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Postage Kates 12 to 16 pages, 1 cent: 18 to 3 pages, 2 cents: 34 to 4S pages, 3 cents: fiO to tiO pages. 4 cents; to 7ti pages, o cents; "8 to 92 pages, C cents. Foreign postage, double rates. Eastern Butiess office Verree Conk Jin, Brunswick building. New York; Verree & Conklin, Steger building. Chicago. San Francieco representative, R. J. Bidwell, 742 Market street. 4.25 2.25 -7o 6.00 3.25 1.75 .60 1.50 2.50 3.50 9.00 .75 money money power from generation to gen eration and the number of newly rich is comparatively small. It Is natural, too, that in a new country which . is chiefly concerned with effecting its economic adjustments, these self made millionaires should be acclaimed brilliant successes. But, on the other hand, may not the conclusion be drawn that since only twenty of the 4043 mil lionaires were born rich and that since only one rich man's son in seventeen strives to increase his wealth the empti Unuous publication. Harper's Week ly has gone out of existence through the process of absorption by ness of great wealth and the futility of another old-time periodical. The In- pouring one's life and energy into the hoarding of gold impressed them at the outset and robbed them of the de sire to be money grubbers? dependent. The great place Harper's has had in American journalism makes its passing regrettable to many citi zens whose lives and experiences have been contemporaneous with the Civil War net-inr! And tVio eii ruwiiienr mm r- WITH THE OPESKO SPUING, ter, century. It was the foremost plc- The Orego-nian printed a few days I torial publication of the country for ago a' letter from a leading citizen of I a long time. To this day the Harper's McMinnville, calling attention to the I drawings of the Civil War a. line of attractions of the Willamette Valley, I enterprise from which the daily pa- and particularly of the Portland-Mc- aiinnviiie-JJallas-Salem loop for a day's automobile journey. The suggestion is worth" more con- PORTLAXD, TUESDAY. MAY 1916. NO CHANCE. Undoubtedly Theodore Roosevelt had good reason to be pleased with his tumultuous reception in Chicago. The picture of the guests at the banquet which the Colonel addressed standing on their chairs and shouting uproar ious approval of his appeal for National preparedness was pleasing and even thrilling. It is no wonder that Colonel Roose velt returns to Oyster Bay mightily delighted with his reception. It is pos sible that he visualized in his mind's eye another Chicago scene, in the com ing June, when nine hundred odd dele gates to the National Republican Con vention will join a general stampede to Roosevelt for President. We say it is possible. But whether Colonel Roosevelt expects such a happening or rot, it is clear that many of his fol lowers, old and new, hope for it, pray for it, dream about it, and confidently expect it. But The Oregonian does not. A few months ago, it looked as if there was real substance to the Roosevelt boom But not now, not now. Massachusetts settled it. In Massachusetts the issue over Roosevelt was tried out in a fair and thorough referendum of the Re publican voters, and the verdict was against Roosevelt. A majority of delegates to the Re publican convention have been elected, and they are not for Roosevelt. The favorite sons have a tenuous hold on a part of them, but the clamor for none such reaches across his state border. Not one of them has a chance, if Hughes will permit events to take their natural course. And we think he will. sideration than it apparently received. I pictorial methods; but they served to Just now there is, particularly on Sun. bring home to the American people days, something approaching a colos- vivid realization of the actual occur sal rush out over the Columbia High- rences at the front. way. But the highway will keep, and It was through Harpers weekly. the days of Spring are passing on. This I also, that Thomas Nast, the cartoon- is the time of the year's vernal beauty ; 1 1st, reached the minds and hearts of and the Willamette Valley is a trans- multitudes. The immense service per formed and revived Eden. The roads I formed by Nast in, breaking up the are good, and travel by automobile is j Tweed ring in New York is well re- easy. With dry and moderately warm membered, and it should be. There weather, a journey into the Valley are many cartoonists today who are not necessarily to McMinnville, or Dal- I finer artists than Nast was, anq oth las, or Salem, but" anywhere is a joy ers who have equal skill in seizing and unapproachable and unforgettable. presenting the real purposes of men The undeniable truth is that the Co- and the meaning of events; but he lumbia Highway is crowded on Sun-I was a pioneer in that field, and he days and the conservative traveler 1 acquired a prestige not reached by would better go on another ! day. any of his contemporaries cs follow- But the Willamette Valley is never I ers. crowded, and its beauties and glories I There were great editors of Harper's, WASHTNiiTOVS STATE CONVENTIONS. Washington not having adopted the Presidential primary, the two major po- bejran under him and waa due prt marily to his refusal to support James BEEF AND PARCHED CORN. No doubt the country will learn the whole story of the rending chase of Villa by American troopers, one day. Such details as escape the censorship from time to time have