake to reserve to itself the right to deter mine whether marriage in any 'given case is a disqualification. THE BEAUTY OF FRIENDSHIP. Reports of contributions to the campaign funds of a certain candidate in the recent Oregon primary reveal Instances of touching devotion rarely encountered in this- grubbing, ma terial, workaday world. We may thank the corrupt practices act for thus teaching us that friendship is not always shallow nor devoid of sac rifice. There was one admirer who con tributed $500 to aid a candidate to successful nomination. It would not be fair here to reveal his name. But an acquaintance writes that this con tributor has heretofore been unjustly known in the community in which he lives as a "tightwad." He Is now working for a salary of J 100 per month. When one imagines the depriva tions that a man who makes but $100 per month must have suffered in or der to provide J500 to gratify the po litical ambition of a friend and learns of the base reputation thereby ac quired, one is almost moved to tears. There is another man who is down in the returns for a contribution of several hundred dollars who, report says, has not paid his board bill for two months. It had been supposed that lie was wasting his substance in riotous pleasures. But the corrupt practices act discloses how fearfuily we sometimes misjudge our fellow men. Surely there is no more beautiful friendship , than that which Induces one to incur the enmity of hi3 land lady. There may be persons so unkind as to say that possibly the candidate had himself reported the expenditure of hl3 legal allotment and that the con tributions of his self-sacrificing friends were his own. We prefer to think otherwise. To hold such an opinion makes necessary the suppo sition that a candidate for office in politically pure Oregon has not only violated the election laws, but com mitted perjury, and that two of his supporters have been guilty of the latter crime. We scorn such Imputa tions, at least without additional evi dence.. As ever, we pin our faith to the good, the true and the beautiful, even though they be grounded in politics. THE 70TTI ANNIVERSARY OF Y. M. C. A. THE The Young Men's Christian Associ ation was founded seventy years ago today. The man in whose brain the idea of such an association first took shape was George Williams, a clerk in the -firm of Hitchens & Rogers, of Bridgewater, England. His influ ence upon his associates was so re markable that It has been called mir aculous.' Under his guidance they formed a little company in which the very spirit of the Master seemed to be alive and active. Williams was continually asking himself: "What can I do for these young men?" meaning his fellow clerks. During the seventy years that have elapsed since that time the asso ciation has never ceased to ask the same question. Service, in the name of the Master is its inspiration and watchword. The first meetings were held in an upper room of the house where Williams and his companions lived. In the beginning he had only a single faithful helper. They prayed and talked incessantly, never for an instant losing sight of their purpose to do good to their fellow-men. When the spirit of Williams' meet ings had once become apparent-they grew rapidly in numbers and influ ence. Who could oppose a work that was so manifestly for the highest wel fare of the world ? Williams "went to his reward in 1905 after a long life of extraordinary usefulness. He lived to see the association which he had formed extend over the whole world. It has branches in fifty countries, with more than 1,100,000 members. In America, alone there are 600,000 members. Its buildings and equip ment are valued at $115,000,000. But figures give little conception of the real Impression the Y. M. C. A. has made upon the world. Its finest temples are in the hearts of the men whom it has benefited. Its educa tional work is a boon to thousands of young men. Its gymnasiums teach the (wholesome gospel of exercise and I fresh air. Its religious precepts and practice are drawn directly from the teachings of the Savior. The Y. M. C. A. builds its" structures in the lives of men and counts Its wealth only in terms of rescued and strengthened souls. ' OUR READING HABITS. Europe is troubled as much as the United States by the fear that fiction will drive all other reading matter out of existence. The French public libraries, according to some late fig ures, lend a great many more novels than all other works together. And most of the novels which are really popular are trashy. The best patron ized libraries in Europe are those of Dresden, which loaned four books for each individual of Its population last year. The Paris libraries loaned fewer volumes than those of Dresden and only about one-sixth as many as those of New York. Germany Is the greatest book publishing country In the world and its readers are the most diligent, but still fiction leads even there. The pessimists who prophesy that all really good books will soon disappear before