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The Kansas City correspondent of the New Tork Evening Post says that Kansas farmers "will have more real cash than In an ordinary year, and with the increased credit they will now possess, if there is easier money, they should be an important factor in the revival of business in the agri cultural states." Merchants' and job bers stocks are low, they look to the farmers for increased buying and will pass the farmers" demand on to the manufacturer and the railroad. The farmers' ability to buy will be im proved by the fact that, In response to bankers' urgings, they have re duced their debts during the last year. Hence the correspondent reaches this conclusion: The outlook is exceedingly favorable for a year of good business In this section, and It will begin as soon as the selling of wheat gets well under way. The favorable Influence of the crops is seen by the Chicago corre spondent of the Iron Age, who says: Western markets can scarcely escape the Influence of crop reports, and at this time the prospect of a record-breaking harvest Is coloring the general tone of the situa tion. - Anticipation of a business revival in the Fall is becoming a factor in the present trend of aflairs. Against this favorable influence are to be set the adverse Influences of suspense as to the railroad rate de cision, dread of the effect of anti trust legislation and the hoarding of gold by the great banks .of Europe. A Philadelphia correspondent says, that with the railroads "gloom is so thick as to darken all the outlook;" that "the hesitation pending the rate decision is resulting in keeping thou sands idle, and the railroads, while acknowledging the necessity for mo tive power and equipment, have in many cases decided to get along with what they have;" and that "the feel ing is that not until there is a cessa tion of Federal legislation inimical to business interests, will a "permanent forward movement be witnessed." Considerable allowance must be made for the pessimism of those who are denied what they ask. While the public interest demands that the rail roads should have somewhat higher rates, much of the gloom may be dis pelled by the spectacle of every car and engine in service and of long trains going one way loaded with grain and returning loaded with mer chandise for consumption in the grain belt. The railroads may find a way then to increase their facilities, even without higher rates, though they could doubtless do so far more easily and at less cost in interest if the rate advance were sanctioned. As to "legislation inimical to busi ness interests," we must bear in mind that, construed into plain English, this means "legislation inimical to the trusts." The trusts persist in assum ing that legislation against them is legislation against business, though public opinion has repeatedly de manded such legislation as helpful to legitimate business and inimical only to its foes. As the railroads have, by their experience, falsified, their predictions of disastrous results? from regulation and as the banks which denounced the currency bill before Its passage acclaimed it after it became law, so the trusts may accommodate themselves to the pending bills after their enactment and may find them not so very bad after all. Like every interest which is about to be brought under control of the law, they predict dire results to the very last moment before the law Is passed, but will probably accommodate themselves to circumstances with a good grace. An adverse influence of some weight Is the hoarding of gold by the great banks of Europe. Germany is strengthening her reserve - in obedi ence to the Kaiser's order given when the bankers notified : him during the Moroccan crisis that they could not finance a war. The Kaiser said: "Let it not happen again." Russia is storing, up gold from similar motive. The Bank of France is adding great sums to its reserve in order to meet attacks on the French credit banks which made large advances to the Balkan states and have not been able to float loans for their reimburse ment. The Bank of England has been losing , gold for several months and only now has a prospect of replenish ing its supply from the Transvaal. In all, the state banks of France, Ger many, Russia, Austria and Spain have increased their gold reserves by $2 87, 000,000 in the last year, that amount being 62 per cent of the world's gold output in 1918. About $33,000,000 of this gold has been drawn from Ameri can banks this year, but business de pression has prevented its having se rious effect on our money market. The degree of ease resulting from the new reserve bank system cannot fail to be somewhat diminished, how ever, by Europe's hoarding of gold. But when things do not go well, we are prone to seek explanations, and to find them in circumstances which are ignored in times of pros perity. The boom which began in 1899 continued with slight interruption un til 1907, although during that period the Hepburn rate law was passed, wholesale prosecutions of trusts and railroads were begun, the insurance scandal was exposed, and President Roosevelt fulminated against male factors of great wealth. That prece dent encourages the expectation that when the harv.