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PORTLAND. SATURDAY, SEPT. SO, 1916,
WHAT THEY DID NOT GET.
Mr. Hughes stands for an eight-hour
3ay. He has made that clear in his
public speeches. His record as Gover
nor of New York shows that he is not
thus throwing a sop to the laboring
man. He was their friend when Wood
row Wilson was a "fierce partisan of
the open shop" and an avowed enemy
of organized labor. He is their friend
now. He will be their friend as Presi
dent in every legitimate demand made
upon him or upon Congress by the
men who work with their hands. For
them, or for any others, to deny it is
to challenge the facts and to do a
fearless, open-minded, high-thinking
and prompt-acting statesman a gross
injustice.
"Mr. Hughes," we hear from Demo
fcratio voices, "has taken the 6ide of
the railroads in the wage dispute."
He has not. He has taken the side of
the American people. He has taken
the part of the vital principle of arbi
tration. He has declared his approval
of orderly processes of law making and
against legislation under coercion,
without investigation, without knowl
edge, without regard for right or
wrong, justice or injustice.
The workmen who demand and ex
pect a law fixing the eight-hour day
will have an Opportunity to get it
through President Hughes. They have
not got it now. They did not get it
through President Wilson.
THE RAID OX THE FARMERS.
One of the loudest boasts of Presi
dent Wilson is that he has done great
things for the farmers. He has done
great things to the farmers. This was
shown by Senator Nelson, a protection
ist so moderate that he voted for the
Mills bill during the first Cleveland
Administration. Sneaking of this "raid
made upon the farmers" by the Under
wood tariff, he said:
Nearly all of their products were either
put upon the free list, or so greatly reduced
as to be practically on the free list. Had it
not been for the great European war, our
farmers would have sustained great losses
from this change in our tariff. With a
wheat crop of 1.000.000,000 bushels In Can
ada in 1015, our wheat farmers, but for
the great war, would have -had 60-cent
wheat instead of a dollar a bushel and over.
The main crop of the South, cotton, has
practically no competition, and hence is Im
mune from tariff legislation.
But for the war, the farmers would
have received $400,000,000 less for the
wheat crop of 1915 than they actually
received, and there would have been
similar depreciation of other staple
crops. The following table shows at a
glance how the Democratic party has
slashed the tariff on farm products:
Under
wood tariff.
Commodity-
Payne
tariff.
Wool
Wheat
Beans. ....
Potatoes. . .
Sheep. . . . . ,
Cattle ,
Swine. . .
Horses'.
Oats
Barley
Fruit
Hay
Butter
Eggs ,
CheeBe
t .36 per lb.
t .25 per bu.
.45 per bu.
.25 per bu.
1.50 per hd.
l.&O per hd.
.15 per bu.
.80 per bu.
.25 per bu.
4.00 per ton
.00 per lb.
.5 per dz.
.06 per lb.
Free.
Free.
Free.
, Free.
Free.
Free.
Free.
10
S .06 per bo.
.lft per bu.
.10 per bu.
-0O per ton
.02.5
lb.
Free
20&
-ten cents per bushel If from country
which Imposes duty on wheat from United
,etates, otherwise free.
The effects of the Underwood tariff
were felt with full force until the war
, temporarily suspended them. If that
tariff should be still in operation when
the war ends; they will be felt again
in the same force. The war has only
given a respite, with prosperity which
can last only so long as its artificial
cause continues. Will the American
farmers trust to such monstrous means
for living prices for their crops?
WHAT TAFT WOULD HAVE DONE.
Constant misrepresentation by the
Democrats of ex-President Taft's pol
icy toward Huerta has forced him to
speak, and he has How destroyed the
entire fabric of mendacity by which
they have attempted to defend Presi
dent Wilson's policy. In the Tale Re
view he says that, "had the Republican
Administration continued, it would
have recognized Huerta" upon the
principle that "no matter what Huerta
'., had done, no matter who he was, it
i was not for us to prescribe who should
not become the head of that inde
pendent state." He holds that Huerta's
alleged complicity in the murder of
Madero was no ground for withhold
ing recognition, for "Huerta himself
denied it and there were reasons for
attributing the act to others." Only
twelve days intervened between Huer
ta's accession to power and Mr. Taft's
retirement, and the latter says he took
no action, because "it would have been
riot only hasty and premature, but it
r .. would have been lacking in proper
consideration for me to determine an
important policy for him" (President
Wilson). Mr. Taft did, however, notify
Huerta that he would be held respon
sible for any injury done to American
citizens or their property.