hinted at something little short of a military scandal. Not that our soldiers have failed or misbehaved themselves. But the shortsightedness of administering and supplying the forces in the field augmented by a vacillating and weak diplomacy has imposed frightful hardships upon- the men and taken from their grasp any hope of success in the undertaking upon which they have been engaged. The Chicago Tribune has received a remarkable letter from its correspon dent who is with General Pershing and who wrote from that officer's headquarters in a vein that suggests temporary absence on leave of the military censor. He reports that the cavalry has been suffering frightful privations because of shortage of food supplies. The troopers have been compelled to live off the country and their ration has been beef and parched corn. These, too, in scant quantities, since poverty-stricken Mexico is no overburdened with edibles. In order to buy food the officers and men of -the Tenth Cavalry are said to have gone into their own pockets to the ex. tent of $4000. This for beef and corn ' a typical greaser diet. These stories are entirely credible. First, because no correspondent would dare send them out otherwise, and. second, because of the totally unpre pared state of the border troops when the assault on Columbus precipitated the expedition. Troops were moving into Mexico before motor trucks for transporting their supplies had been ordered. It is notorious that the ex pedition was thrown together, its sup ply system hurriedly patched up, and the invasion undertaken without ade quate preparation. Nearly a week was needed to get troops enough together to launch a small-scale expedition. For the past ten days the troops have been marking time while the Administra tion holds another of its interminable parleys with the bandit chieftain, Car ranza; and in that connection it was natural that, having prevented the Administration from placing the Mex ican railway at the service of General Funston in supplying his famished soldiers. Carranza should demand withdrawal. Not only is there no present pros pect of catching Villa, but indications are that the whole affair will end as a. fiasco. As for withdrawing the American troops, that would be vastly preferable to keeping them in Mexico under the present absurd restrictions. now in the United States striving to win. over the pro-German Irish to the cause of the allies. With these ex amples before it, the British Cabinet is likely to temper Justice with clem ency in Ireland. PASSING OF HARPER'S WEEKLY. After fifty-nine years of con- pers were then excluded are among the treasured possessions of many a family. They were rough and even crude, in comparison with pre3ent-day are accessible seven days in the week. of whom the most conspicuous were George William Curtis and Carl Schurz. But it appears to be true that, if Harper's acquired its greatest influ ence under Editor Curtis, its decline litical parties of that state will as semble in convention this week, both at North Yakima. The same lack of Presidential primary enables represen tatives of each party to confer on party principles and adopt resolutions or platform, and decide whether dele gates to the National conventions shall be instructed or uninstructed. The two conventions will have no itor of Harper's was the brilliant and particular significance in respect to interesting George Harvey; but with candidates for state office unless the all his incisive wit and literary power. unusual or unexpected occurs. They he could not retrieve its fortunes. Then will adopt resolutions, choose delegates the herculean task was undertaken by to the National conventions and in- I the erratic Norman Hapgood, who had struct or not instruct them, as the con- I been editor of Collier's at the zenith G. Blaine in 1884. Mr. Curtis was the original Mugwump. But mug wumpery was only a passing political spasm. Yet insofar as it represented independence of thought and action in politics, it has not disappeared, but has grown. For the decade proir to 1914, the ed- with which he was honored, but who. nevertheless, had traits that unfitted him tor success In public life, even If he did get to b President once. He rejoices in having been able to "join my fellow-citizens in welcoming back to private life one after another in rapid succession every man who took part in the work of retiring me," and that "most of them are there to stay." He expresses pleasure at hav ing lived "long enough to see my worst enemies saying worse things about each other than either of them ever said about me." He says that now "the greatest trouble is that nobody any longer knows what Republicanism is," that "the party was led away from basic principles in an effort to outdo Bryan," and that "it may be found harder to get in than It was to get out." "The man to lead us back is not yet in sight." he says, though that man may be found very suddenly. He then gives his opinion of what the next Republican candidate should stand for. The passage, which is published in another column, shows that, however much Mr. Foraker may have lost touch with the new leaders of his party, and however much he may have been' embittered against ' those who drove him from public life, he still holds fast to the fundamentals of Re publicanism as applied to the Nation's present perplexities. If he were once more to enunciate those