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TfrE BIOHNTNG OREGONIANV SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1914. 6 rOKTLAXD, O KEG ON. Entered at Portland. Oregon, Fostofflce s 6econil-clui matter. Subscription Rates Invariably In Advance: (By Mali.) Dairy. Sunday Included, one year '.$8.00 Ijaily, Sunday Included, six months ..... 4.25 Daily, Sunday Included, three months ... 2.25 Xiaily, Sunday Included, one month . .... .'5 Dally, without Sunday, one year ....v... 0.00 Daily, without Sunday, six months 8. -'5 Daily, without Sunday, three months ... 1.75 Daily, without Sunday, one month -SO Weekly one year l.aO Sunday, one year 2.50 Sunday and Weekly, one year 8.W) (By Carrier.) Daily, Sunday Included, one year $9.00 Daily, Sunday included, one month ..... .75 How to Kemit Send Postofflce money or der, express order or personal check on your Jocal bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at sender's risk. Give postofflce address in full. Including rountv and state. Postage KateB 12 to IB pages. 1 cent; IS to 32 pages, 2 cents; Si to 48 pages, 3 cents: 60 to 60 pages, 4 cents; 62 to 7tJ pages, 5 cents; 78 to U2 pages. 8 cents. .Foreign post age, double rates. KaMern Business Office Verree Jk Conk lin. New York. Brunswick building. Chi cago, Stenger building. San Francisco Office R. J. Bldwell Co., 742 Market street. I POBTLAKD, SATURDAY. MOV- 14. 1914. struck down customs revenue. The emergency taxes are therefore an added burden imposed by Democracy, which would not have been imposed by Republican rule. But "the case against Mr. Wilson" in regard to economy Is that his party denounced as a product of Republican administration an evil which his apol ogist now admits to have been the common product of all parties. While Mr. Wilson may not have been able thus far to reduce this extravagance, he could and should have prevented it from striking: its roots deeper and spreading Its branches farther. In stead, he has permitted such growth. and then has transferred the blame from his party to a foreign war. Colonel Harvey rashly closed with some election forecasts, the most im portant of which have been falsified by the event. As a prophet Colonel Harvey is not a success. TILE CASE AGAINST MR. WILSON. In the light of election results. Colonel George Harvey's article on The Case Against Wilson" in the North"' American Review is peculiarly Interesting. Written before the elec tion, but read after the election, it reveals how even so critical a friend f the President as Colonel Harvey can misjudge public opinion. The Colonel Quotes what he calls "the declarations of recognized lead ers" of the opposition. He then sin gles out Senator Root as a spokesman for the Republican party. Mr. Root Is quoted as saying that the Under wood tariff has not brought about the results predicted it has not increased the rewards of American labor, nor reduced the cost of living. On the contrary, it has decreased production, closed factories and thrown great numbers of employes out of work. All that Colonel Harvey can find to say In reply to this indictment is: This statement Is, we believe, correct as iha HaiA of making, although there has since been a marked revival in certain lines of manufacturing. The circumstance was probably inevitable, in any case the fact la Quite evident that sufficient time baa not yet elapsed for full readjustment of indus trial conditions to the new req.ulrements; and the party in power most necessarily accept the consequences. The "date of making" Mr. Root's speech was about the middle of Sep tember, the speech quoted having been made at the New York Republican State Convention. At that time the foreign demand for American prod ucts arising from the war had barely begun. The revival to which the Colonel refers was obviously due to the foreign demand; without it, we might have expected continued de pression. The people resented being called upon to makes-a readjustment of industrial conditions" which seemed to involve industrial paralysis and which. Colonel Harvey says, "wai probably inevitable." Mr. Root . obviously intended to chide the Administration for delay in putting the currency law into opera' tion and In passing the anti-trust leases doubt about it. There is just cause for criticism on both points. After the Federal reserve banks had been located in a manner which clear ly betrayed political and sectional motives, the President took an un conscionably long time to appoint the Federal Reserve Board and became involved in a quarrel with the Senate about confirmation. His delay and that, of the Board in organizing the banks are responsible for the fact that the new banks will not be opened until ten and one-half months after the law was approved by the . Presi dent. Had due diligence been shown, the law could have been in operation before the outbreak of war and the country could have met the resultant financial crisis without the issue of clearing-house certificates or emer gency currency, and a means of deal ing with foreign exchange might have been provided. Mr. Root's criticism of the anti trust laws is made from the New York standpoint,, which is not that of the general body of Republicans. We need only refer to Democratic Sen ator Reed's speeches to learn what a weak and puny thing is he Clayton law, yet what prolonged agony the Democratic leaders suffered and in flicted upon the country in bringing it forth. Colonel Harvey is justified In criticising Mr. Root for confound ing