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BKVAS TO YIELD BX3 PIACET
A rTHlrt fmm "a WAll-lnm-mA
' Democratic source" la publisher in
; the New York Herald to the effect
that W. J. Bryan will retire from the
Cabinet of his own motion about
March 4. The following is the explan
ation, which might well be added to
"The Curiosities of Literature":
With a nolicy of detachment from infernal
Mexican affairs becoming more marjeeu,
with the tield of treaty-making and for
practical peace work indefinitely postponed
by Europe a conflict, the work for which
Mr. Bryan is best suited has almost disap
peared, and the place has been taken by
legal tangles raised by ship seisures, export
embargo! and other complicated situations,
in which great ethical principles bave no
place. Mr. Bryan has no liking for such
minutiae and the President also realizes that
a less gifted but more technically trained
mind might at this time fit snugly in the
portfolio of foreign affairs.
This, being interpreted, means that
Mr. Eryan sees no opportunity at
present to perform any spectacular
feats in the way of negotiating peace
treaties, and that he has not the taste,
even if he had the equipment, for the
drudgery of dealing with the lega
tangles growing out of the war. These
give him no opportunity for posing as
the apostle of peace. The realization
ascribed to President Wilson that "a
less gifted but more technically
trained mind" can better do the work
may be paraphrased as meaning that
a man who is less of an orator and
more of a worker, a man who is more
versed in international law and in the
customs of diplomacy and who is less
prone to perform grandstand feats of
statesmanship would better perform
the duties of Secretary of State.
If this be Mr. Wilson's Judgment,
the country is likely to indorse it. The
American people are already begin
ning to look forward to the day when
the United States will be called upon
to play a leading part, as the friend
of all parties, in the settlement which
Is to follow the present war. When
the representatives of the nations now
at war meet to make peace, a con
gress will assemble surpassing in im
portance that which met at Vienna in
1815. The representatives of the
United States will in all probability
be called upon to appear there as me
diators, to reconcile conflicting claims,
and to watch over the interests of
neutrals, especially in the Western
hemisphere. The men who represent
this country will have to cope with
men of the caliber of Metternich, Tal
leyrand, Castlereagh and the other
diplomatic giants who battled with
their wits at Vienna. They must be
men skilled In the ways of diplomats,
intimately acquainted with the affairs
of Europe and familiar with the
springs of action controlling each man
at the congress. On their proficiency
In these respects and on their patriotic
vigilance this country must rely for
protection of its Interests and for
maintenance of Its standing among
nations.
These men, in order to play their
part with credit to their country and
themselves, must have no airy illu
sions; they must deal with the world
as it is, not as we all wish it were.
They may share with Mr. Bryan and
all lovers of peace the passionate
yearning for "peace on earth, good
will among men," but they must cher
ish no delusion that "love Is to bring
peace to warring nations." They must
be men not blind to the fact that
"clubs are trumps," that dread
noughts and siege guns have enabled
one group of nations to dictate terms
to the other group and that the
hymns of hate have just been stilled.
There is danger that, if Mr. Bryan
were to remain at the head of the
State Department, his influence might
be used in favor of men to perform
this weighty task whose heads were
In the clouds of theoretical pacificism,
though they stood amid the forces of
militarism. His narrow partisanship
might tempt him to pass over men of
the great international reputation of
Elihu Root in order to honor some
mediocrity solely because he was a
Democrat.
Men of all parties will gladly yie'd
Mr. Bryan the palm as a fluent orator
and an eloquent preacher, but they
also hold that the country would have
been better served had a practical
statesman been at the head of the
State Department during the last two
years. Such men will gladly see Mr.
Bryan lay down the task for which
he is not fitted and take up that of
"girding up the loins . of Democracy
for the battle of 19X6," for which be
Is eminently fitted. We all acknowl
edge Mr. Bryan's ability in that
particular.
A DEADLY SPORT.
The hunters In Northern Michigan
and Wisconsin have been almost as
deadly to one another as to the game
this Fall If we may believe the reports
of their mortality. It is said that
some 15,000 of these gallant knights
of the shotgun and rifle have been
roaming those primeval forests for the
last three months and that twenty
four have been sent to their accounts
by their fellow-sportsmen. Hunting
Is certainly a popular sport in those
parts. Perhaps the fact that it also is
dangerous adds to its charm.
What need is there of war to foster
virility and stiffen our spines when
we have sports like hunting and foot
ball with their long mortality rolls?
Looked at from this point of view, the
mutual slaughter of the hunters may
possibly appear as a blessing. We
may Imagine, If we like, that the
sportsman who goes back home with
the comfortable knowledge that he
has shot his friend feels all the manly
uplift of the soul which the sight and
smell of blood are supposed to cause.
But other considerations make the
annual slaughter on the hunting
grounds less desirable. It really seems
as if some method might be devised
to cut It down a little.
Most of the killing Is probably done
by inexperienced hunters who get
"buck fever" or some brain malady
of that sort and shoot at the first
moving object they see without wait
ing to discover whether it Is man or
beast. These inexpert sportsmen are
so dangerous to others ' that they
ought to be kept out of the woods.
