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10 THE MORNTXCr OREGOXIAT. THUHSDAT, OCTOBER 29. 1914. POKTLAjri, OKEOOK. Entered at Portland, Orsson. Fostofflee Second-class matter. Subscription itu Invariably in Advance: (By Mall.) Sally. Sunday included, ana year IJally. Sunday included, six months Daily, gunday included, three month .. Xally, Sunday included, one month bally, without Sunday, one year -- Dally, without Sunday, six months J-'s Jjally, without Sunday, three months Dally, without Sunday, one month -YY Weekly one year -- J-" Sunday, one year Sunday and Weekly, one year (By Carrier.) Eally, Sunday included, one year 8-?. ally. Sunday included, one month, . .... How to Uemlt Send Postottlce money or der, express order or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, ooln or currency axe at sender's risk. Qlve postofflce address In luu. Including county and state. Poetare Hut re 13 to IS paces. 1 cent: 18 to 82 pages, 2 cents; 84 to 4s pages. 8 cents, SO to 80 pages, 4 cents; oil to Jo pages, cents; 78 to 2 pages, S cents. Foreign post age, double rates. . Eastern Business Offices Verree Conk tin. Jiw York. Brunswick building- Chi cago, stenger building. baa Fraaeiaeo Office R. j. Bldwell Co.. 4ii Market street. I'OKTLAXD, T1IIKSOAV, OCT., 89, 1914. i VOIR BREAD AXD BUTTER. The address of Robert A. Booth to the voters of Oregon. Is worthy of their careful consideration. In the election next Tuesday the voters are to decide which policy is best for their own interests that represented by Mr. Booth "" or that represented by Senator'Chamberlaln. The people de sire to send a Senator to Washington who shall support those measures which best promote the prosperity of Oregon, and of the Union of which this state is a member. It is a ques tion not of personality but of broad general policy. Mr. Booth has per sistently refused to indulge in person alities; he has confined his discussion to policies, turning aside to personal ities only when compelled by attacks on his own integrity. Mr. Booth, shows in his address that the one great question which most intimately concerns the prosper ity of every citizen of Oregon is the tariff. That is the chief issue in con troversy between the Republican and Democratic parties, as it has been al most since the founding of the re public. Mr. Booth points to the out standing fact that during the last fifty years Republican rule has, al most without exception, coincided with National prosperity, and that Democratic rula has coincided with National adversity. During these fifty years the Nation has grown in wealth, development and population at a pace which has' astonished the world, but with two striking interrup tions. Both of these Interruptions have come at periods when the Democrats were In full control of the Government. The conclusion is irre sistible that these coincidences of Democratic rule with business and industrial depression were cause and effect. By what means did this cause produce this disastrous effect? The facts prove that the means were abandonment of the Republican policy of a protective tariff and sub stitution of the Democratic policy of ai tariff ostensibly for revenue only, tljsugh experience has proved the re- Bit to be a deficit. On both occa sions when the Democrats were given the power, they threw open the Amer ican market to foreign nations and admitted a flood of goods made by people who. receive much lower wages and have a far lower standard of living than we in this country. They Imposed upon us the necessity of low ering our standard of living to that adopted by other nations. The only way of escape from this course, If we were to persist in the Democratic pol icy, would be that we should under take the herculean and seemingly im possible task of raising the foreign standards to our level. The Republican policy is to reserve the American market for the Ameri can producer of every commodity which this country can produce, ad mitting without restriction only those commodities which this country not only does not but cannot produce in sufficient quantity. The Republican party holds that by promoting the prosperity of the American farmer, manufacturer, miner, stockgrower and all other industries, this Nation will also promote the prosperity of its wage-earners, transportation lines and professional men. Mr. Booth shows how this result is brought about and brings the fact right home to us when he says: " It does not butld up our state to have corn come from Manchuria or poultry from China, meat from Australia, butter from New Zealand or paper from Japan. It builds up the country producing these articles of commerce. There the labor will be em ployed; there the mills will be busy; there the stores will multiply and the banks grow. Remember that the money we send to foreign countries for food and other sup plies does not come back to the United Elates. If a farmer sells butter he spends the price for merchandise; the merchant uses this to help pay rent, thus benefiting the landlord; it helps puy the clerks in the atore and in turn the clerks and landlord spend the money, their share of the price of the butter. The money is kept in motion In this country and all are more or less bene fited. In short, the Republican party pro poses to put in practice the motto: "All for each and each for all." The protective policy as proposed ly Mr. Booth does not mean a return to the Payne-Aldrich or the DIngley tariff with their duties raised to ex orbitant figures and rendered unequal ana oppressive by log-rolling, pork barrel methods. He insists that the tariff be taken out of politics. What this country, needs is the definite, final, irrevocable adoption