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6 THE MORNING OREGONIAN. MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1914. FOBllASD, 0U60S. ' Entered at Portland. Oregon, Postotfloe second-class matter. Subscription Ratal Invariably In Advance- (By Mall) Cany. Snndajr Included, on year . . laily. Sunday included, si months - Ijaily, Sunday Included, three muntas - a-j? 1.iii, Sunday incluato, one moou ..... J-aii, without bunasy, one year Laio. wilnuut aunaay, six mouths ..,., laUy. wltnout aunasy, mree months - Lj&ily, witnoul Sunday, one monta ------ Vv ecKly, one year ....,., fcuaumy, one year .......... Sunday aud Waaaly. one year 6.UU Lis .too -ou X.OU a.su (By Carrier) pally. Sunday Included, one year .. ally, Sunday inducted, one monta --- ' - Uu to ttuuc-send r"osuUlce money or der, express order or personal cneclt on your lucal bank, stamps, coin or currency are at tender's riaX Oive rouiuttlcm auoreee la lu, iiiciuaiua eounty ana atete. Postage llaln 1Y to 10 paces. 1 cent; 1 to 82 pas, 4 cents ; 84 to a pages. 8 cents, trn to ou paaea, cents; as to 76 pages, a cents; 7s tu w paces, cents. Foreign post age, double rates. Eastern Hunlness Offices Verree Conk 11 n, new York, Brunswick building, Cnl- sago, tenser building. Can i-nuicisco Utiles R. J. BldwaU Co.. Ala.raut street. JrORTLAND, MOM DA V. OCTOBER , 191. MOLASSES TO CATCH fl.IBB. ; President Wilson declared during : the campaign of 1812 that the Balti more platform was not "molasses to catch files" and the platform itself says: "Our pledges are made to be kept when in office." A review of the Democratic party's conduct ' in office will enable us to judge whether these Tiled ires have been keDt or were ac tually "molasses to catch flies." The platform declares "it to be a fundamental principle of the Demo , cratic party that the Federal Govern ment has no right or power to impose or collect tariff duties except for the purpose of revenue." The Under wood law imposes tariff duties on cot ton goods for the purpose of protect ing New England and Southern ms.nu ficturers; duties on woolen goods for - the purpose of protecting manufac---J-turers of woolens; duties on silk New Jersey silk mills, and so on. That plank is branded as "molasses to catch flies." The platform declares that no sub stantial relief "from high cost of liv ing can be secured until import du ties on the necessaries of life are ma terially reduced and these criminal conspiracies (trusts) broken up." The tariff on the necessaries of life has been reduced, but prices have not fallen, but have risen as to some com modities. Few of the trusts have been broken up and the Clayton anti-trust bill as it emerged from conference is so toothless as to be an object of de rision. The high cost of living plank Is more molasses. The anti-trust plank demands "vig ... erous enforcement of the criminal as well as the civil law against trusts." out tne Aaminiatration nas not yet sent any trust magnates to Jail. That plank demands "the prevention of holding companies, of interlocking di rectors, of stock watering, of discrim ination in price," but the Clayton bill la weakly ineffective as to some of these evils and its penal clauses have been stricken out. Still more mo lasses. The platform declares for a, single term for President and pledges Presi dent Wilson to that principle, but Mr. Wilson is admitted by his own private secretary to be a candidate for re election, and no Democratic voice is raised against him. Another barrel Of molasses. The platform denounces "the prof ligate waste of money wrung from the people by oppressive taxation,'' and demands "a return to simplicity ana economy ana a reuut-uun m uit? i,,n-i rf TiGnlnce nfttaa Tlpmn. of Congress exceed by more than 1 1 00. 000. Quo thnaa of the last session under Republican control, the num ber of useless office's has been in creased, not reduced, and evidences of simplicity and economy are utterly lacking. So great has been the waste . and so averse are the Democrats to practice economy even when revenue is shrinking that they propose new and oppressive taxes in order to con- .' tinue their wasteful scale of expendi ture. That plank drips with molasses. The convention favored the co operation of the United Staes and the respective states In plans for the com- - prehenaive treatment of all water ways," but a practical plan of co- - operation was. denounced by Demo cratic leaders and rejected by Con gress. The convention favored "a lib eral and comprehensive plan for the development and improvement of our inland waterways with economy and efficiency," but a bill embodying ap propriations M iinuui tunijJi aiitjuoive ' : plan and without regard to efficiency or economy was introduced, and the amount was cut to reasonable proper ttons Jn consequence only of deter ' mined Republican efforts, which wee opposed to the last by Democratic leaders. The waterway plank ia also - molasses. A plank, brief and unqualified in its terms, reads: "We favor the exemption from tolls " of American ships engaged in coast- wise trade passing through the Pan- ama Canal." - v That plank aided greatly in catch ing many votes on the Pacific Coast, but it has been repudiated by the v prcylfifint and hv th mntnrltv nf his " party in Congress, which yielded to -: ,; the pressure he put upon it. It was .iTP - merely molasses. '- "The law pertaining to the civil service should be honestly and rigidly enforced, to the end that merit and ability should be the standard of ap pointment and promotion