Some experience in handling a gun,
some little evidence of common sense
and judgment, some minimum of pru
dence, might well be required of those
to whom a hunter's license is issued.
But after all it may be vain to seek
to eliminate the danger entirely. No
man can tell how his nerves will act
under new and untried conditions.
Experience is at the mercy of acci
dents and the keenest vision is some
times deceived. No doubt there will
always be hunting tragedies, and, as
the sport grows more popular, they
are likely to increase rather than
diminish in' number.
WEBB UW AND BLIND PIGS.
Probably on reflection Mr. Irwin,
who writes today of the effect of per
mitting orders to be taken in a dry
state for intoxicants to be shipped in
from the outside, will recall that his
observation deals with conditions
prior to the enactment of the Webb
law by Congress.
The Webb law, as enlarged, heav
ily penalizes the transportation com
pany which makes delivery to ficti
tious persons. It also prohibits the
carrier to act in any other capacity
than carrier; viz., it may not collect
the price of interstate shipments of
intoxicants into dry territory. Secret
delivery is also prevented by the same
law which requires that packages
containing intoxicants be plainly
marked so as to show the name of
the consignee and the quantity and
nature of the contents.
It would seem that the Federal law
Is sufficiently broad to prevent a
repetition here of the holding In stor
age which Mr. Irwin witnessed and
the subsequent delivery to anyone who
applied for it. Doubtless the statute
enacted by the Legislature will pre
scribe penalties for conducting blind
pigs such as ouy correspondent de
scribes and it is difficult to oee how
the right to take orders for delivery
from outside the state would aid the
lawbreaker in view of the restrictions
placed on interstate carriers by tha
government
Total lack of restriction on orders
possibly would lead to abuses such as
the hounding of habitual drinkers by
solicitors. Regulation in that partic
ular is certainly a matter for grave
consideration by the Legislature.
THE PROGRESSIVE COLLAPSE.
The Progressive party has hopeless
ly "petered out," as a possible factor
on an equality with the Republican
and Democratic parties, for control of
the Government. Comparison of the
election returns of 1914 and 1912 in
Oregon, a typical Pacific Coast state
and Ohio, a typical Middle Western
state, furnishes proof.
In Oregon, though the "total vote
this year was greatly Increased by
woman suffrage, Gill, the Progressive
candidate for Governor, polled only
6129 votes, compared with 37,600
polled by Roosevelt for President in
1912. In percentage, the shrinkage is
still greater, for in 1912 Roosevelt
polled 37,600 votes out of a total of
137,040, or 27.44 per cent, while in
1914 Gill polled 6129 out of the much
larger total of 248,052 votes cast for
Governor, or only 2.47 per cent. The
Progressive vote has thus fallen off
more than nine-tenths in percentage.
The shrinkage is striking in Ohio,
though not as great in percentage.- In
1912 Garford for Governor polled
217,903 out of a total of 1,017,426, or
21.41 per cent, while in 1914 Garfield
polled 60,971 out of a total of 1,138,
651, or only 6.35 per cent. The Pro
gressive vote in two years fell off five
sevenths In amount and three-fourths
in percentage.
With such a shrinkage in its vote,
with its leader calling hi3 lieutenants
"lunatic friends" and with these luna
tic friends blaming each other for
the party's collapse, its final dissolu
tion before the next election is inevit
able. Its members. having been drawn
almost entirely from the Republican
party and adhering still to distinctive
Republican principles, nothing re
mains for the remnant to do but to
go home and to attempt through that
party the attainment of the ends they
sought In forming the new party,
A STAT HE ' S" I'ltAN KXJN PIERCE.
The statue just erected to the mem
ory of Franklin Pierce at Concord,
New Hampshire, Is after a design by
Augustus Lukeman, of New Tork, an
eminent American sculptor. Our
fourteenth President is represented by
a standing figure in the costume of
his own period, one hand resting on
a support which Is draped with the
American flag. The statue is said to
be exceptionally successful as a work
of art. Mr. Pierce wears in marble
that pleasant, and somewhat com
pliant, expression which was charac
teristic of him in life. Perhaps the
most Interesting thing he ever did
was to befriend Nathaniel Hawthorne,
who, up to the time when Pierce be
came President, had "eceived too lit
tle recognition from his countrymen.
Pierce's Administration was big
with great events and portentous be
ginnings of history. The border war
fare In Kansas became embittered by
his neglect and diffused the poison of
civil hatred throughout the country.
The old Whig party lapsed Into non
entity and was succeeded by the new
born Republican party, in which the
opponents of slavery extension grad
ually gathered to form a compact
fighting force.
In Pierce's Administration some of
our boundary troubles with Mexico
were disposed of by the Gadsden pur
chase. A still more Important event
was Commodore Perry's expedition to
Japan, which succeeded in opening
negotiations with that country. Up to
that time Japan had been literally a
"hermit nation." It now entered the
area of world life and began that mil
itary and commercial career whose
significance increases every year.
