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Germany Is bound as an ally, by race sympathy and by national Interest to aid Austria and to prevent the forma tion of a great Slav confederacy head ed by Russia. Italy Is bound as an ally also to help Austria. France, as Russia's ally, must help her and sees her opportunity to recover her lost provinces. England, though her un derstanding with France and Russia does not go to the length of a close alliance, may be impelled to neip them to attempt the destruction of Germany's menacing navy. Thus the assassination of Archduke Franz Fer dinand may prove to have been the signal for a warlike conflagration which shall envelop nearly all Eu rope. Servla has become heady with pride over her victories against Tur key and Bulgaria. She feels intense Irritation at Austria's blockade of her way to the Adriatic. She seeks re venge and aggrandizement by pro moting a pan-Servian agitation, de signed to wrest from Austria the Serb population of the latter's Southern provinces and to build up strength sufficient for the conquest of Albania in defiance of Austria. The pan-Serb agitation is probably not officially pushed by the Servian government, but that government dare not do oth erwise than countenance it, for the heart of every patriotic Servian is in It and any government which attempt ed to suppress it would soon cease to exist. Thus submission to the de mands of Austria was politically im possible, though defiance would seem to be synonymous with national sui cide unless outside help is available. Even were Russia not to help, a struggle between Servla alone and Austria would not be as unequal as appears on the surface. Those whose racial sympathy would prompt them to aid her are as numerous as her own population, for they spread through Bosnia, Herzegovina, Croatia, Slavonla and other Southern provinces of Austria. The Slovenes of Hungary are close kin to the Servians. Even if bound by no alliance, Greece may make common cause with Servla, for she knows that Austria's goal is her recently acquired port of Salonlca. Austria must also guard against a fire in her rear from the Czechs of Bohemia, who yearn for restoration of their ancient kingdom, and from the Poles of Galicia. All these elements, however, would not suffice to make little Servla a mutch for Austria, especially as Bul garia would not miss so good a chance for revenge. She must look to Russia for salvation. That great empire sees all Its ambition for expansion south ward and for free passage into the Mediterranean Sea endangered by the extension of Austrian power to the Aegean Sea which would follow the overthrow of Servla and Servia's al lies. Russia threatened to fight Aus tria when Bosnia was annexed and drew back only when Germany an nounced that she stood shoulder to shoulder With Austria. She may think the stake so great in this emer gency as to risk a struggle with both those nations, even though she alone should face them. Since her war with Japan, Russia has reorganized and materially strengthened both her army and navy. A nation which has had so severe a lesson in the neces sity of preparedness is likely to be bet ter equipped for another struggle than nations like Germany and Austria, which may prove to have suffered from the canker of a long peace. France already shows a disposition to Join Russia, thus compelling the two Central European nations to defend themselves on both flanks. Italy would almost surely join her allies, and France would be engaged on her whole eastern frontier. The danger of civil war in Ireland would be the chief Influence restraining England from participation in the struggle. The Slav race and Its allies would be arrayed agaainst the Teutons and their allies, as to land forces, includ ing reserves, about as follows: Slav Teuton Russia B.500.000 Auatrla S.Ono.ono France .... 4,000,000 Germany ... 6,200,000 crt Britain 7sn,cvu:itaiy i.zun.uoo Sen-la 240,000 Bulgaria ... 380.000 Greece 130.000! how futile are the dreams of peace which our visionary statesmen Indulge! THE SAME OLD PROVISO. The Senate has again adopted the same old proviso that none of the appropriation for anti-trust prosecu tions shall be used in prosecuting labor unions or farmers' associations, not withstanding attempts to strike it out. President Wilson will again be called upon to sidestep an issue by signing the bill while denouncing this proviso as "a limitation which is, in my opinion, unjustifiable in character and princi ple," as he did last year. As Senator Sutherland said, if this provision means only that a labor or ganization shall not be prosecuted un der the anti-trust law for any legiti mate attempt to increase wages, short en hours or better conditions, it Is needless. But it is conceivable that a labor organization might combine with a body of capitalists to aid the pur poses of the latter In consideration of certain favors to labor. The three cornered combination of the Journey men plumbers, the master plumbers and the plumbers' supply men is a case In point. There is a case now In court where the United Mirrtswork- ers are accused of combining with the coal operators of Ohio and other states in an agreement to provoke a strike in West Virginia in order to shut off competition from the latter state. The miners In this case pursue an end which is generally conceded to be legitimate to better the condi tion of their craft In both Ohio and West Vlrsrinia but they are accused of becoming parties to a violation of the Sherman law In pursuing that end Labor unions are most laudable when they seek their legitimate ends by legitimate means, but all their of ficers are not angels. Some officers are capable of making the unions par ties to an illegal combination of em ployers to aid the latter in unlawful designs in order to promote the unions lawful designs. It would seem that implied immunity is given such men by the proviso. Total 10.620.000' Total 8,780,000 As to population the advantage is lso on the side of the Slavs, as the following table shows: Slave Teuton Russia .. .160,100.000 Austria ... 