rather than service rendered to a political party," says the platform. Offices under the merit system have been taken from under it. the civil service law has been evaded in the process of its pretended observance and new offices created by Congress have been expressly ex empted from operation of that law. That plank also is molasses. The Democratic party stands con victed by its own record of having made promises in 1913 in order to catch votes and of having broken those promisee when time for per formance came. That record proves its promises to be worthless. It must now be Judged by Its deeds In office. not by its promises. The voters will not be caught again by Its molasses. The eld sectional issue bobbed up gain in the House discussion of the postal service bill when a section was under consideration exempting both Union and Confederate veterans from the age limit for fourth-class post masters, but it was cleverly put to sleep. Representative Hulings. of Pennsylvania, offered an amendment exempting any persons "provided they re found to possess the business ca pacity necessary," Representative Thirty years ago the bloody shirt would have been waved for hours over that section. We are making- progress. THE SEVEN LEPFJiS. There are certain- measures on the initiative ballot known as the "vicious seven." Contemplate for a moment the possibilities that may follow their adoption. Approval of the one to abolish the state Senate would give fullest force and effect to the proportional repre sentation scheme. Under proportional representation district representation would be sur rendered. Some counties would go without members in the Legislature, The Socialist party would be, able, by nominating a short ticket, to gain representation out of all proportion to its strength in the state, and to ac quire a powerful trading strength at the capital. The "right to work" measure authorizes the Legislature to appro priate noney to give work to the un employed, the proceeds thereof to be used to give more work to more un employed and so on until all industry is socialized. Acceleration of this result would be the chief aim of a socialized Legislature. The eight-hour amendment would in effect deny the right of farmers to harvest their crops and ruin many in dustries. The $1500 exemption would take taxes off the moderately well-to-do and pile them on the poor on one hand and the rich on the other. "They who have" would be mulcted by the sur-tax. Capital would be dis couraged and private enterprise would languish. The capitalist with forethought would not invest in Oregon because of the hfgrh Inheritance tax which would rob his children to give work to the unemployed. The water front amendment would deprive the school fund of revenue from the sale of tide lands and re move property of great value fr:ro the tax rolls, thereby further burdening rich and poor. The seven work nicely together to menace the welfare of Oregon. For most of them thank U'Ren. OUR NEUTRALITY REBUKED. Hall Caine, the novelist, upbraids the United States for not Joining hands with England against Germany "Is your neutrality possible? Is it human? Is.it right?" exclaims Hall Caine in an agony of rebuke. "Ia it conceiv able that -90, 000, 000 people in the United States, bound to the belliger ents by the closest ties, can sit on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean and say to one another, 'This bloody busi ness is none of ours, so, for the Lord's sake, let's keep out of it'?" Mr. Caine is a man of some emi- nence in the literary world and his opinions are entitled to respect even when they are wrong. In this case they are so far wrong that they hardly miss being absurd. The neu trality of the United States is possible, human and right. It is easily con ceivable that we shall sit just as iwe are on this side of the Atlantic and look on. at the bloody business until it Is over and done with. The fact that Europe is. making a fool of herself is no reason why America should do the same. Indeed, it is all the more rea son why we should keep the peace, This would be a sad world if every body should plunge into the business of slaughter at the same time. George .Washington pointed out a good many years ago how happily this country was situated. The Atlantic Ocean, he reminded us, was a barrier fixed by Providence between us and the European War Lords with their millinery, feathers and guns. His ad vice to us was that we should keep out of the disputes which might rage in that part of the world. "Avoid their entanglements," was the way he put it. This is a singularly propitious time to avoid entanglements. America looks with benign commiseration on the belligerents, without the slightest intention jpr wish to join them. lAW-CnUSG BY SUBTERFUGE. In view of the broad authority con veyed in the measure which primarily imposes an inheritance tax to raise money to give work to the unem ployed, one worrtd naturally expect to find some estimate in the affirmative argument in the state pamphlet as to the probable proceeds from such a tax. But such Information is wholly lacking. Doubtless it cannot be esti mated. This measure imposes a minimum tax of 10 per cent on the estates of deceased persons. It requires the La bor Commissioner to devote the pro ceeds to the establishment of indus tries, systems of transportation, dis tributing stations and public works for the employment of the unem- But the amendment does not pro pose to stop with this 10 per cent tax. It authorizes "the Legislature to