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PORTLANT), TUESDAY. AUG. 22, 1916.
THJB OVERSHADOWING ISSUE.
The great question before the Amer
ican people today is what they shall
do to meet the conditions which will
prevail when the war is over. They
can Judge from experience what those
conditions will be if present laws, the
present Administration and the pres
ent policy continue to prevail at that
time. During the ten months which
followed enactment of the Underwood
tariff and which preceded the out
break of war, they had experience of
the effect of Democratic tariff poHcy
on their ability to earn a living-. -Air.
Hughes described those effects In his
Portland speech when he said:
It did not require one to be a student, a
critto of financial affairs or a special ob
server to know. The hundreds of thousands
of unemployed walking the streets of our
oltles they knew. Every one of them was a
tariff expert. There were 800,000 un
employed tariff experts in the city of New
York alone. All through the land people
were taking counsel to provide relief, relief
In this great country, for the unemployed.
It was necessary because enterprise was
languishing, new undertakings were not
starting, old undertakings were contracting
their output. Instead of the drive and push
of American energy there was a halting and
hesitation.
That was the result of the Demo
cratic tariff policy. During the pre
ceding fifty years, with one brief but
disastrous Interval, the Republican
tariff policy had prevailed. During
that period Amorican industry had
grown to vast proportions, settlement
had spread across the continent and
foreign commerce bad carried Ameri
can products into every land. Those
were the fruits of the Republican pol
icy of protection.
Only an extraordinary cause, other
than a change of American policy,
could lift the country out of this state
of depression. Such is the great war.
It gave American trade what Mr.
Hughes rightly called a "tremendous
stimulus" and created unprecedented
prosperity, but that prosperity is pure
ly artificial, the result of artificial
conditions produced by war. When
the normal conditions of peace are re
stored, this prosperity will pass away.
Unless the policy of protection which
brought prosperity in peace times is
adopted, the depression which, pre
vailed before the war will be renewed
and the streets of the cities will again
be filled with unemployed tariff ex
perts. Some persons imagine that the war
ring nations will be so weak and en
feebled that they will be easily over
come in industrial and commercial
competition. As Mr. Hughes showed
by reference to the United States after
the Civil War, to France and Ger
many after the war of 1870 and to
Russia and Japan after the war of
1904-5, war energizes a Nation and
gives it "an extraordinary stimulus."
Mr. Hughes thus described the effects
of war: x
You find men better disciplined than ever
before. While there are large casualties
reported, the larger number Is wounded, and
a small percentage of the wounded fall to
recover. There is a military wastage, but
there Is not such a serious economlo loss as
you might suppose.
On the other hand, Europe In every one
of these nations Is being drilled. Is being
made more capable than ever. Is learning
co-operation. Is Increasing In capacity. Look
out for energized Europe when it turns back
to the pursuits of peace.
Mr. Hughes' conclusions are c6r
roborated, for example, by increase in
French production of iron ore six
times between 1880 and 1910. Ed
ouard Julhiet, a Frenchman, writing
in the North American Review on
"The War and French Finance," said
that it would take only two years to
rebuild the destroyed factories in
Northern France: that factory engi
neers have learned a great deal in the
United States, that the knowledge
gained about American machinery, to
gether with necessity, "will contribute
toward making over French industry
and will give it a greater impetus than
it has ever received before." He esti
mates that the cost price of steel will
be 15 per cent less in the new than in
the old plants. What is true of steel
is likely to prove true of other .lndus
. tries in which France competes with
the United States.
Mr Julhiet also confirms Mr.
Hughes' statement that the economlo
loss by war casualties is overestimated.
He says that the number of French
workmen killed and seriously wound
ed up to January 1, 1916, probably did
not exceed 150,000. Such a ratio of
loss would be more than made good
by the greater efficiency of new fac
tories with new and improved ma
chinery and of the newly developed
power of women. What is true of
France is also true of Britain, Bel
gium and Russian Poland.
Even while the war is in progress
find while millions of their people are
fighting or making munitions, the
allied countries have greatly in
creased their exports to the United
States. When this can be done while,
in the case of Britain, 5,000,000 men
are in the army and navy and 2,500,
000 people. Including 750,000 women,
are making munitions, what may not
be done when all return to the arts
- of peace, with the added discipline
and skill they have acquired and with
the new modern machinery that has
been installed?