the devastating host of novels have therefore much to jus tify their fears. But there is some thing to be said to relieve their gloom. Although novels are more popular than solid works, even In Germany, it does not follow that there is less seri ous reading in that country than for merly. Quite the contrary. There is more reading of all kinds done. Fic tion merely shares the popularity of all literature. Heavy books never have been loved by the multitude and there is but slight prospect that they ever will be. Yet there can. be no question, that such works are more read today than they were half a cen tury ago. The general advance of intelligence tfells at this point as it does at every other. With ten times as many readers in the world as for merly, the demand for novels might have doubled and trebled and still serious reading might well have more than held its own. This seems to be the actual fact. In the United States the rage for fiction is quite as furious as in Eu rope, but It Is only a superficial indi cation of the taste of the reading world. Novels satisfy the dozy. Indo lent classes, which are unquestionably very numerous, but there is another considerable class whom they do not satisfy. .These people ask for works on economics, philosophy, politics and so on at the libraries. The decay of old-fashioned bookstores which is proceeding apace does not Indicate any lapse of the reading habit. Some of them have given way to depart ment stores, but most of them are undoubtedly replaced by the public libraries. -TMIBB PLOT" AND BOxH RUM. A. communication from a British army officer, published in another col umn, well illustrates the confusion produced in the mind of an obviously honest man by a combination of race prejudice, religious prejudice and class prejudice. As to what Lieutenant Fry calls "the Ulster plot," the facts appear to be that the British government, know ing that the Ulster Unionists were armed and organized for the purpose of resisting home rule and knowing that that bill was likely soon to be come law, took precautionary meas ures to prevent or suppress armed rebellion. It prepared to move troops into the disaffected corner of Ulster. Knowing that some, probably many, of the officers were strongly opposed to home rule. Colonel Seely, the Sec retary for War, without consulting his colleagues in the Cabinet, caused the officers to be sounded as to their will ingness to do the duty which would be required of them. His motive may have been two-fold to insure, that operations in Ulster should be per formed with loyalty to the govern ment and with vigor, and to save offi cers from having to perform service wherein political conviction would conflict with military duty. Some of the officers preferred the alternative of "resignation. In styling them mutineers for so doing we may have been harsh, but our corre spondent is strangely at fault in styl ing a "plot" the precautionary meas ures, taken by lawful authority to pre vent rebellion against a measure which it had good reason to believe would soon be law. Lieutenant Fry attejnpts to show, by deducting from the government's majority the Irish Nationalist and Labor votes, that home rule is not supported by a majority, but surely these two parties are composed of voters in the United Kingdom and are entitled to a voice in the decision.' The decision lies not between Liberals and Unionists, but between all parties; not between the majority and minority of the people of England, Scotland and Wales, but between the majority a"nd minority of the people of the whole United Kingdom, including Ireland. This majority, as represented in Par liament, is for home rule. The Lib eral party has been committed to that policy since 1886; the Labor party supports it, and it is the one purpose of the Irish Nationalist party. The last election was fought on the issue of the Lords' veto of the Lloyd George budget, but the Liberal and Labor leaders were outspoken for home rule and it was known that re striction of the Lords' veto would ex pedite that measure. When the peo ple put the Liberal coalition in power on that issue, it must be assumed that they were prepared for all conse quences of so doing. Including passage of home' rule. Lieutenant Fry asserts that the bulk of the Irish people prefer government by the Imperial Parliament in face of the fact that ever since the days Of Parnell four-fifths of the Irish members in that Parliament have been and still are home rulers. Surely that Is the best guide. As to milking Ulster, there are am ple safeguards in the home rule bill itself against inequitable taxation, as well as against political or religious discrimination. Limits are placed on the powers of the Irish Parliament and provision is made for keeping it within those limits. It is not proposed to force Ireland or Ulster or any part of it out of the empire or from under the British flag. It ls'simply proposed to treat Ireland as the national unit it actually is and to strengthen its loyalty to