in crease the tax without limit and make direct appropriations in aid of the en terprises established. It is quite clear that a tax" of this kind will produce a fluctuating reve nue. No cajculation can ever be made in advance as to the sums that will accrue for payment for materials or for wages of men. It permanent in dustries are established they would be subject to intermittent stoppage un less they became large income pro ducers from the start or were aided by direct appropriations. Development of water power, recla mation of arid lands and .milling of timber are suggested by the propon ents as projects possible under this amendment. But none of them be comes a going concern at once, while water powers and irrigated lands re quire the pouring in of construction cost money for several years before there is return on the investment. It is a moral certainty that, if this amendment is adopted and an attempt Is made to apply its provisions, ap-t peals for appropriations will be made to the Legislature to save half-finished industries from deterioration. Legisla. tive appropriations mean, a direct tax en the people. Such appropriations as would be authorized under this aet would never be repaid to the state for the amendment requires that all income from industries so established shall be used for further development of the department. This amendment. In short, a paternal scheme plan to put men at work and. pay them out of the public pocket- book without possibility of the state receiving a direct return. It proposes to make the unemployed wards of the state, like the inmates of the insane asylum- The public would take care of them and keep them pit work and use what they produced te eare for more wards. The measure is preposed by the So cialist party. Its true purpose is clear. less expect the initial industries estab- Ushed to develop other industries, they ! in turn to provide for others, and so on until all industry in the state is socialized. The measure is distinctly TTRenic in that it is not what it purports to be. By the subterfuge of a play upon pub lic sympathy for the unemployed and upon fancied public prejudice against wealth It seeks the. adoption of a broad revolutionary principle which the voters would promptly reject if it were honestly submitted. THE GREATEST MAM. A "popular and virtuous magazine," as a contemporary describes it, has been inviting its readers to tell who is the greatest man in the United States." Naturally few of them missed the opportunity to express their judgment, and the judgment was about what one might have expected from the yawping crowd. By their wise and witty votes Theodore Roose velt is not only the greatest man in the country, but he has -no second or third. It is Teddy first and the rest nowhere. At a long, long distance Mr. Edison comes staggering along and far be hind him, almost out of sight in the dim distance; President Wilson tot ters; Mr. Bryan holds the fifth place; Luther Burbank, with others," the sev enth, i while Billy Sunday, with two or three companions, brings up the rear. What a list. Only one preacher in it and he Billy Sunday. Not a poet, not a novelist, not a historian, though we have some great ones; not a teacher except Booker Washington, who is tied with Luther Burbank in the sev enth place. The list shows dense popular ig norance of all our great men except a very few. Those who go quietly forward with their work and make no noise are neglected. It is a little odd that no phyiilcian should be mentioned by the vo:ing mob. Medicine is almost the only science in which America holds its own with Ahe old world, and our physicians are as "great" as those of any other country. But nobody seems to Imagine that medical ability can give a man renown. Perhaps the physicians do too much good to their kind to win much popular favor. If they should take to killing instead of curing their patients, we dare say the country would ring with their praise. THE WEST GETS THE WORST OF IT. Representative Sinnott, speaking on the emergency revenue bill, brought strongly to the front the fact that the Underwood tariff discriminates in fa vor of the South and against the West. He said: On first glancing 'at that bill I noticed that cotton ties and cotton bagging were on the tree list. I ' glanced down toward wool sacKs ana wool bashing and wheat sacks. and I noticed that they were not on the free list. I thought for a while, in my sim pie juvenile innocence, that this was an oversight, an inadvertence, that It would be corrected by our Democratic friends as soon as their attention was called to this seeming careless omission of fres wheat Sacks, so 1. like "Innocence abroad," offered .in amenament to put wheat sacks on the free lf3t. being artless and unsophisticated. 