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lO THE MOItNIXG OREGOXIAN, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER So, 1914. PORTLAND, OREO OK. Entered at Portland, Oregon, Fostofflce aa Second-class matter. Bubsvripuon Rates Invariably In Advance: (By Mall.) Dally Sunday Included, one year .... $8.00 Isaily, eunday Included, six months 4.25 2.tally. Sunday Included, three months 2.25 pally, Sunday Included, one month .7fi I'aily, without Sunday, one year ........ 8.00 lally, without Sunday, six moDths 8.zS liRily, without Sunday, three month! l-' Dally, without Sunday, one month .80 Weekly, ane year 1.60 Sunday, one year 2.60 Eunday and Weekly, one year 8.50 (By Carrier.) Dally, flunday Included, one year $9.00 &ally. Sunday Included, one month .IS How to Remit Send Fostofflce money or. der, express order or personal check on your local batik. Stamps, coin or currency are at sender's r.flk. Give postof flee address in full. Including; county and state. Postasre Rates 12 to 16 pages, 1 cent; 18 to 82 paces, 2 cents; 84 to 48 pages, 8 cents; 60 to So pages, 4- cents; 63 to 76 pages, S cents; (8 to V2 pages, 6 cents. Foreign post age, double rates. Eastern Business Office Verree Conk II n. New York, bruniwlok building. Chi cago, stenger building, San Franclnco Office R. J. Blawell Co., 742 Market street. PORTLAND, WEDNESDAY. NOV., !3, 1914. 1 RATIONAL, TAJBQ-F REFOB.M. An encouraging: sign that those sec tions of the country where Kepubli cans have hitherto stood for exorbi tant protection are coming- to a more rational view of the tariff is to be found in the changed tone of some Eastern newspapers. The New York Sun, for example, has been regarded, with some Justification, as a champion of "the interests," yet It now says: What the United States needs In an ecooomta sense, and also what will please the electorate more than anything else, is sot a high tariff nor a low tariff,, but a moderately protective tariff. The Sun goes on to explain how ex cessive protection has led to popular revolt and to excessive reduction of duties, which caused depression and deficits In spite of additional internal taxes. Such was the experience dur ing the days of Cleveland. A revolt against the high McKInley tariff brought the low Wilson tariff and the passage of an Income tax law, which was declared unconstitutional, with the result that the inevitable deficit was aggravated. Reaction followed, and the Sun says: The Republican party, learning nothing from the past, aa soon aa it was placed in power after the abolition of the very low tariffs favored by Mr. Cleveland, tried upon the country a high tariff of the old sort. Once more there was a revolt against high protection, and once more it has been found that low tariffs aa well aa high tariffs fall to answer the country's needs. The conclusion of the Sun la that "a reasonable and proper mean between the tariff extremes Is what is wanted," and it sums up the whole case by say ing: We want a sensible, honest, reasonable tariff In the making of which neither un practical free trade theorists nor greedy capitalists have a hand. Such a tariff can tie obtained " by only one course of procedure. The great body of the people, who desire reasonable protection, should insist that Congress shoulder aside both the greedy capitalists and the unpractical theorists, abandon the attempt to ar rive at the proper rate of duties by means of committee hearings and cre ate a commission which shall gather all the information needed to guide the- committee and Congress. A com mittee is given only the facts which selfishly interested persons wish it to know, together with a liberal mixture of falsehood. These persons carefully conceal facts which are essential to a correct decision, but would militate against obtaining extravagant de mands. Those having a large selfish interest to serve appear in force at committee hearings. The general pub. lie interest is only slightly represent ed. If at all, and persons who have undertaken to represent it have often received scant courtesy. The result is a distorted, one-sided view and a mis placed tariff, too high at some points, too low at others, which disgusts the people and disposes them to kick the Whole structure of protection' to pieces at the next election. A Tarif Commission, composed, as was that appointed by President Taft, of men of both parties whose mission was simply to collect and collate the knowledge needed by tarlff-framers, would not wait for men to come to It; It would send its agents to them. It would not be content with what men wished to tell; it would go after every thing it ought to know and would have authority to compel divulgenco of information, subject to obligations of official secrecy. It would not seelt to uphold any particular policy; it would collect data, leaving advocates of the two rival theories to make their own Interpretation. It need not go so far as to recommend any particular rates, of duty, though it might indicate wnat rai.es wouia eiuwie our producers to compete successfully in home and foreign markets without building up monopoly or oppressing the consumer with exorbitant prices. If the Republican party, when re stored to power, were to Ignore the pleas of both types of extremists and were honestly to base duties on in formation thus obtained, the swing' ing of the pendulum of public opln- Ion between the two extremes would probably cease. The tariff would not he revised in a single bill under this policy. It would be revised one sched ule at a time. When all the schedules had been thus reconstructed, changed conditions would be likely to require slight modifications