That which the Democratic party
has to offer for equipment of the
American people to compete with these
re-energized armies of industry is
' found in the Underwood tariff. That
tariff would produce in more intense
degree the same effects as it produced
before the war. So alarmed are the
lyeuiuuiitis a. a iu its qllcv;i men. ixieir
leader. President Wilson, has induced
" them to throw overboard the principle
of tariff for revenue only, with the
denunciation of a protective tariff as
unconstitutional and to embrace tim-
idly and hesitatingly the Republican
protective principle. The President
made this change of front in a letter
- to the president of the Illinois Manu
facturers' Association, and he made it
so suddenly that, when the letter was
- read in Congress, Representative
Kltchln, the leader of his own party
in the House, denied its authenticity,
saying:
It Is impossible for any man -who voted
for the Underwood act or endorsed the
Underwood act, much less for one who
signed it, to have conceived and expressed
publicly such high protective tariff senti
ments. Like a novice at a new Job, the Dem
ocratic party is trying its hand at pro
tection by imposing a duty on dye
stuffs, by passing a law against dump
ing and by establishing a Tariff Com
mission, which is thrown open to the
lame ducks. Mr. Hughes showed at
Spokane that the anti-dumping clause
was "obviously ineffective," and that
the Democratic party proved its in
capacity to enact genuine protective
legislation when it refused to impose
a countervailing duty, which would be
effective. The dyestuff duty is to
cease before the industry can be firmly
established.
Thisj nibbling at protection by a
party which does not believe In it
proves the truth of these words of
Mr. Hughes in his Portland speech:
If you want the principle of protection
fairly and honestly applied. It has got to be
applied by those who believe In It. and not
by those who do not .believe In It.
Oregon suffered as much as any
other state from the effects of the
Underwood tariff before the war, and
it has shared only to a slight degree
in the temporary prosperity brought
by the war. Its lumber industry was
struck down, its dairy industry was
exposed to competition of New Zea
land butter, Chinese eggs and Danish
cheese, and its wool industry gained
a respite only through a short clip in
other countries and through the war.
If Oregon is to enjoy permanent pros
perity, it must have protection under
a Republican Administration which
believes in protection.
MR. HUGHES AND $100,000.
The New York World, which is car
rying on a vehement campaign against
Mr. Hughes for President, ought in
fairness to cite the shade of Joseph
Pulitzer to give testimony as to the
fitness of the Republican nominee.
When Joseph Pulitzer wrote his will
he looked over the entlro field of
America for trustees who would ad
minister fairly. Judiciously and expert
ly the great property which he planned
to bequeath in trust to his heirs. He
named Charles Evans Hughes, then a
member of the United States Supreme
Court, and fixed $100,000 as his com
pensation. Justice Hughes declined the com
mission and the fee. So great an
amount for an easy Job was no temp
tation to a man who had high ideals
for himself as a Judge and for others
and who lived up to them. The World
has been doing other queer things In
the campaign. In open or tacit ac
quiescence in the Republican plan of
taking Mr. Hughes from the bench,
the World has been demanding that
the Democrats of New York take as
their candidate for Governor Samuel
Seabury Justice of tha State Court of
Appeals. A conference or assembly
of Democratic leaders at Saratoga has
agreed on Seabury, and he will go into
the September primary with the sup
port of the organization Democrats.
The New York Democrats appear
to have the idea that a pre-prlmary
assembly nomination is not the wicked
and monstrous thing it has been found
to be by Oregon Democrats.
NO EXECRATIONS.
Both The Portland Oregonlan and Tele
gram are loud In their denunciation of
Congressional "pork," yet because Oregon
did not secure a elloe of pork from the
naval bill In the shape of a submarine base
at Astoria they are still louder In their
execrations of the Oregon Senators for not
securing It. Medford Mall-Tribune (Dem.).
Well, no. The Oregonlan has in
dulged in no execrations. Not any.
But it has been Interested in eliciting
from the Senators, or from any of
their supporters, Just where they stood
on the important question of the As
toria naval base.
Will its gentle Medford contempo
rary let us know Just what service
Senator Chamberlain and Senator
Lane performed for the naval base 7
To be sure. Senator Lane presented a
$500,000 amendment to the naval ap
propriation bill, but it speedily went
into the discard when the Congres
sional conferrees got at it.
The Medford mouthpiece of the
Democratic Senators describes the As
toria naval base item as "pork." If
it was "pork," how can they be Jus
tified by any honest newspaper in
voting for it? Is that the reason Sen
ator Chamberlain early in the cam
paign said it was no use trying to do
anything about it?
The Oregonian thinks $500,000 for
a naval base in the Columbia is not
"pork," but an enterprise of the high
est expediency and soundest patriot
ism. An Administration committed to
a policy of adequate preparedness can
have no excuse for ignoring the vital
position of the Columbia River in any
comprehensive scheme of National de
fense. Now that wo have heard from
Medford, The Oregonian invites other
Democratic testimony as to the char
acter of the $500,000 naval base plan.
I.IM K FOR FRUIT TREES.
Demand for a cheap, commercial
form of ground limestone which shall
be within the reach of every farmer
is emphasized by recent disclosures as
to the importance of this treatment in
orchards that have not been doing as
well as their owners seemingly had the
right to expect. Cultural methods fre
quently have been the most thorough,
air and water drainage of the best.
and other outward features of man
agement without fault, and yet, par
ticularly in the case of the stone
fruits, there has been bitter disap
pointment.