1 supposed that my amendment would carry. ,1 saw myself making campaign thunder for my campaign in uregon and on the Coast, but alas! to my surprise my amendment was defeated. why was it defeated. Mr. Speaker? Why was the duty left on wheat sacks and wool bagging, while cotton bag sing and cotton ties were placed on the tree list 7 He quoted from a document pub Ilshed by Representative Underwood during the Senatorial campaign in Alabama a denial of a charge made by Representative Hobson that Mr. Underwood took the ' tax off whisky and put it on cotton bagging and cot ton ties to tax the farmers. The de nial reads: That statement is as false as any ever made in the history of mankind. The exact opposite is true. We did not change the tax on liquor, but 1 did put cotton bagging and ties on the tree list. Mr. Sinnott then exclaimed: Gentlemen, would that I. could return to Oregon and say that 1 put wool bagging and wheat sacks on the free list. Another example of the sectional interests which dictate the action of Southern Democrats was cited by Mr, Sinnott. He quoted Representative Sims as having said in the debate on canal tolls: - Now. you Southern people that are Interested in forest products, that are inter ested in the value of lumber on the East and Gulf coasts. If you give the lumber trust. the Weyerhaeuser interests of the West, free passage through that eanal. lumber on the Gulf and Atlantic coasts will go down from $3 to 85 a thousand. It will affect the price of lumber back from the coast for 500 miles. Yet gentlemen who represent a subsidised and protected monopolistic interest are will ing to do it, even it they destroy or dam age their own particular Industry. Repeal of coastwise exemption from canal tolls is thus exposed as a device to protect Southern lumber from Pa cific Coast competition. The bogies of the lumber trust and the coastwise shipping trust are trotted out to ex cuse this discrimination between sec tions of the country a discrimination which is contrary to the spirit of the Constitution. The West can hope for no better treatment from a Demo cratic Administration, which is and always will be dominated by the solid Southern phalanx. HOW MINI CHOICES 13f RECALLf PORTLAND. Oct. 6. (To the EMltor.)-r- In view of the fact that the first reeal under the Commission charter is about to be attempted, 'many voters would like to know whether the recall election will be conducted under the preferential voting sys tem. This question will doubtless have an important hearing on the result, wnat is tn opinion of The Oregonlan? SUJSBVKIBlUrt The city charter contains no definite provision on the subject. It seems quite clearly to require that a preferen tial ballot shall be prepared in- all regular and special elections, provided there are two or more candidates for any one office. The only reference to the recall in the charter is the follow pg; The initiative, referendum and recall shall be" exercised within the City of Portland in the manner provided by the constitution and general laws of the state and ordi nances of the City of Portland .enaeted In pursuance thereof. There are no general statutes gov erning aeoall elections, the constitu tlon being the only guide in state reeall elections. Nor ar there any ordinances of the City of Portland specifically providing how the recall shall be exereised in the city, other than the section applying to special elections. As te the manner of electing candi dates in recall elections the constitu tiop says; Other candidates for the office may he nominated to he voted tor at said election. The candidate wbo shall receive the highest pumher of votes shall he deemed elected fo tha remainder af the term, whether it b the person against whom the recall petition was tiled or anotner. The words "highest number of votes" would in the absence of any Other provision seem to make a plur ality vote conclusive jn recall elections and therefore bar the preferential system. But in the same election tha the reeall amendment was adopted the voters approved another amend pient which contains the followjn clauses: oter3 direct or Indirect expression of his first, second or additional choices among the candidates for any office. For an of fice which is filled by the election of one person it may be required by law that the pcrso.i elected shall e the final choice of majority of electors voting for candidates for that office. The Supreme Court, in -construing the home rule amendment, has held that cities are self-controlled in all matters not prohibited by the consti tution or criminal law. The City of Portland has provided for a preferen tial plan in special elections, the con stitution authorizes the enactment by law of such a system and it also gives cities home rule, and a recall election is a special election. The Oregonlan is able to discern but one doubtful point in the matter. That is the question whether the re call amendment and the one authoriz ing preferential voting are sufficiently in conflict to' come within the purview of still another amendment which provides that when conflicting meas ures are adopted the one receiving the highest number of affirmative votes hall prevail as to all points in con flict. In point of actual conflict the recall amendment would prevail, for received the highest affirmative vote i tne two. out it seems to us tnai me recall amendment is not so definite in requiring the plurality election system as to .be actually antagonistic to the amendment authorizing adoption of the preferential system. The Oregonlan believes that the use of th preferential system' is required by law in. recall elections in Portland. MCBICAX FESTIVALS. Every year along toward Fall New England blossoms out into musical festivals. Worcester Is perhaps the oldest of them and certainly one of the best. Portland and Bangor, Maine, will have- theirs before a great while. The Edward Macdowell fes tival in New Hampshire took place nly a little while ago. The signifi cance of these affairs is plain enough They show that the people of the New England towns have ceased to depend ntirely upon the big cities for their music. They have developed the energy and "gumption" to produce it for themselves at home. There Is no reason in the world why a place as large