-t starts merchants to buying, factories to working; full time and puts railroads In full oper ation, business will not slacken be cause trusts are dissolved, railroads do not get all they ask and Europe piles up gold. In short, when nature, yields her bounty, all the efforts of man are powerless to prevent pros perity; they can only affect Its dis tribution, and more equitable distri bution is precisely what we need. WHY rr EXISTS. The' following much-needed state ment of the purposes and ideals of the Progressive party speaking of course of the present, not the past Is provided by the Medford Sun, a Progressive newspaper of Jackson County: The Progressive party la primarily a party of education, or enlightenment, of civiliza tion; rather than a party of expediency and opportunism. Its big Job at present is to Inject new ideas and new Ideals into the minds of the people, to make politics more a science and less a gamble, rather than to secure offtues and wield immediate power. But why is it that in a community in which there Is so much education, enlightenment and civilization as Jackson County and in one where these noble virtues are so ably rep resented by the press, more -people of education, enlightenment and civiliza tion do not Join the Progressive party? Of the 8437 voters of Jackson County only 274 are registered Pro gressives. It has never seemed to us that 29 out of every 30 voters in Jack son County were suffering from lack of ideas and ideals. BALIXrONXNG XX OREGON. It is one of the tricks of fate that a balloonist who has made more than 300 ascensions elsewhere should have his worst experience with a thunder storm in Oregon, where electric dis turbances are almost as novel as bal loon flights. Captain Berry's story, as well as that of Captain Honeywell, reads like- a tale of adventure in an other country. In Oregon distant lightning is more often seen than heard. The thunder storms as a rule gather in the foot hills or the mountains and do not cover so wide an area as in the Middle West or East. Probably in compari son with a similar area east of the Rocky Mountains the difference in favor of Oregon in the number, of thunder storms is not so great as ap pearances indicate. The number of thunder storms in Oregon is much smaller, but their frequency is seemingly still more diminished by the fact that they are so thoroughly localized. A thunder storm of the severity that encompassed Berry and Honeywell would almost certainly have stricken the other two balloons had they been the same relative dis tances apart In any of the Central States. " Were it not for the wilderness of the National forests Oregon would" present almost perfect conditions for balloon contests. In June, July or August not one ascension in fifty would encounter storms. The winds are not variable and changes of tem perature which affect the buoyancy of a gas bag are not sudden. But the chief menace of the forest to the bal loonist is not so much against life as property. A good woodsman with small equipment can live for days and find his way out. The chief obstacle is to bringing back the balloon. Now that we have acquired a liking for balloon races we shall probably have more of them. Perhaps Oregon will some day produce a record flight. THOSE WHO HELPED, The Rose Festival closed with a revival of interest in Portland's an nual event that cannot be doubted. New features and the shortening of the period of festivities without re ducing the, number of attractions gave it a decided punch. Portland quiets down consequently with a sense of satisfaction which is heightened by a realization that every visitor went home not merely satisfied but enthu siastic. . The managers in direct charge are justified" in being as proud of their achievement as are the people of the co-operation of the many individuals and organizations that gave aid in various ways. Among the organizations the Rosa- rians deserve special commendation. The Rosarlans had charge of enter tainment, provided the coronation ceremonies and directed other im portant functions. This organization, composed as it is of men of finan cial,, industrial or business promi nence in the community, made known the existence of an unusual commun ity spirit in Portland. Its work was not of the purely ornamental variety but arduous and painstaking, calling for the expenditure of time, energy and money. The Rosarlans, it is pleasant to re call, set a new fashion on the Pacific Coast in . organizations devoted to community progress. From it were patterned the Knights of the Rose of Pasadena, the Royal Oaks of Oak land, the Cherrians of Salem, the Ra diators of Eugene and others. There is but one criticism of It that can be offered. Its membership is limited to TOO. It ought to be 200. "IN THE NEWS." There was a considerable amount in Saturday's news of what the news paper fraternity calls "good stuff," besides more than a fair representa tion of "95," which, in newspaper parlance, means news of the highest degree of importance or interest or both. So far as Portland is concerned, some of this "good stuff" and "ZZ" was In the Sunday morning papers. All of it (note the distinction) was in The Oregonlan. First in interest, of course, was the news about the balloons. What the reader wanted to know when he got his paper was where they were and what had befallen their crews. The Oregonian answered the question for the Kansas City III in its regular street edition, which came out soon after 11 o'clock. 