the empire by yielding to its national aspirations. Self-government In Canada, Australia and South Africa has not weakened but has strengthened the loyalty of those countries to the empire. So it would be with Ireland under home rule. The Oregonlan has no desire to see the British empire weakened, for the empire is sincerely admired by all broad-minded Americans, but we do believe that the evil results predicted as likely to follow on Irish self-gov ernment are phantoms of the imag ination, kept alive by playing on re ligious, political and race prejudice. If directors are to be compelled to make good corporate funds which they have lent or given to one of their number, who will wish to be a direc tor? Rich men will shun director ates as studiously, as they shun jury duty, if the California Railroad Com mission should extract that $1,096,000 from the United Railways directors which they lent to Patrick Calhoun. What an awful precedent that would be for the New Haven directors to contemplate. If it were to be gener ally and successfully followed, the swollen fortunes would look as shrunken as a fat man convalescing from fever. A great campaign will be waged in Montana this Summer for and against woman suffrage. The antis are flock ing thither in myriads armed with Jeers and the queer things which they take for arguments. Home be ing their proper and chosen sphere, one would naturally suppose them to be as forlorn inpolltics as a fish out of water, but, as a matter of fact, they take to it quite naturally. Which moves one to ask how much genuine sincerity there is in their campaign. In the best 'class of exchanges coming to The Oregonlan Is the Brownsville Times, which has Just rounded out twenty-flve years. The Times fits Brownsville and the envi ronment suits the paper. It is wor thy pf mention that Editor F. M. Brown has received high honors from his neighbors, not the least of which was election to the office of Mavni- A good man, satisfied, is a credit to his surroundings. There Is great anxiety In Italy lest Lne- next .f ope snould turn out to be more Interested in politics than re ligion. If he were a politician he might begin a course of Intrigue against Italian unity and attempt to re-establish the church's temporal power. This is the reason -why the Italian government dislikes foreign cardinals. They might too easily be persuaded to vote for a Pope hostile to united Italy. The new co-operative cannery at Vancouver is stimulating diversified farming throughout Clarke " County. It provides a profitable market for products which formerly went to waste. When farmers can sell what they produce at fair prices there is no limit to their industry. When their crops rot on the ground for want of a market they are naturally dis couraged. 'Men who have had experience with a balky horse will grin when they learn that two animals got what was coming at Rldgefleld a day or two ago.' Generally the obstreperous beast chooses his time and place where most humiliation can be heaped on the driver; but in the case in point the animals failed to consider the ap proach of a fast passenger train. Imports of wool this year aggregate 98,000,000 pounds under free trade, against Imports of 38,000,000 pounds last year. Despite absence of a tariff and the great Increase in foreign pur chases, the market rules high. Ore gon woolgrowers will note how much more they would have received if the Wilson policy were not governing. Catching her husband with another woman, a Chicago matron promptly forgave the intruder and gave her money with which to return home. Just what happened to the husband, however, when she got him alone, is not revealed. The correspondent who demurs at change of route of the electrical pa rade from that of former years must remember there are thousands of peo ple along carlines who never enjoyed the favor. A Boston trade paper says "new season underwear is gradually being shown." People on the Atlantic shore must pay more attention to climatic conditions than folk out here. The suffragette who sank on her knees with an entreaty was not a true militant. Otherwise she would' have entangled her fingers In the imperial wool. Villa has been reduced by Carranza to second in command. Sowing the seeds for future revolutions when the present one succeeds. But can't Carranza ece that if. he doesn't Join In the harmless media tion talkfest he may have his ammu nition supply cut off? The seesaw between McNarv and Benson is settled by thirteen votes and ' in this case there 13 nothimr ominous in the number. What a poultryman would call the Phllo system of continuous school may work If all hands can stand the wear and tear. The Democratic central committee is squabbling. Keep cool, boys; there's nothing doing for you In Oregon this year, anyway. The storm cost in Los Angeles. Is rated at $10,000,000. Does that In clude shrinkage in once deluded Win ter tourists? Destructive storms have swept Japan again. That appears to be the storm center of the universe. One of the