Mr. Taft refrained from action out of
consideration for his successor and is
rewarded with misrepresentation for
partisan purposes. He has frequently
supported the Administration when a
crisis seemed to impend in our Mexican
relations, and he has kept silent about
the Huerta affair until Democratic
campaign managers took advantage of
it to misrepresent him
There is independent evidence con
firming Mr. Taft's statement of his at
titude. Madero had failed to protect
, Americans or to satisfy their damage
claims. American troops were on the
border in force and an embargo on ex
port of arms to Mexico had been pro
claimed before Huerta became Presi
dent. Recognition of Huerta had been
recommended by Ambassador Henry
Lane Wilson "after securing from him
action upon the rightful claims of the
United States in matters of dispute and
of her citizens for injuries sustained
by them." Mr. Taft could not have
refused recognition to Huerta without
rejecting the advice of the Ambassa
dor, who, be says, had "rendered most
effective ervice" in protecting Amer,
leans and other foreigners during the
bombardment of the city of Mexico.
An attempt is made to find in Mr.
Taft's treatment of Zelaya in Nicaragua
a parallel to Mr. Wilson's proscription
of Huerta. Mr. Taft intervened In
Nicaragua when that despot murdered
two American citizens and again when
Zelaya's partisans started a revolution
and threatened to bombard the cap
ital, where many Americans resided.
He did his duty, which was to secure
redress for wrongs to Americans and
to prevent further wrong from being
done. Had he followed President Wil
son's policy, he would have done noth
ing to punish the despot who had mur
dered Americans, he would have per
mitted the bombardment of Managua
and had any Americans escaped from
that city, he would have told them
they should thank God they were
alive.
TRAFFIC FOR PROHIBITION.
The ardent dry-party advocate, Mr.
Fox, writes to inform The Oregonian
and the public that the Prohibitionists
are eminently satisfied with the can
didacy of Mr. Lafferty for Congress.
They are. not hard to please. They
want a vote for a National prohibition
amendment, and Lafferty has prom
ised it; so they have committed their
cause the cause with which many
earnest and good .men and many ear
nest and good women consider sacred
to Lafferty. They should be-ashamed
of themselves, for they have brought
National prohibition to the lowest and
cheapest possible level of political ex
pediency. A bargain with any candi
date for votes in exchange for his sup
port as a public officer, for a particular
scheme is always open to question; a
bargain with a Lafferty taints the
cause thus made the subject of traffic
and is wholly discreditable to the bar
gain makers.
But are Mr. Fox and his associates
sure of Lafferty? On June 1, 1914,
while still a member of Congress, he
said in a public statement:
I have taken no personal public stand
for or arainst prohibition, and I shall not
try to Influence the people eltner way on
the subject. I shall vote for the resolu
tion submitting the question to the states
If It comes to a vote before the November
election, but If it comes to a vote after
tnat 1 snail vote as Muitnoman uoumy
votes on the subject In November. No Con
gressman has any right to vote otherwise
than as desired by a majority of his con
stituents, when that desire has been clearly
expressed with notice in advance that the
referendum vote of the people will be fol
lowed. That was the very principle of
Statement One.
The Lafferty Prohibitionists profess
to be angry with Representative Mc
Arthur because he has done exactly
what Lafferty publicly pledged himself
to djo abide by the wishes of his con
stituents. They demand that a Con
gressman shall not please his constitu
ents, but" them, and they will defeat
him if he refuses. To defeat him they
will take a Lafferty to their bosoms.
CONTRACT MARRIAGES.
The attorney for Lothario Ford,
in court the other day, averred with
hand on heart and with tears in voice,
that he had profound sympathy for
both the victims of the bigamist's
matrimonial designs. These were not
his exact words, and the description
of the pleader's oratorical pyrotechnics
is not intended to be precise, but figu
rative. Truth is, we have introduced
his sympathetic appeal to commend it.
Nor do we contend that the law has
convicted Ford of bigamy. But that
he is a bigamist in fact is quite clear.
The adventurer Ford met Miss Volgt
in Alaska and persuaded her to marry
him. No clergyman was handy, and
it was impossible to follow the usual
form of wedding ceremony. But a
contract with witnesses was solemnly
drawn and consummated and there
was a formal acceptance by the man
of the woman to the sacred relation
Ship of wife. The Intent of the woman
was to marry, and apparently there
was the same purpose with the man.
There has been no claim that be de
liberately trapped her into a bogus
ceremony.
But after ten years of actual wed
lock, and after several children had
consecrated the union and one or two
of them had sanctified it by death,
the man Ford chose to regard the mar
riage as illegal and void, and to repu
diate his wife and to illegitimatize his
children; and he left her. Soon he
married another woman, also by his
favorite contract device, though a cere
mony was afterwards performed by a
priest. If the first marriage was 11
legal, the second was legal: if the first
was legal, the other was not.