'That edition con tained first news that the balloon had descended and that Captain Watts and Roscoe Kawcett were safe, and told the full story of their adventures. No other paper in Portland received this news. It was copied bodily from The Oregonian's first edition into a later edition of The Oregonian's Sunday morning contemporary. - Incidentally, The Oregonlan published, also in Its first or street edition, the only au thentic interview with Captain Berry, of the Million Population Club, con cerning the wrecking of that balloon and the narrow escape of himself and his passenger. Then there was that amazing story from Italy of how the Ignorant peas ants had raised the. black flag and declared a republic, amid, scenes sim ilar to those of the French revolu tion. Anarchists have befooled the ignorant people, making , them think the kingdom is overthrown, and thus have incited them to acts which men ace the vary life of the country. In Portland, only The Oregonian pub lished these big, outstanding, facts, which make a story c surprising in terest and give a truo and startling picture of the situation. A brief dis patch in The Oregonian's contempor ary told of rioting in Italy, but totally missed the "meat" of the story. In Butte, Mont.", at 2:80 Sunday morning, as the climax of a day and a night of rioting between rival union factions, who had engaged throughout in the most desperate tactics, the resi dence of Patrick Sullivan, a union official, was wrecked by dynamite and Sulllvap and his family, who were within, narrowly escaped death. Ear lier in the night rioters had taken the union safe from headquarters. hauled it into the street and blasted It with dynamite, allowing somebody to make ofr with the' $3000 it con tained. The city, was practically un der martial law.." All this was fully told in The Oregonian, with other de tails nearly as thrilling. Reading The Oregonian's Sunday morning contem porary, one learns . merely that there was disorder at Butte Saturday, but that order had been restored and that all was quiet! The difference between the two accounts was, mainly, that The Oregonlan had the facts. The stories mentioned in the fore going were the biggest and most In teresting stories in the day's news. The Oregonlan had them. No other paper In Portland did. To exult is by no means the object herein. The object is to point the big, single upstanding fact that in Port land if you do not read The Orego nian you do not, nay, cannot, be read ing the news. LABOR AND THE ANTI-TRIST The labor clauses of the Clayton anti-trust bill are generally denounced by the leading newspapers as coward ly, as class legislation and as so cloudy that their meaning can be de termined only by judicial decision. Of course there are exceptions. The New York Globe frankly defends ex emption of labor unions and kindred organizations. The Baltimore Even ing Sun acquits the House of coward ice, but calls Its action unwise. The New York World, an Adminis tration paper, is most outspoken. It says that evidently ' the President and the House believe that "By the amend ments unions are not exempted from the penalties of the anti-trust law, while Mr. Gompers believes they are and it infers that somebody is. mis taken or deceived, for unions have de manded exemption. The World says: Whatever the meaning of the sadly mud dled act may be. the courts will see to It that a law punishing in- the case of one man a thing which In that of another is justified shall not stand. The provisions in the section- of the bill regulating injunctions which le galize picketing and boycotting are denounced by the World In unquali fied language. The bill provides that "no such restraining order shall pro hibit any person or persons from ceasing to patronize or to em ploy any party to such dispute, or from recommending, advising or per suading others by peaceful means so to do." The World calls this an "odious form of privilege" and says "the greatest of crimes against society are committed' by peaceable means," Including those of monopoly and high finance, and characterizes the use of the words "peaceable means" as a flimsy excuse. If the Senate passes the bill, it says, "it will be for the courts to .determine whether in defining crime in America we are to respect favored persons and occupations." It closes with this warning to labor: The workmgman'a welfare depends upon justice. With the naked principle of dis crimination in the laws once accepted, the Inevitable extension of It will find in him not the beneficiary, but the victim. The use of the words "persuading" and "inducing" in the section which legalizes pickets and boycotts is held by the New York Evening Post prob ably to make the secondary boycott lawful. It quotes Gladstone as de scribing the secondary boycott to be "undoubtedly an illegal conspiracy." Though the foremost object of the bill is to remove uncertainty, the Post says, "nothing can be more uncertain than the rrleanlng of these labor pro visions," which the President and the Democratic leaders have been assur ing their followers, can have no such effect as the labor leaders have been assuring their followers that they will certainly be found to bring about." The New