principles in the National convention with his fervid oratory, old animosities would be for gotten and answering cheers would' greet him. Gleams Through the Mist. BY DEAN COLLINS. OLCOTT AND MOORES CONTRASTED The New York World makes a double-leaded demand upon the Re publican party to nominate Wood row Wilson at Chicago, on the ground that the only issue is Americanism and its vindication, and the defeat of the President by any Republican candi date will be a victory for the German propaganda. Roosevelt, or Hughes, or Burton, or McCall, or Root, a pro German, or pro-anything except pro American? Nonsense, of course. The only comment that need be made on .the World's extraordinary proposal is of wonder that a party -which the President but lately denounced as "provincial" should be asked to unite with the Democrats on anything. ventions may decide, and also nominate candidates for Presidential elector. That will complete their work. But party integrity will have been maintained at no real cost to the rule of the people. Probably the work of the Demo cratic convention, which meets Tues day, will be perfunctory. It will com. of the muckraking epoch, now an un pleasant recollection in domestic his tory. But he could do nothing to make the respectable and intellectual Harper's an influence, even by appeals to the various cults of socialism, fem inism, and downright radicalism. . The period of Harper's Weekly cov ers two generations. It was seven Despite constant warning by detec tion and punishment, another post office clerk has gone wrong, this time at Payette, Idaho. His peculations were small and the only reason he can give is, "I don't know." These inci dents bring into relief the Integrity of the great body of postal employes who resist temptation not because they know better nor from fear of punish ment, but because they are honest and have pride in the service. DOLOROSO. Those who hoped and dreamed. Whither have their footsteps tended? Followers of the wisp that gleamed O'er a path that never ended: Into dust their dust is blended; By; our feet their dust profaned. Pressing on with hands extended Toward the vision ne'er attained. From their dust our lips are fashioned; From their dust, our mold is made; From their dust our hearts impas sioned. Straining after hopes that fade. Ours the vain prayers they have prayed To the dead gods that we trust. Til our borrowed forms are laid Crumbling In their parent dust. Other eyes shall see the vision: Other lips shall breathe the vows; Other feet tramp in derision O'er our crumbled hearts and brows; Other brains the dreams shall house; Followers of the ancient flame. Till their faint form breaks bows. Blending with our dust again. Dust blown by a restless wind Till the fatnt gust Is expended; Caught by the next gust behind. Ever driven, ever blended! O'er a path that's never ended. Followers of a wisp that gleamed. Whither have their footsteps tended. Those that hoped and those that dreamed? Sir." said the Courteous Office Boy. topping beside my desk to borrow a safety pin. Yes. my son." I said kindly, offering him a nail, which was the best I could do. Speaking of striking similes." said the C. O. B.. "I have one that seems to me to be entitled to the palm." Uncork It," I demanded feverishly. Well, as a simile -for lonesoraeness the highest degree, how about "as onesome as a button on a shirt that s Just back from the laundry?" and mend the Administration and indorse years younger than The Oregonian, Woodrow u ilson for re-election. The which was founded in 1850. It ap- action of the Republican convention, Deared to be unable to adapt itself wnicn meets several days later, is more successfully to new conditions and new problematical. Resolutions adopted by ideas, and it went down county conventions indicate that the state convention will indorse prepared ness. But only one of the several county conventions reported in The Oregonian Sunday took definite stand on the party nomination for Presi dent. It indorsed Charles E. Hughes In most instances a desire for har mony could be read in the statement that the Progressive wing of the party was given due consideration in selection of delegates. Four years ago the Progressive party was more of a smoothly work ing, co-ordinated political force than was the party in Oregon. It had larger number of really influential leaders. It elected one member of Congress, thirty-three members of the Legislature, won the state for Roose velt, and would undoubtedly FORAKER REVIEWS HIS LIFE. An interesting characteristic o American politics is that, when defeat retires a man from the stage, he fre quently sits down behind the scene and writes an account from his own point of view of the events in which he played a part. He often does the so before great age has obscured hia memory and while his former friends and enemies still live to correct errors and to fill gaps in his narrative. That is the case with ex-Senator Foraker, whose "Notes of a Busy Life" is fresh from the press. He has always been a good fighter. both in the Army and in the political field, a staunch friend and a keen have Judge of men. He fought under Gen elected the Governor but for an unfor tunate nomination. It may therefore not be definitely assumed that the convention of s party so lately reorganized, with thou, sands of former Progressives in thi ranks, will not seriously consider the