the trusts with "enterprise," but he cannot justly hold the Republican tariff, nor the trusts, which never trembled until attacked by Republi can Presidents, responsible for high , prices, when these have been proved to be due to world-wide as well as purely American causes and when Democratic rule has not appreciably reduced them. The Colonel Is hard put to it for an answer to Mr. Knox's charge that the Administration began war "upon a famished and distraught neighbor ing people" when he follows up a de nial of this charge with an attempt to ehlft the responsibility for failure to recognize Huerta from Mr. Wilson's to Mr. Taft's shoulders. Huerta seized ' power less than a month before Mr Taft's term expired, and Mr. Taft simply deferred action in order not to embarrass his successor an actof courtesy which deserves better re qultal. Colonel Harvey feels compelled to make another admission of error on the part of the Administration when he discusses the Democratic deficit . law. He pays Senator Smoot undue honor in describing that gentleman as "the successor of Mr. Aldrich in par tisan leadership" with the apparent purpose of making the party respon sible for Mr. Smoot's suggestion that the President should either borrow money or use the Government de posits in the banks rather than lm pose new taxes. In so saying Mr. Smoot did not voice Republican opin ion. Colonel Harvey admits that Mr. Smoot was justified in directing at tention to "extravagant and ever-in creasing appropriations," but disputes the accuracy of his statement that "if V"-. . - A AH. T. J AW A.kEU UOVl UC passage of the Underwood law had been left alone," there would be no need of a war tax. There is good rea son to believe that the Payne-Aldrich larnr wouia nave yielded enough revenue to pay expenses, even with Imports reduced by the war, had ex- penditures been continued on the scale fixed by the last Republican Congress. There was then only limited corporation tax and there was no income tax. Had the war caused a deficit, the corporation tax could have been increased and an incom tax imposed. The Underwood tariff plus the increased corporation tax and the income tax proved lnsuffl- cient to meet the Increase of $100 000,000 la expenses when the war greater his art. The part of his work which appeals to an elect few, and those only, is not art but intellect or self-conceit or something worse. Our correspondent is quite mistaken in thinking that "it is the vociferous few" who make an artist's reputation. They do it Just now, perhaps, because our artists feed on death and our lit erature is without vitality. But in the great times of literature and art all men understand the inspired producer and love him. When art can not be apprehended by the multitude it has become a corpse. from that region. We also need to permit co-operation of manufacturers in any line in the development of their trade abroad, which the anti-trust law now forbids. If we go about foreign commerce with the same earnestness, energy and genius as we have shown in develop ment of our own country, we can make as conspicuous success abroad as we made at home and can outstrip the nations which will stagger for gen erations under the burden of war debts. , From The Oregonlan of November 14, 184. The footrace between M. J. Lewis and Joseph Buchtel last Saturday was won by the latter. The distance was 300 yards. Mr. Buchtel ten feet at the outcome. require the full amount by about six feet- New Tork. Nov. 10. General Wright, ust elected to Congress by the Demo REACTIONARIES? . The re-election of Senator Penrose and Senator Gallinger and the return to Congress of Uncle Joe Cannon have led to a revival of the musty charge that the Republican party is "reac tionary" and has "returned to its Idols." . No party that puts forth Roger Sullivan, or William Joel Stone, or Simeon Baldwin, or any of the Southern Old Guard as its candidates, has a right to raise the "reactionary" cry against any other. Senator Penrose defeated the pure Plnchot and the puffed-up Palmer by over 150,000 votes. It was a great popular triumph for Penrose. No cor rupt Legislature elected him. The people of Pennsylvania elected him. He was not elected because he was Penrose, or because Penrose was or was not a reactionary, but because he stood for the National policy of pro tection. They saw the way to a res toration of good times and the full dinner pail .through Penrose. There is no other explanation. There need be none. If Penrose is reactionary, eo are the sovereign' people of Pennsylvania. Senator Gallinger was re-elected largely because it is a New England habit to keep its Senators and Repre sentatives in office, and because also he opposes the disastrous policies of the Democratic party. Mr. Withycombe was elected In Oregon by a great vote, although a ceaseless effort was made to show that he is an enemy of the direct primary because he had participated in the Assembly of, 1910. He, too, was "re actionary." The people turned down every so-called "progressive" measure on the initiative ballot. Are the peo ple of Oregon also "reactionary"?' Truth is that undesirable candidates and vicious measures adopt the mask of a false progressivism in the hope of cheating the people. But the people want rest from agitation and relief from agitators. They want sanity, safety, economy In public affairs and honesty and efficiency in public serv- ants. The bunco men of politics, Na tional and state, have bad their brief day. PORE-BABEEL AND