Pierce was elected President at a
time when the moral forces of the
Nation were arraying themselves
against compromise and concession.
He was a born compromiser himself
and was ready to make any conces
sion for the sake of quiet. But con
ditions could no longer be controlled
by that method and out of Pierce's
good will emerged a party spirit more
furious than ever and a steady drift
toward civil war. He was a good man,
but not by any means a great Presi
dent. Perhaps no man capable of be
ing a great President could have been
elected In that time of dissolution
and dawn.
Though the war promises boom
prices for any crop of wheat the
t i.Ucd States may harvest in 1915,
NorUiwest farmers would do well to
remember that It 1st n-At wll nut
all their eggs in one basket and that
In diversified farming is safety. Had
Southern farmers diversified their
crops instead of relying almost entire
ly on cotton, they would not have
oeen calling on Uncle Sam for help.
PTJRCrjfO CBTUBCH ROLLS.
Some years ago 'the Methodist
churches of the United States ini
tiated a commendable agitation to get
rid of their dead and dying mem
tiers. We mean, of course, the spirit
ually dead and dying. There was no
disposition to eliminate the physically
decrepit. Indeed the church has al
ways admitted a special duty toward
that class of Individuals. ' But It was
deemed wise to shuffle off the load
of those who had withered up and
shown unmistakable signs of perish
ing internally. What became of this
worthy movement the accounts never
disclosed. For some reason it dropped
out of discussion and not much has
been heard of it lately.
But the Presbyterians have now
undertaken something of the same
sort. An unflinching comparison of
statistics from year to year- reveals
that this denomination may expect
an annual "suspension" of about 50,
000 members. Some of them die,
some move away and leave no ad
dress, some simply blackslide and re
turn to the world, the flesh and the
devil. Hitherto the church has borne
with these deserters far too charl
tably. It has carried some of them
on its membership books long aiter
they ought to have been dropped
Even names of dead, it is asserted
have sometimes been kept on the
church rolls In spite of their owners
departure to a better world.
The latter thus gain credit for serv
ice in two worlds at once. As sup
posed members of the church mili
tant they -acquire renown on earth
as actual members of the church tri
umphant they wear crowns in glory.
Of course this is wrong. It is as if the
commissary department of a terres
trial army should issue rations for
troops who had fought their last bat
tle and had won a grave in the
trenches.
It is best for the Presbyterian and
every other church to face the actual
facts as to their membership. Their
rolls are long and their spiritual in
fluence great enough to bear up un
daunted under any losses that befall
them. A compact, active, working list
of members Is far better, even though
it be comparatively small, than a Jong
array of the decrepit and defunct. Ne
doubt the other churches have much
the same experience as the Presby
terian in this particular. Some of the
seed they sow must infallibly perish
by the wayside. Happily most of It
survives and makes a vigorous growth.
THE nCNOKT TIGER WILL CONTROL.
In the opinion of Chairman Hillea
of the Republican National Commit
tee, the House of the sixty-fourth
Congress will be controlled by the
twenty Tammany members. In a let
ter to the New York Times he est!
mates the party strength as follows
Democrats 230
Republicans .......................... 200
progressives ................... 7
Socialist l
Prohibitionist 1
Mr. Hllles then continues:
Hence, the strencth of the combined on
position to Democracy will be 5rt5. and if-
me uammany members should desert
their Democratic colleagues on a rollcall
and vote with the opposition, the Demo
cratic strena-th would be reduced to 210 and
the opposition's total vote would rise to 2-5.
Even if the 7 Progressives were to unite
with the Democrats. Tammany would still
noid the balance of power.
Further, the transfer of Mr. Under
wood to the Senate will leave Mr.
Fitzgerald, the Tammany leader, the
most forceful figure on the floor, with
ten years' experience as a parliamen
tarian. He has a score to settle with
President Wilson, for the latter has
withheld patronage from him and his
Tammany colleagues and opposed his
re-election. Says Mr. Hilles: "An
attempt' was made to discredit him
and to starve him out."
In view of the Administration's de
pendence on Tammany for a major
ity In the next Congress, Mr. Hilles
Is justified in disputing Secretary
Bryan's description of the election as
a glorious victory for the Administra
tion. Tammany's oupport for Mr. Wil
son at the Baltimore convention was
spurned by Mr. Bryan, and Tammany
has been flouted by the Administra
tion ever since. To quote Mr. Hilles
again:
One result of the recent election will be
either a reversal of the Administration's at
titude toward the New York Congressmen
or the defeat of every measure upon which
tne opposition to Democracy is united. They
must stOD starving the Tiaer: thev must
pamper and patronize It: otherwise the
Tiger will turn in self-defense.
And how ravenously hungry the
Tiger will be! New Tork City ceased
to feed it a year ago. New York
State will cease to feed it next Janu
ary. Its sole means of sustenance
will be what it can extort from the
National Administration. If some
large, rich and Juicy pieces of meat
are not thrown to it, there will be
an uproar In the Democratic political
menagerie. The famished beast may
even bite a leg off the Democratic
mule.