York Sun, referring to the unanimous adoption of the exemption clause, says i Not a statesman In the House had the gizzard to stand up and be counted against the shameless measure of discrimination for the sake of politics. It suggests that the same reasons which are advanced 'for exempting labor unions from the anti-trust law might be used in favor of their ex emption from the laws against rebel lion, seditious conspiracy and treason. Attention is called by the New York Times to the fact that the President's declaration that the ' exemption amendment did not give labor privi lege against prosecution If labor broke the anti-trust law, was no sooner pub lished than the House adopted the clause which legalizes pickets, boy cotts and peaceable persuasion. It quotes the Anthracite Coal Commis sion as having said that the boycott was worse than war, since it respects neither age nor sex, and knows no re straints of its brutality. It then re marks: And the President faces the prospect of another signature which it will embarrass him either to append or to withhold. The Brooklyn Eagle accuses the President of having yielded to an ul timatum of four Congressmen who demanded labor's Immunity. It con trasts his action with that of Presi dent Taft in vetoing the sundry civil bill because labor was ostensibly, though not really, exempted from prosecution under the Sherman law. Against the President's statement that "it is not the understanding of the President that labor organizations are to be given any privilege denied to other organizations" it sets the boast of the men who presented the ultimatum: "We have won our fight." The Eagle rests Its hope in the Supreme Court, saying: It may see fit to declare that what is law for one la law for all. It may see fit to set Its face against the creation of privileged class. Stranger things have happened. The New York Tribune calls the immunity clause "the Clayton gold brick," a "flimflam," "which means exactly what anybody chooses to read Into it." As showing this to be true. It quotes Representative Henry as saying that the "concessions" would allow cotton planters to warehouse their crops and hold them indefinite!? by agreement for a rise in prices. The same question exists as to the meaning of the boycott provision, says the Tribune, The meaning of - the clauses is put up to the courts, which is "cowardly and dishonest." The exemption clause is defended by the New York Globe as "an ex plicit recognition of the right of men and women to co-operate for the achievement of legitimate ends," a right which "has been legitimatized and, recognized by social practice for the better part of. a century." It says there Is good co-operation and bad co-operation and that the Supreme Court tried to discriminate by apply ing the rule of reason, but that this is the business of Congress. It denies that any indulgence to commit crime is conferred, but it says the law merely declares the existence of & co-operating society Is not to be taken as proof of illegal conspiracy. ACTUAL RATE OF CAN At, TOLL. A correspondent whose communi cation is published In another column questions the accuracy of Tlje Ore gonian's statement that the Panama Canal tolls per ton of cargo may easily prove to be double the rate per reg istered ton. This is possible because the tolls are to be levied on the car rying capacity of the ship, not on the cargo it carries. It Is true that as to some commodities" a net registered ton is equal to several tons in actual weight, but in the case of commodi ties of which a ton weight Is nearly the same as a. ton measurement the only way to keep the tolls down to $1.20 per ton is to load a ship full every trip. If a ship of 10,000 tons net register should have only 5000 tons of agricul tural implements aboard she would have to pay tolls on 10,000 tons, thus doubling the rate per ton of cargo. This might not seriously affect tramp steamers, which usually take a full cargo, but it would affect liners sail ing on, regular schedules, for their passenger as well as cargo space is measured and they must make their trips, whether fully or half or only a fraction loaded. Liners would be particularly hard, hit in the dull sea son for passenger traffic, for their tolls would remain the same, "though their earnings would be greatly di minished. Our correspondent shows that 100 cubic feet would hold 1.79 tons of fir lumber, reducing the actual toll to 67.2 cents, but we have seen calculations by an authority on the subject, show ing that, with due allowance for space lost in stowing odd lengths and vari ous sizes, 100 cubic feet contain less than a ton weight of lumber. Objection Is raised to the proposed sale of the battleships Idaho and Mis sissippi to Greece because it would entail disclosure of the American sys tem of fire control for big guns, pro nounced the best in the world. As Greece would not buy the ships with out knowing how to handle all their mechanism, it Is suggested that other ships be substituted. While there is no prospect that Greece will use these ships against the United States, a British Vlce-Admlral heads a British naval commission which manages her naval affairs. Through l.irh. our val uable secret might easily leak to the British Admiralty. Since Britain has squeezed the canal tolls concession out of