W. M. Faulkner, writing in the Cor-
vallis Courier, explains that many of
thqse shortcomings are due to lack of
lime in the soil, and asserts that it is
relatively easy to overcome them. He
ras had wide opportunity for obser
vation. He attributes the trouble ex
perienced by many orchardists in
growing such fruits as sweet cherries
and sugar prunes to acid drawn from
tli soil by the young trees. He calls
atcention to the commonly accepted
statement that sweet cherries will take
care of themselves after they are eight
or nine years old, and explains it. The
top soil is especially deficient in lime,
which has been dissolved and leached
through into the soil below, or ex
hausted by cropping. The young cher
ries suffer as a consequence until they
have been so thoroughly established
that their roots have pejietrated to the
lower layers. Then it is true, as has
teen said, that they "take care of
themselves." But In the opinion of
Mr. Faulkner, it is the lime that en
ables them to do it His own experi
ments seems to have established the
soundness of the conclusion.
The precise nature of the operation
by which the elements of the soil
are transformed by one plant into a
sour fruit and by another into a
sweet one is not well understood even
by scientists who have devoted their
lives to research, but light is beginning
to break in. Mr, Faulkner in a jrac-
tical way is contributing to the stock
of knowledge of the subject. He be
lieves that the disease of certain fruit
trees known as gummosls can be
measurably controlled, if not pre
vented, by proper use of lime. Before
planting a new orchard of stone fruits
on land deficient in this important
element, he would dig the holes and
incorporate into the soil two or three
pounds either of air-slaked or ground
lime, and as the trees developed he
would add more lime to meet the
spreading roots. To orchards already
planted he would apply lime at the
rate of two or three tons to the acre.
This amount is regarded as sufficient
to last until the trees have thoroughly
established themselves.
The lime problem is one In which
handling and transportation figure
quite largely. It is not necessary that
the limestone should be burned unless
especially quick action la desired, so
that this factor in the cost can be
eliminated. Grinding to a fine tex
ture, however, is advantageous, and
any facility that will obviate unneces
sary labor is highly desirable. Special
freight rates, of course, would be a
boon to the farmer. Even then for
those who live a considerable distance
from the railroad. the item of hauling
Is important, but the work need not
be done in the busy season. Appli
cation of unburned limestone may do
made to the orchard to advantage at
any season.
THE STRUGGLE TO KEEP AFLOAT.
A week or two since the public was
surprised to note an announcement
that a lumber manufactory long iden
tified with Portland and Oregon the
North Pacific Lumber Company had
gone into a receiver's hands. The sur
prise was not at all lessened by the
later publication of the company's
financial status, showing assets worth,
on the basis of present valuations,
nearly $2,000,000, and liabilities some
thing over $700,000. It Is said that if
the capital stock be wiped out the
ratio of assets to debts is about three
to one. Yet this valuable and solvent
concern found Itself overwhelmed
with difficulties, in the present de
pressed condition of the lumber indus
try, and saw no way to conserve its
resources and meet its obligations ex
cept through a receiver.
This incident in the record of a
long-established and honorably con
ducted sawmill calls sharply to gen
eral attention the hard struggle the
lumber manufacturing business has
had during the past several years.
There have been overproduction and.
In some instances no doubt, over
capitalization. There has been an un
favorable customs tariff. There has
been general commercial stagnation
throughout the Nation; and finally
there has been a great war, raising
ship charters to inconceivable prices
and shutting off a great part of the
foreign market. Yet many mills like
the North Pacific have kept going,
out of pride, or in an expectation of
improvement in prices, or in the de
sire to keep their men employed; all
these reasons together have counted.
The North Pacific, under the owner
ship and management of Donald
Mackay and W. B. Mackay, father and
son, has in a quarter of a century paid
out millions of dollars for labor alone.
The suspension of its payroll is there
fore a serious matter.
Doubtless this fine sawmill property
will get on its feet again. There is
no charge or suspicion that anything
has contributed to its present embar
rassment but the poor lumber market.
With a better business outlook, any
reasonable plan of reorganization
ought to succeed.
MAKING MEN OVER.
"For every Englishman killed dur
ing the war," says a writer In a Brit
ish medical journal who is being wide
ly quoted, "two will be created." This
striking statement is not as revolu
tionary as it will appear to some at
first glance. It appears, as the war
continues, that some of our eugenists
may have been Just a little bit mis
taken in their dogmatio conclusions
that the effect of war on the race Is
wholly bad. Experience has made it
appear that there are at least a few
redeeming features.