49.400.0Ofi Franc .... 9,S00.00(iOermany . . (14,900,000 O. Britain 48,000,000 Italy 83,900.000 Servla .... 2.800.000 Bulgaria . . 4.000,000 Greece 2,800.000) Total .249.S00.000; Total .152.2OO.00t Not including colonies. Should war come, it would be a conflict of the races, unparalleled in history. It would be carried on with all modern engines of war and com munication artillery, long-range, magazine rifles, automobile and air ships on land; modern battleships, submarines, torpedoes, airships at sea aided by wireless telegraph, which would enable Russian and French generals to send messages across the enemy's country arranging for con certed action. When the bullet of an assassin in spired by racial fanaticism can set such forces of destruction in motion. WILSON ACCEPTS DEFEAT. President Wilson's prompt compli ance with the request of Thomas D Jones that his nomination for mem bership on the Federal Reserve Board be withdrawn can be taken only as an acknowledgement of defeat at the hands of those Democratic Senators who opposed Mr. Jones. The nomi nation was opposed not only by the united Republican party in the Sen ate with the exception of Senators Sherman and Stephenson, but by Sen tors Reed, Hitchcock, O'Gorman, Mar tine, Vardaman and Lane. The Presl dent's lieutenants Private Secretary Tumulty, Secretary McAdoo, Treasurer Burke and Postmaster-General Bur leson- are reported to have lobbied Industriously for confirmation and to have won over Senators Clarke of Arkansas, Williams, Chamberlain, Ashurst and Smith of Arizona. On this alignment the Senate would have been tied and Vice-President Mar shall's casting vote would have been needed to decide. He is said to have objected to Mr. Jones' nomination, but to have felt it incumbent on him to support his chief. To have won his point in thi3 man ner would have accentuated the divi sion in the party to such a degree that the President would have stirred up no end of trouble for himself. An investigation of his friends' lobby ing was threatened. It would have weakened Mr. Jones' influence and would have made the Federal Reserve Board the object of political attack at the outset. Mr. Jones saw this and drew out. Mr. Wilson saw It and, wishing to keep the board as clear of politics as possible and to avoid a split in his party, consented. He has acted wisely, but his power over Con gress, hitherto supreme, has suffered its first serious breach. The meaning of this outcome of the Jones episode is that no man who has been concerned as a principal in any trust operations will be acceptable to Congress as an office-holder. The treatment accorded Paul M. Warburg has the same significance. Since practically all business men of the first rank are open to criticism on the same grounds as Mr. Jones and Mr. Warburg, the President must look among those of lower rank for men to complete the board. The board will exercise great powers with large possibilities for good or evil influence on the prosperity of the country, and should be composed of men of the highest ability, broadest experience and most unquestioned Integrity, but by a species of political proscription men possessing all these qualities are barred because they have followed practices which -were common and the illegality of which was In doubt until a few years ago. While the President and Senate have been quarreling as to who shall compose the Reserve Board, no prog ress has been made toward opening the regional banks, though nearly seven months have elapsed since the currency bill became law arid though the new banking facilities would be of vast service In financing the great crops now being garnered. these sordid times, instead of charm ing lyrics like "Drink to me only with thine eyes," would be turning out slap dash stuff extolling the efficacy of the brown glass bottle to preserve the potency of beer. Omar Khayyam, cap tured by the grapejuice trust, would employ all his delightful imagery in behalf of the non-fermented beverage, although we believe that after hours he would "lQose his fingers in the tresses of the cypress-slender minister of wine," as was his wont of yore. The vagrant Goldsmith, Instead of wandering with his flute through many lands, then to. write his exalted "Trav eler," would be whizzing up and down the country in a motorcar, taking hasty and erroneous notes which would later appear as "boost" articles in the "pro motion department" of some railroad owned magazine. And sweetest Sapho, who sang so matchlessly of love by Lesbos' laugh ing wave, would put her perfect phrase and faultless line at the service of a certain make of corset-stays, conduct ing the "advice to the Heartsick" de partment of some enterprising metro politan Journal In her spare moments. Ever and anon, like the wailing of a siren In a fog, goes up a voice de ploring the modern dearth of poets and