ENGINEERS. The favorite defense of the recent Congressional pork-barrel for rivers and harbors is that all the items, with two small exceptions, were approved by the Army Board of Engineers. Such statement has been repeatedly made in Portland, In attempted justification of the pork-barrel and in vindication of Congress. Now Senator Chamber lain publicly repeats it. We have not the slightest doubt that the Senator is speaking in the utmost good faith; but he and all others who are placing so heavy a responsibility with the Board of Engineers are directly confuted by Senator Burton, the great author ity on rivers ana naruurs. The following extract from the Con gresslonal Record (pages 12682-12683, July 6, 1914) ought to prove" interest ing and instructive to all who think the Government Engineers framed the 90,000,000 pork-barrel: Mr. Hughes: Are there any items In this river and harbor) bill which were put in over the protest or without the recommen dation of the Board of Engineers? Mr. Burton: I think there is ne new project In this bill possibly there is one, however, and that added In the senati which was placed In the bill contrary to the recommendation of the engineers; but there are very large appropriations here for proj ects that the engineers never recommended that have been carried from year to year. hall wish to take up all of these In their order. Mr. Hughes: Th-means, then, that while there are no ne?fArojects In the bill which have not been Recommended by the en gineers yet the bill carries appropriations which the engineers would not now recom mend? Mr. Burton: Tes. There Is another fea ture. That question cannot be answered without making this explanation: There are projects in this bill thaf at first the en gineers condemned, and I may say con demned in decided language; but then a request was made for another survey, or a resolution was passed by the committee on rivers and harbors asking for a re-examina tion, and the second or third time a re port came in mildly commending the proj ect . . There is another class of ap- propriationa In this bill, and those, I think, are the most extravagant, where the en gineers reported the facts, and instead of recommending or condemning, wound up the report by saying: "It is a matter for Con gress to determine whether this appropria tion shall be made or not." I think some of the worst Items have coma In under that kind of a report, where It is correct to say the engineers never recommended It. Is it poslble that Senator Burton is wrong? We think not. We have seen his statements on all Important phases of the great river and harbor subject disputed nowhere except in Oregon, far from his presence. SMUT, AN EXPLOSIVE. Agricultural experts who have long been, preaching crop rotation and di versification in the wheat-growing dis tricts of the Northwest have a new and telling argument in ' behalf of more scientific soil cultivation. The single crop method is' conducive to the pro duction of smut in wheat. Smut, it is declared, was primarily responsible for the large number of fires in threshing outfits throughout the Northwest in the harvesting season of 1914. The number of fires and the extent of their damage are surprising. A bulletin published by the State College of Washington detailing the results of an extensive investigation estimates the number in the Palouse district of that state alone as very close to 300 and the total loss , in machinery, threshed and unthreshed grain, time and injury to men, at more than half a million dollars. In the number of such fires the sea son was unusual. They had occurred in other Bosons, but hardly more than a dozen m the three iMortn western states had been reported in any pre vious year. In 1914 they were preva lent in all three states, though Whit man County, in Washington, was the most grievous sufferer. The fires oc curred with a suddenness and ferocity that caused them generally to be termed explosions. The separator was almost invariably, destroyed and in instances the flames spread to the straw stacks, to the threshed wheat and even raced through the standing grain. ; The frequency of the explosions was so unusual-that many farmers and machine operators refused to accept the smut theory,- but expressed the conviction that they were incendiary. In Latah, Idaho, a-half-breed Indian was charged with responsibility for one fire and confessed that he had put matches in the bundles of grain Thereafter he repudiated his confes sion, declaring he had pleaded guilty In order to get a light sentence, be lieving that because of his Indian blood he would not have a fair trial, Washington State College investi gated this phase of the trouble. Com petent detectives were employed, bu-t hardly the slightest substantiation of the incendiary theory was obtained The conclusion of the college experts is that smut was the primary cause. There were other 'conditions, however. that were contributory. One was the unusual dryness in the growing sea son, another a lack of normal humid ity in the atmosphere during the threshing season. These factors caused a less than average moisture in the grain and straw and made them more combusti ble. They also contributed to an in creased amount of static electricity developed by the cylinder and other machine parts. That the explosions were caused by electric ignition of the inflammable dust and smut is held to be reasonably certain. Precautionary measures are recom mended to owners of separators and those interested