Army discipline has done wonders,
even with some of the most unprom
ising material. Writing In the At
lantic Monthly," Wilfred T. Grenfell
tells of the work of the Royal Army
Medical Corps, and lays emphasis on
Its influence not alone on the present
efficiency of the armies in the field
but on the future of the men com
posing them. There is no doubt, he
says, that the service has made many
new men, both body and soul, out of
those who were anaemic, neurotic,
bottle-shouldered, flat-chested, with
cramped lungs and embarrassed
hearts, subject to every malady that
came along. Such as these are being
"turned by the magic of the open-air
life and the sanitary precautions taken
into veritable tan-faced giants." Hun
dreds who have had handicapping
physical deformities have been oper
ated on and cured; many thousands
have had Infected, rheumatism-causing
teeth and throats cleaned and re
paired. These almost invariably were
men who never would have had the
treatment or the opportunity for it
in times of peace.
But there is a still more Important
influence. Unnumbered thousands
have learned to appreciate simple and
more natural living, while tens of
thousands are interested as they never
were before in the things that make
for true manhood. These conclusions
are based on the widest possible ob
servation, and are not mere guess
work. They are not confined to a par
ticular class, for war has proved a
great leveler and the armies now In
the field are representative of every
branch of society as well as every de
partment of human Industry. It goes
without saying that it is the previous
ly uneducated who have benefited
most by the purely educational fea
tures of the service, but the war has
taught no less important lessons to
many of more aristocratic lineage
lessons of obligation and discipline
and responsibility. There is in the
light of knowledge of what all these
men are doing In the emergency a
growing faith in the possibilities of
the human race a faith that a year
or two ago seemed all but gone.
Two Frenchmen, Abbe Moreaux, of
the Bourges Observatory, and Dr.
Charles Richet, of the French Insti
tute, have reached the conclusion that
the ordeal through which men are
passing is developing all their latent
fortitude. Df Richet sounds a hope
ful note for the benefit of those who
believed that our civilization had so
refined men as to make them tame
ppirited and effeminate, and had in
duced a permanent preference for
well-being to arduous effort. He de
nies also that there has been any
proof that the present generation is
less capable of understanding the
beauties of sacrifice than were its re
mote ancestors. Indeed, Dr. Rlohet
points out, the exact opposite is
the truth. The most cultivated
men, upon the whole, have shown the
greatest bravery. University students
have set conspicuous examples for
their fellow-men. Never in the his
tory of the world never in the times
of Leonldas, or Spartacus, or Hanni
bal the French, savant holds, was
there shown so much of the supreme
spirit of self-abnegation, of contempt
for the results to the individual, as is
now being manifested every day.
Abbe Moreaux is strongly of the
opinion that the generation which has
suffered by this war will "find itself
with new resources created by it."
Many a pusillanimous creature, both
in and out of the army, will come out
of the war with new virtues of the
kind of which heroes are made. There
will be a reawakening of suppressed
forces. The men who have seen serv
ice, or who have performed duty in
any of Its many higher forms,, or have
made sacrifices, will be the better for
it and the world will be the better for
their experience when it is called upon
to take their counsel in the recon-
Fttnctive days.
TOO LATE NOYV. BUT
The Oregonlan on August 4 said:
If H be true that the means now provided
for Judicial adjustment of railroad disputes
are not satisfactory to both the companies
and their employes. It Is Incumbent upon
tongress to provide means that are satis
factory. The parties to the dispute should
Indicate In what respect the present law
falls to Insure Just awards and Congress
should so amend the taw as to remove the
defects. Having provided a tribunal In the
Justice of whose decisions both parties can
place eonfldence. Congress should then re
quire that all disputes between railroads
and tbelr employes, which they fail to
adjust themselves, shall be submitted to
that tribunal It will have the right to do
so, having Insured Just awards. As the
representative of the publlo, which is the
third party to the controversy and the
party which would suffer most by a strike.
It Is the duty of Congress to guard against
the tying up of the railroads.
Neither the President nor Congress
having done anything to avert the dis
aster which has Impended for months,
the President now tells Mr. Pope, pres
ident of the National Association of
Manufacturers:
Unfortunately there Is no means now
In exlstenoe by which arbitration can be
secured. The existing means have been
tried and have failed. This situation must
never be allowed to arise again, but It has
arisen. Some means must be round to pre
vent its recurrence, but no means can be
found offhand or in a hurry.
The situation should not have been
permitted to arise. It could have been
foreseen long enough ago to give
ample time for adoption of preventive
measures. There was no occasion to
do anything "offhand or in a hurry."
Stanford is to try a special course
to fit students for country newspaper
work. Success is doubtful, for lack of
resources and proper settings. How
can students or faculty handle two
cords of knotty wood, on which apply
last and the current year's subscrip
tions and the balance in cash? How
can the student take his family on a
Sunday to the home of a subscriber
who has just had a hog killing and re
turn with a backbone and shoulder
and Inwardly full of good cheer to the
straining limit? How can they demon
strate the art of standing off the sta
tion agent for the "lnsides" the night
before press day when the exchequer
is no more substantial than a shadow?