poetry. Hippocrene has gone dry, it says; the naiads have been chased from the rivers by the filth and sewer age of a commercial civilization; the nereids must dive deep or be crushed by the cleaving prows of ocean liners; no longer gleam the breasts of nymphs from the brake; and Pan has sought the utter wilderness with his tristful merry pipes. All this Is too, too true. Where, in the complex scheme of things mod ern, is the poet's place, unless he be come a Myrmidon of Commerce? There are none to "wake to ecstacy the living lyre," because no one wants 1 wakened,- or has time to listen to its music. Perhaps, let us dream and hope, it will not always be thus. But at present we must frankly face the fact that a poet is wellnigh an Im possibility, and poesy is as dead as a door-nail. PLANS FOR SEAMEN'S RELIEF. Representative Alexander's substi tute for the La Follette seamen's bill has been subjected to much criticism by Representative Bryan in a minor lty report, on the ground principally that it does not better the condition of the sailors; that is lessens safety at sea and that It will leave the ex isting differences in the cost of oper ation between American and foreign vessels untouched. The principal argument made by Mr. Bryan in favor of the last objec tion is that the provisions of the Alex ander bill forbidding imprisonment for desertion and permitting seamen to draw half their earned pay at inter mediate ports of call on a voyage are to apply to vessels of nations whose treaties conflict with the law until those treaties have been annulled after expiration of notice. He fails to ex plain how the bill could become ef fective any sooner, unless the United States violated commercial treaties with every maritime nation. The plain truth is that change in laws affecting foreign ships is lm practicable without friction with all these nations and without great em barrassment to our foreign commerce. Our ocean shipping Is so insignificant that for this Nation -to attempt to change these laws without agreeing first with other ship-owning nations would be an attempt of the tail to wag the dog. Imprisonment of sailors for desertion should be abolished, but the United States cannot act alone with any good effect. The seamen's laws require exhaus tive study, together with the shipping laws, that our seamen may be put on an equality with other American workmen, that our merchant marine may be revived and that we may be able to carry ocean commerce as cheaply as any other nation. A com mission could after Inquiry reach sound conclusions on all these points and could submit to Congress meas ures which would gain the desired end. Then the Government could set about revising the commercial treaties n accordance with the new policy, but without getting us into hot water with the maritime world. THE COMMERCIAXXZEtD Mt'SB. All true lovers of literature and art, and particularly lovers of poetry, should "view with alarm" what may be termed the commercialization of the muse. For poetry, of a baser sort, is increasingly employed to advertise corsets and cottolene, alarm clocks and automobiles everything, from washing powder to "th' makin's." Pegasus Is hitched in galling har ness to Mammon's brassy car, and, his silvern pinions pitifully aflutter, he drags it creaking through the market place, his wistful eye upon the clouds that he was wont to spurn. He who might have soared with Shelley sings of soap. Haply he has a family to support, and the maga zines refuse to print the brain-fag odes and sonnets that he grinds out in the stilly night. An Incipient Mil ton concentrates his noble rage upon an Ignoble patent mattress, in which there is possibly 200 per cent profit to the manufacturer. A potential Burns cuffs a rattling typewriter, his eye in as fine a frenzy rolling as can be when his theme is a tobacco that he must celebrate in rhyme as non-tongue-bitlng, when he knows it does bite. A modern Chatterton could not sing and starve and drink the poison In his garret, for the "marvelous boy" has been told that it does not pay. There can be no latter-day Keats, be cause he has no time to walk the "ver durous glooms and winding mossy ways," nor throw his magic fancy 'cross perilous seas to "faery lands for lorn." He is under contract to turn out a topical poem a day for a news paper syndicate. Rare Ben Johnson, were he alive in THE MACDOWELL FESTIVAL. About the middle of next August it is planned to conduct a musical and dramatic festival at Edward MacDow ell's home farm near Peterborough, Vermont. MacDowell, who was an in cessant worker and a great sufferer from foolish distractions of all sorts, had longed for many years to secure a farm, where he could pursue musi cal composition in peace and quiet. before he finally found means to buy the place In Vermont, which became his home. Here he labored serenely during the short time that remained for him on earth. So impressed was the great genius with the advantages of a quiet retreat for intellectual workers that he bequeathed the farm when he died for the use of artists, poets, composers or any others who might feel the need of seclusion from the world. His widow has religiously carried out this project. Small, re tired cottages have been erected here and there about the place where any person of intellectual habits may work during- the pleasant season of the year in complete freedom from in terruption. His luncheon is brought to him at midday. At nightfall he may dine, if he likes, in