tentative candidacy of Theodore Roose- eral Sherman In the South and he fought the rebels on the stump for many years after the war ended. A violent altercation, with an ex-rebel Governor of West Virginia at a joint celebration on the Ohio River won him the bye-name "Fire-alarm For aker." He began his political career velt.' But likely between conflict of as a Judge with William ri. latt as the Hughes and Roosevelt adherents nif clerk, and since 1880 he had been attemDts to instruct, if made, will fail m tne loreiront 01 every political oat. and the delegation to the National con. tie until Colonel Roosevelt put him in vention will eo with a free hand. eclipse. He rose from judge to Cover What we hope to see is evidence nor' from Governor to Senator, and in that there has been an actual cement- the last-named position he became ing of the party in the interests of Re. publican principles a cementation that will not be broken in the In terests of an individual. The needs f the hour are loo important to be subordinated to personal allegiance. RICHES FOR THE POOR. A philosophical Philadelphian, with a. penchant for statistics and research, has taken a census of multi-million-nlres and an inventory of how they got their money. He was able to get in touch with 4043 multi-millionaires. Not so very many in a land that runs to money-hoarding plutocrats, but out of that entire gilded lot a mere score started life with a golden lining to their pockets. The others were all poor boys. This is rather conclusive evidence that if a man aspires to enter the ranks of multi-millionaires he must start with little capital. Being born rich imposes a serious handicap. The investigator found, in fact, that only one rich man's son in seventeen dies as rich as he is born. Think of such tin inglorious ending. Who knows how rich those other sixteen sons of rich men might have been at death had they enjoyed the privilege of being poor at birth? Just what use the accumulation can be after demise is not explained by onr explorer, but doubtless that is of no consequence Nor is light thrown upon the relative length of life of the sixteen boys who die poorer and the one who dies richer. The figures do show that this is a land of opportunity. When 4023 out of 4043 multi-millionaires begin life in poverty, then a lowly start is no barrier to the acquisition of great wealth in America. In Europe th ratio is doubtless reversed. Wealth families generally hand down their TOI H15TV PRONOCNCIN'U GAIETEER I love them served with tasty catsup The clams and things that come from Clatsop. How many a dairy king or duke. Has ranches down near Tillamook. The native fisherman can spin a Good fishing yarn down at Yaqulna. Those German-American Republi cans of estern ashington are counting too much on being taken seriously In their opposition to Roose velt. This is not a good time for so called "German-Americans" to butt in. nor is any time a good time for it. What would they say if Irish-American or British-American Republicans or Democrats in convention declared themselves? Just keep the name and incident in mind Ignatius Timothy Tritch Lin coln, former member of Parliament, extradited on the charge of forgery. but really wanted in London for being a German spy. If the charge fails, do you suppose Great Britain will put him back in this country, or manage somehow to hang him for treason? The envy of Darktown, arrayed as never was Solomon in the height of his glory, will, if convicted of the bad money charge, have recollections of sunny days In Portland to cheer his days and nights at McNeil's. Another German raider is said to be on the high seas, and the insurance men believe it. Report is that it slipped out during the bombardment of the English coast last week, an,d it Bounds likely. Berlin is willing to make conces sions. But the Wilson stand was that there could be no concessions short of full compliance with American de mands. So we shall see what we shall see. WHAT TO DO WITH THE REBELS. The most perplexing question now before the British government is what to do with Sir Roger Casement and he other leaders of the Sinn rebellion n Ireland. Death is the penalty pro- ided by law, but policy raises doubt as to the wisdom of its infliction. Death was the penalty visited upon that other Irish rebel. Robert Emmet, and it has caused Irishmen in all lands to honor his memory yearly for more than a century. The death penalty was paid by the Fenians who killed the policeman, Brett, at Manchester, na tney nave been honored ever since as the Manchester martyrs. Exe cution of men who honestly risk their lives, however mistakenls-, in a. cause they believe to be Just, seems to have an effect the reverse of that intended. It inspires reverence for the man who made the extreme sacrifice for his convictions, and sows the seeds of re bellion in the younger generation It has been suggested that the Brit' sh government should attempt to cheat Casement of his martyr's halo by pronouncing him insane and con fining him in an asylum. That was the treatment given to several hare- commanding National figure. In 1884 he nominated John Sherman for Presi dent and in 1888 could have had the nomination himself but for his loyalty to his friend. He revealed his shrewd judgment of men by his estimate, in writing to Sherman, of two men who have since come to the front. Ho found Roose velt "a young man