In those' first re vised. No other country revises its tariff by wholesale in a single bill. The European nations have men studying business conditions contln ually and making or recommending slight modifications as changed condi tions require. No other country con vulses business by sudden periodic changes from one policy to the other. Having adopted a policy, they adhere to it continuously. Great Britain in augurated the free trade policy in 1846, but not until many years after wards was the last protective duty re pealed, and all efforts to bring about a return to the protective policy have failed. Business conditions have, in consequence, acquired a stability un known to this country, and men can adopt plans the execution of which extends far into the future because they can feel confident that the fis cal conditions on which those plans are based will pot be changed. It la high time that the Republican party sent to limbo the tariff hogs, as well as theTarirf dreamers and en acted what the Sun calls "the right tariff." Then business will have rest, security and confidence. But what on earth is the matter with the allies in the West? With Ger many fighting a fearfal struggle on the east, a struggle requiring her strongest armies and closest interest. the allies seem content to remain dor mant. It would seem, at least from the distance, that now is the time th allies should be striking their hardest blows against the German fighting machine in France and Belgium. If the Germans should succeed in the east they will reinforce their western line .and the allies 'will -then have a tougher nut to crack. ax echo from coppeefield. When Miss fern Hobbs, acting as emissary plenipotentiary for Governor West, and Colonel Lawion, her trusty militiaman, descended on Copperfield, closed the saloons, seized their stocks of liquor, shipped them to Baker, and held them there for nearly a yetr, there was no confiscation. Nor can the Governor, who was directing his willing ambassadors in the great serv ice of cleaning up and cleaning out Copperfield, be enjoined from .doing what he had already done. All of which we gather from a decision of the State Supreme Court, rendered yesterday. But we do not discover that the court is enthusiastic over the great adventure of Governor West, per Hobbs and Law son. It quite clearly indicates that the "arbitrary exercise of the military power" is as little to be desired as "government by injunc tion." "However we may character ize the occurrences described in the pleadings," says the court, "yet we cannot presume that the defendants will do any unlawful act in the fu ture." The wise Judges appear thus to regret that a strict respect lor the requirements of correct legal Interpre tations compels them to give the Gov ernor and his accessories the benefit of the doubt. But they feel Justified, nevertheless, in describing the Gover nor's sensational proclamation of mar tial law at Copperfield as "fustian." The remedy of the injured Copper field saloonkeeper appears to ' be to begin an action at law for damages. That is what he doubtless thought he had done. But the liquor is there in Baker. He has thirteen months and more to dispense it in Oregon, and even at Copperfield, if he can. CALIFORNIA'S FAVORITE SOX. The enthusiasm of Governor Hiram Johnson's admirers leads one of them, the Pacific Outlook, to give general notice that California will have a candidate for President to offer two years hence. Says the Ou.'look, in course of a glowing panegyric of Johnson: This result establishes California as the first progressive state in the Union and places Governor Hiram W. Johnson uncondl- ionally in the absolntely front rank or American political leaders. In a year of reaction, with standpat victories overwhelm ing even such men as Beverldge, Pinchot, Colby and Robins. Hiram Johnson alone. of all the National leaders, has not only maintained, but enormously Increased his strength, even over its highest point in the past. This Nation must now reckon with Hiram Johnson, and through him with Cali fornia, as it never did before. California is not only the first Pro gressive state, but the only Progressive state. It will take more than one Pro gressive swallow, doubtless, to make Presidential Summer; though the California Idea is that if anyone is good enough for California, he is good nough for the Nation, if not too good. But was the Johnson triumph a Progressive or a personal victory? If through him the Progressives won, the party must be easily satisfied, for the Progressive candidate for Senator, Mr. Heney, was a bad third, and Gov ernor Johnson was about the only candidate to make a first-rate show ing except those astute Progressives who also contrived to secure a Re publican nomination. Around the robust form of Hiram Johnson the Progressives still main tain the semblance of an organization in California. But there are forty- seven other states besides California. This may be denied in California, but it is so. MR. YEON AND ROADS. No citizen who has ever been over the Columbia Highway, whether he went in an automobile, or a horse- vehicle, or afoot, has failed to be im pressed with the high worth of the undertaking. . It is to be the great connecting link between Eastern and Western Oregon; it traverses the most magnificent river in America; it opens up a fertile territory; it is a noble piece of road construction. Altogeth er, it bids fair to be known as one of the great highways of the world. For a year Mr. Yeon has been roadr master for Multnomah, giving his at tention particularly, to the Columbia TTIViwnv hut vnrklnr atari for first- class roads throughout