company with the other Inmates of the retreat. The evening may be spent in a common clubroom with music, games and con versation. Such Is the "MacDowell Home," one of the most beautiful examples of wise philanthropy in all the world. Its conception and execution form a work of genius not less admirable than the master's great musical com positions. The guests pay bvH a small fee for their comforts and if their re sources happen to fail they pay noth ing until better times arrive for them. Naturally It costs heavily to maintain a retreat of this generous character. The small fortune which Edward MacDowell left has been devoted to this purpose by his widow and Bhe has eked it out by teaching, lecturing and giving con certs. But there is a feeling now among artists and musicians that the foundation should be made more se cure. Efforts have been concerted to obtain a permanent endowment which shall put it beyond the risks of chance and change. A number of prominent men in the East have attached their names to a request for subscriptions and the Edward MacDowell Memo rial Association has undertaken to hold a musical and dramatic festival every year at the farm. Last year a pageant was shown which is said by those who were privileged to see it to have been one of the most beauti ful ever devised in America. It was founded on the history of Vermont and decorated with a great wealth of romantic pioneer costumes and In dian equipment. Naturally at a pa geant devised in memory of MacDow ell there was a great deal of music. The festival to be held next August also is under the management of the MacDowell Memorial Association. It will last five days beginning with the 19th. Inasmuch as MacDowell was a strictly American composer, the festi val will be made the occasion for per forming numerous pieces by Ameri cans. Arthur Farwell, Gena Brans combe, Deems Taylor and a score more will enjoy the privilege of pre senting their works to the unusually appreciative audience likely to assem ble at the MacDowell farm. Profes sional musicians from all parts of the country will be there and a goodly gathering of laymen as well. In fact, the MacDowell farm is becoming a mecca for all those who love beauti ful music and significant drama. Hadyn's "Creation," sung with a chorus of 175 voices and played by the Boston Festival Orchestra, will give solidity to the programme. The pan tomime, "Pan and the Star," by J. L Smith and E. B. Hill, will enliven the proceedings and "Interpretative Dances" are promised by the great Lada. In Ferdinand Reyher's one act play, "Youth Will Dance." Claude Wright, of England, will present "a series of old English Morris dances," such as we read of in medieval times. Of course, the festival will not neg lect the works of Edward MacDowell himself. The great composer pro duced orchestral suites, tone poems, songs and pieces for the piano In many forms and all his versatile art will be represented. To American visitors at the festival MacDowell's pieces will form the most interesting part of the programme for several good reasons. For one thing he Is, thus far, our greatest composer Though taught by the most eminent European masters and deeply influ enced by the spirit of German roman tlcism, he remained genuinely Ameri can in his ideas and methods. If he worked more or less after French models he did so without sacrificing the peculiar feeling of the new world. He chose Indian themes and Ameri can folk songs in preference to hack neyed old-world subjects for his com positions. Some of our poets would be immensely benefited if they would follow his example. The spectacle of American poets going to Italy and Egypt for subjects to write upon would be ludicrous if it'were not mel ancholy. With all our myriad life around them, with all the creative energy of the country struggling and building before their eyes, the poor cratures cannot sing about anything but broken-nosed Roman statues and desolate Sicilian vineyards. MacDowell's genius was American through and through, but his coun trymen did not appreciate him until he had won recognition in Europe. The first public performance of his work was not in any city of the United States, but In Germany. He lived in that country, in fact, until 1887, paying his way by teaching and concerts. It was not till 1896 that he was made professor of music at Co lumbia University and his health per mitted him to hold that situation only eight years. His untimely death was more the result of Inharmonious rela tions with a world that did not know his value than of any definite disease. Some time we shall learn to conserve our geniuses with at least as much care as we bestow upon our pigs and calves. " Half a Century Ago The judge who will not allow that drunkenness is an excuse for theft is a friend to Justice and a pillar of com mon sense. No crime should be ex cused by drunkenness. The sot knows perfectly well that his cups will weaken his volition and destroy his moral sense. He swallows his pota tions with full knowledge of their ef fects and should be held responsible for the consequences. The tendency Mr. Rlgley observes among some newspapers to bait and abuse The Oregonian rather than combat with honest argument is not confined wholly to country newspa pers. There is a notable example In Portland. It is encouraging to have the testimony of Mr. Rigley that such a policy does not make much impres sion on the reading public. What other principles could Gover nor Harrison apply in the Philippines except Tammany principles? They are the only principles he ever learned What else can the faithful veterans of the Spanish war and the insurrec tion expect but to be kicked out like yellow dogs and reduced to starva tion, as Representative Miller says? That is the Tammany way. From The Oregonian of July 27. 