of a Na tional policy of rational, scientific protection of its own industries and development of its own resources. In order that the adoption of the protec tive policy at the impending- election and at that of 1916 may not be fol lowed by reversal and by a constant seesaw between conflicting policies and with consequent disturbance of the fundamental conditions of busi ness, but may be as irrevocable as the British adoption of free trade has been, the Republican party has turned Its back finally on the old. discredited methods of tariff-framing. Ever since 1809 it has been committed to the policy of revision schedule by sched ule on the basis of facts ascertained by a permanent, non-partisan com mission. That commission would en able Congress to determine with fair accuracy the comparative cost of producing each commodity in this country and in other countries, which the Republican party In 190S declared the correct measure of protection. Such a commission was established In 3 909, and its usefulness was enlarged in 1910. It submitted reports which would have formed the basis of ra tional revision of some schedules, but the Democrats no sooner gained con trol of the House than they flung the commission's work in the waste bas ket and returned to the old log-roll- ing methods or tariff revision. It Is the purpose of the rejuvenated Re publican party to re-establish the commission. The tariff can then be revised in such fashion that it will not be open to the criticism which protectionists as well as revenue tariff men have leveled at former Republi can tariffs. A tariff thus framed can stand for many years with only such partial revision as to details from time to time as changed conditions dictate. We need a protective tariff not only to maintain our established indus tries, but to promote the development of new industries from resources which, are now untouched or wasted. The European war has demonstrated this need. The supply of dyes for our textile mills and of cyanide for our gold mines has been drawn from Ger many. Owing to the blockade of Ger man ports, this supply was cut off until our diplomats arranged for a cargo to come through Holland. It is contrary to sound National policy that we should leave, any of our in dustries dependent on the peace of any other Nation. We have within our own borders the raw material for supply of almost all our needs, and our tariff policy should aim to develop these resources and to render us in different, so far as our industries are concerned, to the quarrels of other Nations. t Oregon needs, in order to forward this policy at Washington, a man who , has made a success in his own business and who has thereby proved his capacity to conduct the state's and the Nation's business. Such a man is Mr. Booth. Oregon needs a Senator who is familiar with its resources and who has learned by experience the best, means of promoting their devel opment. Mr. Booth has learned by building up a great industry. What ever fortune he has accumulated has been built by spreading prosperity among the many with whom he has had dealings, not by impoverishing others. He has gathered only to scat ter again, for he has been a liberal giver to every good cause. His views are as broad as the breadth of his state, and every industry and every interest come within the range of his mental vision. The best answer to his detractors is the fact that those who know him best are his warmest advocates. Having spread prosperity wherever he has engaged In business, he can safely be chosen as one of the men who will redeem the state from the Democratic Slough of Despond and bring back prosperity. ANOTHER DRY IJETTER. " The Oregonian made an appeal yes. terday to the Anti-Saloon League of Oregon to release for publication the leti.er written by Senator Chamberlain pledging himself, with certain Cljam berlainesque reservations, to the cause of National prohibition. But, sad to say, there has been no response. We are thus to understand that the League is willing to leave the Senator In an equivocal position, so far as the public is concerned, but to keep among its . secret treasures, for its own exclusive information, the actual knowledge of what the Senator will do, or rather, has promised to do, in this great matter. But there are no such restraints upon The Oregonian. It has a duty to give the public exact information upon all Interesting or pertinent sub jects, and it is glad to say that it is in position to clear up all possible mystery as to the Chamberlain atti tude on prohibition. We therefore submit the following letter: U. S. Senate, Washington. May 8. 1914. Miss Rose Bowman, Secretary, Baker, Or. My Dear Miss owman: I beg to acknowledge the receipt of a night letter of yesterday's date, signed by other officials of the Baker W. C. T. U. with you, asking my assistance in se curing the passage of the Hobson resolution for National prohibition. In reply permit me to assure you that It will afford me pleasure to do all I can to assist in this matter. You will find that my record in the Senate for the past five years shows that I have alwai's voted on the right side of these great moral questions. i have the honor to remain. Yours very sincerely, GEORGE E. CHAMBERLAIN. if the Bowman letter is not authen tic though we have the authority of the Baker City Democrat, a Chamber lain supporter, that it is we shall be glad to be set right by the Senator. THE RECALL. Portland has administered a decid ed rebuke to the recallers. A great stigma has been1 avoided. The world may now knoyi4$fat the citizens of Portland do neTield readily, or at all, to any whimsical impulse of dis satisfaction or discontent with public