of rather peculiar qualities ... a little bit young, and on that account has not quite as much discretion as he will have after while." Of Henry Cabot Lodge he wrote: I fcund him to be a genuine cood man. I think him not only absolutely honest in all that he endeavored to do, but he is man of culture and a man of most ex cellent Judgment. There is nothing "cranky" about him. I esteem htm most highly of all the men in that delegation. He is a coming man without doubt ana I am anxious to have you make him your friend. Foraker took a reading part in shapr ing some of the most important legis lation of his time that relating to Cuba, Porto Rico, the Philippines, the Panama Canal, Chinese exclusion, statehood for Arizona and New Mexico and railroad regulation in particular. The eyes of the Nation were fastened upon him by his fight on the Hep burn rate bill and by his champion ship of the negro soldiers who were discharged for the Brownsville raid. A feud with Roosevelt followed and culminated in the publication of his correspondence with John D. Arch bold, of the Standard Oil Company. The contest for queen of the Rose Carnival is now down to a commercial basis and the issuance of coupons is eliminated. The winner will get the money's worth. (To be multiplied.) "No Pacifist museum could be com Writer Dtaeoeaes Their Politic. Effi ciency, auad Service to Public. PORTLAND. April 30. (To the Ed itor.) Sir. Chapman havln'ir announced those who I editorially in the Oregon Voter that Mr. Olcott should be nominated for Sec retary of State because he was a Demo crat, as the interests of the state called for a state board divided politically, takes the back track this -week and is now trying to prove that Mr. Olcott Is a. Republican, and that a divided board is not so necessary sifter all. He has muddled things badly. He tells as Mr. Olcott'a politics have been obscured by his efficiency. That's bad. Better try Mr. Moores. who has a record for effi cient public service, and whose effi ciency has not obscured his nolitics. and whose politics have not obscured his emciency. He eaya Mr. Olcott Is not a political organizer. This is disproved by his management of the Democratic cam paign six years ago. There is no bet ter organizer in Oregon. He Is a past master in the game and plays it con tinually. It is to be regretted he has never used his admitted talent in the service of the Republican Dartv. Let us be fair, and let us also have tne plain facts. Mr. Olcott's appoint ment as Secretary of State was in pay ment of a political debt by a Demo cratic Governor. Mr. Turner Oliver. who was nominated in the Democratic primary.' should have been appointed. Mr. Olcott's Democratic friend are now practically telling us he 1 the only man In the state that Is fit for Secretary. This is an unjust reflection on other Secretaries, and upon other aspirants and withholds all credit from his chief assistant, Mr. Koxer. who has been in the department nearly 15 years. The framers of the Oregon const tution expressly limited the holding of this office to two terms of four years each. Why? To prevent the making or tne office a personal asset. A pri vate citizen la handicapped a a candl date because he cannot distribute pub lie documents, paid for by the tax Payers, to prospective -oters. free of charge. Three thousand blue books go out to the voters, with a slip Inside, conveying the compliments of Mr. Ol cott. This Is not considered metrlti- mate, but they should be sent with the compliments of the taxpayers, who pay for them. Mr. Olcott recently asked the State Board for authority to have 10.000 more printed for distribution. The best of men sre Influenced bv these courtesies, and the Board refused. eviaentiy ror tne reason that the money of the taxpayers should not be used to pay the campaign expenses of any ean- uinate. Strangely enough. the Democratic papers are telling us Mr. Moores la the real "machine rjolitician " Nmhlnr la farther from the truth. Mr. Moores' po litical activities have been confined al most wholly to occasional contributions to the press discussing politics in the aostract. as a practical politician. Mr. Olcott can make rings all around him. Mr. Moores has always stood for clean politics. He has never been the heneh- In Other Days. Twenty- ve Years A bow From Tha Oresonian of May 2, 1S91. Pittsburg. May 1. This morning be tween 5000 and 6000 railroad miners In the Pittsburg district went on a strike. Their old scale expired yesterday and they went out pending an adjustment of wages. Chicago. May 1. A perfect day. large crowds and general enthusiasm characterised the labor demonstration for eight hours in Chicago. Ladies who have charge of the re ception to be given to Mrs. Harrison and the other ladies of the Presidential party in the parlors of the Hotel Port land next Tuesday night from 9 to 11 o'clock are getting matters into shape. Arrangements are being made to se cure the services of the Marina Band to give an open-air concert on the Plaza, every Wednesday evening during the Summer. Brigadier-General Alolphus W. Greely. chief officer of the. United States Signal Service, arrived at noon yester day and left lMst night for Pugct Sound. He is inspecting the Signal Service of fices throughout the country. The people of Portland are yearly taking an increased interest in Sum mer driving. This Interest Is encour aged in a large measure by the efforts of the Multnomah Driving Association towards keeping up the famous White House road leading out from the city south along the river bank as fsr as Milwauklc. plete." say, our old friend Constant man or any man or any political fac- "ur'thnMt o .tuffed nil "- never triea to piay tne tie enterea mis roll of political boss. , . . . . i . v. at was. no enteira 1.111a mounted angle-worm, which Is too contest flatly declaring he would go una 10 maxe a kuuq fieiHway "cui in without pledges and as the repre- it is dug out, can t aerena itseir ana 1 seniative 01 no man or faction. Half m Centarr Asa. From The Oresonian of Way -. 