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Eastern Business Offices Verree lln, Jiew York. Brunswick building cago. Steger building. nan Francisco Office R. J. Bldwell Co, 74a Market street. PORTLAND, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17,1814. WIISOM MADS THE OPPOBTCNITT. President Wilson's denunciation and defiance of the men who have been endeavoring to manufacture public sentiment against anti-trust legislation would have had more ef fect had he not given them a good opening by his own course of action. He has forced on Congress a tariff which Is largely responsible for the prevailing business depression and which has brought results In foreign trade the reverse of those predicted by Its authors. He has been unnec essarily slow about appointing the members of the Federal Reserve Board, and setting the new currency Jaw In operation. He has diverted his own Congress' and the people's atten tion from his programme of construct ive legislation by his meddling and muddling In Mexico, of which the end Is not yet in sight, and by his canal tolls bill. By forcing through the lat ter measure he has created dissension In his party and weakened the prestige iwhlch would have enabled him to press forward anti-trust legislation without giving the enemy time to draw breath. The great interests against which this legislation is aimed and whose one desire is to postpone till doomsday the destruction by law of their mo nopolistic power saw their opportu nity and seized it. They saw Congress wearied by almost two years of con tinuous work and eager to go home and prepare for the Fall election. They eaw the country Impatient for a re vival of business and apparently apa thetic as to immediate anti-trust leg islation. They proceeded to manu facture an artificial public sentiment In favor of the very course Congress was in Its secret heart desirous of tak ing namely, postponement of anti trust laws to a more convenient sea son. They have striven by every means to convince the people that business depression was due to the threat of legislation against "business," pur posely confounding their own illegiti mate business with the legitimate business which has nothing to fear but everything to hope from, the contem plated laws. The President has done well to ex pose the artificial character of this agitation, but he cannot escape the chief responsibility for having created the situation, business, political, legis lative and psychological, which en couraged the hope that it might suc ceed. His blast at the lobby which has been pleading for delay is likely to render its work nugatory by turn ing the light upon and exposing the machinery behind the scenes. Form letters sent out by trusts to their cus tomers and by the latter sent to Con gressmen repeating the plausible but threadbare pleas against action will have no weight, now that their origin is exposed. No Congressman hoping for re-election would dare create the Impression by favoring Inaction that he has heeded them. The trusts have skilfully framed their appeal by combining with their own cause that of the railroads, which have a good prima facie case for high er rates, and by depicting legislation against themselves as being one among several causes of depression. In agreeable contrast with the de mands of the trust lobby are the words of Frank Vanderlip, addressed to the New Tork Bankers' Association. He eees the reasonableness of the popular 1 demand, for he says: The basts that Is baclc of the demand for legislative restriction and control of business I believe to be In large measure made up of sound economlo facta. The de velopment ot Industrialism within our life time has been of such a revolutionary character as naturally and rightly to create a demand for a body of controlling laws ouch as were never dreamed of by our fathers. .In direct opposition to the panic mongers who cry for delay in settling a problem which will always vex us until settled as the people demand, Mr. Vanderlip says: I believe If business men will get them selves Into a state of mind where they view conditions broadly, with a historical and social senss rather than only from their Individual point of view, they will appre hend better the direction In which the whole current of political thought is flowing, and will feel less impatience with this legislative movement and vastly less pessimism con cerning its result. It seems to me time that we recognised and caught step with this wider spirit, and then endeavor to direct the movements which it has set in motion rather than to obstruct its expression, whlah finds a form In new or proposed legislation. The people do not ask vengeance on big business; they ask a cure of the disease which has produced the trusts. Until that cure is made there can be no permanent stability about business conditions, such as exists in other countries. We are making progress toward that stability as to the rail roads and currency. We need to at ' tain it as to corporations and the tar iff. The fault to be found with the President and Congress is that they have already delayed too long, not that they refuse to delay longer. SEEING OCB BIGHTS. Inasmuch as Multnomah Falls Is not fenced off from public access pro vision should be made to cover the trip at a popular price. All do not own automobiles and must depend on regular modes of transit. This beau tiful cascade, however, is but one of the attractions in a region full of scen ic wonder. The ride to ' Caxadero, though ex ploited for years, develops new points of interest every trip. Excursions on the rivers never become stale to the tired city dweller. The electric line up the Valley that makes the McMinn ville loop shows the