officials or public policies, and that they are not ready upon demand to deliver the city over to the newest or noisiest band of agitators and med dlers who may desire to control its affairs. The City Commission will not soon be worried by another recall. Now let the Commissioners, duly mindful of their duties and responsibilities, go ahead with their work. Ol'R GERMAN-SPEAKING FRIENDS. There was conspicuously printed. the other day, in the Portland Jour nal,, a political article to the effect that the Society of German-Speaking People of Washington County, at a meeting held at Cornelius, had In dorsed Dr. Smith for Governor, George Chamberlain for Senator and other Democrats. Emphasis was laid on the fact that the society has 600 members, and a photograph of its president, Fred Bulling, was printed no doubt to add an air of verisimil itude to the tale. For the tale was false throughout. It had no single fact in its entire content pertinent to the Smith-Chamberlain fabrication. The recent indorsements by the Confederated German Societies of Oregon of many candidates (all Re publican except Mr. Hanley) have made a mighty stir among the Demo crats and "independents." Now here Is Mr. URen involved in a scheme to get some Clackamas County German Americans (we apologize for the hy phenated patronymic) to repudiate the indorsement of Mr. Withycombe and- to take up Mr. URen. Mr. Withycombe was to be opposed be cause he was said to be a "pro hibitionist" and he has "openly sympathized with England" In the present war. The fact that Mr. URen is a prohibitionist was conven iently ignored. Mr. Withycombe has declined pub licly to take any part in the prohibi tion issue, and he has said nothing anywhere about the foreign war. He has lived forty-three years in the United States and is an American in sympathy, in practice and In outlook. He is wholly satisfactory to the Americans of German birth or ancestry, and they have said so- by their open approval of his candidacy. The German-speaking societies have given an admirable demonstra tion of their complete Americanism i by their Indorsement of Mr. Wlthy- combe. Only Mr. TTRen and his friends are so disloyal as to seek to introduce antt-American antagonisms into the present campaign. SELF-PITY. "I regret," said Senator Chamber lain at Corvallis, "that this is a cam paign of vituperation and abuse, not so much for myself, but that the abuse has also been directed toward my friends in hope of injuring me through them." At other places the Senator has shed crocodile tears over -the fact that he had been attacked, and" he chal lenges his enemies to point to a sin gle dishonest act in his entire career. The Senator's sympathy for himself is touching. His personal character has not been impeached by The Ore gonian, nor by anyone else, so far as The Oregonian has seen. If the Sen ator will point out any statement made by The Oregonian assailing his personal integrity, it will be forthwith withdrawn, and due apology made. We haven't any doubt that he is the honestest man in Oregon, with a sin gle exception. Everybody knows, of course, that the only honest man (ex cept Chamberlain) was and is Oswald West. All the dirt and mud thrown in the present campaign has been by Gover nor West, the Evening Journal and the Democratic cuckoo chorus. Why didn't the Senator stop them? Or couldn't he? Did he try? But he may possibly have an op portunity to show that he does not approve their methods. If he shall be re-elected, he ought to refuse to accept an election gained by lying misrepresentation and scandalous defamation of his principal opponent, Mr. Booth. His title will be tainted. "PUT NONE BUT 1FLM OCKATS ON GUARD." The President of the United States has now written a letter indorsing Judge Black, Democratic candidate for United States Senator, in the State of Washington. He has similarly in dorsed other candidates, all Demo crats, among them our own Senator Chamberlain. For him the President said merely that he had "rendered conspicuous services to his party," and that the "maintenance of a Dem ocratic majority in the Senate Is of the utmost importance." . All the Cabinet officials (except Lane) are runniner around ths coun try appealing to the voters to elect a ) Democratic Congress, and particular ly to re-elect certain faithful Demo cratic Senators and Representatives. None but the President and Secre tary Lane are now on the job at Washington. Even Bryan has for saken his beloved Chautauqua. It ought to be ob-"lous to all the people that this is a supreme display of partisanship on the part of the Administration. No other but a Dem ocrat has been rubber-stamped O. K. by the President not La Follette, nor Poindexter, nor Clapp, nor Murdock, nor any other whatsoever. Yet he has appealed to them as in the Mex ican War crisis and the currency leg islation to forget partisanship; and they have forgotten it. The people of the United States are to learn, more and more to their cost, that it is a Democratic Ad ministration, headed by a Democratic President, with a Congress controlled by a Southern oligarchy. H EARING FROM THE DOCTORS. Tour doctor in- politics sadly messes up any situation. This remark does not refer to Dr. Smith, who is an old line practitioner, and a good one; nor to Dr. Withycombe, who was former ly a veterinarian, and a good one; but it refers to that little group of doc tors who are sending out letters to the profession complaining of attacks said to have been made on Dr. Smith because he is an honored member of the medical profession. They ask the doctors to line up for their fellow doctor (Smith) in order no doubt to show the world at large how the members of a noble calling