1 ". The farmers of Tualatin Plains aro busily employed in plom ing and sowing grain and the Indications are that a, large crop will be produced there this season. The arrangement lately made hy Pos tal Agent Brooks with the O. S. N. Com pany secures the transmission of lh malls from The Dalles to Walla Walla, five or six times a week, the malls be ing taken by every boat instead of tri weekly as heretofore. The short schedule time, six davs from Sacramento to re; land. Is now bring attempted by the California and Oregon slso companies. The first coach of the present season .trriveJ. under the short schedule in our city yesterday. A reliable person Jurt In from th Mojave River, on the S:le Lake rout. reports the Indians to bo very trouble some. They are continually annoying trains and travelers and several pcr anrs have already been killed by them. Hillsboro is going io have its Are department si ell as o..her larger an i mere pretentions place. A sm.:l but very efficient f re enieine has been con- r.ructed there and th cltixer.s will b p-epared tr. guard aca'rst tl:e devour ing element. eventually converted into bait by someone who knows how to use It." NAMES 19 NAMES, took a walk with James, but Oh, A rude policeman made me stop: I think you are a burglar. Bo: You've got a Jimmy," said the cop. Melvln needed cash one day. And several I. O. TTs he wrote. Though I love music, I must say I do not like a Mel owe note. Rex went upon a slumming tour. And searched the slums with studious specs; The dives were disappointing sure. For nought was. there but moral Rex THE SHORTEST POME, "S. R. D.." of Mosler. has reduced the material In the short pome on "Matrimony Alimony." which was re cently submitted, and believes that the shortest is achieved in: Wooed ; Sued. While Thelma Goff comes in with the following lyric on "Who Will Be Our Hero?": Teddy's Ready. Coming much closer to the absolute zero, however. Is S. E. Bartmess. of Hood River, with the following, which appears to be the "Ballad of the In ternational Secret Service Man": I Spy. All of which is promising, but the end is not yet. It can be done In less, and unless He was named as Renublican State Chairman without any desire or solici tation on his part. He gave several months of his time In each of two campaigns and never asked, received or expected a dollar for his services. and with no desire or expectation of ever being a candidate for office. He has given nearly 40 years' service as a trustee of the old pioneer university at Salem. Although not a candidate, he was appointed as a member of the Public Docks Commission of Portland and as such has served for six years without compensation. He has given free public service In various other capacities, and has been a liberal giver to various public enter prises and Institutions. He was a tax. payer In this state 20 years before his competitor ever saw the state. We believe the records will show that his competitor. If he succeeds in this con test, win nave drawn practically ten times as much as Mr. Moores has from the State Treasury as an office-holder, and that he has not paid one-tenth as much as a taxpayer. Jet our Democratic friends resent as an impertinence the entr" of Mr. Moores or anyone else as & candidate In the Republican primaries until Mr. Olcott shall have had a 10-year lease of office and an aggregate salary of sia.uuu. v. ny is it an Impertinence? A. B. a "OIR NEXT CANDIDATE'S" VIEWS Foraker Soaaeata Priadplra to Ke Set r'ortk la Hrpablleaa Platform. From ex-Senator KorVer- "Notes of a Busy Life. Our next candidate may thus sud denly break into view. However that may be. while we cannot now speak his name, yet It may be safely pre dicted, without undertaking to framo a platform in advance, that he will be lieve In the preservation of the Con stitution of the United States and th form of representative government It provides: not that our Constitution is to stand untouched forever, but that t hall be changed only In the way proviued in that Instrument for Its amendment; that he will be opposed to all schemes and devices calculated and Intended to secure minority rule by Socialistic associations that aim to fool, delude and bamboozle the credu lous voter with non-partisan ballots. Impracticable reforms and constant discourse about the wickedness of poli tics, while they themselves make poli tics in its worst forms their chief oc cupation; asbiduously and constantly devoting themselves thereto by day and by night: and chiefly behind closed doors, and by the use of all kinds of un-American practices: that he will be lieve In a real, genuine protective tariff policy that will protect Ameri can industries and American labor; that he will earnestly favor a mer chant marine and the doing of some thing practical and substantial In that behalf: that he will favor a restora tion of our right to prefer our own Eeirecloaore of Mortgage. PORTLAND. May 1. (To the Editor.) 