the county. He has given to the public gratuitous ly the earnest and competent service of a fine organizer and a sensible and honest roadbuilder. With the aid of the Bensons, father and son, who have devoted their time and money to the cause of better roads, he has realized their common ideal of a perfect road in the Columbia Highway; and with them he desires to make all the roads about Portland what they should be. The Columbia Highway is to be Oregon's show-road; but the roads of the county are to be a definite and lasting asset, available for tie most constant and trying use, and contrib uting directly to the welfare of all citizens. The Highway Is but a unit in a system of permanent roads for Multnomah County. A meeting of taxpayers yesterday decided to recommend the completion of the- Columbia Highway (except the paving) out of the 1915 tax levy and to propose a bond issue of $1,000,000 to be used for hardsurfacing various important Multnomah roads, includ ing the Highway. Obviously the day of the paved road In the country, as in the city, is here. Macadam roads, or gravel roads, or dirt roads, are not good enough, for they do not last, under present traffic conditions, on main thoroughfares. A wise people builds for the future, as for the present. TUB FltTVATK COLLEGE CONFERENCE. The conference of college heads and faculties to be held at Forest Grove next Friday and Saturday should produce important educational results. Only the prjvately-owned in stitutions are to be represented, but that fact will not diminish the weight of the discussions. These colleges have always played a highly significant part in the educational life of Oregon and there is no reason to expect that their relative value will soon tre di minished. They are not likely to grow as rapidly as the Btatesupported in stitutions, but we do not believe that is to be much regretted. Of course a big' university presents some opportunities to its students which the small colleges cannot hope to rfVal, but on the other hand they possess peculiar excellencies of their own. ,In respect to libraries, labora tories and, perhaps, lecturers, they will always be troubled to hpld their own, but they have compensating qualities. The small college retains more of the idealistic feeling than one usually finds in the big university. Education is less commercialized there and is more faithful .to the gfat spir itual traditions. It is quite likely that these tradi tions will assume more serious impor tance in the world as the revolt against materialism and militarism proceeds and the small college will profit by the new feeling. They will also profit by the growing belief that an intimate relation between pupil and teacher io or prime worth in education. Class work in the populous institutions must always be more or less mechanical, a matter Of routine and "Impersonal drill. In the small college students and teachers draw nearer together and the fine qualities of the instructor are impressed upon the young by habitual association. The privately-owned colleges could not be spared from our educational system without great loss. Their fi delity to the "inner life" makes them worthy of the highest praise and en titles them to a more liberal financial support than they have ever received up to the present. COPTTNa KANSAS. From Judge Stephen A. Lowell comes the suggestion that the most efficient way for the Legislature to provide enforcement of the prohibition amendment would be to adopt the tested prohibition statutes of Kansas. It is doubtless true that Kansas pro vides the last word in effectively applied prohibition law, but it is per haps wise to. investigate the terms of the Kansas law and inquire whether public sentiment in this state desires similar restrictions. What might bo popular there might be unpopular here. If the law is more severe than the people desire it is likely to fall not only in its onerous particulars, but In others as well. The Kansas law has been built up gradually. While most of the provi sions now in force were adopted, in 1909, there have been important addi tions in later years. As reports that the law's enforcement in that state are favorable. It may be assumed that It accords with Kansas public opinion. But would it accord with Oregon, opin ion, where state-wide prohibition is a condition not yet experienced? The constitutional amendment adopted in Oregon In the recent elec tion is precisely the same as the Kan sas amendment. In neither state is distribution prohibited by constitution, but Kansas has placed certain restric tion by legislative enactment on dis tribution for private use which, if known to have been contemplated in Oregon as a consequence of adoption of the amendment might have greatly altered the vote thereon. Kansas prohibits the receipt or use of Intoxicating liquors In social clubs. as well as Its division, distribution, gift, barter or sale therein. Kansas permits carriers to deliver intoxicating liquor from out of the state to individuals for private use, but requires that the consignee shall sign a prescribed form of receipt which after thirty days must be filed as a public record. Kansas also prohibits the taking of orders for delivery of liquors for pri vate use. These are the provisions which pos sibly would encounter the most seri ous objection In a state just beginning a dry existence. There are other provisions in the Kansas law which may appear at least novel to the general public. There, no drug stores are licensed to sell Intoxi cating liquors on prescription or otherwise. If liquor Is required for medicinal purposes it must be admin istered by a physician from his own