fertile section in Its varying stages as open pages of a newly illustrated book, and Its rival line takes one through historic towns and hamlets Into points of interest. A trip overlooked by many because they know not of It is that by way of Linn ton, with views of snow-capped peaks, piney woods and flowing rivers, through the tunnel that pierces Cor nelius Gap and on to the fertile North Plains. People of Portland are blessed with opportunities of a change of scene, and perhaps the sole reason they do not embrace them is the prohibition of cost. The picnic season is at hand and it is up to the traffic men to do some thing, remembering that a "big, iron dollar" looks big to. the head of the flock, but that in multiplicity of half dollars there is much in the way of dividends. A DEMAND FOB JECONOMT. While extension pf the free text book privilege to private schoolB had considerable influence in defeating the measure at the school election, the overwhelming vote in opposition can doubtless be largely ascribed to the cost of the enterprise. The result, speaking as it does for taxpayers exclusively, is further evi dence of the temper of the taxpaying public in respect to high cost of gov ernment. It is another verdict con cerning public expenditures that can be dispensed with which ought to be heeded by all officials. Nor is the high tax issue confined to local affairs. The feeling is wide spread that the cost of maintaining public activities and "enterprises must be reduced. We shall elect state, county and legislative officers this Fall whose records in of ice will be measured by what they do for econ omy more than by any other particular. DONNING THE DUNCE CAP. It Is pleasant to learn from the London press that the President of the United States is highly thought of in England because of his canal tolls policy. Still, we are entitled to misgivings as to how the American Nation as a whole Is held in the esteem of the British public. If there are not loud guffaws in England over our National discomfiture then the Britisher has even a smaller sense of humor than he is given credit for. The natural inference from Presi dent Wilson's interpretation of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty Is that we played the dunce in diplomacy. We surrendered the right to control our own property. , Tankee shrewdness was beaten by the slow wit of John Bull. At our traditional epoxt of dollar-chasing we are so badly distanced that England captures the coin. On the other hand, If a reasonable interpretation is given to the treaty and we are not morally bound to col lect tolls- from American coastwise vessels we have, we lose when we had the winning cards. We are bluffed out at diplomatic poker. Either way one looks at the canal tolls episode there is nothing there in to our credit. Henceforward we shall pay In higher freight rates than necessary for supinenesa in high places. If we have acquired "full credit as a treaty-keeping Nation" we have lost credit correspondingly as a treaty-making Nation. It is enough to make the world laugh. SINCLAIR MEDICINE MAN. There may be conservatism in all things even Socialism. In that faith it is best represented by Victor Berger, the Milwaukee Socialist who has the distinction of having been the first man of his party to be elected to Con gress. - Mr. Berger is one of the few social ist leaders who do not applaud every sensational act committed or weird theory propounded by some fellow So cialist. He arose in Congress to de nounce single tax, to which many of his party cling. He has been emphatic in denouncing the so - called free speech campaigns to which his fol lowers have contributed, to the pecu niary advantage of a few agitators and disturbers. Lately he has dellv r.d on onie-rammatic rebuke to Up ton Sinclair and his band of mourners at the door of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. He thus expresses his opinion of Sinclair and Socialists of similar tend encies: Well, about this poor ass, Sinclair. iou New Yorkers have simply made him pofl wh. .hmiTil jtnvone worry about him 7 " All mouthpieces of small move ments have to oe no. ,, t-i. v, nhnrch case. . . . BOUCK White went to a church. . . . As nearly as I can see. It was one sky pilot """JB another sky pilot about the sky. Why should the secona odjwh -- more martyrdom is enjoyed. uii7aiiiirM would let these peo ple tails themselves to death. . . . No body would think of attacking Rockefeller. He is only m Drouuci ui inw fidc - hundred Rockefellers iuu cuuiu . -' - and you would not remove the cause. Sinclair's demonstration was on tne order of the annoyances perpetrated by English militants and was about as promising in results, yet it was ap proved by many Socialists who seem to think their party is a claque or- - .noriirflrfljverv cheaD per former who has embraced their faith. In the view of Socialism tne jkocko feller wealth and mental attitude are v.,. eirmntnms of economic disease. Yet Sinclair's line of mourning is even more primitive than treatment of symptoms. It is patterned after the Indian medicine man's tom-tom and incantations. Mr. Bergers party would have more dignity if as a whole it embraced his consistency. THAT DEATj IN WARSHIPS, The proposed sale of the battleships Idaho and Mississippi threatens to bring the United States into diplo matic conflict with Turkey. In resent ment for the massacre of Greeks in Asia Minor Greece is disposed to make war, unaided, against the Turks, but the war would be chiefly naval, and she hesitates to begin until she has strengthened her navy. The two American warships are expected to make Greece a match for Turkey at sea, and their acquisition might be the signal for the opening of