How can they teach the student to
stand in with all the candidates and
extract a sawbuck from each before
the primary and retain their friend
ship afterward? It may be those deans
and professors know the theory of run
ning a weekly paper In what Editor
Long up at Hillsboro would call "near
heaven," but their teachings will not
apply down where a county club is a
Democrat and a Sheriff is a Republi
can and there are columns of notices
to be handed out. They would better
confine the effort to furnishing high
grade copy readers at $10 per and let
the country editor begin, flourish and
end in the good old way.
The Federal Government has under
taken seriously the task of exterminat
ing the dogfish and other "predatory
aquatic animals" that threaten the
profits of fishermen, if not the exist
ence of their business, particularly on
the Atlantic Coast. The bill recently
signed by the President provides, as
usual, for investigation of methods and
for experiments with a view to estab
lishing . fisheries and markets. The
opinion seems to be held that the
speediest way of ridding the ocean of
these pests is to make it profitable to
catch them and then let commerce
and industry take their course. In the
case of the dogfish, efforts probably
will be concentrated on processes for
extracting the oil cheaply and for pre
paring the skins for a variety of uses
as well as the conversion of the waste
Into chemicals and fertilizers. The
Bureau of Fisheries has an approprla
tlon of $25,000 for the purpose. This
would not go far in an actual cam
palgn of extermination, but It is hoped
that it will be sufficient If devoted
entirely to pointing the way to others.
Royal Anne cherries are an example
of the Northwestern products which
have been shut out of Eastern mar
kets by the Underwood tariff, which
put them on the free list. Formerly
about 1000 tons of these cherries,
which are produced in great quantities
in Washington, were used in Cincinnati
yearly in making maraschino cherries,
desserts and other articles. That city
now imports Italian cherries free of
duty in a 1-per-cent solution at 3
cents per pound, which Is cheaper
than the Pacific Coast can afford to
produce them for. Canada fosters its
cherry industry with a duty of 2 cents
a pound plus 7 per cent war tax, but
the Democratic party favors the prod
uct of cheap Italian labor at the ex
pense of American Industry.
When Premier Asquith arises in
Commons to talk of peace terms his
idea is to lead the Kaiser in chains at
the tail of the chariot.
The Salem Commercial Club will be
the first to ask for return of Guards
men and the entire country will join
In the call.
The Columbia Highway is a safe
roadway. The accident Sunday even
ing was not on the highway proper.
A Virginian of 90 took his first and
last ride In an automobile by going
over a 60-foot embankment.
Revelations in divorce suits do not
scare people from marriage. They
make them wonder, though.
Even the patriotic girls think the
war is over and are slow to recruit for
first-aid service.
Those Marsh field fellows say they
will care for all who .come, and they
will do it.
The TJ-boats have returned from
their Bummer vacation.
Dry. humor is going to Coos Bay
by the shipload
Gleams Through the Mist
By Dcaa Collins.
BALLADE OK THE SHIRTS.
A season ago I envied sore
The chap with the nice, cool, V
necked shirt.
Each day I envied him mora and more
As worse the edge of my collar hurt.
"Oh would that I e'en as thou wert.
Ana dared in such rig." said I, "to
appear."
This season I look upon Percy and
Bert
And where Is tha shirt of yesteryear!
I cursed my high collar o'er and o'er.
And hated its stiffness worsen dirt;
Yet the V-necked sport shirt I never
wore
Though they marked it down to a
dollar-thlrt.
I feared with fashion extreme to
flirt.
"Perhaps next season. Ill see it eiear
To don the effeminate, soft sport
shirt"
But where is the shirt of yesteryearT
Against the sport shirt I used to roar.
I cursed It with scornful curses curt.
But always I envied the chap who wore
Its soft loose folds, like a style ex
pert. But always my courage lay inert;
To wear It myself I'd always fear;
And now whon my nerve has made
the spurt.
Oh. where la the shirt of yesteryear?
L'EXVOL '
Dame Fashion drives with a stinging
quirt.
But always I find me In the- rear;
I have mustered the nerve for a V-
necked shirt.
But where la the shirt of yesteryear?
"Sir," said the Courteous Office Boy,
unfolding a market report to throw me
off the scent. "I unlerstand that, this
week, the best business men of Port
land are turned to bay'"
"Whaddya mean?" I gasped fearing
a collapse In business conditions.
"I refer to Coos Bay." said the G O.
B. airily, unfolding an accordion ticket
for the excursion thither. "They are
turned to bay because they are seeking
a new field."
"What field?" I said, still biting.
"Marshfield!" retorted the C O. B.
while 1 trapped with the lid of my
paste pot for a cymbal, realizing full
well that the C. O. B. could never get
by with stuff like that unless he dis
guised it aa a vaudeville skit.
OUR POSER SOCIETY.
This organization is open to all who
feel a burning desire to follow the fad
of interrogating the candidates for the
presidency. You are allowed five posers
and you can direct them at any candi
date. They don't even have to be rele
vant posers seldom are. Anything to
heckle the candidate, la our motto.