supply. t Drunkenness anywhere in the state, even in one's own home, is punishable by fine or imprisonment. Severe pen alties are prescribed for giving or sell ing liquor to ' Inmates of Soldiers' Homes. The- landlord Is made respon sible for fines and costs when he knowingly permits illegal sale on his premises, and leases are forfeited when the tenant uses the property thus unlawfully. Places where liquors are sold or given away contrary to law or where people congregate to drink are de clared public nuisances by the Kansas law and the right of search and seiz ure is extended to officers of the law respecting such places. These are some of the important features of the Kansas law and a few of them are more liberal than the law just adopted in the State of Washing ton. There the quantity an individual may keep for his own use is limited by statute. The character of law Ore gon shall adopt is one of the grave problems confronting the Legislature. But it would seem that the fact that a law elsewhere has been upheld by the highest courts and that it is adapt able to our own constitution and prac tices is not fhe only test. It must con form to the public wishes in Oregon to be successfully enforced. PROMOTING INDUSTRIAL ART. The- American Art Institute, which was organized last Spring, has now opened its rooms on East Forty-second street. New York, and win begin active operations. A great many dis tinguished persons are interested In the now society whose principal aim Is to promote the arts connected with industry. To make the surroundings of common life beautiful Is a task which has scarcely been undertaken In the United States, although in some other countries it has been carried to wonderful perfection. The Art Insti tute will employ various means to ad vance this worthy purpose. For one thing, It will seek to estab lish better relations between artistic producers and those who purchase their work. It seems that this voca tion suffers as much as any other from lack of system. Many persons who make excellent designs carry them to the wrong market and thus fail to reap their rightful profit. Others need direction about the most fruitful use to make of their abilities. These matters and others of similar import the Art Alliance will take up and place in a more desirable Situation. It also plans to encourage education in industrial art. In most or the American manufactories where taste and skill of hand are required the highest paid positions are held by for eigners, while native Americans are fitted only for - the inferior portions of the work. Naturally, therefore, their pay a Inferior also. What Is needed in this field Is education that will fit American youths for the high est industrial positions. They must not only train themselves to be designers, but also for superintendents! in great artistic manufactories. The, Art Alliance further intends to take up a work which has been intro duced in the London County Council schools. This la the development of correct taste In merchants so that they can be relied upon to recognize good, art When it is offered to them and hand it on to their customers. Perhaps the greatest of all the current problems in industrial art is to beau tify machine-made articles. These usually present a mechanical uniform ity which may not lessen their use fulness, but it certainly makes them unnecessarily ugly. The modern world will not of course give up machine manufacture, but it is easily possible by the employment of skill and taste to relieve goods made in this way of their dull sameness and render them agreeable to the eye Instead of of fensive. This demands a special kind of education which the Art Institute will try to promote. If the Institute succeeds in carrying out even a part of its plans it will be a weighty factor in American educa tion and industry. With the ability and capital which it has enlisted it should be able to move .rapidly toward its various objects and begin to show results within a comparatively short time. Up to the present America has been obliged to go to Europe for its high-grade industrial designs. "No purely American art," says one au thority, "has yet developed to the point where it can be independent of foreign inspiration." There Is no good reason why this development should be much longer delayed. Arkansas farmers are no longer satisfied with the mere necessaries of life. They want some of the luxuries. To that end they have called upon every available resource to help make their business pay better. The Fed eral Department of Agriculture, the state college, ' the railroads, public schools and banks are all interested. Among them they should manage to do something worth imitating else where. The Arkansas movement Is called "a state agricultural revival." The Christian Science Monitor reads a lesson In the wholesale slaughter of proposed constitutional amendments at the Fall elections. It does not pay, thinks that paper, to give the voters the "difficult task" of passing on a host of candidates and a string of measures within the ten or fifteen minutes he spends in the booth. Were his task shortened and simplified he would do It better. Patagonia, like Alaska, used to be described as a desolate region of ice and snow. Now, like Alaska again, it turns out to be a region of boundless resources. Settlers are flocking to its eastern coast and thriving towns are growing up. Patagonia is one of the few places in the world where there can still be found vast fertile stretches of unsettled land. Massachusetts Is a wonderful state fcr "conservative reforms." Just now It Is agitating for two of them, short legislative sessions and the