hostilities. Turkey regards the sale of warships to a prospective foe as an unfriendly act and has protested at Washington while the bill authorizing the sale is in the hands of a conference commit tee of Congress. Turkey would not be likely to treat the sale as a cause for war, but in the well-known Turkish way she could make life very un pleasant for the American mission aries and merchants in her territory. The great powers of Europe, how ever would not regard with equanim ity a transaction which threatened to set the fires of war ablaze in the Bal kans again so soon after they had been quenched. Their principal occu pation is putting the lid on the Bal kans and sitting on it. They might inform the United States that they regarded the warship deal as interference in European poli tics which would Justify their taking a more active hand in American affairs. An Administration with a. backbone might justly retort that a mere busi ness transaction between two govern ments could not fairly be regarded as a political act and that, if any Euro pean power meddled in American af fairs we stilt'--had a few up-to-date warships available for service, with gunners who can shoot straight. But no such declaration can be expected from the present spineless Adminis tration. It. would be more apt to re ply that, rather than cause ill feeling, we would keep our out-of-date ships. They are out of date. They were out of date before they were built. They were designed at the dictation of the late Senator Hale to fit the lim ited capacity of the shipyards at Bath, Me., but he was disappointed In get ting the job' for his constituents, for the Cramps underbid the Bath Com pany and got the contract. They are slower than other ships and have to be driven at top speed to keep up with a squadron. .Thence result "many breakdowns. They have a low free board aft, so that in a heavy sea the decks are awash and the after guns consequently are useless. The guns are badly placed and are of shorter range than modern rifles. The little navy men are fighting the sale because the proceeds are to be used in building a third dreadnought this year, and they oppose even two new ships. The little navy men are generally little Americans and .they will probably use Turkey's protest as an additional argument, for a little American always "lies down" at the least murmur of protest from a for eign power. WILL THE COtONTfX CONSENT? The possibility that Colonel Roose velt might be nominated for Governor of New Tork on the Progressive ticket was not removed by the Colonel s dec laration on the eve of his departure for Spain. In the face ot that decla ration his npnhcw. Douglas Robinson, who must be presumed to know what is in his mind, sent to the county chairman of the party in New Tork the following "confidential-- letter: What Is the sentiment In your district re naming inW pUB3tliO UU1U1U.L1UU V. RooBevelt for Governor? I know the Pro gressives are lor mm to a mau, out I particularly want to know is how much support can we expect from the independ ent voters. ' Ann nf thpan letters, fell into the hands of Francis J4Lantry, a former Ta.mTtin.nv district leader who had be come a Progressive leader. He made it public and replied tnat ne ana many other Progressives favored Charles S. Whitman, who ia talked of as the strongest Republican candidate, but i .11 wnose nomination on a iumuu Mr. Robinson opposes. Thsn mntorini far an interesting fight in these circumstances. Intima tions sent West rrom isevr xora inm ttiA PaItioI wjih nnt bo unlikely to run for Governor as his vehement pr6teats would imply, were received wiin juj, aa Vila fnllfiTtrfim honed that his candi dacy would do much to hold together the party tnrougnoui me country a.u would draw many independent votes. tf ii noniihiinnna should nominate Mr. Whitman the declaration of Mr. Lantry suggests that his splendid rec ord in prosecuting the gunmen and the police grafters would draw to him many non-Republican votes, both Pro gressive and independent. ThA Rnrincfleld ReDubllcan believes that "If Whitman is to be the Repub lican nominee It win do very auiicuu in hnid the Proeressives in line for any candidate other than the Colonel himself." But the colonel can naraiy afford to risk another defeat, and, in Ain.. tn uvin hA must do better than hold the Progressives in line; he must win many Republican ana inuepeuu ent votes. With Mr. Whitman as his opponent he would make 6mall gains from the Republicans and might lose many Progressives. rrux miDctfnn Viarnmes Increasingly interesting: "What will the Colonel do?" AN EXPERIMENT IN DIVORCE. Tiist njvnv the Drerjonderanca of di- n-nni-s amone rich and well-to- do finds an explanation in British in vestigations which are now nearing fruit. The whole subject 'was gone int. hi? a cnocial divorce commission. which, as a climax to its activities, devised a law providing free legal serv ice to the poor. Now it is revealed that more than half of the applica tions for legal services have concerned divorce proceedings. Thi furt tends to refute completely the contentions of those who have per sisted that there was no genuine de mand for divorce among the poor. Dioiniv it has hen an economic prob lem. The poor didn't get divorces for the simple reason tnai mey couiaii i afford the luxury. Hence they suf fered in silence, or at least without making their woes known to the di vorce magistrates. They had no other recourse. ' . TJr. nn the applications lor di vorce by people of the poorer classes been based on slender grounds. Grave erallv been the basis infidelity, failure to support and de sertion. The British courts ao not recognize such flimsy excuses as in- iniii;t-i7. nt temoerament or fail ure of