are able to stand together. The appeal by the doctors to the doctors for the doctor is inspired sole ly by a determination to have a doc tor for Governor. They "are particu lar to define exactly the kind of a doctor they want, for they proscribe Dr. Withycombe, who is a qualified practitioner, and who, besides, has a range of information and experience on broad educational lines not ex celled, and possibly not equaled, by any other professional man in Oregon. As between the doctors, the state is going to stand by Dr. Withycombe. He has no prejudices for or against the other doctors, nor for or against any class which seeks to live and die without doctors. DANGER IN SOUTHERN CONTROL. Senator Lodge has signalized his reappearance on the platform after a long illness by showing the danger of unsound finance to which Southern control of Congress exposes the coun try. Referring to the Southern pro posal that the Government Issue $250,000,000 in bonds and lend the proceeds to the cotton-growers in or der to enable them to carry -their crop, "which seemed to be momen tarily unsalable at such a profit as they ask," Mr. Lodge said: If the South is entitled to any such aid from the Government, then so is the West ern farmer entitled to have his wheat crop carried along for hlra or the Eastern manufacturer entitled to have his cotton or woollen goods or his boots and shoes, car ried along for him until he can sell them at the profit which he desires. If one Is entitled to it so are the others, but it would be folly to convert, and it was folly to attempt to convert this great Government into a huge speculator. There could be only one end to such an under taking National bankruptcy. Mr. Lodge gave the Northern Dem ocrats credit for aiding defeat of this measure, but he added: It indicated the wishes and Interests of the people who have been dominant in making your tariff and your banking and your anti-trust bill for you. He went on to condemn the scheme, which has been put forward by Pres ident Wilson, for Government pur chase of the ships of belligerent na tions which are tied up in our ports. These schemes Illustrate the prone ness of the Democratic party to reck less finance and its decided leaning toward Socialism. That party has unbounded confidence in the capacity of the Government to do everything to operate railroads, telegraphs, tele phones, steamships and banks and to manufacture money. The Govern ment has demonstrated inefficiency in a greater or less degree, in operat ing the Postoffice, in improving rivers and harbors, in reclaiming arid land, in managing the National forests. Its one success was the construction of the Panama Canal, but this was due to the fact that, for once in Its life. Congress handed over the Job to one man with unlimited power and with ample funds. It has wasted money and done a poor job in almost every other field of business it has invaded. In Its anxiety to relieve the stress caused by the war, it has gone to the limit of safety in relaxing restrictions on the issue of currency. The event has proved that there was not even the excuse .of necessity for the cotton bond scheme. Through the efforts of the State Department the way has been cleared for resump tion of cotton exports to all belliger ent countries, and the Federal Re serve Board, without any additional lglslation, has worked out a perfectly safe and feasible plan for making loans on the cotton crop. The bond scheme emanated from the brains of those men who Imagine that the Gov ernment Is omnipotent and is bound to fly to the aid of every distressed interest, without considering whether aid Is really needed or can be ren dered by private agencies. The dominant element in Congress Is Inspired by a sectional as distin guished from a National patriotism. It is deeply infected with the finan cial heresies of the Greenback and Populist days, and it lacks the sound statesmanship and sound financial views which are essential in these times. The Nation will not be safe from committal to harebrained schemes so long as the Bourbons control. The new water measure looks a trifle "skeery" to landlords. If all tenants were honest there would be no difficulty,- but a few are not, and a big water bill bequeathed by a van ished "dead beat" Is not a reassuring prospect. No doubt rents will rise somewhat to console the worried property-owners. If Kansas decides to honor publicly her citizens who promote good civic policies she will set a noble and orig inal example for the rest of the Union. Too often men who live to do good are persecuted while alive and honored only when they are dead. A change will be interesting. One tragic consequence of the war is the collapse of Zionism, the move ment to gather the Jews at Jerusa lem. Efforts in the cause have ceased for want of money. The great donors who promoted it see other uses for their means nowadays. Captain John Jacob Astor has given evidence of his sincerity in renounc ing his country by being wounded in battle. We can admire his courage, but not his choice in ceasing to be an American in order to become an Englishman. The French are accredited from Berlin with the loss of another 40,000 at Toul and Verdun. That leaves about nine survivors in the French army, if all the Berlin casualty re ports are true. Christian men and women will agree with Judge McGinn In the ef fort to make a useful citizen of the man guilty of a first offense. This course is, indeed, tempering justice with mercy. November 3 Is set apart by Gover nor West as a day to boost Oregon. Everybody 11 be doing it on that day. Governor. Everybody, we repeat, and in a way that is going to surprise you. Naturally all that the Rockefellers