short bal lot. With .the latter go Increased powers for administrative officers and heavier responsibilities. It may be that in the long run the Massachusetts way will work out as well as the "Ore' gon system." The School Journal thinks 11 or 12 years the best age to begin study of a foreign language. It is better than any later time, but not soon enough. The earlier a child begins to study a language the more quickly and surely he acquires It, and, marvelous as It may seem, the various tongues seem to help and not hinder one- another in his memory. The 100,000 Americans who haVe offered their services to Canada for the European war have more zeal than sense, but If they are accepted their loss to the country will occasion at least one benefit. It will relieve us of a swarm of insanely quarrelsome maniacs and thus make it easier for sensible people to keep the peace. It now develops that the Crown Prince is fighting in the east. The policy seems to be to shoot him from place to place until he rails Into a great victory in time to claim the credit for it. But even as he failed at Verdun he appears to be confronted with a slim chance at present in Poland. An earthquake lasted for an hour about early breakfast time In this country yesterday, but has not been located. At that time of day the proper wife is too busy Jawing "the old man" out of bed to note anything unusual and for the same reason the dilatory husband's mind Is elsewhere. Charles Jarl, of Kelso, in Eastern Multnomah, who put "Dutch" Strof, the burglar, out of business with the robber's gun, deserves more than simple "Thank you!" Some 100,000 Americans have ap plied to go to the. front with Canadian regiments. What would Canada do without them? The Germans' right wing was stopped by Slavs yesterday and Tur key's giblets get into the dUcord to morrow. Buy a turkey today, and if the spirit so moves while they are cheap and plenty, Duy two and give one to the needy. The recent election is said to have reduced Colonel Roosevelt to the ranks. Or placed him on the retired list. War to the last cartridge is Agui lars vow against Villa. But then he may have only a couple of shells left. The next time the United States interferes anywhere, the belligerents will discount the merit of Intention, England needs a commission of Kansans to show how to make and jump into cyclone cellars. There Is another rumor afloat that Mr. Bryan intends to resign. Too good to be true. Show us a poor political loser and we'll show you a poor specimen of mankind. The football craze in England is blamed ror slow recruiting. That and cold reet. The military football game in East ern Prussia is still centering about mldfield. The buzzards of Vera Cruz are back on the Job by this time, no doubt. Some candidates do not appear to know when they are beaten. The American Vera Cruz incident Is the folly of the age. One month to Christmas, the morning. Shop In Home Town Up the Line By Dean Collins. While others gaze upon the map With deepest Interest, . To note what city is, maphap, Beleaguered in the West. Of whether on the eastern side The forts of Cracow still abide. Or look with seal for Tranapol, Or Tpres, where the battles roll; am a very different chap: There's only Just one town for mine. And its not on the last war map I speak of Home Town, up the line. care not if, tomorrow morn. The walls of Cracow fall: - Or Frzemysl lies forlorn. witn war smoke over all: - The map has just one city strong That keeps my interest right along; Ana that Is where the smoke wreaths rise From fires that brown big home-made pies, Where royal turkey roasts In state. Ana cornbread golden, crisp and. fine. And gravy rich and sauces great l speaK or Home Town, up the line. And so, let others scan the map. For spots of foreign fame. And towns where battle banners flap Mia uproar, strife and flame; rix my eyes unswervingly On the one town where I would be. Thanksgiving's altar fires arise With incense rich, from pumpkin pies; Where mother, with a wondrous art Evolves a banquet quite divine: That la the city or my heart 1 speak of Home Town, up th'e line. DANGER IX GENERAL APPLICATION Personal Compensation for Criminal Injuries May Canse Wrongrdolns;. PORTLAND, Nov. 24. (To the Ed itor.) I note that Judge McGinn ap praises the value or a young girl's virtue at 1250 and that he puts the assessed valuation or severe bodily iti- uries received In a case or assault and battery at $100. I would suggest that he be urged to publish a more complete scale of prices for the long list of offenses which must be brought to his attention from time to time. If he is In doubt as to the proper amount to charge the culprit in such cases I would refer him to the old Salic law, which has the system worked out to a nicety. I haven't the data, at hand, but the learned Judge will remember, so much for an eye, so many shillings for a tooth, so many for an ear chewed off. all these sums being payable to the injured party. I have always understood that in the evolution of civilization and the in crease in the wisdom of the ages, the theory that punishment for crime and money compensation for same was due the Injured party had changed, and that the generally accepted theory among civilized nations today was that such punishment or compensation was due the state and that there was ample reason for this change,; but It evidently seems otherwise ,to the learned Judge. ' Seriously, is there not danger In re applying the old Teutonic law of 1000 years ago under modern conditions? ir It should become generally known that offenders will be let off with a money payment to the Injured party will not . this Impression