the husband's complexion to match the wife's favorite color scneme. r ih Tiw arrangement has devel oped many cases where the bonds of matrimony were galling ana snomu in justice to husband or wife, or both, be severed. The new remedy of free legal aid for those who cannot afford to pay lawyers' and court fees has thrown fresh light on the ancient sub ject of divorce. FRIVOLOUS SENIORS. that the seniors of Princeton have just taken a reflective estimate of some of their proud achievements and virtues piled up during college days. On the 'thresh old of active life when tney must step forth and hew their several ways to high success the seniors pause to check up on some of the noteworthy things they have done up to the pres- . . nr a class of 250 eighty- three have kissed. This fact stands out pre-eminently in the statistics oi achievements. What other college can boast an osculatory record of such proportions? . And Princeton, let it be known, is not a co-educational institu- tlNor were all of them satisfied with a mere exchange of micro-organisms nni. i-mnliprl in the osculatory salute. It is recorded that more than 50 per cent of these went runner ana tn innnnh themselves on the casajcu sea of matrimony. Thirty-one of these audacious Lotharios were jutea one of them ten times, which Is something of a record for persistence. Nine were accepted and are now engaged, the final chapter in the bargain only awaiting- that minor detail of wrest ing from the world a wherewithal for subsistence in the conjugal state. How the doting papas who have been subsisting these many years on cheap lunches and punk cigars that their offspring might have the incal culable advantages of rilgher educa tion must swell with pride at reading what their sons have. done. Then there is the unmatched record of the young senior who is corresponding with twenty-two young women. iu what better time could he put college das-s, particularly if he intends to found a matrimonial bureau or en snare an heiress? He appears to have fitted himself for such activities and no other. But, then, both are said to be profitable if not always pleasant When it comes to 'dancing, Prince ton seniors stand out with special brilliance. A total of 101 dance, while a mere twenty-three consider dancing wrong and positively fritter away their time in study. Obviously the world is not to run short of dancing masters if this boasted record may serve as on tni.-r Aa a final evidence of in tellectual achievement they name as their favorite poet a vassar young woman and stamp Wordsworth as the atimM Tnat hrw thev arrived at this decision is not recorded. Per haps the fortunate eighty-tnree wnose achievements have been noted already cast their vote as a unit for the Vas sar miss. Who knows? It would be interesting in the course t a n run nr sn. when these young men meet again on graduation day, aa is tne wont or couego men, w note in the record of failures, for fail- ... n. miict htt In this COmDleX world. Just how many of those who have not conquered tne woria ngureu, in the Illuminating statistics which are now unblushingly put out. SCHISM AMONG THE SCHISMATICS. The Proarressive party is now tak ing a dose of its own medicine. It ripped up the Republican party, ana now it is being ripped up by one of its own leaders. Amos Pinchot has attempted to make Mr. Perkins the Jonah and to induce the new party to throw him overboara Decause ne mariHnat favors trusts, opposes union labor and by his campaign publica tions has put the party in a false light. Mr. Pinchot particularly accuses Mr. Perkins of having suppressed an anti trust plank in the Progressive plat-fn-.yi nf 10.1O. whirh favored strength ening the Sherman law and which was adopted by the convention, ana oi having substituted a pjank favoring regulated monopoly, which was not even read to the convention. The difficulty about carrying out va I'incVint nrnmunme is that the party has already condoned the al leged offenses. Tne juggie v.nn me ade nubile soon after the convention. The campaign of 1912 was fought on the Perkins plank, which was aerenaea Dy joi""e o.n..ii nnH ex-Senator Beveridge. The strike In the Auburn twine mills occurred about the same time and brought to the front Mr. Perkins as a foe of union labor. Knowing all these facte, the party accepted large sums of money and much work from Mr. Perkins during the campaign and aft erward elected him chairman of its executive committee. The attack on Mr. rerKins cannot, under these circumstances, be truly n4 oa nimnrl to brinar back the party to the original principles from which it nas sirayeu. j.uo chot letter Is rather an attempt by an i...r.t.i ai-Mnn to reiect its accepted doctrines and to substitute others. In short, Mr. Pinchot is doing to tne t-ro- ..I.,- -xo Y-fv what Colonel Roosevelt BIBBOl'O K -J did to the Republican party. This schism breeds new schism in politics, as in religion. Nor can the Progressive party re pudiate Mr., Perkins without also re pudiating its leaaer, uoiuu -velt. for the latter practiced while in nnH nr.anhed on the stump the principles as to trusts held'by Mr. Per kins. The oionei cuum j -vi,. Perkins bv forsaking those principles and adopting those which he opposed in 1912. He has made some lightning changes, but this ovn his nolitical agility. The probability is that, unless the quarrel can be patcnea up, mo vuwci and his friends will rally around Mr. -r i . i etrontrthfiTl him in his rerniiia 0 position and that the radicals will seek new political nomes in muio i-uus-" ,, tvio Progressive ranks would then be so greatly thinned that the party would become negligible as a political ractor ana mo .h.ri hack to the Republican party would be hastened. Statistics