had to do with the steel trust was to own stock and draw dividends. They were dummy directors, as they iwere in the Standard Oil Company. Ex-King Manuel offers his services in the event Portugal joins in the fight. But he appears to have waited until all likelihood of Portugal's par ticipation had passed. The fighting appears to have shift ed from Frzemysl to Yser. - As soon as it shifts to some point we can pro nounce we agree to resume active in terest in the war. President Wilson Is a trifle awry in one spot in his proclamation. The "peace, with honor" recalls the salute to the flag demanded of Huerta and not given. Real slngle-taxers declare the $1500 exemption is "one ofURen's schemes" and not single tax, which is a fine-haired difference without dis tinction. Expenses of another recall election must be met by the recallers. Which gives assurance that there will be no more, at least not without some cause. More Chinese eggs have reached this shore. .Anybody who eats Chi nese eggs needs a dose of Chinese medicine to take away the taste. President Wilson says we should be thankful for peace. Indeed, we should, with the sort of equipment we have for possible war! The Jews of the world will not al low their brethren in Jerusalem to go hungry, but who will feed the poor Belgian? If all Portland's pretty babies are to be entered in the pretty baby show the Armory will not be a tenth large enough. Range steers sell at $157 each at Chicago. We'll be paying a dime to see these precious beasts in a museum yet. - However, they are still fighting in Europe, even if the political scrap in Oregon has slightly obscured the view. We trust that the recall agitators now appreciate the fact that the pub lic has some intelligence of its own. It is now revealed that any old Democrat can have the President's indorsement for re-election. As Turkey is not In the war, the Thanksgiving proclamation Is not a breach of neutrality. Lord Beresford's programme for stripping Germany contains the dis concerting "if." Next Tuesday affords you an op portunity to hit hard times a rap at the polls. Dire disaster will come to the Dem ocratic royal family of Oregon next Tuesday. Have you a sample ballot and are you studying the many measures? The Paris-London dispatches have the Germans on the- run again. The recall was a huge joke, albeit an expensive one. OPE"! LETTER TO DR. C. J. SMITH. Attacks on Experimental Station Re seated by Faratn of State. UNION. Or, Oct. 24. To Dr. C. J. Smith, Portland, Or. Dear Sir: In your speech delivered at Medford a few days ago, you took an occasion to make a very unfair attack upon the Eastern Oregon Agricultural Experiment Sta tion at Union. We realize that such remarks from a man of your standing cannot help but have its effect upon the minds of the people of this state regarding the standard of the work carried, on at this station. We wish to assure you that this letter is not writ ten for political purposes, but as farm ers and business men of Eastern Ore gon, who have knowledge of the valu able experimental work being done at the Union Station, feel it our duty to inform you of these facts. It is not our intention to go into the work in detail, but simply to present a few specific il lustrations of the real value of this work to the farmers of this state. The average gluten test of wheats grown in the valley is 30 per cent, while the average for the new varieties produced at the Union Station is 44 per cent and many of them run as high as 60 per cent. It is a common practice among our farmers to finish hogs in feed lots or small pens on a straight grain ration. The station at Union has demonstrated without question that this is not an economical method. The feeding of a small quantity of alfalfa hay in con nection with a full grain ration will give an additional profit of S7c on every hog, which is a saving of $87 on every carload. While digester tankage costs $54 per ton, yet a ration of one part of tankage to nine, parts of barley made an addi tional profit of $46 per car over those hogs fed on grain alone. A few years ago the farmers in the valley produced a considerable quan tity of potatoes and unfortunately there was no market for them at that time. ' The experiment station at Union immediately carried on an ex perimental test demonstrating that raw potatoes were worth 29c and steamed potatoes 42c per hundred pounds for hog feed. The value of alfalfa pasture in con nection with a full grain ration for fattening hogs is another important demonstration. Hogs fed on this ra tion produced an additional profit of $2.22 per hog. This is a saving In actual dollars and cents of $222 per car. There are on an average of four cars per week "shipped out of Union. Wallowa, and Baker counties during the 31 weeks in which hogs can bs allowed to graze on alfalfa pasture. Seventy-five per cent, or 93 cars of these hogs, were finished on grain alone in small feed lots. Had these hogs been finished on alfalfa pasture and grain Instead of grain alone the farmers would have received an ad ditional profit' of $20,646. The East ern Oregon Agricultural Experiment Station at Union costs the taxpayers of the entire State of Oregon $7500 annually to maintain. This particular experiment is worth $20,646 annually to the farmers of this section alone and the test is applicable to all alfalfa-producing sections in the state. Tours very truly, W. J. TOWNLE, J. F. HUTCHINSON, LEON LEVY, T. A. BID WELL, W. T. WRIGHT. DAVIS BROTHERS. C. E. DAVIS, L. A. WRIGHT. FAKE STORY ABOUT THE GERMANS No Indorsement for Democrats In Waahinsxton County. v (Hillsboro Independent.) The publication in a Portland Sun day paper of a dispatch stating