as Portland or Seattle - should not have its local school of musicians and composers. There is talent enough for the pur pose in every city of a hundred thou sand population. What is lacking is initiative, leadership and a fair de gree of courage. Of course it requires little boldness to break the bonds of artistic slavery to the great cen ters and do something independently, but that is the only way to generate a real musical life. Portland, which is full of. good musicians, ought to set the example to the other Coast cities in this par ticular. The "municipal sing" which was held a few weeks ago was a step n the right direction, but unhappily was not followed up. One "sing" amounts to' very little. There ought to be a series and they should be held at some central place like the street before the postoffice. It will hurt nobody to stand up while the exercise is going on. From public singing the advance to the public per formance of local compositions would be easy and natural and before we fairly realize it we should find our- serves with a live school of working musicians. About two-thirds of the voters reg istered in Multnomah are Republic ans. The remainder includes every thing opposed. This is a comforting majority upon which to figure returns, and explains the hysteria in certain quarters. -.... The rate at which Europe is buy ing food and war supplies from the United States may soon cancel 'our obligations and render the proposed gold shipments unnecessary. . Extension of their wings by the allies is alU very well, provided they have enough forces to cover the ground without leaving any weak spots in their long line. When Boers mob a former leader who opposes military aid to Great Britain, their sentiments must have undergone a reat change within a dozen years. Portland is In the first division of deposits in postal savings banks, be ing exceeded by the only great cities New York, Chicago, Boston and Brooklyn. With .approach of Winter weather and bad traveling, the man who yearns for an automobile can buy a bargain piano and trade it in the Spring. Charles of Roumania is a trans planted German and naturally -1be-longs with the Kaiser. If his people do net, that is his misfortune, net theirs. - ' . The Czar and the Kaiser are has tening to the front, but it is a sure thing they will omit the embrace should they meet. The best boost for Oregon is a dis play- of its' products such as will be made at the Manufacturers' and Land Products Show. Germany is reported to be rushing construction of fifty submarines, al though the TJ9 seems to be-all that Is needed. The perfect baby in Western Wash ington is a -girl, of course, and in a score of years she will be a perfect lady. Ashland is a great station as the hobo highway and will install a mu nicipal woodpile as an accelerator, " The allies to the south will see to It that the pennant does not cross the north line of the state. The foundries. In the European monarchies are busy making decora tions as well as big guns. France has been spending 27,000,000 a day and has a satisfying balance upon which to draw. Perhaps there is explanation in the fact that this is football weather, not baseball. .Mines have done more damage to ships of peace than to ships of war so far. Senator Turner missed the bird but cinched the trap. The next big event will be the Iand ROCKY BtTTB IS NATURAL PARK "Writer, F"iianored of view. Hakes Sva- grcatioa mad Prophecy. , PORTLAND, Oct. S. (To the Editor.) Rocky Butte is an elevation situated but a short way from the limits of Portland say five miles northeast from the poatofflce and a recent sun rise climb to its summit Inspires the undersigned to venture a suggestion and a prophecy, prefaced by a random observation or two. At that unhallowed hour of deathlike quiet, vast billows of dark-gray fog listlessly surged and heaved in all di rections, and the sun's first peep ap peared to be the sisnal for sounds of a greneral uncanny roaring, which arose out of the misty depths, every whit like unto the noise the ocean makes and verily the butte seemed to rock. True to his sea-faring instinct, the writer's diseBtlve apparatus waxed wobbly. Besides, who could tell but what his good ship would strike its bow against Mount Hood or some other adjacent iceberg, and founder in a million fathoms of frost-bitten vapor! Happily, this wooilnesa was to be but for a moment. The sun. full-orbed, began sending westward one golden life-preserver after another, and the "storm-toased" mariner, with his stom ach getting back to normal and his grave apprehensions now nil, very soon feasted bis eyes upon a scene of widely different proportions. His play-ocean was going, going, gone. Naught but its "bottom" remained and that "bot tom" consisted of a panorama of cities, towns and farms; of rivers, mountains and forests; of steamboats, trains and streetcars (the two latter readily accounting for the aforemen tioned roaring as their hundreds of wheels bore human cargoes to a wak ing metropolis). Here was a sublime vision. And here the suggestion and the prophecy. Rocky Butte, with its two miles of crags, crevices and cliffs: its caves and its rugged sides; - ita nooks, crannies and fissures, naturally and logically form a parkslte which Portland's vast population of outdoor lovers will not long suffer to be regarded as but railroad company's rockpile. Nor will they close their eyes to this long-neg lected angle from which may be viewed at its best our unmatched scenery. Portland and Vancouver, from