are produced to show that fewer accidents occur with automo v.ii ih.n with horse-drawn vehicles. They may be true. Tou never hear of an old famtly auto, in use iur i ,r.v ail nf a sudden and ln- Juring the good wife on the way to town or church. mt. ini.n War Veteran was not much on formation in his youth, but was great on the snoot. or wnai-nt did we honor him today. Alleged grafting in the matter of a dog supposed to be dead is a mal odorous state of affairs in the City Pound. . We suspect that the one thing that holds mediation together at this time is the delightful environs of Niagara Falls. . Gold mines are being promoted on t, stationery. Some other official unable to live within his salary. Ordered to move on or go to work, v. ,,r..mnloved army in West Virginia " - upheld its proud tradition. Destructive storms having hit wicked Paris, here is a text for some fire-eater to preach upon. Prohibition leaders predict a dry President in 1920. The present in cumbent is dry enough. ' " Italy's latest rebellion is described as a mere flash in the pan. And Mex ico's a habit. It may be that the 1915 Fair man agement Is behind this Mount Lassen eruption. " The Governor now appears to be heading straight for the pie counter. Some agitators ought now to come out for free car Tooks. Mediation is wobbling again and only Bryan Is hopeful. The "Road of a Thousand Won ders" now has 1001. Tou will note that the hot spell didn't last. r Home rule for cities is hitting under the belt. Give the pioneers the best of every thing. Watermelon time is hard upon us. BUSINESS DEPRESSIONS IN HISTORY Bail Tiaaea Vader Bncknsa, CleTflaaa ana Wll.ea Pre vide Mr. Morre With Text for Reply te Mr. Miller. PORTLAND. Juna 16. (To the Edi tor.) There is no panic in the Internal Revenue Department at the Portland f-imfnm TTntiRA Times are rood there. Our friend Milton A. Miller has heard of no business depression. Hia two coumn diatribe is the only excuse for a two-column response. In all his pro fuse waste of language he does not aea. isrnate a sinerla day or hour in the seven wholly Democratic years of the last 57 when we had the faintest sem blance of business prosperity. He does not explain why Democratic success and business depression always go hand in hand. Political parties asK suDnort UDon the Dledce that their ("theories will best conduce to the hap piness and prosperity of the people. If their success does not bring .the promised results then are all their preachments nothing but political "bunk." Democratic promises never Have "worked out." They always fall and the failure is always charged up to "Wall street." or the "gold Dugs, or the 'standpatters." or to some other stuffed Democratic bogle that is kept in stock for this purpose and the lam entations of Jeremiah are sweet music compared to the wall of protest they send up when they are called to ac-count,1- The protective tariff la their pet aversion, but no Republican tariff has ever brought a panic, and no Demo cratic tariff has ever brought prosper ity. The Payne-Aldrlch law, with its provision for a non-partisan tariff commission, when compared with the Underwood-Simmons law, the child of the old political log-rolling methods, almost shines as a specimen of perfect tariff legislation, and the irreverent standpatter derisively smiles at the comparative results. No prudent Democrat invites a comparison with conditions under Taft. The greatest commercial and Industrial develop ments of our history have come as a result of Republican policies, and un der these policies no nation has, in the last 50 years, advanced with greater rapidity to sublimer heights. Today no nation, if we bar the unfortunate colored people ot the South, can show a larger percentage of Intelligence, or enjoys in greater degree, or In larger proportion, all the comforts of our modern civilization. But Brother Miller says that under Republican rule we have had atrikes and failures, and that rich men have demanded unwarranted profits. un doubtedly. This la not Utopia, and the millennium is a long way ahead. The Republican party cannot cure all the defects of human nature and prevent distortion. It cannot give men the ra pacity to insure business success, we are told that 95 per cent of those who enter business fall In tbe course of a lifetime. No political system can save them all. Strikes and failures come and go. The half column of Republican strike data given by Mr. Miller was for him a pure waste of space. No prudent laborer strikes when the Democratic party is making It almost impossible for him to hold hie job. The time to strike Is when times are good and the prosperous business of the employer makes a raise of wages possible. The prudent man who has a job in these times Is sticking to It like a sick kit ten to a hot brick. And the failures. In boom times the Improvident, the speculator, the plunger and the stock gambler figure largely In the list of failures while Democratic prosperity makes a specialty of nobody, but takes them all in. Under Repub lican rule depression is sporadic. Under Democratic rule It is epidemic and uni versal. Nothing has played greater havoo with Democracy than the tariff. It is a Democratic hoodoo. Among our National statesmen. Washington, Ham ilton, Franklin. Webster, Clay, Lincoln. Blaine, Garfield, McKlnley and a host of others were stalwart champions of protection. Lincoln gave expression to a fundamental idea of protection when he said: "If my wife buys a dresa In England for (20, we have the dress and England has the $20. If she buys the dress in the United States we have both the dress and the $20." Bismarck once said: "It is my deliberate Judgment that the prosperity of America is main ly due