great features of next week will be the street drill 'of those Radiators from Eugene. Nobody seems to be swatting th fly just now. For obvious reasons the fly is in retirement. Now the militants might get the King's butler to spill hot soup down his neck. Portland's choicest rosebuds, of course, will be seen at the eugenic contest. In the scheme of nature's balance the weather must be all right next week. In some respects, however. Third street is entitled to be known as first street. The beach season is on, although the furnace or fireplace looks good. The sun has three days more in which to strike its proper stride. Clear the decks for the Rose Festival. Half a Century Ago From The Oregonlan of June 6, 1864. Salem, June 4. To the Union Men of Portland: A great massmeeting was held at Pallas today. Three thousand present. Two hundred ladles in uniform in procession. The largest political gathering ever held in Ore gon. Great enthusiasm. Speeches by Mitchell, Gibbs and Williams. The Im ported voters are frightened and are skedaddling. Rely on Polk for the Union ticket against all opposition, whether independent or copperhead, 100 majority' over both residents and im portations. Intense indignation among Union men at independent subterfuges to assist copperheads. (Signed), A. C. Gibbs. G. H. Williams, J. H. Mitchell. Samuel E. May, J. W. J. Huntington. A. M. Loryea. Portland, June 4. Messrs. Mitchell. Williams and Gibbs, Salem: The Union rally Is a success. Logan is speaking. Independents are speaking at the Pioneer. They are beaten. (Signed), Dolph. A Last Word: This day the contest is to be decided. The administration will be sustained in Its efforts to sup press the rebellion or the citizens of Oregon will stand committed to the side of treason. Which shall It be? The regular Union massmeeting at Willamette Theater on Saturday even ing was a complete success. The meet ing was called together by a band of excellent music and a considerable dis play of pyrotechnics. Hon. David Logan made a stirring speech in be half of the regular ticket and was warmly applauded. Mr. Wakefield, can didate for the Legislature, also defined his position. Cleveland, May 31 The Radical Re publican convention nominated Fre mont for President by acclamation and John Cochran, of New York, for Vice president. PhlladeJia. June 1. A special to The EvenTTrV Telegraph has news from Dalton, which says that Sherman ar rived at Dallas on the 28th and pushed reinforcements through to McPherson, who was expected to reach Atlanta by Saturday, the 24th, unless a heavy force of rebels met him on the way. At the last accounts he was at Sweetwater town and had driven the rebels across Powder and Nickajack Creeks and got possession of the bridge across Chat tahooche, 13 miles from Atlanta. The main army under Thomas captured Marietta on the 30th. Johnston with the main body of his deserting army was falling back to Atlanta. Ban Francisco, June 4. Mexican dates to April 26 represent that the Liberal party were holding their own everywhere. A revolt of the Inhabi tants of the City of Sparateras had taken place. They overpowered the French garrison and butchered all that they could find. General Dias attacked the State of Puebla with great suc cess. We have been shown more evidences of the richness of Owyhee quartz rock in the shape of a few specimens brought by Mr. Schwartz. Two large mills are on the way to Owyhee the Alnsworth mill and the mill manufac tured at the Oregon Iron Works for Messrs. Mlnear, Fountain, Leffel and Carrico. This morning a fine 10-horsepower threshing machine of the Pitts manu facture will go to the Cascades on the way to Walla Walla Valley, shipped by Knapp, Burrell & Co. In order that the men employed upon the steamer John H. Couch may exer cise their rights to the elective fran chise. Captain Holman will not leave for Astoria this morning until the polls have been opened a sufficient time for that purpose. Mrs. Ah Fie, the wife of a Celestial living in this city, gave birth to twin daughters on Saturday morning. PEOPLE DOST RULE: OR WANT TO So Say. Contributor Who Sees ao Practical Use for Primary. ONTARIO. Or., June 4. To the Edi tor.) You seem to give great credit to the primary because we have a pret ty good list of nominees for the No vember election. Aren't you giving said primary rather more credit than it deserves? Did the primary select those candidates? I think not. Some person knowing Mr. Booth, for' in stance, mentioned his name to a neigh bor, and this one,- perhaps, favoring the idea, talked to another about it, and so on till finally the papers took it up. I first learned that R. A. Booth was the man we needed for United States Senator in The Oregonlan. His neighbors and the papers nominated (named) R. A. Wooth; the primary merely ratified the nomination. It might have defeated it, as was the case with Judge Bennett. In these days, if people want any thing done well they appoint a com mission, committee or bureau to attend especially to that