become an incentive rather than a detriment to crime? H. A. B. Unanimous Consent for New Survey. PORTLAND, Nov. 24. (To the Edl tor.) Is there any law allowing the changing of a survey In Multnomah County once made by the County Sur veyor and placed on record? The case In dispute was surveyed by C. Oliver in 1903, corners established and prop ertj laid out In five-acre tracts and sold. Some of the purchasers have cleared their holdings and erected buildings and fences. The persons who had the tract laid out and surveyed had so many claims that they have not the amount or ground left they should have and are endeavoring to have the tract resurveyed. If it is surveyed again and corners established the way it is claimed it should be it will neces sitate the moving of the fences and perhaps buildings of the innocent pur chasers. Who is liable for the removal or said fences and buildings? Can the present owners keep them from having the property resurveyed? Can they re cover damagres in any way? INNOCENT PURCHASER. After a tract of land has been sub divided into tracts, blocks or lots regu larly staked, plotted and recorded and afterward sold to various parties. there can be no changing of stakes or any resurvey take place except by unanimous consent and agreement of all owners of lots or tracts affected. Should such an agreement be effected then they may petition the County Court for a vacation of the first flat and file another one, as may be agreed upon by all concerned. Preferred and Common Stock. PORTLAND, Nov. 24. (To the Edl tor.) Please explain the difference be tween preferred and common stock in corporations and how profits or earn ings are applied as dividends on the different classes of stock. BOOKKEEPER. Preferred stock gets, a fixed rate of dividend before common etock gets any. Thus United States Steel preferred pays 7 per cent, while for a long time com mon paid nothing and has paid only up to 5 per cent. On the other hand, preferred never pays more than the fixed rate, while common has the chance of paying 10 or more per cent. Dividends on preferred stock are often cumulative; that Is, If the profits In any year are not sufficient to pay the stipulated rate, the deficiency Is made up In later years, while in such cases common stock pays no dividend. In some companies voting power is not given preferred stock. In others, such stock may be converted into bonds. Why Not Copy Kansas Ltwl PENDLETON. Or., Nov. 23. (To the Editor.) Please permit a suggestion as to an easy and efficient manner by which the Legislature may provide tested statutes for enforcement of the newly adopted prohibition amendment to the constitution. The great mass of our laws are borrowed from the older states. Is it not best now to adopt the statutes of the State of Kansas, so tar as they relate to intoxicating liquors? They are easily adapted to our own practice and constitution and have met the test of the highest courts. The State Librarian and Clerk of the Su preme Court can assemble them from the State Library and the Attorney General will then easily redraft them for use by the Legislature. STEPHEN A. LOWELL. Member of the Supreme Court. Life. Earnest Youth Father, what qualifi cations do you need to be a member of ihe Supreme Court? Father You have to be thoroughly respectable, honorable beyond reproach and be able to write English in such a way that no other lawyer will be quite, pure wnat you mean. " A Congressman of Experience. Washington (D. C.) Star, 'You'll have some explaining to do when you get home, wont you? "No," replied the member of Congress. "I'm going to let my constituents argue matters out among themselves and then take the side that seems to have the most advocates. IT 19 THEIR OWN CONTROVERSY Irishmen May Quarrel Wltb Britishers, but Outsiders Better Keep Oat. PORTLAND, Nov. 24. (To the Edi tor.) That bloody cataclysm over seas has become so acute that it may now be said that one side or the other will prevail within the next few months, or defensive fighting will continue for two to three years, dependent entirely upon what terms hostilities may cease. The convention of the United Irish League in America called for December 8 to meet John Redmond and his col leagues in New York City has been in definitely postponed, so serious is the situation abroad. Mr. Redmond's presence in this coun try would do much to silence those unscrupulous newspapers and ignorant and un-American agitators, who are the bountiful recipients of "gold pills," made In Germany. Hence this letter In default of said convention. The organization of which 1 am a member, the "United Irish League or America," is neither pro-English, pro German, pro-French, pro-Austrian nor pro-Russian. It is pro-American, hum bly thankful to God that our country is at peace with the world, and sub scribes to the motto of a famous German-American: "When our country is right, keep It right; If wrong, set -It right." And while our organization by reason of blood-kinship has sympa thized in the past with the aspirations of the Irish people, we have never dreamed of advising the Irish nation how it should govern itself, nor has such advice ever been asked, for the Irish people have demonstrated to the world that they are capable of choosing their own form of government and or conducting their own governmental af fairs, and In selecting leaders who have made their country respectable the world over. For more than a generation the voice of true Ireland, through its represen tatives in the Parliament, assured the people of Britain that the granting of home rule meant peace in Ireland, pros perity to its people and the forging of