WEAK POINTS IN BRITISH DEFENSE.
The Germans have evidently found
gaps in the naval defense of the Brit
ish and French coasts or have learned
through their spies where mines are
laid. A series of losses to the British
navy and to the French merchant ma
rine lead to this conclusion. A squad
ron of cruisers penetrated within a
few miles of Yarmouth and dropped
the mine which sank the Halcyon.
Submarines sank the Pathfinder, the
Audacious and the Hermes, We now
learn that the collier Khartoum has
been sunk in the Humber by a mine.
The French steamer Amiral Gan
teaume was sunk by a submarine off
Havre, and now two Eritish steamers
have met the same fate by the same
means.
Thus the Germans have been able
to penetrate to the east coast of Eng
land, the north coast of Ireland and
far Into the English Channel to do
their work of destruction and to get
clean away except off Yarmouth,
where a submarine was sunk. The
Bulwark seems to have been blown
up by the explosion of her magazine,
but there is room for suspicion that
this was the work of a spy, reckless
of his own life.
We may form a distorted view of
the relative losses of the British and
German navies from the fact that the
former always publish their misfor
tunes, while the .latter deny theirs or
keep silent. The Germans denied the
loss of a submarine in the Yarmouth
raid, though the British rescued most
of its crew and published their names.
But the Germans have undeniably had
much greater sucress with subma
rines and in getting through their an
tagonists' guard. The losses Inflicted
by the British have been la almost
every case by ships which keep to
the surface.
If the Germans can get so close to
the British and French coasts, why
cannot British submarines reach the
German coast? The reason probably
is that the North Sea coast Is shal
low and well mined. The Baltic
could be reached only through the
straits, of which the southern part
abuts on . German territory and is
doubtless mined. Kiel Bay might be
a favorable field for . submarine at
tack, but the ports on both Baltic and
North Seas are on rivers, too shallow
for such operations, even If it were
possible to enter undetected. But,
since the Germans have learned the
location of the British mines, why
can't the British gain the same infor
mation about German mines?
It Is all very well for Mr. Churchill
to say that Great Britain can lose a
superdreadnought every month for
twelve months and still retain her su
periority at sea, but is not the cumu
lative moral effect of a series of minor
disasters as bad as the loss of a bat
tle? Surely confidence in the impreg
nability of British naval defenses
must be shaken. Perhaps the govern
ment designedly shakes it by giving
out bad news, for the purpose of
booming enlistment In the army.
A great many people taxpayers
will agree with Secretary Olcott that
a state census next year at cost of
$100,000 Is a luxury. To be sure, the
law says it must be taken, and as the
money goes into local circulation it
may help somebody, just as taking
money from one man's pocket and
slipping it into that of another Is of
doubtful benefit.
To "shape a noble life," said
Goethe, "cast no backward glances."
Never mind what you have lost. "Act
as if you were born anew every morn
ing." Attend to each day's needs as
they arise and attack each task as it
appears. This is a great poet's way
of saying "Don't cry over spilt milk"
and "don't cross any bridges till you
come to them."
Within a year the National Insti
tute of Arts and Letters will have
funds to build an appropriate home
for Itself in New York if promises are
kept. The new buliding will be a
meeting place for the artists and au
thors of the whole world. With the
increase of mutual understanding
peace and friendship will also oe pro
moted. Enmity thrives on ignorance.
The Holsteln is bound to keep In
the limelight. Not content with a
California cow that broke the milk
record, there is now an animal in Cow
litz County that has three calves, all
healthy and doing well. How she ar
ranges the surplus corner at meal
times is something that only a cow in
such circumstances can manage.
Even if Colonel Roosevelt should
testify about the Colombian treaty be
fore the Senate committee In execu
tive session, Secretary Bryan's ears
will surely burn while he is talking.
But Senator Stone need not expect to
succeed in depriving th Colonel of
desired publicity.
If President Wilson were to hold
the same club over the Colorado coal
owners as President Roosevelt held
over those of Pennsylvania, they
would soon come to terms. There are
occasions when one should cease to
speak softly and should use the big
stick.
The old man who married at 17 but
objects to his son's following his ex
ample holds that circumstances alter
cases, but his son does not agree with
him. If the father were 17 this year.
he would probably hold his original
rather than his present opinion.
The Supreme Court decides Okla
homa's "Jim Crow" law is invalid
and colored people are entitled to all
privileges on trains, including sleep
ing and parlor cars. How this will
strike the porter Is problematical.
President Wilson is said to oppose
an investigation into the country's
military resources, as proposed by
Representative Gardner. That s the
spirit which leaves us in such a sorry
plight of unpreparedness.
Von Hindenburg has been made a
field marshal for hfs part In the great
battle now raging. If the tide con
tinues to move as at present Von may
be reduced to the ranks when the mill
Is ended.
Again must the army cook be given
credit. British reports from the line
in France say success is due to the
"ample quantity and excellent qual
ity" of the food.