that 600 members of the German-speaking society of Washington County had met near Cornelius and adopted resolutions to support certain candidates has caused widespread indignation among members of the organization. The dis patch was published in a newspaper which has neglected- no device that might aid the crowd that is frantically endeavoring to head off the crumbling of the machine that has dominated state affairs for the past few years and it stated that the society had indorsed Chamberlain and Smith as well as cer tain state and county candidates. Immediately after the dispatch ap peared there was a storm of protest. Leading members of the society, be lieving that the facts given were true, called up' officers and gave notice that they would sever their connection with the society. Others went on a still hunt to discover just where the re sponsibility lay and who had partici pated in the meeting, and as mem ber after member replied that he had not been at the meeting, and knew of no action to indorse candidates it dawned on the investigators that it was impossible that act-ion such as claimed could have been taKeh. for the mem bership generally knew nothing of it except what had appeared in the Port land paper. Charlie Lang, of the Hillsboro Mer cantile Company, a member of the so ciety, had interviewed, either person ally or by telephone, more than 30 members of the society by Tuesday morning, and he found only one who knew anything about the alleged meeting. Fred Schomburg has seen an equal number with the same result, and was being constantly approached by German-speaking friends, all indignant at the attempt to dictate how they should vote. John Friedenthal. another mem ber of the society, was among those who came to Mr. Schomburg with in dignant inquiry as to why an attempt to dictate how he should vote had been made. The decision of the investigators after notes had been compared was that, if any meeting at all was held, not to exceed six persons were pres ent. THE SPEEDOMETER IN FULL VIEW New Indicator, In Glare of Tall Llnrht, Will Aid Traffic Patrolmen. Pathfinder. The troubles of the traffic policeman have Impressed themselves so strongly on the mind of a Chicago inventor that he has set about trying to find a way to minimize them. As a result of his ef forts a scheme has been devised which will help materially in putting a clog on the speed maniac and so make the regulation of the speed of motor ve hicles a much less difficult matter. The idea Is to place a speed indicator on the rear of the machine. The indica tor is placed beside the license tag and where the tail light can shine on it and its figures, which are large enough to be seen a block away. The indicator is made In the form of a metal box, in which is fitted a sheet of plate glass through which the num bers can be read. When the speed gets beyond the limit set by law a bell fixed on the dash rings and notifies the driver that he is running too fast. A record of the maximum speed is kept on i paper disk which Is operated by clock work Inside the instrument, enabling owners to keep tab on their chauffeurs and have reliable evidence in case ar rests are made for violations of speed laws. Under ordinary circumstances the po lice hold the key. In case the device is kept locked and the driver wishes to temporarily stop the operation of the indicator, he can pull a lever which blocks the mechanism and causes a red light to appear in the place of the num bers. thus Indicating to the police that the indicator has been put out of com mission. A centrifueal governor con nected by flexible shafting to a sprocket on the hub of a rear wheel operates tha device. SENATOR IS DEAF TO Ql'ESTIOXS Ckamberlaln Ganx's Tactics Objected to ! by Hanley Worker. EUGENE. Or, Oct. 24. (To the Edi- tor.) I hope you will grant me space in The Oregonian to nail a campaign lie published in the Thursday Journal. Clarence L. Reames dishes out polit ical dope to the Journal readers regard ing the political outlook in 'Jackson County and as a climax he says: "At Medford the other night Mr. Rosenthal began passing out his questions with which he has been following Senator Chamberlain during his tour of the state. The audience keenly resented the action and I believe Rosenthal would have been man-handled had not the Senator cautioned his friends before hand to not pay any attention to the man." The public does not resent the ques tions. People read them eagerly and they comment upon them in various ways. Some say Senator Chamberlain ougnt to answer them some say he will answer them some say he can't answer them and some say .he won't answer them. The people who attend Chamberlain's meetings are not wholly Democrats, they care very little for the personality of their Senator: they no longer vote for party. Oregon needs a great statesman and the public knows it. They go to Chamberlain's meet ings to hear him answer these ques tions. It's the only way the public can elect the best man. through a full discussion of the issues of the cam paign. So it is not true that the pub lic resented the passing out of the questions. However, I was threatened, bluffed and they even attempted to bribe me to desist in passing out these ques tions, but all these things were not done by the public. It was done by of fice holders. Federal and county. In Baker, it was the county Democratic chairman who brought In the Sheriff of the county and they threatened and tried to bully me. At Medford, too, there was an office holder who threat ened and tried to bluff me. But that was not an ordinary citizen, it was the Hon. Clarence L. Reames, United States Attorney. And it wasn't Senator Cham berlain who Interfered