therein may find it profitable to write for a copy of - the bulletin to the college at Pullman, Wash. But it is a matter in which every farmer ought also to be inter ested. It may be that the same com bination of circumstance will not soon cause a repetition of the fires in the Northwest, but that is not a safe reliance. There are numerous reasons for crop rotation and diversification to which the season's fire losses to threshermen and farmers are an em phatlc addition. This war is drawing in all races of the world. Aside from the original Caucasian belligerents, there are now embroiled the Copts and Mahomme- dans of Egypt, the Hindus of India, the Turcos of Algeria, the Senegalese of -West Africa, the negroes of Cen tral Africa and the Congo basin, the English, Boers and Kaffirs of South Africa, the blacks of Melanesia, the cannibals of New Guinea, the British colonists of Australia, New Zealand and Canada, ' the Japanese and the Turks. All these races and nations were started to fighting by the firing of a -Bosnian fanatic's revolver. 'Do! What a great matter a little fire kindleth." A vagrant news item ' tells of a Kansas town of 4000 people which was visited one day by a big metropolitan circus. To see the show 6000 farmers brought their families, each family in its own automobile. In that neighbor hood there is a' kind of prosperity which does not seem to be seriously affected by panics, politics or foreign wars. The strength of nations is in the soil. - crats for the Fifth District, died this force the country certainly puts great Heretofore the message has been put morning. trust, I into type first, and as & result of the But It Is futile, it is almost wicked. President s decision the newspapers T)ia t.amo- jnhn w foneh broueht I to attempt to persuade the Democratic will be thrown on their own resources the remains of Rev. T. Bi Sanderson to party tnat it nas not received a stern in getting me message. this citv Saturday nie-ht- He had been warning-. nduced to visit the Sandwich lelanas i" utraocrauc party is not yet on cpoKane, fans. aiepuen a. uaiiey, its good behavior, it will never learn I member of the City Council, has re- the lesson of correct behaviolr if its I signed, and will so to Portland. Or.. foolish apologists persist in their effort I where he will engage in business, hav lo prove that the vote cast on Tuesday I ing bought an interest In the Oilman was one of comprehensive sanction and I House. for his health, but died at Astoria be fore emDarKlng. Edward P. Wright, guardian of George H. Lyman and Helen E. Hitch cock, minors, announces that he will I approval. Deluded by these extenua- ell part of their estate at public auc tion on. December 17. The sale will be held at the Courthouse. Judge McCoy yesterday fined Charles Pryor $10 and Patrick McDonald 5 after they had been convicted of In dulglng too-freely In stimulants. James (Jostello was arraigned for firing a pistol in his saloon, but was dismissed, As result of much coddling, that be gan in the days of the Dred Scott af fair and continued long after the Civil War, the negro In Massachusetts has grown "mighty uppity." Now he is demanding that the heartsome planta tion songs shall not be sung in the public schools. He has a shadow of right. A little more patriotic music can well supplant the sentimental. It is fifty years since Nevada be came a state. In that time it has gained but little population,- its do mestic laws have been more or less of a scandal and its divorce colony has shocked the world. Here's hoping that Nevada may soon finish sowing her wild oats and settle down to a respectable life. Mussulmen are not all of them dis posed to take their politics from Turkey, Those in British Africa stand loyal to King George in spite of the "holy war" nonsense. Any religious potentate who undertakes to rule both in secular and celestial affairs has a hard Job on hand. The greatest writer of dialogues in all time was Lucian. Many others have tried to rival him and they have usually failed. Lucian is witty audacious, impious and satirical. He wrote many centuries ago, but he is still read with delight by people who like daring conversation. Russians who were busy killing Japs a few years ago and Japa who were busy killing Russians a few yeare ago will now busy themselves side by side in the newest pastime of killing Ger mans. Maybe the three will be to gether in the next war; who knows? Confidence in the Inconspicuous but useful submarine grows apace. The power that has ordered twenty of them from an American firm shows prescience and common sense. Future naval battles are likely to be decided below the surface of the sea. The New Tork food supply commit tee is of opinion that young women employed in offices do not make good housewives for lack of training. Taken young, however, the office woman im proves if not early widowed by bad cooking. Fifty years ago Abraham Lincoln was against a harder proposition than any European ruler Is today. His abiding faith pulled him through. ART AND THE MULTITUDE. The correspondent who, in another part of today's paper, takes exception to The Oregonian's view of Joseph Conrad, reiterates a species of literary patter - which has grown stale with overuse. It is easy to see from his letter that he has but little faith in the artistic sense of the multitude and believes that great literature. painting and so on are only for the elite few. From this opinion we dis sent totally. His dictum that "the common mind. if