1884. Upon a late visit to Puget Sound your correspondent had the pleasure of at tending the examination and other ex ercises of the University of Washing ton Territory. This university, located at Seattle, owes its existence to the munificence of the General Governor. At the organization of Washington Territory in 185S Congress reserved for university purposes 46,080 acres of land. January 11, 1861, the Legislature lo cated the university at Seattle and appointed Daniel Bagley, John Webster and Edmund Carr to select and dispose of the university lands and to improve the ten acres donated for the site. Hon. A. A. Denny gave eight and a fraction acres and Judge Hunter and C. C. Terry gave the remainder, the tract adjoining the Town of Seattle and that time a dense forest of fir trees. February 22, 1S61. the commis sioners elected Daniel Bagley presi dent, and in April following the first work was done. As the commission ers were forbidden to incur any debt, the president personally borrowed $20 with which to commence the 'work. The lands have been nearly all sold and about $70,000 realized. The grounds have been grubbed and cleared, en closed with neat railings, seeded to grass and otherwise improved. The buildings are frame and consist of the university building, a large and tasty structure 50 by 80 feet, two sto ries with belfry and observatory; the president's house, a boarding-house, to gether with a barn and outbuildings. the whole supplied with an abundance of fine water conducted over the grouncs in pump-iogs. inese lm provements cost about $40,000, leaving about $30,000 as an endowment fund which is loaned at from 1 to 1 pe cent per month, making an annual rev enue of some $6000. The school Is under the charge of Professon Barnard the president, assisted by Miss Boise sister of Judge Boise. Camp No. 35, Harney Valley, July 2. Sir: I have the honor to report that I effected a junction with Captain George B. Currey's expedition from Fort Walla Walla yesterday, about 30 miles north of Lake Harney. No signs of any Indians could be found except a few camps that have been abandoned at least two months. From prospectors, emigrants from California and others I learn that the Indians are quite numerous in the vlciplty of Goose Lake and have committed some depredations lately. There is a large emigration from Northern California and South ern Oregon through this section to Boise and Owyhee. Large droves of cattle are seen almost daily crossing Harney Valley. I have found the coun try over which the expedition has marched thus far to be unfit for any purposes but grazing and a large por tion of It Is desert. This is partlcu larly the case with Harney Valley. not more than one-tenth of which Is fit for any useful purpose whatever (Signed) John M. Drake, Captain First Oregon Cavalry, commanding. To the AAA. General, H'dq'rs, District of Oregon, r ort Vancouver, w. T. The Lewiston Age of July 23 says: "A large number of miners are in town loading for Kootenai. Road agents are making the appearance near Lewiston The Sheriff has made arrangements to mob three of them, known as George Goodwin, H. Wilson and George Brown. Extract from a letter written by Thomas Carter dated at Chimney Rock, June 21: There Is the largest emlgra tion on the road this year that ever crossed the plains. At least 10,000 wagons by this route alone, North Platte, bound for Idaho, Nevada, Cal lfornia and Oregon. The number I us great by South Platte, It is sup posed." The Salem Statesman of Monday has the following: "Mr. Kronenberg, who was burned out In Salem Saturday, has already commenced building a new market on the site of the old one." Considerable complaint is made on account of a band of thieving Indians camped V the vicinity of the brick yard in v southern portion of the city." A special term of the United States District Court, Hon. M. P. Deady pre siding, was held yesterday. The macadamized road is certainly the most popular one to drive over in the state. Last evening a cortege of some 17 carriages and buggies were counted at the terminus of the road. Quite a crowd of citizens was as sembled in front of a certain hotel to witness the strange freaks of a young badger raptured In the Boise country. Two typos from this office swam the Willamette River the other even ing opposite Brooklyn Flouring Mills, making a distance little short of two miles inside of 45 minutes. If prohibition should spoil the mint julep market, there will be abundant raw material for Springfield's mint oil plant, but what a shameful misuse the Kentuckian would think was being made of his sacred herb. A medical authority In London has discovered several causes of baldness, but they do not concern the man with an egg dome. He wants a cure. With both Anthony Caminetti and his wife in the race, it should not be difficult to keep a member of the family always in office. The swallows are due to leave Ore gon next week and naught but the best efforts of Swat the Flies will keep down the pest. Speed maniacs will not attend the conference this afternoon on the traf fic ordinance. They do not care about such a thing. As a kisser Caillaux puts