and stopped him from bluffing and bulldosing. but the newsboys who circulated the ques tions for Mr. Rosenthal, jeered and hissed him; told him that he was a nice man to represent the public to bully Mr. Rosenthal in his performing his duty as a citizen to ask questions of a public man who is supposed to be the servant of the people. In the interest of free speech and free press, I wish you to give this article the publicity to remind the pub lic office holders that they are in America, where the office holder is the servant and not the master of the peo ple, and that the people have a sight to asic questions and that the office holder should' answer all questions which are asked him. and that no crime is being committed by asking questions regarding the policy of the officehold ers who are seeking re-election. E. P. ROSENTHAL. Question Circulator for the William Hanley Campaign Committee. WHY WE MUST RETIRE DEMOCRATS Their Policies Do Not Harmonise With People's Beat Interests. PORTLAND. Oct. 27. (To the Edi tor.) From all indications throughout the state, Oregon will send Republi cans back to Congress next year and this is what she should do if her peo ple look for, good, prosperous times to predominate again. Booth is running strong in every county in the state and the attack upon his personal character by Governor West has lost Chamberlain many Dem ocratic votes, for there are many Dem ocrats who know Mr. Booth, and they deplore the methods that are being used by our undignified executive in a vain endeavor to send his political propagator back to Congress and there by keep himself in line for a lucrative office. It also looks gloomy from a Demo cratic standpoint in most of the states that are returning Congressmen and Senators. There is much dissatisfaction ex pressed over the long session and espe cially over the canal toll bill and the repealing of the free toll clause for American coastwise merchant vessels. As was predicted when the war broke out in Europe, the Democrats are lay ing the hard times and business de pression to the war. Under the new tariff law millions of American dollars have gone abroad, and all classes of people are hanging onto their dollars, for they know they will never have a chance to get them back under a Democratic Administra tion once they put them in circulation, hence business depression. Yet our President, that great and good man, with his smooth professional methods and theoretical arguments, has held a Democratic Congress under bis finger as he would a class of school boys and impressed upon their minds the phychological side of the great business depression, "purely psycholog ical," "purely psychological." that's what he said. ' Under our new tariff law our gen eral coffers are not as full as they were under the old tariff law of the Republican Administration. The rich people don't pay the tariff on the lux uries of life as they were doing under the Republican Administration. No. the common people with limited means are making up the deficiency of our National Treasury under the guise of a war tax. The war in Europe covers a multi tude of sins for the Democratic party in America. Is it any wonder that the states are contemplating Republicans to fill the seats in Congress that are now occu pied by Democrats? RALPH W. FARRIS. Ol'R FINEST MILITARY CLl'B Manila Army and Navy Organisation Has S 173,000 Building. Chicago Herald. If Americans were asked the loca tion of the finest military club in the world, nine out of ten would shake their heads and admit their inability to answer. The club In question is not in any of the great European capitals, is not in far away Tokio, not in Washington nor in New York, but in Manila. It Is the Army and Navy Club of the Philippine metropolis, a magnificent structure that cost more than $175,000 Among those who have been its presi dents are: . Admiral George Dewey, Its first head; Major-Gcneral Leonard Wood. the late Lieutenant-General Henry C. Corbin, U. S. A-: Lieutenant General Adna R. Chaffee. U. S. A. re tired, and Rear-Admiral Frederick Rogers, U. S. N. However, the club over which Dewey and Chaffee and Corbin ruled was not the splendid organization that is now one of the show places of Manila. The present club, with its handsome build ing, and a site the last $30,000 raort gage on which is soon to bo burned. Is the outgrowth of a little Army and Navy organization dating from Novum ber, 1898. soon after the American oc cupation of Manila. In that month many of the officers stationed in Ma nila, feeling the need of some place where they could get together, or ganized the "Manila Army Mess." It was a success from the start and soon outgrew its quarters. Larger quarters were taken and naval offi cers were admitted to mombcrship. Thus was born the present Army and Navy Club of Manila. The membership of the club Is now more than 2500. of whom 2724 aro ab sent members. Twenty-Five Years Ago Fro-n The Oregonian. October 2S. 1SS9. Johnstown. Pa.. Oct. 27. The pros pects of Johnstown being again under water are good. Rain has been falling almost continually for the past 36 hours and a great many of the streets are almost impassable to pedestrians. In spite of a steady downpour of rain throughout the early part of the day. there was a large and appreciative audience at the Exposition building, as sembled yesterday to listen to Liber ati's farewell concert. The cars for the electric motor line from the Steel bridge to Albina and St. Johns have been standing for some time on the bridge over Montgomery Slough, and now that they are put In order for running it is expected that the cars will be put in regular opera tion about Wednesday. By request