left to itself would not keep Homer nor Shakespeare alive for a twelve month," is irrelevant. The common mind kept both of them very much alive while they were here on earth doing their appointed tasks. Homer was immensely popular in Greece. His poetry was originally recited to sol diers and traders in camp and on the voyage. Shakespeare made a fortune out ' of his plays. Both these great poets have now been incorporated with the life of mankind. They are not kept alive by vociferous pedants, as our correspondent seems to believe, but by the common spirit of the world. Even if their names should be forgot ten as they will be some time, that would not matter. Their souls will go marching on. Incorporation with the great life of the race is an author's best and high est hope. To consummate that ambi tion he must express the deep and common feelings of mankind. The better bo expresses these feelings the QUEST OP FOREIGN TRADE. In writing on "Our Quest of Foreign Trade" in tne North American Re view, C. T. Revere shows that we are mere beginners at international com merce. We have exported food and raw material to the impoverishment of our soil, depletion of our mines and denudation of our forests, yet we have bragged of our enrichment by favor able trade balances, while European nations have grown rich by manufac turing our raw materials and selling the product to us. In times of de pression, when our manufacturers were overstocked, we have made a for eign trade spurt by trying to force on the foreigner what we wished to un load without regard to what he de sired to buy. Our foreign trade has been carried on foreign ships, financed by foreign banks and insured with foreign companies. Thus we have not only paid toll to other nations at every stage, but have shown every card in our hand to our competitors. We are now beginning to take for eign trade seriously and to treat it with as much respect as domestic trade, not as a dumping ground for our surplus. We realize that we are as much a manufacturing as an agri cultural people. We recognize that for eign trade cannot be had without fight ing and it is worth fighting for. Its possibilities have been demonstrated by big business concerns and are en larged by the Panama' Canal and by our - competitors' ' preoccupation with mutual slaughter. In 1913 we export ed only 4.7 per cent of our total man ufactured products, while the five leading nations of Europe Great Britain, Germany, France, Belgium and Holland exported 60 per cent of theirs. There is room for great in crease in our export percentage. Our manufacturers could make an equal aggregate profit by increasing tlfe vol ume of production on the narrower margin permitted by rorelgn competition. We are now providing some of the facilities for foreign trade. Our con suls and commercial attaches are giv ing diplomatic aid and collecting in formation. We are establishing for eign banks which will end that financ ing through Europe by which our business secrets have been revealed to competitors. We need, however, to es tablish our own direct steamship lines to carry our goods and our own ma rine insurance companies to insure them. We need also to become lend ers of money to undeveloped countries, that we may construct and direct their enterprises and make them our cus tomers while collecting Interest on the investment. How well this system works Mr. Revere shows. Investments of the five lending nations of Europe in Latin America yield an annual re turn of $200,000,000, which pays two- thirds of .the cost of their imports The German fleet off South America had better look out, now that a Japan ese squadron is cruising In that vicin ity seeking trouble. The Retail Liquor Dealeres' Asso elation haa disbanded in its twenty third year. It had reached a portent ous age. It is a lucky thing for the Democrats that they didn't have to face the peo ple in a National election this year, Kitchener wants another million men. He is the one man in the em pire who best knows its needs. Despite Its high power, the German machine appears to be stuck in the French mud Just at present- Prune your appropriation estimates if you expect to have them considered by the economy Legislature. Half a Century Ago PRESS OPINIONS OF THE ELECTION. ! What Eastern Newspapers Say About General Result a and Prospect. Twenty-Five Years Ago Saved Only by Ita Blsrneas. New Tork Times. From The OreROnian. November IS. 18S9. Olynipia, Wash. Representative J. E. Gandy, of Spokane Falls, answered his The Democratlo majority this year f m r the first time at the Legis- oca Buuar' has re would have disappeared altogether 11 the country's lack of confidence in Con- I Washington. It is reported that gress had extended to the President. I President Harrison's message will be In him as a gullding and controlling sent to Congress In typewritten form. distance was -ne JJemocrauo majority mis year r VuVflHoi T8 "V4 bl,Shn0t bf r -rfVmeShVa?tVf!iectn llT ?i virtue of party. Probably the majority mained in Tacoma. tions of adversity, the Democracy may I Rev. E. P. Hughes and Ellen Black- make such a blundering and fatal use I burn were married xSovember 11 at the of its respite that the year 1916 will cast It out altogether. Record Conld Not Be Obscured. Washington Star. It was thought many Republicans sharing the opinion with many Demo crats that thA Wat hart helriAfi the as tne act was only intended to attract Democracy. The opinion proved to be uie jjuntD in an emergency. I erroneous. As it turned out, the rec xieaaquarters Army or. tne roigmsc, a nilsfl hv Av.n in,ii..h,irnr cfrr. Nov. 9. A flag of truce, asked by the el. Th no- t-rifr low h.H fail-,. enemy, that they might bury the men both as a revenue producer and as a killed In their attack Saturday, , h,,.!.... ,.. granted yesterday morning. The enemy gan, Doubt existed as to the value of at once acKnowieage a toss or zou auiea. ana the currency measure, and the trust ..viaaa-ugu. . leelBlfttinn wn n n,,,1. mv-n tn lour- I"" null ui IUQ XAIWIIBUalo MlttlH far vvrTlr va.a IHIaa n.,.1,,.,. 