Hobson in the shade, but he seems not to have been so promiscuous in his osculations. Too Btach "Moale." PORTLAND, July 26. (To the Edi tor.) May I ask what means can bo suggested to alleviate the almost night- y sufferings of a neighborhood caused by a man who imagines that he Is a violinist? He invariably starts the tor lure immediately after dinner, and often saws away until after 11 P. M. On one occasion he played that inspir ing melody entitled "Everybody's Doing It" 32 times, and then the writer lost consciousness. During these Summer evenings when windows and doors are open it makes It that much worse, and especially so if one la sleeping, or, rather, trying to sleep, on a porch. One can become accustomed to almost any noise, but this man's fondness for music seems to have everyone's goat In the neighborhood. WEIDLER STREET, Od to the Dove By Dean Collins. Popular idea will credit the Chinese with Increasing delicacy, now they have begun to chew tobacco. If Yuan Shi Kai be China's Huerta, the White Wolf may prove to be China's Villa. The assailant of the Khedive was a bad shot, . but an excellent target Is it possible that Nebraska is grow ing weary of its great Commoner? An insignificant kingdom like Ser vla may set the world afire. Russia probably has the heaviest war chest Just now. 1 The House is afraid of snake-bite in Alaska, I'm strong for peace! That war should cease Has ever been my plea; I dearly love to boost the dove And spray the olive tree Yet it doth grow a trifle Blow, So It appears to me. I've watched old Mars through sev'ral wars. And hoped each gasp his last; With yearning vague unto the Hague Full oft mine eyes I ve cast: Yet Mars, this year, doth well appear, And huskier far than last. Some day. men might forget to fight, And practice brotherhood; And plowshares neat from sabers beat; And live as brothers should; Their throttles sluice with mild grape juice, And peaceful be and good. Such Is the line, that I opine We all consider best; Such frolicsome millenlum Is our most earnest quest Yet Mars, 'tis true, each day doth shoo The dove right off the nest. Oh, brooding dove, harrassed and druv From forest, field and moat. While Mars doth roar round Europe's shore Or Mexico; I note No restful patch whereon to hatch. Fly on, Dove! You're the goat! (Note Poetic license Ore. 1914.) No Bones to Pick for Him. Punch. "I say, I've a bone to pick with you." "Pardon me, sir, that's quite impos sible, for I'm a strict vegetarian..'' MAN BARRED, BVT NOT HIS GOODS lnconaistency In Excluding; Cheap La bor, bat Not It Product. VALE. Or.. Julv 23. (To the Edi tor.) We have been greatly interested In the many political letters on the tariff and kindred subjects lately ap pearing In The Oregonian and in the editorial comment thereon. It is customary for country papers to bait The Oregonian and to abuse that paper rather than to combat, with honest argument, principles laid down In Its columns to which they are op posed. We have read The OreeTonlan for 25 years and will concur In the statement that many of its policies have not always been such as would Induce subscriptions; in fact The Ore gonian has never been carried sway with radical fads which periodically sweep over the country. In truth, that paper has had policies, and we remem ber few. If any, that have proved ma terially wrong. In the fight against free silver The Oregonian fought for monetary sanity and was Instrumental, and largely so, in preserving the mone tary Integrity of Oregon. Had the tariff policy of The Orego nian been adopted years since there would be no psychological times today. Now we are confronted with the possi bility, nay. probability, of strenuous psychological times for three more dreary years. Recovery Is always slow. If wages are lowered It Is done in a moment and they are restored only after serious and long argument. Confidence, which was and Is de rided by the predominating party In Congress today, but on which 95 per cent of the world's business Is trans acted, once shaken. Is slowly regained. Fortunes are swept away in a moment, only to be rebuilt. If ever, by heart breaking labor.' To be optimistic is well, but a "con dition and not a theory confronts us." We visited your city some time since and what we saw and learned did not give us a favorable opinion of pros perous times as Indicated by the signs scattered over the city. To be a "calamity howler" when there Is no calamity Is bad, but Is It calamity howling to point out Inevita ble results before the enactment of certain laws or to discuss the result after they have been incorporated into the policy of the Government? The people were not deceived In 1912; they failed to understand the political possibilities of having three candidates in the field. Many thou sands of our citizens sincerely be lieved that Roosevelt coutd be elected. He was popular and undoubtedly a strong man, and many wore tired of the steam-roller methods of tho old Republicans and Democrats. Roosevelt represented practically the same administrative policies as did Taft. Certainly he was not a free trader md Just as surely would never turn our countrty over to foreigners. With three candidates In the field the Democrats will succeed. The solid South cannot be broken and will dom inate tho country which It now rules, even though Louisiana breaks away this Fall. The foresight of experienced leaders and the experience of those who were in business during former Democratic Administrations was