The Oregon onion grower has ceased
worrying. The Eastern consumer has
found the Oregon article is the best
keeper and the price is advancing by
jumps.
The allies say they attack the Ger
mans every time the Germans make
an error. Perhaps that Is the reason
so few allied attacks are made.
Love, not warships, is the hope of
peace, says Bryan. He should have
pointed to Mexico as an ocular dem
onstration of his pet theory.
Baron von 'Horst has probably
changed his opinion as to the relative
value of the titles "Baron- and
American citizen."
More Canadians are massing to
prevent a possible invasion of Ger
mans from the United States. Heroic
Canadians I
This Is Hon. Milt Miller's war tax
bargain day. Double stamps ffiven (if
you pay for them).
The British are taking a lot of
credit to themselves for the French
military valor.
Still in some regions they use fans
in this weather and complain of the
heat.
There are a few more days left in
which to do your Christmas shopping.
Don't forget that fresh air is as
necessary in cold weather as in warm.
The furnace is oa the job 25 hours
a day, now.
Pleasant weather, this. For an
Esquimo.
Madam, are you shopping in the
morning?
Croker is now heap big Injun chief.
Have you paid your war tax?
PROVISIONS OP WEBB LlftCOB LAW
Carrtf-ra Prohibited to Deliver- to Fic
titious Persona or Colteet Price.
In view of the interest in statutory
enactments to carry out the force of
the prohibition amendment in Ore
gon, the following text of the Webb
law and other Federal legislation
governing interstate shipments of
Intoxicants Is pertinent and worth
perusal by those interested in
prospective legislation affecting the
liquor traffic. In view of the fact
that the Oregon amendment does not
prohibit distribution, it will be legal,
in, the absence of further enactments,
for Interstate carriers to deliver intox
icants in Oregon to individuals for
personal use and to druggists and
physicians to dispense by prescription:
Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assem
bled: That the shipment or transportation
in any manner or by any means what
sover of any spirltous. vinous, malted,
fermented or other intoxicating liquor
of any kind, including beer, ale or
wine, from one state, territory or dis
trict of the United States, or place
non-contiguous to but subject to the
jurisdiction thereof. Into any other
state, territory or district of the United
States, or place non-contiguous to but
subject to the jurisdiction thereof, or
from any foreign country into any
state, territory or district of the United
States, or place non-contiguous to but
subject to the jurisdiction thereof,
which said spirltous, vinous, malted,
fermented or other intoxicating liquor
is intended to be received, possessed,'
sold or In any manner used, either In
the original package or otherwise, in
violation of any law of such state, ter
ritory or district of the United States,
or place non-contiguous to but sub
ject to the jurisdiction thereof, enacted
In the exercise of the police powers of
such state, territory or district of the
United States, or place non-contiguous
to but subject to the jurisdiction there
of, is hereby prohibited.
Section 238. (Interstate shipment of
intoxicating liquors; delivery of to be
made only to bona fide consignee.)
Any officer, agent or employe of any
railroad company, express company or
other common carrier who shall know
ingly deliver or. cause to be delivered
to any person other than the person to
whom it has been consigned, unless
upon written order in each Instance of
the bona fide consignee, or to any fic
titious person, or to any person under
a fictitious name, any spirltous, vinous,
malted, fermented or other intoxicat
ing liquor of any kind which has been
shipped from one tate, territory or
district of the United States, or place
non-contiguous to but subject to the
jurisdiction there, into any other state,
territory or district of the United
States, or place non-contiguous to but
subject to the jurisdiction thereof, or
from any foreign country Into any
state, territory, or district of the United
States, or place non-contiguous to but
subject to the jurisdiction thereof,
shall be fined not more than five thou
sand dollars, or Imprisoned not more
than two years, or both. (35 Stat. L.
1136.)
Section 2?9. (Common carriers, etc.,
not to collect purchase price of inter
state shipment of Intoxicating liquors.)
Any railroad company, express com
pany, or other common carrier or any
other person who. In connection with
the transportation of any spirltous,
vinous, malted, fermented or other In
toxicating liquor of any kind from one
state, territory or district of the United
States, or place non-contiguous to but
subject to the jurisdict' n thereof. Into
any other state, territory or district of
the United States, or place non-contiguous
to but subject to the Jurisdic
tion thereof, or from any foreign coun
try Into any state, territory or district
of the United States, or place non-contiguous
to but subject to the jurisdic
tion thereof, before, on jr after delivery
from consignee, or from any other
person, or shall in any manner act as
the agent of the buyer or seller of any
such liquor, for the purpose of buying
or selling or completing the sale there
of, saving only In the actual transpor
tation and delivery of the same, shall
be fined not more than five thousand
dollars. (35 Stat. L. 1136.)