to her system of protective laws." But there are scores of little German professors, who get all their tariff knowledge out of the text books, who will tell you that Bismarck was an old fool, and there are thousands of crossroads American politicians who have the same opinion of Franklin and Webster and Lincoln. Let us Inquire if a Democratlo tariff ever improved conditions. We had ab solute free trade from 1783 to 1789. Bolles Financial History of the United States tells ub that during that time Great Britain wiped up every dollar in the country, and Webster declared that "such a period of depression followed as the people hardly felt in the sharp est crisis of thevwar leaelf." These con ditions brought our first protective tar iff law, passed by Congress and signed by Washington in 1789. The improve ment was immediate, and continuous, but in 1816 and 1818 there was a de mand for a downward revision with the usual disastrous results. Then came a clamor for additional protection and the protective tariff acts of 1824 and 1828 were enacted. The tide of pros perity immediately followed and con tinued until 1833, when there was again a demand for a downward re vision. For what followed read in Cot ton's "Life of Henry Clay" of the con ditions in 1837, when horses were sold at $2, cows at 81, sheep at 1SV cents and bogs at i'A cents, not per pound, but per head, with everything else in proportion. According to historians of the time, "Industry was prostrate, bankruptcies were almost universal, and there was such a financial crash as had never be fore been equaled in our history." These conditions elected Harrison, the Whig candidate for President, in 1840. Prosperity returned with the protective tariff law of 1842. In 1844 the Demo crats named George M. Dallas, a Penn sylvania Protectionist, for Vice-President and won under the slogan of "Dal las and the tariff act of 1842," and "Fifty-four forty or tight" They betrayed the people on both issues, and enacted the Walker Tariff law. Temporarily held ;n check by the Mexican war and the discovery of gold in California, the Inevitable crash followed. For partic ulars read the New York Tribune of December 16, 1854, and of January 16, 1855, with its stories of the bread lines in New York City, and of the universal National distress. Read the lugubri ous wail of President Buchanan in his message of December, 1857, and his later message of January, 18(1, where in he tells us: "The public distress be comes more and more aggravated. Aa an evidence of this it is only necessary to aav that the Treasury notes author ized by act of December 17 last were advertised according to law and no re sponsible bidder offered to take any considerable sum at a lower rate of In terest than 12 per cent." The highest rate of interest ever paid by a Repub lican Administration, even in the dark est days of the Civil War, waa only 7 net cent. Here ended Democratic supremacy until March 4, 1883. Then what hap nenedT Brother Miller says that when Harrison left the White House on that date "the country was in tbe midst of one of the greatest panlca it ever ex perienced." Exactly. And that waa four mOntOS Slier v,ic.tianu Bim.uvu, nun noarlv a year after his election had seemed almost certain. He reminds ua that there was then "no Democratic finance) or tariff law on the statute books." True." But everybody knew what was coming, and that the time had come for all hands to scoot for the cyclone cellar, me panic started, and the "endless chain" began its deadly work, after Cleveland had bead ed for the White House. A bond lue became Inevitable, and Secretary Fos ter Issued the order for the plates on February 20. 1893. just 14 days before Cleveland was Inaugurated, to make It as convenient as possible for him te take care ot tbe panic he was bring ing with him. What were the conditions Immedi ately preceding this? On July 7, 182. the New York Herald, a Democratic newspaper, said: "The business of the country is In a provokingly healthy condition. New Industrial enterprises for manufacturing Iron, cotton and woolen fabrics are going Into opera tion in various sections. In the face of such a condition of things the ca lamity howler must remain silent." On July 16. 1892, the Democratic boston Herald asked and answered lt question. "Where Is the idle woolen mill today? There is none." The great commercial agency of R. O. Dun & Co. at that time reported: "A fiscal year never matched In tbe history of the country In the volume of Industrial productions. In magnitude of domestic exchanges, or In foreign trade, has Just closed." Edward Atkinson, the greatest of free traders, admitted at that time that "there has never been a period in the history of this or any other country when the general rate of wagea waa as high as It is now, or the price of goods, relative to wages, as low as It Is today." Boles, thrDenio cratlo Governor of Iowa, In his 18112 message to the Legislature of that state, declared: "At no time In the his tory of Iowa have her people been blessed with more general prosperity." Roswell P. Flower, the Democratic Governor of New York, sent In a mes sage of the same teuor. President Har rison In bla message of December, 18:2, declared: "So high a decree of pros perity, or so general a diffusion ot the comforts of life were never before en Joyed by our people." Eight months arter this, on August 8, 1893. Grovrr Cleveland called a spe cial session of Congress to "consider an alarming and extraordinary business situation," made necessary by reason ot the fact that "suddenly financial distrust and fear have sprung up on every side." Will our friend Miller make a note of that word "suddenly"? It was Harrison's panic was It? Then came