1. A mortgage on a farm was duel on January 26. 1916. After this date I ships In the use of our own canal: that mortgagor paid the Interest up to Jan-1 he will be opposed to a sentimental Henry Ford says he has no desire to be President. He might as well add that he has no desire to be Kaiser of Germany or Czar of Russia. A kingfisher down. Toledo way choked to death trying to swallow a large trout. Thus greed claims even the lower animals. .... ...r. v wnich brought about his dereat ror re- sassinate Queen Victoria, the theory eIect,on an, hj3 flna, retirement by being that no sane man would desire the Joint efforts of Roosevelt and to we ine me 01 50 oenign a ruier, lT!lf, H. !--r,H- hifnsolf ahiv frnm whose subjects enjoyed such complete the cnarges based on that publication liberty. The actions of Sir Roger in ' rt I1Ar. ...,, IO discus, without becoming a pro-German propagandist Maybe the Administration Is going to adopt Obregon as its latest Mexican pet. Villa having proved such a dis appointment. Holding up a candidate is not what it was in olden days. Men who desired office then were trimmed and frisked to a finish. A man has invented what he calls a cordwood splitter and salvation days are coming for the married man and his wife. 'peace at any price" policy that he will not hesitate to assert that the United States la the dominant power on the North American con tinent at least . . . That we should provide and maintain an army and a navy at least approximately commen surate with our duties and our neces- uary 26. 1916. to the mortgagee, but railed to pay back the principal. Through these acts Is the mortgage still due and can it be foreclosed at any time 7 2. A mortgage was due on July 26. 1915, and the mortgagor did not pay T r 1 np nMtIB nr. I ,, , II , someone discovers the ultimate oegree naid th- interest nn in that rf.t. th. I tti: that he will have brains enoua-h of condensation In pome writing, we mortgagee, who acknowledged the re-1 and courage enough to proclaim and shall be forced to make It public our-lceipt without reservation. I enforce protection for American cltl- selves. I D11 the mortgagee, by taking the in-I sens from outrage, wherever they may teresr. tor a time after the mortiraea I be at home or anroaa: tut ne win -WHEN THE DOVE BIT THE EAGLE." I became due lose his right to foreclose discontinue the policy under which thai . 1 1110 moriKKKe at any timer I government una prrn civen w-viit- t-MAr-iE.it is. 1 3 -why is it usual, or prescribed bv I "New Freedom" to stick its nwa Into. Within a week the enemy had over- lajv. at least in Oregon, besides signing everybody's business. run the state and held possession of I mortgage to give a note too? Is that necessary; JAK. There was welcome change, yester day In the news of the day. The usual run of building strikes was absent. At the first conference General Ob regon delivered no ultimatum to the United States. How reassuring. While strawberries sell by the pint box the family shortcake never can attain a satisfactory thickness. all of the Important centers. Hope seemed to have flown forever and this, our fair land, seemed about to pass irretrievably under a foreign yoke. But ah. they had not reckoned upon Yankee Ingenuity. I need touch but briefly upon the master stroke with which the enemy waa eradicated In one swoop; for the heroic story Is In every man's memory at this day. Invitations were sent to all of the principal officers of the Invading army to attend a banquet to be given tn their honor . In Portland. Acceptances were practically unani mous. They little realized the cunning with which the Yankee patriots could devise a seemingly harmless method of rid ding themselves of their enemies. The evening of the banquet arrived. with all of the guests in attendance. The stage was act for the crowning stroke of the great war. A suffrage team will be formed to play ball. Not the kind, however, that the wily politic!ans delight in. and then proceeds to discuss, without sparing those responsible, the disasters which have since befallen the Rcpub lican party. ' He recalls the dire results predicted as sure to follow his re-election to the Senate and remembers with evident satisfaction that those very results fol lowed his defeat. He quotes this sen tence from a letter written iy Taft in 1900, thanking him for a recommen dation to the President for Governor of the Philippines: Good fortune has followed me m-lth ao much persistence that I tremble for the xuture on tne principle 01 compensation. He congratulates himself on freedom from responsibility for the disasters which closed Taft's political career and on the fact that "notwithstanding all the provocation my enemies gave me to act differently, I never wavered for one Instant in my support of my He thus characterizes Taft among Irish prisoners of war and in undertaking to lead a hopeless revolt would be the ground for such action. but the same reasoning would apply- to the other leaders, and this attempt to rob their chiefs of the martyr's crown and to make them ludicrous might arouse more resentment among Irish malcontents than execution. The British government has recently had some striking evidences of the wisdom of clemency. By granting the Boers full" citizenship in an autono mous South Africa it has won them over so cotnpletely that their former General. Botha, led them in cpnquer" ing southwest Africa for the empire. and another Boer General, De Smuts, is now doing like service in German East Africa. Colonel -Arthur Lynch, who entered the Boer army and was captured and condemned to death, was I Dartv l.ai uuucu i . 