Manager John Cordray has secured Ajeeb, who attracted so much attention at the Exposition, and he will . be at the Musee-Theater all this week. An enjoyable event In the history of the Independent Order of B'nai Brlth of this Coast was the reception and. ball given by Oregon Lodsre, No. 65, and North Pacific Lodge. No. 314. to the grand president and grand secretary of District No. 4. in the Masonic Hall last night. A number of speeches were made before the dance began. Those who oc cupied seats on the platform were: Rev. Jacob Bloch. Simon Raphael, E. Bern heim. I. Isaacs, M. Fischer. C. Gilbert. D. Solis Cohen. H. Danziser, M. Kosh land. Sam Wolff. Louis Blanc, J. Fleiscu ner. Rev. R. Abrahams and others. Hon. T. E. Fell, of Heppner, is visit ing in the city. Charles N. Shaw and family and son-in-law, George Ranolf. left for their future home, Chicago, last night. Officer Joseph Day after having been In search of the fugitive, Gibbs, has returned to the city empty handed. The supposed Gibbs who was Been at Ar lington proved to be a deserter from the United States Army. Day followed a number of clews but without meeting with success. Emperor William, of Germany, Is much displeased with the models of his father, William I, submitted to him in a prize contest. He thinks that none are worthy of a prize. . Between 130.000 and 150.000 people have visited the Exposition during the past five weeks, according to Superin tendent Kohler. Half a Century Ago Fro-n The Oresonian, October 29, 1S64. Some eight or 10 teams are said to be waiting at Aquina (Yaquina) Bay a few days since, for a schooner to ar rive from San Francisco with goods for Corvallis. Several small vessels are en gaged in this trade this Fall, and quite a number of teams. The distance from Aquina Bay to Corvallis is 45 miles, and the roads are not excellent. The steamer Brother Jonathan, which was to have sailed for San Francisco at noon yesterday, was delayed until evening, and she probably carried the largest shipment of treasure that ever left Portland on one vessel. The re port on the outside of this paper was made up before noon since when the shipments by Wells, Fargo & Co. were swelled to nearly $500,000. Ladd $ Til ton's shipment amounted to about $35, 000. Not less than $1,000,000 will reach California, from the "Northern Mines" by the steamer that left us yesterday. We are under obligations to our friend, S. J. McCormick, of the Frank lin Book Store, for a picture of our favorite Lincoln and Johnson, who are now looking down on us as we work for the good cause. Mac says he don't think much of them, but can afford to make us' a present of their visages. Now. we don't see how Mac, with his usual good sense, can ignore their ex cellencies of character, or can pretend to doubt that they will be elected. The new hall, corner of Front and Washington streets, was illuminated for one of the grandest parties ever given in the city. It was planned and arranged under the supervision of a committee of ladies, and ladies did all the "inviting." calling for gentlemen at their places of business, hotel, residence or rendezvous, as the occasion hap pened. The gentlemen were also de pendent upon their partners for a se lection in the dance. The ladies ac tually held the floor, as they had a right todo as they had all the bills to foot. There was a fine array of dress, but of a corresponding character of pretty faces we are unable to judge, for the ladies wore masks. The oppo site was the case with the sterner sex. Some of the managers of the party were provided with two gentlemen bo there was no lack of material for a. full floor with every dance. The sup per was spread in the second story and it was a sumptuous affair, just what might be expected with a bevy of tho finest ladies in Oregon to superintend it- It was indeed a handsome affair throughout, and we could not avoid this notice of it, which is perhaps a "breach of promise." Meaning of Kisses. The Christian Herald. The first time I ever visited the City of Jerusalem I called on a dear old lady for the sake of her son. She greatly surprised me by rising tip suddenly and kissing both my eyelids because I had so recently seen her boy. An old ser vant who lived in our house -for many years kisses me on my shoulder. A re spected Moslem friend kisses me on the cheek. The little child daily kisses the nand of his father, and in certain well- -trained families the sons observe this custom as long as the aged father lives. The pupil kisses the band of his teacher, the servant, of his master. Judas Iscariot was a chosen disciple of Christ: he was a pupil, a guest, a friend. He dwelt with him. ate with him. he met with him for communion and prayer, and finally in that garden of hallowed memories betrayed him by a salutation of the most saered Intimacy a kiss . CoDl-rlght, J914, by the PreBS Publishing Co. (The New York World.) Prosperity Talks to Advertisers: (No. 2) BY F. D. CARUTIIER5. It is too bad about all the people who will suffer in Europe, on ac count of the goods they produce not reaching ths American market. But TOTJ can't help that. YO'J must sell what you have got. or bs'.! what you can get. This means American-mado goods, already vast in volume, must be pro vided in larger quantities. There need be no falling off in what people hava teen buying. Be equal to the emer.--cncy. Supply it to them. You can get it. somewhere be tween Portland and Key West Portland, Me., and El Paso. Such r. market to choose from! If It grows In any climate, or Is made anywhere, some spot in this Contl-nent-wldo nation can supply It. Keep your Stock up and your Goods going out. You can do this by publicity. Advertise! Advertise!