a strong link in the unity of -the empire. True Irishmen are not liars; they know honor, for honor is a part of the Irish character. They have made a settlement of the Irish question sat isfactory to themselves, and in that settlement they did not consider the venal press of America, nor the politi cal barnstormers, nor the cracked- brained agitators outside the zone of danger. As an Irishman born, let me say. Irishmen will quarrel among them selves, may quarrel with certain stand- pat Britishers, but it will be well for outsiders not to meddle in the row, a row that is of no concern to outsiders, lest they get what they are not look ing for. So that there may not be any mis understanding let It be observed at this time that the men and women who in the past have really been the friends of the Irish cause are not those now Insulting John Redmond and his col leagues, the laces of whose shoes they are not worthy to tie. Politicians of the popularity-seeking kind would do well to leave the home rule question where It belongs, In Ireland, and leave the war In Europe where it belongs,, in burope; men who advise sedition to others hardly appeal to the patriotic classes of their own country, when that country needs the patriotic loyalty of its own Sons. L. SHANAHAN. Of National Executive Committee United Irish League or America. HE HAS NO CHANCE TO COME BACK Canse for Thanksgiving Seen In Roose velt's Political Oblivion. PORTLAND, Nov. 24. (To the Edi tor.) I notice that half a column was given by The Oregonian to the plea of David A. Glasgow that we give Mr. Roosevelt a fair chance to .ret on the Republican ballot and he will carry the Union In 1916." Apparently Mr. Glasgow has forgot ten that Mr. Roosevelt In the recent campaign stated unequivocally to Mr. Andrew D. . White: "I shall not go back to the Republican party." Or perhaps he regards that as being In the same class as a former statement of the rule-or-ruin party-destroyer. In which ho positively announced that under no circumstances would he ac cept a third term. However, Mr. Roosevelt is one of the handicaps which the Republican party will be spared in the future. The rea son for this blessing is set forth by State Committeeman Charles H. Betts, editor of the Lyons (N. Y.) Republi can, who in a retrospective letter aent Mr. Roosevelt the day after election said: You cannot coma back. You must now bs eonvlnced that in this moral, this civilized, this enlightened age, the American people do not regard party treason as a virtue. when the Christians erect a monument to perpetuate the memory of Judas lacariot and the patriots erect a monument to per- peuate the memory of Arnold, then, and not until then, will you be welcomed back to the ranks of the Hepublican party. The Hepublican party, with a generous hand, showered upon you all the honors within Its sift. It nursed you from ob scurity to world-wide fame, and then because It denied you a third term the very thins you pledged the American people that you would not take you started out to assassin ate that party, not only In the Nation but In every slate In the Union. Your apostasy has been characterized by a malignity, vlclousnesa and a vlndlctlveneas unparalleled la the political history of mankind. This country has had but little to be thankful for slnco the world's champion egotist installed a Demo cratlc free-trade Administration at Washington, but on Thursday, from all over this land, there will go up prayers of thankfulness because the cause or the disturbance is holding his fang-extracted jaws in silence at Oy ter Bay, there to remain indefinitely, E. W. .WRIGHT. Railroad Steamers Through Canal, PORTLAND, Nov. .22. (To the Ed itor.) In The Oregonian I noticed news item headed, "Many Will Make Canal Trip," in which It was stated that the Great Northern Pacific Steam ship Company's new steamers would carry passengers through the Panama Canal from Philadelphia to the Pa cific Coast. If such is the case, how do they get around the law? As understand it, steamship companies owned by railroads are not to have the use of the Canal. W. F. BENSON. As the steamers in question are to be operated solely on the Pacific Coast and will make only an Initial voyage from Philadelphia through the Canal in order to reach this coast, the Government probably takes the com mon sense view that the carrying of passengers through the Canal on this Initial voyage alone is not a violation of the spirit of the law. 'Kind Words Can Kcvtf Die." New York Sun. To the Editor of the Sun--Slr: The kind words from the Administration to the business interests of the country remind me of the thrilling melodrama entitled ''Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model." In the early part of the play the villain pushed Nellie off the Brooklyn Bridge. Later he threw her overboard from an Atlantic liner. Later still he thrust her under a descending elevator. The next time they met, he said: "Nel lie, wny ao you tear me; Virtue of Punctuality. Buffalo (N. Y.) Courier, "Men are always late. I have waited here since o'clock for my husband to come, and It is now 7:30." "At what hour were you to meet him?" asked the woman who had joined her, "At S o'clock." Swiss Aid for the Need, London Tit Bits. Switzerland spends more on relief of the poor than does any other country. Twenty-Five Years Ago From The Oresonian, November SI, 1889. Salem, Or., Nov. 20. The Methodist Episcopal Church, of Dufur, Wasco County, filed articles of Incorporation today. E. T. Hinman. -W. E. Campbell and A. B. Mott are the incorporators. The location of the new City Hall was again discussed at the meeting of the Common Council last