the expected Democratlo tariff bill, and what kind of prosperity did we have for the next four years? Mr. Miller tells us gleefully that the people kicked McKlnley out ot Congress in 1890 because of the McKlnley '.arilf law, but he does not tell ns bow tlicy repented in 1896 and put him Into the White House by more than too.ouo plu rality over the great and only Bryan, and everybody knowa whether or not business conditions immediately Im proved. - Having been rid of Democratic con trol for 16 years, the people were coaxed. In 1912. into poking their head into the Democratic noose again. They did this upon the specific agreement that they were to have eaty money, business prosperity and an Immediate reduction in the high cost of living. Did they get it? Ask Milton A. Miller. But we had a panic In 191)7, the re sponsibility for which haa been charaed both to Wall atreet and to Teddy Roosevelt- It has' been called "the rl'h man's panic." It was acute but very short-lived. As this was purely a "Bull Moose" panic, Brother Miller la respect fully referred for particulars In regard to it to Dr. H. W. Coe and Tbomaa B. Neuhausen. There was also a panic In 1873. And whose was It? No political organization in the whole history of mankind ever came into power handi capped by such a burden aa waa im posed upon the Republican party In 1861. Those were the darkest days in the history of the Republic. It Is true that there were hundreds of thousands of loyal Democrats who came to the aid of Lincoln and were true to the Union. Most of them were later found In the Republican ranka We are not discussing motives or the right and wrong of that great contest We are simply looking for the fellow who started that panic. Tbe Democrat ic leaders of the South, who precipi tated the Rebellion, were the backbone of the Democratic party organisation, and it is only necessary to read ths editorials of the Northern Democratic press and tbe debates In Congress and the state and National Democratic platforms to realize how bitterly hard the Democratlo party. North and South, made the task for -Linceln. It pro longed the war. It increased the loss of life and limb. It enormously aug mented the burden of the National debt. A united North would have meant an enormoua saving of life and treasure. The Republican party was made responsible for the conduct of the war. No party ever faced a harder task, and no party ever acquitted It self with greater credit. It raised an army of more than 1,000.000 men: 600. 000 of the flower of the country gave their lives for the Union. Hundreds of thousands came home crippled In health and body. A national debt of nearly three billions was Incurred, and nine billions of dollars In property was destroyed. Industry was demoralized, conditions demanded a tremendous ex pansion of our currency, and specula tion became a National mania. Revul sion was inevitable. The process of complete readjustment could only come through the travail of a nation wide panic The Republican party was not responsible for the condltlona out of which it arose. Whose panic waa It? Ignoring the disturbances thnt oc curred before the Republican party was born, the record for the last 67 years shows three Democratic panics, one each under Buchanan, Cleveland and Wilson, and covering every minute of their seven years of complete control. It shows two Republican panlca so called, in their 50 yeara of control, to wit: the Democratic panic of 1871 and the Bull Moose panic of 1907. In the face of their past record, and of present conditions, the Democratic brethren are in a state of perturbation. In continuous succession they are ris ing up to protest and to explain. The President assures us the depression Is "purely psychological." To Secretary Redfleld the suggestion of the exist ence of any depression is "humorous." One very sarcastic brother, who has "money In bank" and an "unimpaired salary," calls it a "Jawbone panic" while another refers to it aa an "ob session" and an exhibition of "abysmal stupidity." All of these "arguments" belp some but not mucn. we are given to understand tnat In a crisis like this real statesmanship consists in de ception. Lie to the people. Tell them there is no depression. Denounce any discussion of the cause and the pos sible remedy as "petty politics" and "moasback statecraft," and any man who suggests that the real criminal Is tbe Democratlo party aa "an alarm 1st." a "cheap politician" and "an -saslnator of business," and whatever else you do, do not fall to call hint a "standpatter." There la a lack of light and a great surplus of language In the Democratic defense. CHAS. B. MOORES. Call for Her Pastor. Woman's Home Companion. A clergyman's small daughter was sent to bed aupperless just before her father's return from a short trip. Hear ing him enter, some time later, the young lady called down: "Mamma, 1 want to see daddy." There was no re sponse from below. A moment later: "Mamma, please let daddy get me a drink of water." When that also failed, a small, white figure came to the head of the stairs and said aternly: "Mrs. Hastings. I am a very sick woman. I must see my pastor at once!" Needless to say, her pastor went up. Twenty-Five Yer Ago From The Oregonlaa ef June IT. M. Baker City, June 16. The machin ery la oa the way from the East for the erection ef a Huntington mill ! ! Big Alack mine, owned, and operated by Boston capitalists. Tacoma. June 16 It la aH en good authority that Henry Vlllard as sured the leading men of "eattle that the wueen City should have th same terminal facilities hereafter Tacoma now enjoys. Belfast, N. T.. June 16 John L. 1 llvan Is on another spre. Friday nii he and Muldoon had a quarrel and John L. Immediately left his training quar ters at Muldoon's residence, went to Church's Hotel, rot drunk and tried t run the house. He drove the bartender out of the house, because he was re fused liquor, and helped hlmelf lib erally as well aa his arquatntanrea. After be got his "Jag" on, be turns! sullen and sat through the night on tha hotel steps He swore that he wruild not go back to Muldooa'a house It he never met Kllraln. Albany. June 14 The graduating exercises of Albany Colleae were held this evening. The graduates were Flora Augusta Mason. Helen Virginia Crawford and Ina Elizabeth Robertson. SALEM. June IS The Alumni As sociation of Willamette University met today, being called to order by presi dent R. A. Miller. Hon. 11. 