particular thing, and why should not we have a commission to pick us out good men for office? Why not have an honest, intelligent state central committee, or -if ours is such, and I suppose It is, then author ize it to name all candidates for the November election. If that were done, then when some one thought of Mr. Booth for Senator he might have sent Mr. Booth's name to that committee and if the committee had a better name for the place Mr. Booth need Have no fur ther trouble, but if they could do no better they would put Mr. Booth in nomination and that would have ended the matter. But Just see what an awkward, clumsy, roundabout and unsatisfactory method we take. Mr. Booth is impor tuned to "make the race." That la, he must spend two or three months, and lit this case $1136, running over the state begging the people to nominate him for Senator. That is all. Just nominate him. and then some other fellow may beat him in the November election and he has had all that work and expense for nothlncr. He has only the nomination. Mr. Chamberlain may. beat him yet. You can't always tell what the "people" will do on election days. A committee of 100 nominated a dozen men for the Multnomah legisla tive offices weeks before May 16. The primary didn't select them. It merely O. K.'d them; It is nonsense to talk about the people ruling; they don't rule; they don't want to rule; they can't rule; they won't rule, and you can't make them rule. They won't all register, though urged and urged, and all that register do not vote. If the people are ruling, why do six men run Portland? Why have a School Board? a Street Commissioner? Why so many investigating committees? So many inspectors? Why don't the people attend to these things? Of course they can't, they have their own work to do. 'Tis as idle to talk about the people doing these things as It would be to give every man a hatchet and a pocket ful of nails and set them to building that auditorium we hear so much about. What sort of looking thing would you have? Oh, no, you say. We must have skilled mechanics to build our audi torium, but any- botches will do to se lect the men we need to make our laws. It seems to me If we need skill any where it is in the men who select our rulers and lawmakers. Talk about expense and high taxes; the useless primary could be left out, and that would lighten some. Again, it would be no more mortifying to a would-be candidate to be rejected by a committee without cost than to be defeated in a primary after a toilsome campaign and several hundred dollars expense. W. P. IsAWRY. UNIONIST OFFICERS DEFENDED. One mt Them Gives View t UUter Plot and Itesitmatlona. CRUTCH E D FRIARS, London. May 20. (To the Editor.) Having the pleasure of reading The Oregonlan, as well as some other American papers, I think I am expressing the surprise of all fair-minded people here, and particularly those connected with the service, at the very distorted views many of the American papers take of the resignation of officers when the "Ulster plot" was hatched. I take it for granted that it is the desire of The Oregonlan to place the true facts of a case before Its readers, and not those distorted to such an extent to suit the political taste of one party that they were not recog nizable to the party who actually is sued the documents and carried or. the negotiations. As always well understood and now Indisputable, owing to the facts hav ing been issued in print by the gov ernment for use of the House of Com mons and House of Lords, the govern ment hatched a plot, partially un known to the Premier, for the forc ing on Ulster of the home-rule . bill by help of the army and navy. This bill has never had the sanc tion of the people, and the present government will not risk putting It to the vote of the people, because they fear defeat. Consequently, to suit their own political ends, bear in mind, not to enforce the will of the people, they arranged among a small party of them selves to use the army and navy to enforce their wishes on Ulster. Well knowing the feeling of the coun try at large, whose servant the army Is, just as much as even the King is, they took a very unusual and stealthy course. Now the whole crux of the case is this: They Issued no orders to the army, as is usual, but instead "approached" a cavalry and infantry bridgade stationed at the Curragh in Ireland, taking advantage of official secrecy to keep the matter as quiet as possible, and said to those officers: "We are going to coerce Ulster and we make you two offers you may re sign or you can go to the front, and those who have relatives in Ulster may disappear for the time being. You must at once make your choice." The officers chose the only honorable course, and resigned. If you give a man a choice of two alternatives in good faith, why abuse him if he chooses? If you do not in tend him to choose, why make him the offer at all? These officers had everything to lose in the course they chose their entire career, their live lihood and pension