President Wilson by some un known means, the Anglo-Saxon alli ance has not as strong a hold on American minds as sixteen years ago, and we need to keep our naval secrets for our own exclusive use. William Flledner lived to see the little city of his actlvties during early and middle life become a metropolis in which his endeavors encompassed large part. He served the city faith fully for many years during the form ative period and was among the 'first to erect substantial structures. His judgment was sound and his advice good, and his interest in civic affairs was keen until failing eyesight com pelled cessation. His passing empha sizes the fact that the men who -did things in the late years of the last century are departing and that their monument is this grand city of Port land. The difficulty about letting the Eng lish suffragettes starve themselves to death is that they would be commit ting suicide, which Is a felony, and the prison officials would become ac complices in the crime.' The officials must feed the women forcibly in or der to keep clear of the law. Their predicament is an example of the suf fragettes' diabolical, ingenuity in put ting their enemies in a hole. , When, not many years ago, a five story building covering half a block was erected for a department store on Fifth street, all Portland thought the city, had gone pretty near the limit. Times change, and this week the work of razing begins. When it shall be replaced by a structure twice in Bize the wonder will be for how long. The vegetables that adorn English millinery will not go to waste. Mary Jane and the others "below" will do Justice to anything worn, by the "mis sus." The science of eugenics Is a Joke when one considers Mrs. Laird, of Garfield, weighing 135, whose ten sons pull down the beam at over a ton. A few more men are wanted for the cruise of the Naval Militia to Hono lulu and Incidental service for a few years. - - The Colonel will meet the King. Sure thing. George cannot afford to miss the opportunity. 4 The salmon are doing some watch ful waiting at the mouth of the Co lumbia. The Benson-McNary contest will -be decided - before November, at all events. The season Is at hand when many good men and true acquire naval ti tles. Women of Illinois are but a few laps behind political freedom. A local balloonlst's first message was to his wife. Good man. Lorlmer was worse as a banker than as a Senator. They are talking of football al ready. Men and women have a duty to- day. What about the Fourth? The beaches are calling. This is Pioneer week. EXPLOITATION CAN BE ABOLISHED Correspondent Makes Distinction Be tween Capital and Ita L'se, PORTLAND, June 14. (To the Edi tor.) I have enjoyed reading Mr. Mot ter's letters and the editor's replies. I think the forum department of The Oregonian is especially good, as it gives an opportunity to get the dif ferent ideas that different people are bound to have I am Interested In the question raised in an editorial June 10. "Can Capital Be Abolished V Without going into an elaborate analysis of "capital," with which the editor would probably not .agree. I will state that I think It is possible to abolish the power of ex ploitation from capital. -without abolishing capital itself, which would be a great injury to society. This power of exploitation which capital has la due, solely and entirely, to the private ownership of said capital. A transfer of ownership from private to publio would end exploitation, if not Immediately, at least In the near future. The editor says private capital can be eliminated only by confiscation. So be it. when publio welfare Is In Jeopardy, what would the publio do? Is not society, as a whole, greater than any individual in that society? The men who now own our resource (capital), cry "confiscation," when any attempt .is made to limit their power of exploitation. What are they doing but confiscating our earnings? Through their ownership of . the wealth producing machinery and the land they control the destinies of mil lions of wage-earners. Let this ownership be transferred' to the collective body by whatever method and prosperity will be ours In a larger measure than heretofore experienced. CHARLES E. KETCHINQ, 7111 East Foster Road. WHAT KIHAL CREDIT SCHEME IS Government to Authorise Banks, -Not Lend Money Itself. DAYTON. Wash.. June 13. (To the Editor.) What Is meant by the "rural credit bill" now before Congress? Is It a plan for the Nation to lend fanners money direct from the United States Treasury, thereby placing the Govern ment in direct competition with the real estate and loan companies, or Is It a plan for the establishment of co-operative agricultural credit associations like those that exist In soma parts of Europe? Can the Government lend money to farmers without lending to everybody? Please explain the matter In The Weekly Oregonian. JAMES BRIGHT. The rural credit bill as introduced in Congress authorizes establishment un der Government supervision of farmers' banks, which may be. co-operative banks formed by farmers or not, for the purpose of making mortgage loans to farmers. It is not proposed to lend money from the United Staes Treasury to farmers, though possibly this could be done without giving the same right to others. Congress has neves seriously considered such a scheme When BIda Are Awarded. HEMLOCK. Or., June 12. (To the Editor.) (1.) Should any one ask the State's Attorney a question in law, should he answer the same without charging? (2.) If a board of directors call for bids to -build a echoolhouse and then reject the highest and lowest bids, or even accept the highest bid, can the lower bidders In any way by law stop the directors and highest bidder from going ahead with the work and paying for the same? (3.) Should they reject all bids and hire it done, will it then be necessary for them to get ij. down below the lowest bid? SUBSCRIBER. 