1 1 , 1 , lc. u i... 1 aiuaiuriiL as 1 , f . -, ,,1.1 , , . . a follower of John Redmond. He is 1 splendid quaUficatloaa for tha areat office With the league leaders here this week. Portland fans can expect the worst and be disappointed. Those Turks recall thoughts of Gen eral Grant, whose terms were uncon ditional surrender. The Rebellion of 1916 Is over and classified and card-indexed with the Rebellion of '98. One-third of the arrests in Seattle are for Intoxication, but that's Seattle. The season is also at hand to clean up last Fall's straw lid. The brave pioneer Is abroad In straw hat and Spring suit. It is now up to the French to try for Metz. Clean up! . ... 1. Yes. 2. Acceptance of interest to a date in advance of maturity prolongs the life of the mortgage to that date. It may be foreclosed at any time thereafter. C. A mortgage Is a pledge or security. The note is the debt. The mortgage la essentially the same as the watch or other article pledged with a pawn broker, as aecurity for a loan. Villa aaa Carraaaa. EUGENE. Or.. April SO. (To the Editor.) (1) Where was Pancho Villa, the Mexlran bandit, raised or born? I have heard or seen somewhere he waa In the American Army a while. and escaped and ran off when a younar man and Joined some bandits or had some trouble over a girl or his sister. who had beon carried off against her wishes. ; Was Carranza educated in the United States? Someone said he wax In Yals College a while, or some other. J. FlltD MILTERS. (1) Villa -was born In San Juan del Rio. slate of Durango. In 1S7S. There Is an account of his life in Colliers. and this is not written In i. spirit of I April 2$. 1316. which mentions the In cident of his sister. (2) World's Work for January. 114, page IT, says: "General Venus- tlano Carranza was given the education of a gentleman tn the schools of North ern Mexico. Maltaomak Entitle1 tm Oar. DALLAS. Or.. May 1. (To the Edi tor.) The two candidates for the nomi nation on the Republican ticket for Secretary of State are good citizens personal criticism of Mr. Olcott. Multnomah County and Eastern Ore gon pay two-thirds of the taxes of the state, yet Marron County haa the Treasurer and Secretary of State and Benton County near by haa the Gov ernor. It reems to me that It Is fair to the other portion of the state to put the Secretary in Multnomah County. The three officers named have mat The final word In f rightfulness was deal to do with reference to exnendi- about to be spoken and it waa to belturea and It Is not Just right to give spoken against the Invader. (To be absolutely stopped.) THOSE DEAR. VICES. The onestep Is a naughty dance; I like It: It's foll'wers take an awful chance; I like It; The vials of wrath for it are stored By members of the censor board; By moralists 'tis sharply scored I like It. one county two members of the state board. I make this suggestion to the voters of the state for what It is worth, and It leaves out of consideration the fact that Mr. Moores has at all times been la supporter or the party. I have known Charley Moores for E0 years and have at all times found him worthy the respect and confidence of all good citizens. GLEN O. HOLM AX. DeflaMlo of "WereV LA GRANDE. Or, April 30. (To the Editor.) Please state the origin and define the meaning of the word "Junker." Z have been unable to find It In anv available dictionery or en cyclopedia. THOMAS DUNCAN. Junker: A young German noble or squire; especially a member of the conservative or reactionary aristocratic party in Prussia; often used with an Implication of narrow-minded con servatism, overbearing. haughtiness, social exulusiveness or the like. Webster's. Go te Library. PORTLAND. May 1. (To the Edl Willard Shaver, the gentlemanly fish tor.) Kindly publish the following in and game editor, was recently op-1 formation: Names of the Presidents, erated on for appendicitis, but the Vice-Presidents, members of Presl- v. ueniB aQiaei, (?peaaer ot nouse. poetic Inclinations. He smites his lyre tates from which they come: the for us thus: Romance it is a dangerous thing; I like It; It makes your nerves go ting-a-llng; I like It: Its wrecks have strewn the beach resorts; 'Tis fatalist of Winter sports; It fills the breach of promUe courts; I like it- Justices of the Supreme Court and states from which they come: the name, title and the state from which they come of this country's represen tatives to England. Germany. Russia. France and Turkey. READER. Lengthy information readily obtain able from common reference books at any Public Library will not be given space in, these columns, Linking Two Good Names. If the name of a reputable dealer Is linked with that of a manu facturer of National reputation in the exploitation af a trade-marked article it is a double protection to the consumer. When dealers and manufacturer link their good names behind the advertising in the local newspapers there la a pull that is sure to bring results. In such a case two good names frequently stand for great riches. i