there, seem as one. The homes on Willamette Heights, Kings Heights and Portland Heights appear as so many sun-kissed bowers and groves of phantasmagoric loveliness. Nearer, and approaching almost the butte's base, are beautiful suburban districts evidencing prosper ous times in no uncertain way. Be tween this point and Mount Tabor lies Montavilla, which, with the advent of the Mount Hood Railway, is rapidly ex tending its boundaries eastward. Just below, on the other side, are the Park rose acres, where the back-to-the-oll idea is splendidly emulated. Farther out are small towns and groups of houses, stores, etc., with farms large and small. Out there is an empire, wherein the nucleus is being formed of a still greater Portland a Portland with a million inhabitants. Twenty, thirty or fifty years hence will see Gresham and Troutdale in the city limits; and it doesn't need a real estate agent to fig ure out that the land intervening a little of what is left for the shade of Horace Greeley to admonish young men to hurry West and acquire is not going to diminish in value meanwhile a single 5 cents' worth. Our revered fathers hadn't time to look up astrologists nor palm-readers; they could but confine their activities to trail-blazing and foundation-laying. The legacy of brawn and brain which they left us should prompt us to look well to what's coming to us and to our children. Horoscopes and astrology, abetted by topographical conditions un beaten and unbeatable, portend a rosl ness which we are not, generally speaking, beginning to dream about. It is up to us to build not alone for a glorious today.- but for a far more glorious tomorrow. Otherwise we'll presently be thinking what Bill Nye thought about hisancen tor8 when the latter "passed up" Wall Street lots, selling at $4 6 per. ERNEST STEWART. WHY MORE INEFFECTIVE I.AWSf Prohibitive Aet Weald Nat Reach Dishonest Medlumst Says Writer, PORTLAND, Oct. 5. (To the Editor.) In The Oregonian. October 3, I notice that License Collector Hutchinson pro poses the total prohibition of private readings by mediums, etc. As a lover of fair play and Justice I wish to protest, although I am neither a spiri tualist nor a medium. If the law being violated in such a way that the executive department of our city can not convict for such violations, how can they prevent the violation of a prohibitive aw,B!and why go further with law making? A disreputable medium will carry on his business of defrauding just the same and will escape conviction as he otherwise does. Furthermore ouch an amendment would afreet only the con scientious, sincere, honorable men and women who are thus gifted and there by are able to give mental and spiri tual assistance and help to people who are In distress and trouble, who know not which way to turn, I per sonally know of such, who possess re markable clairvoyant power and whose readings are marvelous for ex actness and truthfulness. Jesus himself was a remarkable and most wonderful clairvoyant, telling wo men how many husbands they had had. calling people by name whom he had never met, tailing nis disciples where to find an ass colt, where to find a pre pared upper room, ete. However, a disreputable and dis honest medium should be punished and put out of business, but there are so many other, sinners that the law of our- city pays no attention to. Graft ers on every hand, robbing people right and left of their hard-earned dollars. Why strain at a gnat and swallow a camel? Why constantly molest the worthy spiritualist. In order to catch the uncatchable. dishonest medium? PERRY JOSEPH GREEN. SPECULATIONS ARB NOT LOGICAL Pate rro1nce a Spells of War Not Consistently Artrned, PORTLAND, Or,, Oct. (To the Editor.)-May I be permitted to express my appreciation of your editorial en titled "Germany's Future." Such an editorial is much more calculated to do good than the utterly Illogical out pourings of some of our newspapers. . Colonel Watterson must feel rather at home in the business ot dismember ing a nation he tried hard enough to break up ours. And his present ef forts will be worth as much as his former efforts were. As te Maeterlinck, his bitterness is pardonable, though it smacks of the impotency of a man prematurely old. But I beg to suggest that if the peo- sple in the' disputed territories are to decide the question Schleswig-Holstein will not vote to go with Denmark, Their incorporation into Denmark caused all the trouble before. If the provinces are to be divided linguistically, Alsace will have a poor show, for the average Alsatian is not on familiar terms, with "la Belle Langue," and never has been. Nor do the' people of Schleswig-Holstein, ex cept in the extreme northwest, speak Danish. And how, about the German. speaaing provinces or rtussia? c w. a. Parable ef Gray lfatr. Atchison Globe. Women are always disappointed if a man's hair doesn't turn gray 24 hours Half a Century Ago. From The Oregonlan of October 6. 