1. Yes, if criminal or public matters. 2. The directors have a right to reject any or all bids; generally, how ever, a bid should go to the lowest responsible bidder; if the other bidders or a taxpayer can prove that the directors have been guilty of fraud In awarding the work to the highest bid der, the courts will restrain the execu tion of the contract or the payment of the money, by Injunction. 3. No. Pratae for Firemen. PORTLAND. June 14. (To the Edi tor.) Now that the verdict of the Coroner's Jury Is in and everything mean has been said that can be said concerning the Are at the Northwest Door Company, a word or two of praise may not come amiss. If we ever had any doubt about the efficiency of our fire department, that doubt was removed from the minds of all who wltneessed the manner in which the department handled that fire. I ar rived on the scene when the fire was at its height, and it did not appear to me or to others with wlom I talked that the docks between the fire and the Broadway bridge could possibly be saved. But they were saved, thanks to the earnest bunch pt firemen on the Pacific Coast, I. believe that all who witnessed this fire will Join me in the assertion that the work of the department on this occasion was wonderful to behold. ROSCOE P. HURST. When Oregon Was) Divided. PORTLAND, June 4. (To the Edi tor.) Was Vancouver In Oregon at one time? If so. please state what year Oregon and Washington were divided. SUBSCRIBER. The Territory of Washington was set off from Oregon March 2. 1853. Lazy Days Br Dean Collin. Festival days of the Rose are done; Fourth of July will be "safe and sane"; Long will the months of the Summer run Ere County Fair time in Fall again; Long and lazy and moist and warm. And most of the folks will go down to the sea. Where white on the sands the breakers it's stick to the game in town for me. It's stick to the game in town for me. While the- Summer drowse Is upon ' the land. Though roost of the folks go down to the sea And loaf and tan on the beaches' sand; But whether I get to play or no. Not in the world are fairer streams Where people In Summer time may go. Than those I see In my desk day dreams. Those I see In my desk day dreams Are fresh as those in a fairy book; Not in the world are fairer streams For a fisher. In fancy, to cast the hook. So moist in tbe fires of the city's heat. When pavements crawl in the heat Intense, I deck my desk with my idle feet And draw up visions of fish Immense. I draw up visions of fish immense. Though sidewalks warp in the Sum mer glare. And pavements crawl in the heat In tense Cool are my visions, fresh and fair. While most of the folks go down to the sea To tan In the wind and sunshine rays. It's stick to the game in town for me And dream long dreams in the lazy days, WHY NOT PROTECT ALL ALIKE? Correspondent Imsgisrs Help to Wool Men Alone Proposed. PORTLAND, June 13. (To the Edi tor.) I have read your paper for years, and . note from time to time your ref erence to the wool question, inferring that you would prefer.a higher duty on wool. Now, the writer has made several trips through .the eastorn part of the state and is somewhat familiar, with the conditions of the men engaged in that Industry, and has never yet met one of them who was not better able to stand a little loss In the wool mar ket because of a lower price on account of -a reduced tariff, than the buyer of the products (or the consumer). It would seem to ma that it would be Just as fair , to ask th State of Oregon to build a lot of useless buildings, so as to give the carpenters work, putting the burden of expense on an already overburdened taxpayer In an effort to overcome a natural result of supply and demand. Why not advocate a general reform in all things protect the wool men. protect the lumbermen, protect all In dustries, and then, to even it up, give all labor steady work, with no loss of time, stood pay, and then instead of just giving pensions to soldiers and firemen and policemen, make it general give pensions to all, treat all men alike. Now then, what good reason have you to advance why wool men should be protected, rather than beef men or hop men? Why not advocate good things for everyone? E. A. BARNS. Route 2, Box 12, Portland. The Oregonlan has never advocated a tariff for the protection of woolgrow ers alone. Since a tariff is necessary to raise revenue, we believe it should be so levied as to afford protection to all American Industries equal to the difference in cost, of production be tween this and trio principal compet ing countries. Such -a system, scien tifically applied, would, as nearly as is humanly possible, do what our corre spondent suggests, namely, give all labor steady work with no loss of time and good