and not a thing to gain, only something to keep, and that was their honor. If the government issued orders for the brigade to move and the officers refused, then they would be to blame, but this was not the case. nd so stated by the Premier In the. House. No orders were Issued, and therefore none disobeyed. In making the choice they did, these officers have the great mass of the people of this country, as well as of Ireland Itself, with them. The great mistake of the whole pro ceeding was that such a plot was ever hatched, and that, when it was, it was brought for acceptance or rejection to a body of honorable non-partisans who steer clear of politics. The home-rule bill has never Been sanctioned by the country. It is purely a party measure. The government's majority in the House, without the Irish party, is only five, and without the Labor party, who do not always vote with them, they would have a minority of 27. The Irish M. P.'s do not want home rule, but it is a well-known fact In Ireland itself that the great bulk of the Irish people the working class, not the politicians now that they know all about home rule, prefer gov ernment by the imperial parliament at Westminster to a government under a number of paid politicians in Dublin. England today does not receive one penny from Ireland, but Instead con tributes some millions per annum to the support of Ireland. Where, after the five years' limit in the bill, when this subsidy is withdrawn, is the neces sary cash to come from? Travel in the south of Ireland and ask the laboring classes. They will tell you "Ulster is to be milked." Well, suppose Ulster submits; Ulster cannot support the rest of Ireland for very long before becoming bankrupt. What then? Ulster has worked hard for years to achieve her prominent commercial po sition, is loyal to the empire, does not want to be driven out and sep arated from her birthright and used for the support of the rest of the coun try, which has always been antago nistic to her ideas of religious, polit ical and commercial freedom. Should the military forces of the empire be used for party purposes In forcing out of the empire, against their wills, a small portion of it, whose only fiult Is that it has always been loyal, is prosperous and wishes to re main under the flag and rule of its forefathers for which it has done so much? Are the army and navy to bo the political tool of a party who does not now represent the electorate and Is afraid to appeal to them for forcing out of the empire a people who do not want to be forced out, and which forcing out would mean political, commercial and religious an nihilation? To this the nation would today, if appealed to, emphatically say "no." The discipline, honor, integrity and loyalty of the army to the nation is as great today as ever, but it cannot be used for party purposes against or without the sanction of the nation. May I once more state that no orders were issued in any way whatsoever to these officers, and therefore there was no question of insubordination. C A. FRY, Lieutenant Fourth Battalion Essex Regiment. That Little London FlasratafT. PORTLAND. June 6. (To the Edi tor.) I read with surprise an article on the first page of The Oregonlan June 4 Intimating that Queen Thelma will hoist a flag to the top of the largest flagpole in the world. Being contrary enough rot to ad mit that the United States of America is the world, let me correct the error before the topic flags. I hate to disappoint anyone, partic ularly so winning a maid as the Queen of Rosarla, but the people who planned her trip ehould have seen"- to It that she passed through London. At Kew Gardens there she would have been, no doubt, graciously afforded the oppor tunity of hoisting a flag to the top of the largest flagpole in the world. It is 225 feet long. It came from Vancouver Island. Talk about correcting your cribbage scores this is easy. "IRISH." According- to the Encyclopedia Brl tannlca (latest edition) the flagstaff at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew is 153 feet high. The flagstaff at San Francisco is 220 feet high. Queen Thelma does not need to go to London yet awhile to find the tallest flag staff. Good Work oa Alaska. PORTLAND. June 6. (To the Edi tor.) Your subscriber In Albany who desires Information relative to Alaska better get a copy of Professional Paper 45, of the United States Geological Sur vey, which contains an excellent treatise on the territory, including its geography and climate, together with a fine map. This volume is in most public libraries, and can probably be obtained on application to the Director of the Survey at Washington, D. C. The survey publishes a large amount of In formation on Alaska and will send your subscriber an index of maps and pub lications If he will write for It. LEWIS A. M ARTHUR. Twenty-Five Years Ago From The Oregonion of June 6. 