1 r .uuuuucu un ujr a. most at a standstill. And then came the anomaly of a war tax levied lc time of domestic peace. Ail this had soaked in, and created a sentiment which only awaited an op- One very much needed Improvement " .1"" Yi ..YS for our commerce Is a line of tugboats. have ha D, r home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. H Blackburn. The Rev. T. E. Clapp officiated. last Saturday. Among the buyers were E. Corbett, H. W. Corbett, T. H. Thes- sing, J. W. Cook. J. S. White, J. Fail ing, G. H. Williams and J. M. Richie.. "The Position of Woman in. Plato's Republic" is the topic of Julia Ward Howe's lecture this evening at the Uni tarian Church, where a large gather ing of those socially and educationally prominent la expected. E. L. Preston, who Is to hare charge of the construction of the Waverly Woodstock motor line, announced, yes terday that the work would be started Miss Judith McFa.rla.nd and Melvin G. Winstock were united in marriage last night at the residence of Dr. J. Bloch. The young couple will go to housekeeping on the East Side. Mrs. Winstock ia deservedly rtfpular and has a wide circle of friends. Mr. Win stock is telegraph editor of The Ore-gonian. Until we get them, we shall be con stantly sustaining the most provoking sacrifices. The Cambridge, for instance. was still at the mouth of the river last) Saturday, waiting for a favorable wind to get out for Honolulu. Bernard Dillon, an old-time resident of Portland, died yesterday (Monday) of Victoria. B. C. where he had been living for a number of years. John Burke and his sisters have de- Ohio Returns to Faith. Springfield Union. Once a strong Republican Common wealth, the Buckeye State has been I cided to build a seven-room house at aliened with the Democrats most of the I the corner of Seventh and Main streets. time in recent venrs. Tt rmti hAn 11 1 MM FOLK RKED INSTRUCTION years since the Republicans last elected Gibbs. the negro porter who shot on u mm. a vernor in that state. That the Re- and killed James McDevitt at the O. it. J'"'" puDiicans should have elected a Gov- & N. depot October 11. has been cap- jmamors- greatness, says wnier. i ernor this year In a three-cornered tured at Yreka. Cal. Ex-Ja.iler Hoxie PORTLAND. Nov. 13. (To the Edl- right against Cox. Democrat, and James left for Yreka last niEht to get Gibbs. tor.) The editorial in The Oregonlanl1- Garfield. Progressive, also a United who was identified by two photographs Wednesday impeaching "the literary flale3 senator in warren u. Harding, received by Sheriff Jxeny yesteraai. , , . ..?.. . is certainly a feat to be Droud of. But exquisites wno are lining tne wona h. vi. r " fko ni. I with noise over Joseoh Conrad." ia a "ZfiPlZ. 1?J ' "J 1. f,'?".. KETIREMEKT IS BUT TEMPORARY Republicans have caotured a maloritv sorrowful phenomenon not without its of the Congressmen from Ohio, whereas lighter and more cheerful aspect. Fdrl last time the Democrats elected 19 Con- surelv when The Oresrontan offers Con-1 gressmen out or Z2. The entire state rad the blessing of its dispraise those of us who admire the profound and melancholy Pole may be sure that his fame, watched for so eagerly from lonely tower, has at last alighted on these uttermost Western shores. A disagreement with the- editor on the merits of an artist was. however. too common an event, perhaps, to war rant the odious practice of writing to the papers. ticket appears to be Republican, and also both houses of the Legislature. Mr. Uswklsa Gives Reasons lor Ke llnqnishlne Mints try lor Business. PORTLAND, Nov. 13. (To the Edi tor.) Referring to a statement in Tne Oregonian, let me say that while It is evidently Intended to be fair and Im partial, it misrepresents me in one im- Weary of Inefficiency. Toledo Blade. The election returns srive the one I t0tmn whioh I would not plain indication that the country has I have noticed but for the fact that it ieik ins BiuiB m industrial aertression ii,,uti, tn thA church 1 am serv uu. aii uut resentment asrainst tne l party in power, has turned for relief to .i.t.mA i. that T "have onlv But the editorial before I the Republican party and Its tradition I -w, tj All' a vaqt whrpna I was me Is such a blinding flash of nonsense I of prosperity and the full dinner pail. I "c-iied here for a salary of J2600." The tnat a pious lover of letters cannot I lo interpret the election returns as r a sisi.q nn inrv was in an forbear crossing himself in print (by I proof of lickle-mindedness an ancient I HWe to a Question relative to the sal your leave). If only to keep the witches cnarge against the American people is ,rv ...Aived bv mv predecessor. I said away. Your critic avers that "Conrad to ignore tne facts which cry out at , ,.., told that the church had belongs to the school which Is never every street corner. To call It faith ver Dald lts paator above $1200 prior appreciated except by a precious and in reactionary politicians is to flatter to my comlne During the interview I vociferous few," and he proceeds to the reactionaries clear beyond their I j , . ' , ... , , sino thn van. moralize: "This Is not the kind of art I desserts. The election country-wide .... 