18G-4. Heretofore Oregon has been tributary to California. Development within the last few recent years however of the territory within our state and that east and north of us. now turns the tables. From this on we intend to show Cali fornia and the world that Oregon is a state worthy of the Nation and second to none in resources, pecuniary or otherwise. The last shipment of Oregon apples received at San Francisco are quoted at sales by the box from $1.25 to $1.75. While the State Fair stands as an utter failure in many respects and is Justly pronounced by persons the most Interested as almost a nuisance, at least ao far aa lta management and general direction are concerned, there are some creditable features and the show of horse stock, mules, jacks, eto.. was interesting and attractive and fully commending itself to the attention of stockrai8ers. Congress has decided, says the Balti more American, that none of the states which have been formally declared in Insurrection shall vote for President until readmitted into the Union. The states thus excluded from participation In the approaching Presidential election re Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina. Georgia. Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana. Florida. Arkan sas and Texas. Our next President and Vice-President therefore are to be chosen by 26 states with a total num ber of electors of 236, of which 11 are necessary to elect- A bill is up before the House at Sa lem for appropriating from $200 to 1500 for W. C Johnson, for extra service rendered the state as prosecuting at torney. Representative Underwood has made a motion to postpone indefinitely the consideration of the bill. There 1; considerable opposition to the appro priation. ' William Wilka and Mrs. Sarah Rowan were married by G. B. Gray, squire, October 4. - Below will be found the names of gentlemen who have voluntarily con cluded to throw themselves away in the approaching contest for President of the United States. They have leased a pleasant room on Front street in the block with Arrigoni's hotel, and seem determined to die their political deaths as soon as possible. The name given their association is "The McClellan Club." The general officers are: Li. F. Grover, president; T. J. Holmes, E. W. Tracy, William Strong, H. C. Leonard, vice-presidents; Shubrlck Norris, secre tary; A C. Ripley, treasurer; Lansing Stout, W. W. Page, A B. Hallock. S. Norris, and S. Pennoyer, executive com mittee. The frequent receipt of "watered" molasses in this market from Califor nia has at length called for action and several hundred kegs of the stuff have been collected to 'be sent back where it belongs. . . United States checks on which the name of Captain George H. Bllott has been forged, have met with sale in this city. A large amount has already been repudiated at Cape Disappointment. Colonel MeCraken has again re sumed the manufacture of salt at the Union Salt Works, this city. Local Option Not Involved. ONTARIO, Or., Oct. 3 (To the Edi tor.) Should Oregon go wet and a county or precinct go dry, would it close the saloons in the county or pre cinct? A SUBSCRIBER. No, unless the county or precinct should vote dry In a local option elec tion hefd on the day of the general election. The proposed prohibition law Is a constitutional amendment sub mitted by Initiative, not a state-wide local option proposal. Foreign Ministers) Named. ROSEBURG. Or., Oct. 3. (To the Editor.)-Who are the representatives of Argentina and Chile for the Ameri can people? HERBERT HOWARD. John W. Garrett is the American minister to Argentina and Henry P. Fletcher to Chile. Argentina's min ister to the United States is Romulo S. Naon; Chile's is Don Edwardo Suarez. The Mound Builders By Dean Collins. And certain seas To view th savants sailed o'er the works of the vanished races And dig up certain antiquities And rifle the ancient burial places. They wrote long theses and lectures gave. Saying: "Our studies, thorough and grave. Show that the mound-builders, in their place, ' Were a gentle, but very uncivilized race. V "A modicum of advancement, true. Is shown in their pottery - we . have found. And raally there's ingenuity to The methods they used in building a mound; But elementary quite, remained The civilization that they attained. Unlike the advancement men display In civilized races of today," The mound-builders slept in their crypts of olay, With their pottery-ware and flint- stone knives. And rounded and soft, o'er the country lay The mounds they had bullded in their lives; And ever the sea Mars' Angers bloody Dragged all the savants from book and study. To shoulder their rifles and take their places, And lay by their research on vanished races. And ghosts of the mound-builders from the sky ' GFzed. as the planets went their rounds. And marveled to see all Europe lie In the reek and stench of carrion " mounds; For the arts they knew and the mounds they reared So simple and old and strange appeared, To the red mounds raised on the shell- torn places By men of the modern and civilized . races. Relics of Childhood. Only a while ago, our boys were play ing at "soldiers," Fighting for home and country, bear ing their toy flags high Shrilly the bugles sounded calling their men to action. Armies of heroes always, ready to conquer or die. Sounding reveille promptly, soldiers to waken from dreaming, Straight for the enemy's fortress, never a thought of retreat. Timing their martial music to rythra of pattering footsteps. Storming the garrison bravely, crush ing the foes defeat. Somewhere a mother is weeping over thosA rhildlRh wpAOont Knowing her boy has fallen, his country's honor to save Pity, immortal, heed her, clasping his boyish playthings. May God's good angel keep sentry over his unmarked grave. JUANITA PENROSE. Portland, Or, Twenty-Five Years Ago From The v Oregonlan October 3, 1SS9. Syracuse, N. Y. The state Demo cratic convention opened this morning. All allusion to ex-President. Cleveland evoked long cheering. President Har rison was arraigned for having removed "hundreds ot honest and capable of ficers