pay. REGISTERED AND WEIGHT TONS Wide Variation Shown In Incidence of Canal Tolls. PORTLAND, June 13. (To the Edi tor.) Now that Congress, regardless of party lines, has done what it thought right in the matter of the bill repeal ing the Panama tolls exemption, I sup pose it is in order to make of this ac tion campaign material to use against the Administration. But let us try to be accurate at least In our statements relative to canal tolls. In this morn ing's Oregonian you state "The tolls are to be levied on the capacity, not the cargo, of a ship, and the rate per ton of cargo may easily prove to be double the rate per registered ton." As is well known, the rate to be levied is $1.20 per net registered ton, which means $1.20 for each 100 cubic feet cargo capacity. The following table showing the weight of several selected commodities for each 100 cubic feet of capacity will speak for itself: Tons per IC9 Net cubic feet. rate. Ralls 6.2." $ .1112 Steel billets 5.00 .240 Cement 2.30 .4SO Coal (average) 2.22 ..no Oil (average) 1.7 .672 Lumber (fir) l.T! .672 Wood pulp (rolls) SS l.yrts raper 1.43 ,MU Cotton 62 1.1I20 Wheat 2.13 ..".64 Beet (tierces) 1.66 .70 SuRar 2. 1:1 .r.4 Flour 1.S1 .H0 Agricultural Implements 1.00 1.200 Thus it will be seen that, granting the accuracy of these figures, your statement "The rate per ton of cargo may easily prove to be double the rate per registered ton" is inaccurate, and that the truth is that in many instances the rate is very much less, the net rate being in the case of our chief exports, lumber, wheat and flour, approximately one-half the rate per net registered ton, and in no case- double the rate per registered ton." HERBERT B. AUGUR. This letter Is answered elsewhere on this page. Feeling Against Nathan. TACOMA, Wash.. June 13. (To the Editor.) Permit me to say that your editorial note in The Oregonian in respect to Mr. Nathan, Italian official representative" to the Panama Expo sition, appears to .be based upon in complete perception. It is true that some members of a great religious communion would .have preferred a man who had not made a point of flautlna- their chief bishop. That any one has objected to Nathan as a Jew is not true. Furthermore, it has been said that this man is neither Jew nor Christian. The last election In Rome compelled Nathan to retire from the mayoralty of that city. That Indicates that where ne has long been known, his conduct has been condemned by his fellow townsmen. He appears to be a "lame duck" in Italian politics. But he had friends at court and was able to obtain his present appointment. It is a minor political plum with which we are familiar in our own country. Political "has beens" men who have petered out, in a popular sense are often taken care of by their party, provided their party is In power. So far as I have noticed, there is no disposition on the part of any description of Americans to boycott the Panama ExposHlon because of this Nathan incident. A newspaper sug gestion has been made to the effect that if Nathan is to be conspicuous in the function of some particular day, those who wish to rebuke his religious baiting should remain away on that day. JAMES HOYE. Not Attacked Because Jew. PORTLAND, June 14. (To the Edi tor.) The Oregonian states editorially that a boycott against Nathan is threa tened by some good people on account of his religious views. Allow me to enter a most emphatic denial to this statement. No, it Is not on account of his religious views that those good people protest against Nathan, but on account of his Indecent vulgarity with which he attacked the religious views of others. It is not these good people who slander him, but he, trampling under foot history and decency, slandered and outraged them. Being a Jew he should know that the person whom be most recklessly at. tacked and Insulted was precisely the one who upon more than one occasion befriended and protected the people of his race, when all over Europe they were persecuted. But we cannot expect everybody to be grateful, much less one who had some thing to do with the famous Murri's trTal. the Nasi's trial, etc In another country Nathan might have been lodged In JalL A SUBSCRIBER. Mlxed-Cp Memorial Service. Pathfinder. An interesting meeting was recently held in Kakata, In Kiuahu, Japan, un der the auspices of the Young Men's Buddhist Association. It was a me morial service, not only to the 280 men whose bodies have been dissected dur ing the last ten years, but also to the 34,000 frogs, 7000 rata, 1000 hares and more than S00 each of dogs, cats, hens and doves which have been dissected at the Kiuahu University. People in IS'ew York City. New York Herald. New York City's population is esti mated to be 5,333,537, Twenty-Five Years Ago From The Oregonian of June 15, 1SS9. Tacoma, June 14. Not a human life was lost in the Seattle conflagration. Salem, June 14. The jury in the trial of Beardsley acquitted him of the murder of. Ferryman. Seattle, June 14. James Evans was today acquitted of the murder of Will iam Ruston in the Newcastle riot of January 4. Walla Walla. June 14. Hon. John f. Allen returned last night from the East. .Vancouver. W, T.. June 14. Cars for the Columbia Land & Improvement Company's streetcar lln arrived he today. Berlin. June 14. The Samoan agree ment Was signed