ample to warn the people as to the result of a free trade policy. Not hecd1r.tr that warn ing they are now at the mercy of coterie of meddlesome theorist who are determined to give us long-ex ploded policies simply becauBe they- can. It seems to us that If Republicans should carefully consider their actions this Fall; If they desire to eliminate free trade and Its kindred evils; If they are dissatisfied with psychological prosperity, It would be well to forget the Laffertys and all others who re fuse to abide by the ballot, sticking closely to fundamental principles which embody the enactment of Republican policies Into law by Republicans. Dis regard all allurements to vote for some favorite son unless he represents true principles. Let the psychological voters support tho psychological candidates and let the issue be squarely put be tween Republicans and Democrats, both turning down all side candidates. Wo are no standpatter. e prefer. however, to oppose a policy that forces thousands to tighten their belt for breakfast, take up another notch for dinner, hieing to dreamland for supper. We cannot hnrtnonize the advice to the consumer. "Lowering the tariff will lower the coat of living." To the pro ducer, "Lowering the tariff will In crease the price of your products." Ve of the West are the goats of the Administration. Why? Because our Influence Is slight. We are the wool producers. Wool! The eternal shuttle cock of the tariff tlnkerer. It has brought a better price thla year than ast. The Government has therefore ost $50,000,000 in revenue without ben efiting a single soul In the country. The only goods sold more cheaply are lankrupt stocks. Old wool men are disposing of their flocks, preparing for the Inevitable. They well know that the price will probably be as good or better next year, but that In three years the Australian will have re newed his depleted flocks, with what result? Ask the Oregon butter and egg producer or the Western lumber man ufacturer. We are filled with brotherly love for all the world. Our heart beats In rhythmic love for the Australian wool and mutton producer, Chinese egg pro ducer. New Zealand butter maker. Mexican peon. Argentine beef, mutton. wool and corn producer, Japanese ship owner. German, English and I rench manufacturer, Italian orange, lemon and oil producer; we love so greatly that we wish them to continue to live as the ages and their evolution has given them a desire to live, eat their own products and wear their Missouri snappers with their accustomed In souciant carelessness. We fall to see the advantages that have been promised us from the pas sago of the law to prevent Illiterate aliens coming to our country when during the same Congressional activ ity acta are passed that will and do permit the products of these same aliens, their paupers, criminals and children to come to our country unre stricted, we note that the competl tion of the alien Immigrant Is local, while the competition of his goods Is now universal. We have so arranged matters by the construction of the Pan ama Canal that transportation to the Pacific is but a trifle more than to the Atlantic coast, and to cap this climax we have permitted the so-called ship ping monopoly to remove the slight handicap we had placed on the goods of the same alien. We feel that In the process of the law of the "survival of the fittest wnich grinds slowly and surely, we would do well to elect those to office who would retard, for as long a time as possible, the coolie competition which will never rise to our level, but will Inevitably drag us down to its level of subsisting just for the sake of existence. JOHN RIGLEY. Twenty-Five Years Ago Prom The Oreeonlan of Julv T. IMS. Albany. July 2. Major. T. J. Blakeney and Superintendent J. W. Wright, of San Francisco, have located a life-saving station on soutb beach, near Ta qulna Bay. Astoria. July 37. Th Board of Pilot Commissioners this afternoon Issued branches to William Patterson. Henry Empkin and W. H. Pope. Seattle. July 2 The contract will he let Monday for th erection of a lares wooden Summer hotel, to be known as the Hotel Rainier. It will octupy a block of ground. Salem, July 2. The Willamette Val ley Hops-rowers' Association today adopted by-laws for the organisation of a mutual nre protective association. The following; board of directors was choaen: William Well, of Burns Vista: P. Rigga. of Crowley; H. D. Mount, of Sirverlon; J. F. Graves, of Dallas, and W. E. Iter, of Buttevlll. Olympla. July 2t. Hon. 8. 8. Cox. of Ohio, addressed the constitutional con vention today. Washington, July 26. The Fish Com mission has been advised of the dis covery of a cod bank on the Pacific Coast eight miles off Neatucca. New York. July 16 Minister Hlrch arrived yesterday from Constantinople, where he had an audience with the Sultan. "Well." said T. A. Stephens yester day, "our free bathhouse Is nesrly completed, and this afternoon our com mittee are request-id to examine the work before the structure Is towed to the foot of JofTerson street, where It will bo moored." Over $400 has been collected for th purchase of horse and harness for Pioneer Engine Company, of East Port land. Today E. L Thorpe and Walter Burrell, of the soliciting committee, hope to complete the amount neces sary. They have recommended Jack I'enny for driver. L Maddock, general manager of th Yaqulna Deep Sea Fishing- Company, arrived here yesterday from San Fran cisco. The first meeting of the Real Estate