before their terms expired in vio lation of his ante-election pledge." Washington Secretary Proctor hts received a letter from Governor Fowler objecting In very decisive language to the transfer of Chief Geromino and his band of Apache Indians to North Caro lina. Olympia Washington has gone Re publican by many thousands. The con stitution has won, woman suffrage and prohibition have been snowed under and Olympia has a lead for the location of the CapitoL It was a. cold day for the Democrats. A heavy vote was polled. St. Paul The States of North and South Dakota have gone Republican and there seems to be some question as to party supremacy in Montana. A di vided ticket is probable in Montana with both Republicans and Democrats claiming advantage. The prohibition clause seems to have carried in South Dakota, but in North Dakota the out come is in doubt. , Hoquiam -Judge Holcomb, one of the most progressive businessmen of the country, having sold out his interest here has gone to South Bend on Willapa Harbor, where he and his partners will enter business. Llnkville, Or. General Miles it at present hunting en the Upper Klamath marsh. The object of his visit te this country, it is understood, is in con nection with the abandonment of Fort Klamath. Ida Case Watson has written a com munication to The Oregonian, which is published today, calling attention to the need of brief lectures preceding the comprehensive composition on . Signor Liberati'a programme, at the exposi tion, so that those who "listen" and also those who "listen tnd hear" might have an equal chance at understanding th elaborate music. Elisha L. Applcgate has been named Oregon agent for the Indians t the Klamath agency, Oregon. The New York Sun says a man from the West, in "voicing his observation of the Bar Harbor Summer girls' flirta tions says they are delivered in "sledge, hammer fashion." In telling about it this man from the West says: "Nevar go near Bar Harbor. A girl there will marry you out of hand, and say yes for you at the altar, before you have an opportunity for more than a bowing acquaintance with her." 6an Francisco "The Canuck," McKee Rankin's new play, was presented for the first time at the Alcazar Theater last night. "William Lahbe, who keeps a grocery store on the Heights, had a sad experi ence the other night. He suspended some butter down the well to keep it cool; the butter dropped into the water and Mr. Labbe started to lower him self Into the well after the butter, using the rope. He slipped down faster than he supposed he would and his neighbors rescued him, a wetter and a madder man. The O. R. & N. Company will start a boat on the Salem route tomorrow. THE FEMAIB OF THE SPECIES IS THE UPLIFT OF THE MALE. (In answer to Rudysrd Kipling's Poem. 'The Female of the Species.") Ever since the time of Adam, When evir first began. God's noblest masterpiece was called The tempter of the man. But man; the willing victim, Ever ready for her call. Would turn his back to virtue And down to hell would fall: And then returning from the pit. He leaves the woman there. For the female of the species. Is the only one to care. Who bears her cross of sorrow. The burden of his shame. Whose pallid cheeks and timid Hps, Are last to cast the blame? When all the world turns from him. Who is the last to damn? Tls the female of the species. The uplift of the man. Her counsel has been ever sought- By peasant. Prince and King. And in the future as the past. Her praise will ever ring. She points the way to manhood. She leads in all that s right; And in the future years to come. The world will know her might. So build your marble monument , To honor, love ana tame; And on its scroll in purest gold. You U carve the woman s name. Deprive the man of woman. He's a ship without .v sail; For the "female pf the spactes'V.' Is essential to the male. Search through history's pages In the long forgotten past. And you'll find the name of woman Where'er man's lot is cast. You will find her as a helpmate. And a willing worker, too. You will find she bears the burden Of the sins that man should rue. X Though man has been the tempter. And oft proved himself a beast. Yet upon her breast. In patient rest. His sorrows find surcease. - The architect of manhood, . The builder with her plan, . "The female of the species" Is the maker of the man. AH honor give to Kipling, To Hall Caine and the rest, , But when a man seeks eomfort Then woman is his quest. HARRY L. RICHARDSON. Steps to Secure Conyrta-nt. PORTLAND, Oct-x 6. (To the Edi tor.) Please inform me how to take out a copyright, READER. Steps necessary to secure copyright registration vary with the character of the subject matter, and a general question of this kind cannot be answered heae because of space limi tations. Consult page 672 of the 1914 World Almanac at Publlo Library or write to Register of Copyrights, Wash ington. D. C, for form for applica tion, stating character of subject matter. "Sell America First" Not a bad way to paraphrase that slogan "See America First." Sell America First. Introduce our own goods to our own people. Fill in the gap made by loss of imports. Keep our own mills busy, keep our own people at work. Europe and South America will be greater markets than ever for our surplus. Prosperity is headed our way! Help him get here. Sell America first and when you" buy favor American-made products. Moon accepted it and it waj adopted. The imaginative men baek Pf it doubt Provision may b rosde by- law for tne Show. after hts Wife becomes m. e i