18S9. Helena. Mont.. June 5. Two robbers, who evidently expected to capture a shipment from the Jay Gould mine, at tacked the Montana Central depot at Silver, eight miles from here this morn ing. They killed Mr. Burrell. a tele graph operator from. Great Falls, and F. C. Jobst, the agent, and robbed the money drawer, but the bullion was not there. Riley Johns organized a posse of ranchmen, which overtook the mur derers and killed them. Chehalle June 6. Mrs. Barrett let the contract yesterday for the new opera-house. - Walla Walla, June 5. Commencement exercises of the academic department of Whitman College were held tonight Misses L. C. Martsall. Cynthia Good rich. E. D. Smith. Pearl A. Gunn, Ada Kirkam. May K. Thomas, Dora Aldrlch. Mary Gilliam and Elmer Ingram were graduated. The City Council last evening author ized Mayor De Lashmutt to collect sub scriptions for the sufferers by the Pennsylvania floods. He appointed C. H. Dodd. S. Farrell, W. B. Honeyman. W. W. Spalding. D. D. Oliphant. W. B. King. B. L. Norden, William Kapus, II. J. Corbett. H. D. Chapman, Edward Holman. William Church. Ed S. Roth schild. George E. Watklns, Ben Selling. Fred Matthews was reinstated as over seer of the street cleaning and sprin kling department. A family reunion was held at the res idence of P. A. Marquam on Sunday last. Mr. Marquam was married in 1853 to Miss Emma Kern. They have 11 children, all living, and Mr. Marquam had the entire group photographed. The group consisted of Mr. Marquam and his wife and sons and daughters as follows: Mary Emma (Mrs. Penumbra Kelly), P. A.. Jr., William Winchester. Charlotte C. (Mrs. Thomas Prince), Jes sie Louise (Mrs. Charles -McLaughlin). U. S. Grant. Sarah Sherman, a medical student. Janie Houghton. Katie Lin coln, Wlllametta and Thomas Alfred. The grandchildren were then photo graphed in a separate group. Mrs. Rose Buchanan died Tuesday noon. She was one of the pioneer wo men of Oregon. She came to Portland with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dlel schneider. in 1852 and married Captain D. E. Buchanan in 1861. She leaves a devoted husband and a daughter. Mrs. Josie Waddeil. Lincoln Parker last evening reported to Coroner Surprenant the discovery of the remains of a man on the Nehalem div-iee. The body was lying in the ashes of campflre and the man seems to have been loBt and died of starvation and exposure. Two horses attached to a wood wagon dashed up Washington from Front at 2 P. M. yesterday at a terrific gait. Cordwood was strewn along Washing ton street from the starting point to the western end. Alfred Borden, a well-known Pullman car conductor, having made the run between Portland and Ashland for a number of years, died yesterday. St. David's Episcopal Church is to have a new organ. Railroading; and Hal.li. Baltimore Sun. "What time will this train reach Perkins Junction?" asked a traveler on a short line railroad in Missouri. "There aint no telling." said the con ductor affably. "Me and the engineer are goin' ter get off down the road a piece an' hunt rabbits for a spelr." Some of the Sunday Features PORTLAND'S ROSE FESTIVAL Two pages, with many photo graphs, are devoted to a full and comprehensive account of the great annual Festival that opens this week. The programme in every detail. The Corvallis Pageant. An illustrated page cn the unique festival staged by girl students at the Oregon Agricultural College. Portland's Rose Harvest. A full page in colors on the city's wonderful rose harvest. Why Port land has become the greates of rose-growing communities. Marital Happiness. Two views of it are presented by Rita Reese the man's view and the woman's. A delightful illus trated feature by a popular writer. European Brigands. They are discovered by American travelers in the polite places of Europe. They don't wear masks and carry gains. Rather they oper ate as servants and. their weap ons are more effective than guns. Unique illustrations. Tango Madness. Coningsby Dawson, the noted English writer, lays it all to the evils of early education. A mas terly analysis of the present dan cing craze among the middle-aged and elderly. Fisher's Picture. In the fifth full-page drawing of his new series Harrison Fisher shows another of the greatest mo ments in a girl's life. "The first evening in their new home." Breaking the Limit. The new engineer on a farmer's railroad and his ride for life and lives. A short story of adventure and peril. Gentlemen at Tea. The feminist movement is breed ing a sissified lot of slender-wristed male mollycoddles, according to the observations of a New York writer, who finds that the afternoon tea habit among men has a wide vogue and is growing. Seafaring Birds. A story of local interest about a flock of seagulls that follow steam ers from port tg port. Moods of Genevieve. In the eighth of this series GC4 vieve writes of "The Child Mood The Fold-Up Family. Another clever cut-Out for the children, together with a page of other children's features. News Snapshots. Important happenings the world over as recorded by the ubiquitous camera man. A GREAT VARIETY OF OTHER FEATURES Order TODAY of your newsdealer.