1' -j ,hi, nr the which the world values permanently. I shows nothing else so sharply and dis- I ,.ij Liha warn the Question of Writers of the first rank appeal not tlnctly as a vast weariness with Demo- f lnance had been a more serious prob- to all mankind. Such was Shakespeare and such was Homer. An author must live In millions of souls to make sure of Immortality. No artist Is ever too great to be understood and loved by the multitude Sir, your commentator has confused the great artist with the candidate for omce. One Is, indeed, elected by the majority by approval of the millions of souls, but the other owes his elec tion, praise God, to the vehement few who sing his praises, in season and out of season, until the "millions of souls finally accept him on faith. If an lem. and that the church had fallen be hind on my salary. As a matter of fact, the church Is not so much behind with my salary today as it was a year ago. na - Barnes Leadership Wins. Brooklyn Eagle. The result is entirely satisfactory to I But confronted with the present Mr. Barnes. He has swept the state. I prospective financial conditions of the i-ie nas won ootn Drancnes or tne beg- I country. I do not feel it is just to mo islature. He holds the organization of I church for me to continue at the pres- his party. I ent salary of t2600 per year, nor that It is evident that not in all the Na- I it would be lust to my family for me tion is mere a nepuoiican state-leader l to take less. who enjoys the prestige of Mr. Barnes t am relinauishlng the ministry. today. We disagree with him as I temporarily, to give my entire thought uninuvittiB. xui wo may wen db kihu i n rwl time to nriranlzinK a ousiness en- that what power he wields is wielded I tnmrise that will have the United .. , by a man capable of keen thought and e.t nrl other countries as a field Vm,"- X:Vw..-3.,r,i-.;-: ' vltal egression, and Incapable of -,ri Uod. and which will bring me slsted of living In millions of souls." ". , an income ot not ieoo mau - HtitivBTrf. Ki nMntr txt ata d trroa tap nntkt I I Vfflr. than W. B. Yeats. Henry Sydnor Harri- "e "P'"" " mvonntry r orajotten. t question if there s a cnurcn in toe son a greater novelist than Henry new roric Journal or commerce. I City of Portland tnat is more narrnom .Timu a nri Rnhfrt w f-h mhom The - general result throughout the I nns and united, or one whose member- Harold Bell Wright the supreme liter- country is a forcible reminder for the I ship is more liberal, or one that is ary artists of the day. . Democratic party that it won Ita vie- I more loyal to Its pastor, than la the Even when an excellent author (like I tory two years ago oy a minority vote i central Christian at tne present umo. Dickens, e. g.) has enjoyed great suc cess during his lifetime, he requires the Indefatigable labors of the literary mi nority to keep his name alive, to write about him and talk of him, lest the "millions of souls" forget him for some third-rate idoL The coiumon kind, if of the people and owed it to the wide split In the Republican party, caused oy Roosevelt s Ill-faked effort to secure I a third term for himself and his "Pro- I gressive" diversion when he failed to get the nomination of the regular party They have not been sufficiently S. K. HAWKINS. Latest From the War. Life. Night Watchman (in any European town) Eight o'clock and all's hell. left to Itself, would not- keep Homer I mindful of that fact, and have pro- nor Shakespeare alive for a twelve month. It is "the especially illuminated coterie." the "prejcsous and vociferous few," who make an artist's reputation and will not let it die. They vocifer ate, they reiterate the praise of genius, ceeded with too little regard for the real opinion of the country. Moderate Conservative Reaction. Springfield Republican. The character of the ReDUbllcan oartv year alter year, generation atter gen- i mav be reasonablv forecast as mode- eratlon, until the 'millions of souls" rately conservative In the next phase are intrigued and complacently accept of our political history. Thij quality tne veraict. Ana so win it De witn seems unavoidably stamped upon it bv uonraa ana xeats ana tne lesser great i the circumstance of the party s re artists of our generation. Fifty years nascence. after Mr. Roosevelt's unsuc- hence. by the efforts of the enthusiastic cessful attempt to destroy it. The im. few. they will be living In "millions of portant Republican gains are colncl- souls"; and, mayhap, oy some compen- I dent with a striking conservative re- sation or proviaence t ne uregoman s I action. editor or tnat aay win glance over nis fine uncut edition of Joseph Conrad (In full levant as befits a classic) and atone for the sin of his predecessor with an editorial effusion on the artist's great ness. JAMES TWOHY. The Kaiser's Corfu villa is for sale. Now if Mexico's Villa could be dis posed of all might be well. Where is there a man with soul so dead that he hasn't visited the big show at the Armory. Both sides claim victory again at the East. Sounds like a Mexican bat tle in that respect. Isn't it frightful the way time rushes by? Here it is almost Thanks giving day again! Does change in the map of the Kai ser's face foretell change In the map of Europe? Wilson and Bryan find