Section 240. (Packages containing In
toxicating liquors shipped In interstate
commerce to be marked as such.) Who
ever shall knowingly a ilp or cause to
be shipped from one state, territory or
district of the United States, or place
non-contiguous to but subject to the
jurisdiction thereof, into any other
state, territory or district of the United
States, or place non-contiguous to but
subject to the juisdiction thereof, or
from any foreign country Into any
state, territory or district of the United
States, or place non-contiguous to but
subject to the jurisdiction thereof, any
package of or package containing any
spirltous, vinous, malted, fermented or
other intoxicating liquor of any kind.
unless such package be so labeled on
the outside cover as to plainly show
the name of the consignee, the nature
of its contents and t e quantity con
tained therein, shall be fined not more
than five thousand dollars; and such
liquor shall be forfeited to the United
States and may be seized and con
demned bv like proceedings as those
provided by law for the seizure and for
feiture of property imported into tne
United States contrary to law. 36
Stat. L. 1137.)
Shakespeare for Judge McGinn.
PORTLAND. Nov. 30. (To the Edi
tor.) We are told by the Immortal
Bard of Avon that mercy Is "twice
blessed. It blesseth him that gives and
him that takes." Consequently, when
Judge McGinn told those two youth
ful burglars to go and sin no
more, ignoring the fact that one of
them had been paroled by him already,
I have no doubt that he and they were
perfectly satisfied with themselves. It
Is true that "the quality of mercy la
not strained," but it must be remem
bered there are limits to the occasions
when mercy should temper justice.
As one of the sufferers from the
depredations of those embryo burglars,
and having lost several pieces of jew
elry' which were heirlooms In my wlfe'a
family, and, consequently, highly prized
by her, I am not inclined to view with
approbation the action In turning those
youthful criminals loose to prey further
on the community.
On the contrary. I am Inclined to
apply one more quotation from Shake
speare to this erratic conception of jus
tice: But nan, prond man, dressed in a little brief
authority.
Plays such fantastic trlcUs before hlen
heaven
Am make the an sols weep.
J. T. DILLON.
451 Tillamook street.
Bit of Strategy Pro"! u Expert.
Tlt-Blts.
General Pau tells of a French non
commissioned officer who was being
examined on the subject of tactics.
"Give me an instance of strategy,"
was the question.
The soldier thought bard and then
replied:
"When In battle you run out of am
munition and don't want the enemy to
know it, it is good strategy to keep on
firing."
Avoidance of the Peril.
New Tork Mail.
Ray Rohn, the artist, appeared at the
Pay-aa-You-Enter Club the other day
smoking a cigarette in a holder nearly
a foot long.
"What's all this?" someone asked
him. "Did the doctor tell-you to keep
away from cigarette?"
The War Tax
By Dean olllns.
I thought myself a man of peace.
prayed
That war throughout the world -ehould
And combat be allayed;
But now I'm wildly thirsting for
Ked riot, battle, strife and war.
And savagely I stand and cuss
About this war tax soaked on us.
Because the hosts of Europe close
In fierce and deadly fray,
I cannot buy a pair of hose
Without the tax, they say;
Because the camps of Europe hum.
They tax my wad of chewing gum;
Because of battle lines, flung far,
They soak a cent on my cigar.
Ah. what bystander Innocent
Can brook, without a kick.
To have his slender Income bent
Beneath this war tax brick?
I view the distant combat there
And madly bellow: " 'Tin no fair
Because the Kaiser's on a spree.
That Uncle Sam should war tax me."
So. though I've been a man of peace.
Mv temrjeramont l. .-u . r i .
Though I had hoped the fray might
And nicely be arranged:
Today I'm wildly thirsting for
Red riot, battle, strife and war:
I'm on the warpath for the cuss
That soaked this war tax onto us..
PROHIBITION WHICH PROHIBITS
In Absence of Strict Law Evils Worse
Than Saloon Arise, Saya Observer.
PORTLAND, Nov. 30. (To the Edi-tor-)
As a stranger passing through
your city permit me a short space In
The Oregonlan to express my views
on a subject now before the people.
If the Committee of One Hundred
properly frame the bill to present be
fore the next Legislature th.v will
above all things else, frame It so that
it will prohibit, under heavy penalty,
the taking of orders for liquor to be
shipped into this state from any state.
I have seen a law permitting this in
a state that went "dry" and I have
seen it carried to a far worse degree
or danger than the open saloon itself.
Fictitious names were used In the
shipping In of liquor and the liquor
stored in empty buildings to be de
livered at an hour's notice to almost
anyone, regardless of aire or sex.
ine snipping In of liquor becomes a
profitable and most lucrative business
for the house-to-house solicitor, and.
as far as my observations have gone.
nas Deen so abused that as far as
morality is concerned, it is worse than
the open saloon. Once a customer of
one or these solicitors, the workinc
man Is fairly hounded to death to buy
more and more. These men will se
cure intoxicants for minors, often
times without placing themselves in
such a position as to be held re
sponsible. When the open saloon was
run, an evil though It was. there was
someone to look to for the abuse of
drinking. Where the solicitor Is per
mitted and the saloon is closed, there
Is none. If you have seen fit to close
the open saloon by a masniflcant ma
jority of 36.000 do not substitute some
thing worse in the person of a liquor
solicitor.