11. Olirrev. of the class of 1666, now reading clerk of the United States Senate, was unan imously elected president. The follow ing remaining officers were elected: Vice-presidents, Mia. Ida M. Babrock. William Hetsler and Charles A. Unv; errelsry, Lafayette Conn; treasurer. Miss Minnie Cunningham. Oeore P. Haghes was appointed to represent tne Alumnt Association on the board of trustees of Willamette University. UU Jessie Van fVny and Miss Amelia Miller were appointed on the esecutlre com mittee. The Unitarian Church was filled last evening with a representative audi ence to hear the Hon. Thomas O liner, man. of the New York bar, discuss the single tax question. The cornerstone of the new eM Mary's Catholic Home, one mile south of Beaverton. Waa laid yeslerdsy s f - .. -n . m n h, - w U v 1 1 r. r v T lr... r, t Ohio, assisted by Fsthert O'Pee, North man, van L.in ana vernaas. ti i-ortiann and vl.-liilty, and Father KaNer, of Ce dar Mills. At the picnic to Kt. Helens rtstiirdsy Misses Belle liewott and 1-etlle Crock ett were given an Involuntary balk when a boat capsized. The) Toyal Theater opens Ibis week with a number of first-clan attrac tions. Manager J. P. Howe la confined to. his bouse by fever. Albert Hill, aon ef C. II. Hill, last Friday lost the flnere of hta Tight hand In a sawmill across the river. Frldsy evening, as tbe Alhlna f'e hoys were drilling. Dsn Iewls, who was leadinc, was run ever by the hose cart. He was badly bruised about th hips and legs. The fourth game of the series be tween the Portlands and Willamette was won by the latter by a score of I to 2. Half Century Ago From The Oregonlan of June 1?. . On Tuesday a Mra Pmlth at Corral lis had built a Are In the open air for the purpose of doing some wash ing when her dresa Ignited and In a tew momania every veetlge ef her apparel bad been conaumed. tthe ran at the top of her speed and her whole body was roasted brown, fche leave five little orpliana. A. K. Riddles. writing tn Hill Beacbey. of Lewiston. from Wild Horse on Kootenai Creek, says: There are at this date operating on this creak with a certain prospect of (air auccesa 13 companlee. The gold la coarse, of Una quality, and passes readily at 116 an ounce. Ther la not a claim but what win pay 110 to li per day to tha hand. There are here, mining and prospecting, about 400 men. and the number la being dally Increased. The following are the prices and the supply of each article Is quite limited: Heane, 80o per pound: dried applea. 61; suaat. 76o to 90c; coffee. 90o to 91.81; bacon. (1.25 and none In camp till within a day or two; flour, (oo and the moat ln ferinr article that was ever nianufac tured. Cincinnati. June 14. Oeneral Morgsn. with 3000 men, attacked the 18th and 175th Ohio regiments under Hobaun, at Cynthlana yesterday. After a Severn light ho compelled Hobson to surrender on the condition that his men should he Immediately exchanged. 1 his morn ing General Burhrldjre fell upon Mor gan while bla men were at breakfast and after a severe fight completely de feated him and scattered hia forces In all directions. Washington, June 13. Dispatcher from Hunter at Ptaunton on the 8th re. port: We met the enemy at I'iedmont last Sunday nioinliin. Ocneral Jones commanding, and totally routed them after a battle of an huur'a duration. New Tork. June 11 A letter dsteii the 6th from Butler's department gives the details of the attack on Peterabura. showing that Ollniore had advanced to within a short distance, but, being In formed that the rebels were preparing In tha rear of him, returned with only I'.'iO wounded, tleneral Kauts hy an other road surprised the rebels and bravely dashed Into the works, captur ing several pieces of artillery and a number of prisoners. Not being co-op-crated with by (jllmote, he was com pelled to fall bark, but brought t prlsoneis and captured guns Willi him. Pevernl quite exciting foot rsree bate occurred on Front atreet for a few even ings past, between bnya. I.ast evening a new texture wse addrd by the Intro duction of a pair of burly aiwaehes, w ho ran the distance of twe blocks (or two-bits a aide. The straggling Indians abont the vi cinity of tine city afford Infinite amuse ment for the boys, and frequent rows among the tribes. In which It often happena that some of them are badlv cut up. aud then follows a case la the courta. The Library Aasoclatloa baa appoint ed Mr L H. Waheneld to attend to ths duties of collecting tbe Quarterly 1uea and Initiation Faclful Adrertisinf People are Interested In met chandise and like te road about It 71,0 lvertlslng that attract) Ihem and holds their Interest la "full of facts." It la terse, tn the point, well written. hut above all else It gives Informstton. I'eople want to be shown. Even If they are not personally Interested In the goods advertised they recsrd the advertising aa use ful Information. There Is no better tvpe of rUarv factful advertising anywhere then, the examples to he found oah day la the columns of The Oregonlaa. 4