Exchange was held last evening. County Commissioner Dunne la on the warpath because th City Council re fuses to pay the city's share of a bill for a telephone line to the county farm and the city pesthouse, as agreed by Mayor DI.aBhmutt. Councilman Far rell laughs and says they may fight It out. "Interdependent." Here la a word that will make the elephant, bull moose and Jackass gaze In terror Into each others faces, quick en the pulse of good men of moderate understanding and good women of Im moderate views and start a vagus In flection through the body politic that would spoil the apathy of a muzzled dog. Words are mighty, words are living. and here Is a throbbing adjective tied to a peerless candidate that will cut into all parties. Insinuate Itself Into all fads and factions, bring men Into one fold under one Joker and Justify the ways of the political sage to whom Oregon Is Indebted for its great re pute. Mr. U Ren should run as an In terdependent." if for no other reason than to stop the Republican row and Democratic wlndfest. i. rifcwLbbX- iiuivi'Ui' SOCIALIST RF.rl.IKS TO MR. nil. I. Illnetratlon of Iniartr to Fellow gmoo I . t rloilln I hnll. nurd. PORTLAND. July 26. (To the Edi tor.) Acknowledging my soclslly viewed political Inalgnlficanc as ad vocate of Socialism and Mr. Debs, when compared with that or Mr. Ulll and the political Influence of Mr. Koosevelt, I accept the rhallengn of Mr, QUI, nom inee for Governor of Oregon, "to show the falrneaa of the $H0o exemption measure." I propoaed to prove that he Is en tirely wrong; thsl the psrallel of th cases be has given cannot b found and that Ills analysis will not hold water. I do not question his sincerity, but. as a Progressive, be has not cleared from the old line party principle on tbl subject. A farmer managing his own farm with a fairly assessed valuation of $4500 must have at least $15(i( of thin amount Invented In auc-b necessary equipment of building, household goods, farm Implement, horasa, olhsr stork and general Improvements. Hi cannot have leaa than thla and surrd. If Mr. Gill can find such farmer as he describes, with hla $H'0 personal property lnvcatmsnt. actually doing his own work and successfully manag ing his farm. In Wasco or any other county, I'll visit It and learn the sacret of personal property nun-lnveatment farming. Thar are Just such farmer" as be describes, but they do not do the real farming ct. It la they who farm the farmer. We know of plenty of them. The Eastern Oregon I.nd Com pany, th railroad comp.mi.-a along with other land speculators. Including banker snd largo business corpora tions In general. Thla $100 farmer, using the poor man' personal prop- rty, fits their cnae exactly. It I thru men who are playing the land-spec. I tors' gams to a finish; and thsy ars the very sctora thin nisasurs Is In tended to catch, Mr. QUI I very In judiciously and contrary to his party name defending them. Mr. Gill further aaya. "20 peraona will be caught" by this measure whll we are catching "him" (the one Hi n man). Th ration I about right, but hus the result exactly reversed. There are alway some who are hon estly struggling to get ahead who are drowned In their speculation. Wo cannot cultivate a field of grain with out doing some little damage. In de stroying weeds we always destroy some of the crop. This Illustration fits the case of the "purchaser of the lot" with good Intention. But where one such case Is found, entangled In the meshes of high-priced speculation. 20 other will get th advantage of buying city lots or farms at reduced speculator' prices. If Mr. Gill honestly believes that no "scheme of exemption can bs devised that will operate equitably" what has he to offer to the poor man. Sympathy and sympathising tinker are but In sult to an oppreaaed people In a world abounding In such abundance and un limited futuro possibilities. Mr. Ulll should be what hla party nam Im plies, progressive, and not II down before the problem of living and life. Socialists do not hide from these but openly face the problem. Any farmer knows, and Mr. QUI, as nominee for Governor should know, that what I have written ar fact. He knows, moreover. If he knows any thing about this question, that the $1500 exemption measure will benefit the small real farmer and catch tho large speculator. C. W. BARZEE. Mr, Barxee, It seem, has failed to read Mr. Glll'a letter closely. Th lat ter did not mention a succsssfully managed farm, valued St $4500. carry ing only $100 worth of Improvement. He cited a "run-down" farm which an enterprising Individual had Juat start ed to reclaim. It may be admitted that th $1500 exemption would not materially harm the man who, after having acquired raw or run-down land hna $1600 Imme diately to Invest In buildlnga, machin ery and livestock. Th man It would harm I he who goes on th land with only willing hand. There are many farmers who, pending Improvement of their land to th stat where It will produce a living, ar working at odd times for neighbors, or In logging camp, sawmills, hopflelds or at other labor for bread for their families. Such as thes would find their taxes- Increased by th adoption of this rnenaure. However. If Socialism' other amend ment passes that which would nd the farmer to Jail If h employed a man more than sight hour a day, or more than six day a week the 11500 exemption will not t of much conse quence. All farm will soon "run down" until hardly anybody will kav I lmprovemeuts tu exempt. I 4