The author of the following letter.
we take It, is In by unanimous vote of
the society:
To the Editor I desire to enter the
Poser Society and expound a question
to the candidates for the presidency on
the Prohibition and Socialist tickets.
I am sorry that I can't think of five
questions, but as I am unable to an
swer the one that I desire to ask. I
regard it aa poser enough-
Gentlemen candidates on the Social
ist and Prohibition ticket, this is a
critical period and I should like the
answer of plain, unvarnished Ameri
canism to the question which I now
propound. 1 think -that there are oth
ers who would like to know the an-
IV0T, tOO.
Number 1 What are your names.
anyhow.
Signed 8. O. K.
YR DEAD RIGHT, HEM
"Life Is real, life Is earnest."
Sang Hen Longfellow, the pote.
Didst thou. Editor, returnest
Some small lyrlo that he wrote?
"Life is real, life is earnest!"
Thus ran Henry's simple song.
Showing that the price of living
E'en In those days was too strong.
"Life is real, life is earnest!" V
So sang Hen. the bard sublime.
Showing how the track one bumest
Chasing of th' elusive dime.
"Life Is real, life Is earnest!"
So Hen's song gushed from his heart.
Showing how the spirit yearnest
To o'ertake the grocer's cart.
"Life is real, life Is earnest!"
Lien, the bard, thus warbled still
Very little' change returnest
When thou foot'st the butcher's bill.
THE OLD SOXOS.
I cannot sing the old songs;
Since I left school. I've found
That the real words of the old songs
Aren't like they used to sound.
I remember the first time I saw the
"Star-Spangled Banner" in print it was
an utter stranger to me.
From- the sound of It. as I had learned
It, singing with the classes in school, I
had imagined that the text went some
thing like this:
Tbe Star-Spanarled Banner.
O shake and you sea
By the darn surly light,
Watso, crowd Levy hailed;
That's a Trl-llght that's beaming;
Ooze broad stripes and bright stars
Threw the pair all us fight
O'er the ram; parts me watch; .
Where's the gal. auntie, screaming?
And the rock, it's red glare.
The bums bursting in air.
Gave proof to the night
That our flag was still there;
Oh say, does the Star-Spangled Banner
get weighed.
Or the land of the free, or the home
of the braid?
OUR GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY.
Boy, dust off two more chairs.
We have with us today the two latest
additions to the list of charter members
of the Thumbnail International Geo
graphical Society.
Although in Russian papers
I see no college ads.
Still I observe the Russian burgs
Have all turned out as grads.
JL Compton F. (admitted to mem
bershlp).
They named a city Mobile,
I think that shows their gall.
It ought to be Immobile.
For It hasn't moved at all.
E. T. H. (admitted to membership
by a close vote).
Staking? Out Animals.
PORTLAND, Aug. 21. (To the Ed
itor.) How elope may one stake out a
horse or cow to your line or your
house? A SUBSCRIBER.
Section 1 of ordinance 6925 provides
that no animal shall be staked In such
manner that such animal can reach the
sidewalk bordering such grounds.
WILSON AND HIS RECORD OX TRIAL
Question la Not What Hashes Wonld
Have Done, Says Writer.
PORTLAND, Aug. tl. (To . the Ed
itor.) In direct violation of the pledge
oontalned In the Democratic platform
of 112, Mr. Wilson Is now seeking re
election to office. He asserts that the
record he has made in the past. In han
dling our domestla and foreign affairs.
entitles him to re-election for another
term. In other words, he and his fol
lowers contend that the Democratic
party displayed more wisdom, mani
fested more patriotism and contributed
more to the welfare of the Nation than
the Republican party could have done
bad It been in control of the Nation's
affairs for the past four years.
Just what the Republican party
would have done In detail la of oourse
a matter of conjecture, but that it
would have lived up to Its past record
of conducting the Nation's affairs in a
patriotic and businesslike manner Is
certain. But what the Republican
party would have done had It been in
power during the past four years Is
not the issue In the present campaign.
T. he plain Issue is, has the Demo
cratic party, under the leadership of
ooorow Wilson, upheld the honor and
dignity of the republic in our foreign
relations and has It brought, to :the
country a prosperity of which we can
oe proua7
These are the questions that the
voters will ask and they will insist
upon an honest answer. Crafty politi
cians In tha Democratic party are at
tempting to evade an answer to these
questions by trying to divert the pub
llo mind to a speculation of what Mr.
Hughes would have done had he been
In office, but their efforte will be In
vain. Mr. Wilson and his record are
on trial, not Mr. Hughei.
It is Incumbent upon Mr. Wilson to
explain the universal business depres
sion that exlated throughout tha Na
tion from the time ho took office until
the beginning of the year 1916, when
we started to coin the blood and misery
of Europe Into profits. He must prove
that, regardless of the European war.
tlsts Nation would have been prosper
ous, for he promised In his camoalKn
of 1912 to glva prosperity to the coun
try.