Again, liquor should not be served
in any club, restaurant or any other
public place. If you permit this, clubs
of every kind, shapo and description
will spring up, usually operated by the
worst class of men, whose regard and
respect for .the law is less than that
of a "bllnd-plgger." These clubs are
for no other purpose than to dispense
liquor ana are more nagrant In their
violations of the law than the "restau
rant" that serves liquors and a lunch.
consisting of a wooden sandwich, -to
constitute a meal.
I am writing as one who has seen
this evil carried to a degree where
it more thoroughly menaced public
morals than notorious dives did In the
days of the open salon. Beware, Mr.
legislator, that your bill Is not so
weak that It leaves a loophole for
worse evils than In the day of sdoona
J. 1. IK. WIN. Kansas City, Mo.
THAT PERNICIOUS SAILOR SUIT.
Aa Bad aa Toy Soldlera In Promoting
Martial Spirit. Saya Writer.
PORTLAND. Nov. 30. (To the Ed
itor.) I am glad that Oregon continues
to maintain her position at the fore
front in the great moral uplift in the
country. The convention of Oregon
women at Eugene the other day passed
a resolution defining in no uncertain
terms our position on the great "Toy
Question." I am sorry, however, that
tney overlooked the "Sailor Suit Ques
tion." I maintain that the wearing of
sailor suits by our little boys is just as
pernicious an influence in promoting
militarism as their play with tov sol
dlera The savage In the little rascals
could at least be made less obtrusive in
curls and Little Lord Fauntleroys than
in naving them as at present, struttin
around in the habiliments of the rude
and brutal sailor.
If In their greed for srain our mer
chants should, after full moral persua
sion, still persist in selling lead sol
diers, tin cannons, cambric flags and
sailor suits to our oflsDrinsr. the sov
ereign people of Oregon through the
initiative yet have full means of stop
ping the traffic But unfortunately
there is another baleful influence at
work for the suppression of which
Washington must be appealed to.
I refer- to certain children's books
which booksellers inform me have late
ly become their best sellers, viz.: "The
American Boy in the Philippines," "The
American Boy in Cuba," "The American
Boy in China" Now these books are
filled to the brim with militarism in Its
very worst form. Through experience
in my own family, I can testify that
when the little rascals finish these
books, their martial appetites are so
whetted that they want to read "Paul
Jones," "The Boys of 1812." "The Boys
or iaei," me Minute Men," etc. A
regular orgy of militarism Is in fact
started in the infantile mind to its last
ing ruin. What chance nas the refining
Influence of Louisa M. Alcott in such
company?
Now these pernicious books about the
American Boy are being written now.
today, by an army officer, using the
time and energy for which our gener
ous Government so liberally pays him.
An Administration which can put
ucb a quietus on the old Carabao Soci
ety composed of such a miscellaneous
membership would certainly make short
work of this lone American Boy writer.
If its attention were only called to the
harm he is doing the youth of the land.
Mr. Bryan would certainly be in sym
pathy with the women of Oregon on
this question. Why not appeal to him
at once? ANTI-MILITARIST.
Poaaible Chaneo for Unemployed.
PORTLAND. Nov. 30. (To the Edi
tor.) Thousands of people last Spring
admired the beautiful yellow Scotch
broom which grows around Mount Ta
bor. I suggest to those who desire to
have one of these bushes in their own
yard that now Is the time to secure it.
One of the best places to get a nice
bush is on the vacant lot at the north
west corner of East Seventy-first and
Taylor streets. The Mount Tabor and
Altamead cars stop at this corner.
On account of the ordinance compel
ling all brush to be cut from vacant
lots, it Is only a question of a couple
of years before this beautiful shrub
will entirely disappear from Mount
Tabor District
It may be possible for some of the
unemployed to aciicit orders for these
bushes and in this way earn a few
dollars. Scotch Broom plants are sold
by the florists for 2a to SO cents each.
I would suggest to anyone taking or
ders to charge 25 cents for the plant
and 10 cents extra for planting.
SUBSCRIBER.
Twenty-Five Years Ago
Prom The Oregonlan of November 19, 1SS9.
The old lighthouse at Newport, on
Yaquina Bay, now occupied by J. S.
Polhemus, an engineer In charge of the
Government jetty construction, was
struck by lightning Tuesday, and Mr.
Polhemus' little boy was sitting with
his mother six feet from a window,
which, with numerous things about the
house, was demolished. They fortu
nately escaped with only being
stunned. A young girl in the kitchen
was not injured.
Boston. Mass., endured a hot Thanks
giving, for two blocks in the center of
the city were completely destroyed by
fire, at a loss estimated at $1,000,000.
Turkeys have been bringing very
high prices this Thanksgiving, com
manding 20 to 25 cents per pound.
San Francisco Cal The barkentlne
Discovery left ' for Honolulu today, la
spite of the Coast Seamen Union's at
tempt to prevent Captain McNeill from
getting a crew.