they cannot let go of the Mexican bull's tail after all. Well, wV can be thankful we're alive, anyway, when the day comes. The football game that has not one row lacks "ginger." Wind and rain have their uses, not grumble. ' Do The Armenians have defeated the Turks. Everybody does it. London is still shouting over the Emden incident. The Geier Honolulu. fooled the Japs at Plaa With Dole la It. Brooklyn, N. Y Eagle. The President This plan of reor ganization is very Ingenious. It does us credit. The Director Also it does our creditors. Roosevelt Primarily to Blame. Fiber and Fabric Theodore Roosevelt has more to an swer for than most any man in this country. He Is primarily responsible fnr the tariff, as his fathering: of the TURKEY-GROWER LESS THANKFUL Progressive element, so-called, allowed I the free traders a Drier period in wnicn tie is aot Kejoicins; vtitn trantmer thftv. have cost the people of tho United i Over Prospective Low Prices. I states more than a billion dollars in PORTLAND. Nov. 12. (To the Edl- lost wages, passed and reduced divi- tor.) The Oregpnian advises us that I dends and general reductions in Amer- turkeys will be much cheaper this year I lean manufacturing production. than formerly, and attributes the de cline In price to the advent of Call- I Moving- on to Prosperity. fornla turkeys into this market. I New York Mail. While this may be good news to I Enterprise, big and little, has changed consumers of turkeys, it doesn't bring I its mood overnight. Confidence has tak- any cheer to Oregon poultry-raisers, es- I en the place of timidity, optimism of ; pecially when we wno depend on our I pessimism. A strong Pellet in good turkeys and chickens to furnish a lit- I times has supplanted a doubtful hope. tie happiness on Thanksgiving find Men of business now have their minds times so hard. on development not on curtailment. This year I have worked only half I Democratic tariffs and Democratic of the time, 'and find It hard to keep I strangling of business are as dead as my bead aoove me waves or nara times, I Democratic money standards. and had hoped my turkeys would bring a good price, but It seems everything Is against the poor man. Oregon seems to be particularly hard hit. and I believe we should patronize home industry, especially In the matter of chickens and turkeys, a poultry We are moving on to prosperity! Wilson Spell Is Broken. Pittsburg Gazette Times. The Wilson spell is broken. From now on neither the President's individ naiitT nor the power of patronase can raising is one of our largest industries. be relied upon to carry through radical Isn't It possible to enact a law, acts, and the Democratic party will be through use of the initiative, to exclude compelled o fight for every advantage California fowl from this market? If It undertakes to secure. Instead of such a law were In force now we might I Detne in position to override all oppo be able to pay expenses In the poultry sltlon lt will be on the defensive, and brsiness. But when this state 1 brought into competition with the cheap land, cheap labor and cheap feed of California there is no hope for profit In the turkey-raising business. JASON ASHBURRT. 641 East Forty-ninth street. s I Jtard. put to retain what it has. Roosevelt No More m Factor. Baltimore Star. Not for a moment will the country miss the one great fact of the election the demonstrated reunion of the Republican party; and. as night fol lows day, the conclusion, already ten tatively accepted, oecomes assurance: Plow Is 123 Years In Use, .TniliiinnTinT! Vav Willie D. James, of Bethlehem. Ky., That Theodore Roosevelt has ceased to owns a plow which has been handed oe a lactur in J"'"'"-" down from his great-grandfather. It has been all the time on one -of the farms now owned by" Mr. James at least 125 years. The Colonel's rltle to Fame. New York Sun. The Colonel's still on the map as the father-in-law . of the Hon- Nicnolaa Longworth. An Opinion on the Lawyers. Baltimore American. She I thought you told me this was a civil court. He So It is. I Friend- she Whv. those horrid lawvers In ft-1 have. Is the rent high? were as rude as they could be. i Artist I don't remember, Studio and Rent. Boston Globe. This is a nice studio you FEATURES for Sunday Famous "War Paintings. 'At close quarters, a full page in brilliant colors from the celebrated painting by Beanquesne, showing German and French horsemen lit erally at Bwords points. The Last Cartridge, by DeNeuville, and Re turn From Reconnaissance and De fense of a Chateau, by the same painter. In the Day's Work. A study of the private soldier in the trenches in France. A human interest story, different from any yet drawn from the war zone. Diplomacy. A study of the art of preserving peace and precipitating war, in which stirring historical instances are recorded. In the Hospitals. A Petrograd correspondent of The Sunday Oregonian makes a round of Russian hospitals and portrays war as it is disclosed in these centers of suffering. Joffre. A page story of the famous French General, including a strik ing five-column sketch of him in the field. Famous Sieges. The sieges of Ladysmith in 1899 and of Port Arthur in 1904 are re corded in the closing article of this series. The Music Lesson. Lesson six in the series of free piano lessons is in the keys of B and G sharp. For the Children. Puzzle pictures and illustrated features for the little ones occupy an entire page. Scores of Other Features to Meet Every Taste. Order early of your newsdealer.