In the handling of the Mexican sit
uation he must prove that It was bet
ter for the Nation to allow the murder
of more than 300 of our citizens to go
unavenged than to have taken euch
steps at the beginning as would have
prevented these outr&goa. And he
cannot deceive the people into thinking
that he had no alternative other than
armed intervention. He must show
that a proper display of force and
firmness at the start would have been
Ineffectual to compel the Mexicans to
respect us.
Concerning the manner In whloh he
conducted our affairs with the bellig
erents of Europe, he must give a sat
isfactory explanation of his discrim
ination when he sent ultimatums to
one side in the conflict and notes of
"anxious solicitude" to the other. His
contention that In the one case human
rights were Involved, while the other
was merely a matter of property rights.
in not do accepted: as satisfactory by
thinking people. To take away that
which supports and conserves life la
as important as taking away life itself.
The paralysis of many of our Indus
tries, with the consequent death rate
among the workers dependent upon
such industries, and the illegal pre
vention of the Importation of neces
sary drugs, which, doctors tell us. has
Increased by the thousands thC num
ber of deaths among our people, are
certainly matters which Involve the
question of human life as vitally as the
question of the destruction of life by
violence.
Mr. Wilson has attempted to draw
this artificial distinction, but the burden-Is
upon him to prove that he did
so out of regard for the Interests of
this Nation and not because of a "re
sponse to the impulses of his native
blood."
Mr. Wilson and the other Democratic
party leaders may attempt to mislead
the public by making false Issues, but
their efforts will prove futile. The
voters will refuse to be humbugged
FREDERICK GROXXERT,
641 PIttock block.
SO FOAM NO BAR.
Three boozers were shaking the dloa.
out West.
As they atood at the bar, while the
sun went down;
Each called for the dope he liked the
beat.
And men said it would always be thus
in town.
For dice must rattle and men must
drink.
And manhood la seen at Its best, men
think.
When the beer on the bar is foaming.
Three women went out to the polls, to
vote
To vote tho town dry, ere the sun went
down;
And their voices rang high with ex
ultant note.
And they nailed down the lid in that
V eatern town.
For men can drink till women have
votes.
Then, alas for the dry and dusty
throats!
Then, good bye to the beer and its
foamingl
F. P. WILLIAMS.
THE SEA.
Ah. the glistening, beating sea.
Wreathing collarets of foam on the
shimmering sands!
Its purple mirror and bosom of sheeted
blue
Rest my soul and fill my life with vis
ions fair.
It sheds Its dross and stains.
And fair aa from, the hand of God it
stands revealed.
Its broad expanse no place for weak
ness, power or pride;
Liberation divine unfurls her flag and
ueckons on
To unseen islands of far-off heart's
deaire.
We see only life and love that free
from pain.
Loosening our burdens of accumulated
cares.
Breathing the savory air in thought I
turn to thee.
E. HOFER.
Agate Beach, Ore, August, 1616.
A MODERN TESSIMIST. k
PORTLAND. Aug. SI. (To the Edi
tor.) The following verses are sub
mitted not because the writer enjoys
the sentiment expressed therein but
because he believes they reflect tend
encies of modern times:
Have less a heart but more of wit
To win a girl today;
Be lees eincre live for the hour.
Believe cot what you say.
Vivacity will take you where
Pure love has feared to tread;
A graceful tripping tango toe
Is much preferred than head.
A cigarette, a ready tongue,
A clouded Joke or two,
A Joy-rids in your motor car
"Will win the girl to. you.
M. I WRIGHT.
Muasllngr of Does.
STANFIELD, Or., Aug. 19. (To the
Editor.) Kindly tell me If there was
not a law passed that all doss should
be muzzled, wherever a case of rabies
had been found within 10 miles? I am
sure I read of it. If so. Is that law still
effective, and Is it not a state law?
Although two cases of rabies (dogs)
were found here, that law has never
been complied with.
A SUBSCRIBER.
We know of no state law on the muz
zling of dogs.
In Other Days.
Half a Century Ago.
Prom the Oregonlan of August 22, ISM.
Washington. Aug. 20. The President
has completed plans to go to Chicago
to attend the laying of the corner
stone of the Douglas monument- He
will leave Washington on the morn
ing of the 2Sth of August, attended
only by Seward and a select company. In
the car used for the Lincoln funeral
train.
New York. Aug. 20. The steamer
Great Eastern and others of the tele
graph fleet were spoken on the 20th.
bound east to attempt the recovery of
the Tost cable.
Judge Brockway and Colonel Hay
ward yesterday visited Oregon City, the
future Lowell, and Oswego, the future
Pittsburg, of the Pacific states and
territories. They were accompanied by
Colonel John McCraken. W. S. Ladd.