night. Mayor De Lashmutt said that the Supreme Court had decided that it could not be built on the new plaza block. Olympia, Nov. 20. The election or John B. Allen and Watson C. Squire as Washington's rirst United States Senators was formally announced in the joint convention of the two branches of the Legislature today. Deputy Sheriff Clarkson, or Yreka, who captured the murderer Gibbs, hav ing accomplished his duty by bringing ine prisoner to Portland, is ready to go home as soon as he receives the reward for the capture. If thosa who subscribed to the fund will leave their subscription at the Oregon National can today, Mr. Clarkson will be able to leave this evening. Deputy Prosecuting Attorney N. D. Simon and Mrs. Simon have moved into their new home, 497 E street. Miss Mary Garner represented F. S. Dunning, the undertaker, at the Busi ness Men's Carnival given In the Armory Hall last night by the Y. M. C. A. She wore a costume made of the satins and silks with which caskets are trimmed. In her hands she bore tiny casket. Forest Grove, Nov. 19. Ex-Governor George L. Woods is much improved in health. Governor Woods and his father walked to the city and back today, a distance of at least three-quarters of a mile. Denver, Nov. 20. The series of games in this city between St. Louis and Boston clubs closed today. TThe score stood 9 to 9 In the ninth Inning, when the game was called on account of darkness. London, Nov. 20. Captain Wissmann telegraphs that H. M. Stanley, the African explorer, arrived at Mpwapo November 10. Washington. Nov. 20. Dr. Valente, the Brazilian Minister, has rot yet asked the United States to recognize the United States of Brazil. Half a Century Ago From The Oregonian. November 23. 1864. C. N. Humiston. J. Y. Wilson and George W. Stevens have published no tice that they have dissolved the firm of Humiston, Wilson & Company. C. N. Humiston has purchased all Interests. The ladies of Portland will hold a fair for the benefit of the Christian Commission, December 20 and 21, at Turn Vereln Hall. Fanny Ainsworth, secretary, is in charge of the plans and publicity. John Thompson, Thomas G. Young and W. H. Weed will be judges at the' election for a chief engineer and two assistant engineers for the tire depart ment, to be held December 5. The call for the election has just been issued by President A. B. Hallock ana attested by H. C. Coulson, secretary of the board of delegates of the Portland fire de partment. Julia Dean Hayne, eminent actress. appeared last night at the Willamette Theater In "Henry VIII." John Libby, the former proprietor of the huge warehouse now known land used as Ltbby prison, Richmond, Is a refugee from the Confederate despot ism. He has long been suspected of being diBloyal to the rebel cause. The jury yesterday found Bledsoe guilty or murder In the second degree for killing Cavln. Hon. J. H. Mitchell. attorney for the defendant, immedi ately entered motion to set aside the verdict and asked for a new trial. Through the agent. James W. Ward. The Orefronian has received an advance copy of the "Cyclopedia of Commercial and Business Anecdotes." Mr. Ward is at the Western Hotel, Morrison and First streets. Byron P. Cardwell, Assistant Assessor of the Fourth Division, has issued a no tice that the special Income list of taxes assessed in Division 4, District of Ore gon, under the Internal Revenue Law approved June 30. 1864, is now open for examination at bis office In Oregon City. The President of the Republic of Li beria, the Honorable Daniel Bashiell Warner, is of unmixed African blood. He is an able statesman, eloquent speaker ajjd graceful writer. He is the third President of the young- republic now 17 years old. PISGAII HOME IS IX GREAT XEED Scope of Work Grewlng, hut Income Falls Below Necessities. PORTLAND, Nov. 24. (To the Ed itor.) Will you kindly "open the door" to Plsgah Home in this the com ing yuletide. when the spirit of "peace on earth, good will to all men" pre vails? We In Pisgah Homo bring you "glad tidings" while we are passinc throuch a crisis, and have to live in the most strenuous and meaner way. Our men are looking up with hope, trusting that an avenue is opening by which we may eventually become self supporting, also that these younprer men may be enabled to get little homes The love of home la stronjr in every man's heart. The one obstacle that hinders is the lack of food sup ply to carry us while we work our proposition through. There are no returning revenues from the stump land where we pro pose to make our homes. Just now our home is overflowing tables full, beds full, men sleeping on chapel floor. We have no money for rent, no food supply, no maintenance fund, but we must go on. God's promise is "And shall put my spirit in you and ye shall live"; "and shall place you in your own land." "Then shall ye know that I the Lord hath spoken It and performed it." Ezekiel S4-14. PISGAH MOTHER. Baby Brightens si Household. New York Globe. "How's the baby?" asked the neigh bor of the new father. "Fine," said the proud parent. "Don't you find that a baby brightens up a household won derfully?" pursued the friend. "Yes," said the parent, with a sigh, "we have the gas goinp most of the night now." Shop Early and Choose Better Those who do their Christmas shopping early enjoy the best choice. Goods are fresher and salespeople less hurried. There is time to inspect and to choose at leisure time to buy wisely. ' A glance through the advertising in The Oregonian will show how well the stores have prepared for the coming holidays. Make out your list of gift sug gestions with the aid of the adver tising and you will find it a great help.