today. The United States obtained every material claim. Intelligence was received yesterday from Los Angeles of the death of Mrs. Henry C. Johnson, of East Portland. She was the daughter of Geoige Shaver. S. E. Wishard has declined the Demo cratic nomination for assessor. The benefit performance at the new Park Theater yesterday afternoon netted about $100 for the Seattle fire sufferers. Modjeska appeared in "As You Like It" at the Exposition building last night The new headquarters of the Wo man's Christian Temperance Union at 209 H First street were dedicated yes terday. Mrs. Henrietta Skelton, of Call, fornia, spoke. The Masonic fraternity has decided to erect a new temple and yesterday a committee was appointed to purchase a site The committee consists of A. P. Earhart. Jacob Mayer, D. P. Thomp son and S. F. Chadwlck. The old Masonic Temple at the corner of Third and Alder streets will be sold. The' Portland & Coast Steamship Company's steamer Alliance, which was sunk by the Danube, near the mouth of the river, has had her hull repaired and will be launched today. Colonel Robert A. Miller, of Jackson, ville, president of the Southern Oregon Fruitgrowers' Association. says the fruit yield of that section will be large this. year. Colonel D. B. Bush, manager of the Home Mutual Fire Insurance Company, has returned from Seattle, having paid all losses by the fire, amounting to about $25,000. The graduating exercises of St Mary's Academy were held yesterday. The graduates are: Miss Olive P. Stott. Miss Mattle A. Kelly. Miss Bessie M. Ouinean, Miss Lucy M O'Connor and Miss Mary M. O'Neill. Henry Vilard addressed the citizens at the new Park Theater last evening and aroused enthusiasm in the breasts of 1000 or more Portlanders. Half a Century Ago Prom The Oregonian of June 15, 1664. A requisition having been made by General Alvord on Governor Gibba. he authorized Judge Olney. late Sheriff of Wasco County, to raise a company of 40 mounted men to be enlisted for four months' service in protecting the road from Dalles to Canyon City against the encroachments of Snake Indians. The whole interior of Oregon is jub ilant over the nominations made by the Baltimore convention. At Kugrene City the Union men fired 100 guns. At Eola a piece of Polk County artil lery an anvil was put in requisition. During the demonstration G. I. Waller, brother of the late Democratic candi date for State Senator, enthusiastically peered for Jeff Davis. The citizens of Albany to the num ber of 300, one third ladies, participated in a general Union Jubilee last Wednes day evening. A splendid torchlight pro cession, headed by the Albany brass band, paraded the streets, after which an oyster collation was partaken of. Patriotic songs by the young ladies and a sound Union speech by Judge Thornton concluded the entertainment. The patriotic citizens of Albany raised a splendid liberty pole. 130 feet long. In the public square of their town on Thursday. Just as it had attained a perpendicular the news of the nomina tion of Lincoln and Johnson arrived and the flag? went up amid numerous cheers. John, the war chief of the Klamath and Rogue River Indians, known and dreadod for several years on account of his desperate hate of the whites, died of old ase at Kort Yamhill on June 6. within an hour or two of Stock Whilty, the head chief of the Nez Perces. The number of troops engaged in the Snake Indian expedition with Captain Curry's command will be but 200. The Indians from the. reservations consti tute the balance of thi" force. A military expedition to the Owyhee country under command of Colonel Drew started from Jacksonville on May 2S. S:me prospecting parties will ac company the expedition. The Santiam Gold & Silver Mining Company has Just received a number of very rich specimens of gold-bearing quartz from their claims on the south fork of the Santiam. Washington, June 10. Rebel dis patches from North Georgia state that the Federal Army was still moving to ward Atlanta. Heavy rains for two days had made the roads almost Im passable and considerably retarded their movements. Washington, June 10. The rebel Marmaduke's blockade on the Missis sippi, near Greenville, has destroyed three steamers, securing two cargoes. Cincinnati. June 10. General Burblge, who has been following the rebels sines they left Round Gap, came up with them yesterday at Mount Sterling and whipped them handsomely. A portion of Morgan's command entered Lexing ton at 2 o'clock this morning and burned the central depot and robbed a number of stores. Burbige is fol lowing them. The examination at the Portland Academy and Female Seminary will commence this morning under direction of Professor Orambes and wife. At Your Service This is the keynote of a page ad vertisement a, large electric light corporation Is running in the news papers of its home city. It frankly sets forth the various forms of service this company has to sell to the householder and busi ness man. ' It shows how it can be made profitable to the users. - It Is cited only as an Instance of the great awakening of public serv ice corporations. They are becoming public service companies in fact as well as name. And aa nark they are auirlt tm recognise that one of the moat po tential arms In constructive pnblie service is the advertising in live daily newspapers.