Judge M. P. Deady and other citizens
of the metropolis.
A party of gentlemen and ladles
came near being drowned at Salem last
Thursday evening while out pleasure
seeking In a email boat. The boat
sprang a leak and was rapidly filling
when parties on shore, learning of the
situation, went out and rescued them.
Washington. Aug. 20. A meeting of
Army officers favorable to the Presi
dent's policy was held at Wlllards
Hotel yesterday. General Stedman pre
siding. The meetinir decided to call a
National mass convention of soldiers eA
Chicago on the 7th of September to rat-
iry the proceedings of tho Philadelphia
convention.
Twr nt T-f I ve Years Agio.
From the Cresonlan of August -2, 33.
There is no better Indication" of thi
movement In improvement than tha
number of cement an.1 bituminous side
walks being put down. The sidewalk
on the Morrison-street side of the new
Marquam building Is finished and tha
walk on tha Sixth-street side will be
completed within a few days.
Tha need of a new city Jail has never
been more forcibly Impressed upon tha
police officials than at present. Now
that the three cities have consolidated,
the old mouse-trap of a Jail has to
make room for the desecrators of the
city's peace and dignity from both,
sides of the river and often It Is
crowded to Its utmost capacity.
Tho stage from The Dalles to Bake
oven was stopped by a masked man
Wednesday afternoon. He demanded
the mail pouches, which the driver
handed him, and then disappeared. This
Is the first stage robbery in that sec
tion for many years.
At the matinee today at Cordray"
"Tho Black Flag" will be played and
this will be the bill for the comlns
week.
Saratoga, Aug. 21. President Harri
son and his party arrived here at 4
o'clock this afternoon. Tho whole
train was elaborately decorated and an
Immense crowd of people thronged the
streets, piazzas, windows and roofs of
the buildings. Upon reaching the hotel,
the President faced the throng and waa
formally Introduced by the village
President.
N. Nitts on Posers
II y Dean lolllna.
Nesclus Nitts, sage of Punklndorf Sta
tion, Emerged from a season of long occul
tatlon. Bit off'n his navy plug adequate ration.
And launched, lu a monologue, this
speculation
Concerning the late fad for Interroga
tion. I eee by the papers some authors has
rla
Dlrectln' at Hughes an ex tenolve-llke
Quiz,
Demandln' an answer at once and com
plete. To each question ejked and they's
numbered them neat
And say in': "We hates fer to ask you
all this;
But a patriot's duty you know what
It Is!"
Which minds ma of how Zenaa Back-
ett. ha Cone
In Punklndorf Station in Seventy-one.
Jedge Wiggins wa Mayor, and he
noped and expected
That, come the next 'lection, he'd be
re-elected ;
So he and his friends they all looked
pretty black at
Our party which xput up for Mayor.
Zenaa Hackett.
So eome of the friends of Jedge Wig
gins comes through
And gits up a hand-bill; "Us good men
and true
Ain't stirred by no Impulse of partisan
seal.
But we feels we should know, Hackett.
Jert how you feel
On the following points" and they
listed 'era o'er
And posted 'em up there in Hlgglnses'
store-
And. every day they would come round
and grin.
When the crowd gathered there as the
mall sack come In.
And say; "Zenas Hackett ain't answer
ed us yet.
And the peepul demands his position,
you bet!
Wo ain't out to etir up no partisan
racket.
But we waits for an answer from you,
Zenaa Hackett!"
They kept a-Hisistln. Inqulrln anew;
"We wants fer to know what you plans
fer to do I"
Till one day HI Hlgglna remarked, in
the store
When they was a-conning the whole
matter o'er;
"What he plans fer to do? Pm a son-
of-a-gun
He can't possible do less than Wiggins
has cone!"
And we sud.len-Uke thought of how
Jedpre WiKglns had
Spent a year doin" nothln" but getting
In bad
With the nelsrhborln towns. And then
Philomel I.ove
Ho looked at that handbill a-stlcken'
above
And cleared out his throat and re
marks; "Tt se'ems queer
They ain't nskln' no questions of Jedge
Wlirglns here!"
"I hates." remarks Phil, "to see press
In" in this.
But a patriot's duty you knows what
it Is!
And It seems that these questioners
lnlpht sn.1 a letter
To Winains rind nsk; 'are you goin'
to vlo better?' "
Which sentiment met with our full
approbation
For we Mtod Zene Hackett in Punkln
dorf Station.
Qualifications of Voter.
PORTLAND, Aug. 21. (To the Ed
itor.) Can a foreitm-born person who
takes his final citlzensnip papers cut
now vote at the residential election.
next November?
I took out my first papers over five
vears n o but have not taken out the
' final papers. AN OLD SUBSCRIBER.
Yes. if you will have resided in the
st.-.le for six inonthe preceding election.
KlRhfrmen'i Lock.
Judge.
Jones How are they biting today?
Green On the neck and legs mostly.