Montana is making a bitter fight
against the Northern Pacific Railway,
which is trying to gain title to much
valuable mineral land held by the Gov
ernment. v
Pad-e-kah, an Indian, killed a snow
bunting bird near Pendleton a few
days ago, and wants to sell it for 310.
These birds are rarely seen away from
the glacier sections before snow flies.
Joseph Shlmek, who lives at Hanna
ford Swamp, near Centralis, Wash.,
has ripe strawberries on his place.
Mrs. Gove, of La Camas, Wash., has
ripe raspberries on her place.
Thomas Corbett. the artesian . well
borer, is In Vancouver, Wash., with
his machinery.
George Mollenkof, who lives near
Pendleton, has unearthed a mastodon
and other fossils on his place.
The Oregon Pacific steamer William
M. Hoag made a trip to Salem yester
day in eight hours and SO minutes, and
made nine landings and discharged S3
tons of freight.
Mrs. Coursen, Mrs. Reed, Mr. Hooper
and Mrs. E. D. Baker, a recent arrival
from the Bast, will sing at a concert
to be held in the Masonic Hall Tues
day evening.
A fire was caused by rats gnawing
matches In Walker & Dana's factory
yesterday morning. The damage was
,250.
At a meeting of Willamette Tribe,
No. 6, Improved Order of Redmen. the
following officers were elected for the
ensuing year: Sachem, M. Ansacher:
S. S., H. F. Weideman; J. S.. G. Simons;
K. of W. G-, J. Erdner; C. of R. H., G. '
Lau; prophet, J. Oberender; trustee, J.
V. Lankin.
Half a Century Ago
From The Oresronlan of November 80, 1804.
Nick Oliver has brought 13 deer to
town, the result of one day's hunting
on Gate Creek, which flows into the
McKenzie Kiver SO miles east of Eu
gene. One deer weighed 150 when
dressed.
At a meeting of the War Kagle Gold
and Silver Mining Company. E. W. Tra-
cey was elected president. H. F. Block,
vice-president, and James W. Going,
treasurer. .
Snow Is fallini? at T.ovin In tbi
southern part of the state.
Jack Sheppard erot a cllD In the face
during a hurdy-gurdy melee at 3 o'clock
In the morning which took his upper
lip off. While searching for a physi
cian he lost the severed part containing
nis mustacne.
Mrs. M. Hackney is anxious to obtain
information of the whereabouts of her
brother. Cyrus Smith.
The play of "A Wife's Secret." given
at the Willamette Theater last night, is
a good one with a moral.
Charles W. Reynard, of Honolulu,
married Miss Lucy Aubrey Angelo, of
Portland, yesterday. The Rev. P. E.
Hyland performed the ceremony.
The Rev. G. J. Mlnglns, agent of the
Christian Commission, is on his way
here from California The Congrega
tional Church has raised 323.55 coin
and $7 currency toward the movement.
L. E. Pratt, of Salem, who went east
to purchase machinery for the woolen
mill now being erected at Oregon City,
returned yesterday on the Sierra Ne
vada. Clackamas County offers inducements
to volunteers that would tempt men to
go from here to that county to enlist.
Polk County has already completed its
quota, leading the state.
The editor of The Oregonian is asked
by the Sisters of Charity to thank the
citizens of Vancouver and officers and
men of the post, especially General Al-
vord. Captain Hooper and Captain Hop
kins and P. Buckley,- who discovered the
fire, for rendering assistance when the
Washfngton Territory Insane Asylum
was partially destroyed by fire.
One Canse of "Mashing."
PORTLAND, Nov. 30. (To the Edi
tor.) At regular periods there arises
an agitation against so-called street
mashers and a decree Is issued
from some authority to apprehend the
offenders and punish them. Against
this I have no objection but have
hitherto In vain looked for a little
agitation regarding the causes of this
persistent mashing. Of course one
cause is the depravity of the offend
ing men, but another cause, and one
that could be more effectively dealt
with the authorities, is the hundreds
of disreputable women and girls, who
roam our streets to attract these
mashers for their commercial value.
After a little effort to learn facts I
feel safe in saying there are hundreds
of these women In this city, which
is supposed to be closed, who bave
their safe retreats within walking dis
tance of the illuminated district.
Is it any ' wonder that men find
amusement In standing about and
seeing how accurately they can pick
out the one who is looking for "com
pany, or, that they frequently make a
slight mistake and wink at the wrong
one? This mashing will not be abated
until respectable women demand that
the professional -female "mashers" ba
kept off the street and forced into
honorable lives. JOSEPH R.
PROFITS
vs. COSTS
"I can't afford to use newspaper
advertising," said one manufacturer.
"Well, I can't afford not to," said
the second one, whose business la
growing by leaps and bounds. "I
don't look at what a thing costs,
but what I am going to get out
of It.
"Newspaper advertising brings me
larger, more immediate, more defi
nite returns than any other kind I
have ever tried.
"As a matter of fact it costs less,
too, for I buy no waste circulation."