Judge Davis has ruled that the first.
or Alaska, marriage was within the
forms of law, and that it stands. With
out reproach to the second wife, who,
we shall assume, was innocent of any
design to wrong the other woman, the
wish and hope may be expressed that
Judge Davis is right.
Marriage ougnt not to be made a
mock by triflers, or schemers, or phil
anderers. Nor should good women be
deceived without penalty. The law
properly regards -most marriages for
mally contracted as legal. Its policy
is to hold any ceremony, provided It
has the sanction of local custom or
local statute, as valid; but there is a
conflict of legal opinion about contract
marriages. Doubtless there are good
reasons why any marriage should be
removed from the classification of
mere private contracts and why the
public should always assert its interest
in a nuptial union at the time it is
celebrated. But the Ford case is
powerful plea for a contract marriage
entered into in good faith by at least
one of the parties.
IMPRESSING CONSCRIPTS.
Not the least remarkable among the
changes that have come over the Eng,
Hsh people as the war has progressed
is the way in which they are accepting
measures adopted by the authorities to
insure military service by all those who
are subject to it. There still are shirk
ers here and there, but there is no talk
of organized opposition. These shirk
ers are being sought out diligently and
by a method so thorough that it is ex.
tremely unlikely that more than
negligible few will escape.
News dispatches describing the
events of a single week illustrate the
new conditions. In one instance there
was a boxing contest in a public hall
in London. Constables and the military
surrounded the hall while the crowd
was inside and as the spectators
marched out compelled every man to
show his military papers or otherwise
explain why he was not wearing khaki,
All those who failed to Justify them
selves were led away without more ado
to the training camp where the King
will supply them with uniforms and
put rifles in their hands for service at
the front.
Similarly, assemblages of every kin
are being closely watched. A visit to
a leading theater resulted in the Im
pressment of one of the actors on the
stage. Wherever there are civilian
assembled together the absence of the
uniform is certain to attract attention,
Those who have been selected for ex
eruption, from duty on the battlefield
because of their greater value in in
dustrial employment or for other rea
sons are provided with certificates set
ting out the facts, and it behooves
them to have these papers always with
them. There 'is little spirit of toler
ance for the mere pleasure seeker
while so many of the sons of England
are making the supreme sacrifice.
True significance of the new dispen
sation lies not so much in the fact that
the authorities are active as in the way
in which their acts are accepted by
the people. There is abundant good
nature, even on the part of those who
are impressed. There are some who
seem to avoid the issue as long as they
can, but who have resolved not to cry
over it if they are caught in the net.
It is said that a good proportion of
these so-called shirkers have given
good accounts of themselves later on.
So great a proportion of the men of
the nation have accepted the call to
duty that those who would protest are
in a small and totally ineffectual mi
nority. MEXICANS HATE AMERICANS.
As the result of a trip through Mex
ico by a keenly observing "gringo,"
light is shed on conditions in that
country that deprives it of most of
the romance that has been associated
with it in the minds of many readers
of romantic tales and old histories.
Harry Franck, In his "Tramping
Through Mexico, Guatemala and Hon
duras," gives a strongly impersonal ac
count of his experiences. He finds the
people wholly lacking in ambition.
Drunkenness is encountered on every
hand, with its twin evils, dirt and
degeneracy. All that was picturesque
is gone. There was a day when the
aristocracy and the better classes pa.-
raded oti Sundays and at the close of
warm days in the cities, presenting a
spectacle of richness and beauty, but
even this' is missing since anarchy
came to reign over the land. Those
who have managed to accumulate
some property now prefer to conceal
the evidence of it. They will not even
venture into business, knowing that
what they possess will be promptly
stolen from them by some band of
revolutionists. Strangely enough, those
whose wealth is portable, even while
professing great bitterness toward the
United States, are sending it to this
country for safe keeping or invest
ment. Thus they show in the most
practical way their appreciation of the
importance of stable government.
Mr. Franck heard nothing unpleas
ant at his own expense during his trip
from north to south, but he became
convinced that the common people of
the country have an intense hatred for
America. This feeling Is fostered by
their social superiors, from whom they
derive such opinions as they have, and
the upper classes at the same time
are constantly inflamed by a bitter and
enomous press. No kind words are
spoken for Americans anywhere in the
republic. Against the Spaniards the
feeling is almost as unfriendly. This
s said to be a reaction from the days
of Porfirio Diaz. That firm-handed
ruler Is supposed to have prote'", 'le
Spaniards, and it is now the fashion
to hate everything associated with the
Diaz administration.
Nowhere, says Mr. Franck, in the
Western Hemisphere can there be
found "such a surging of pauperous
humanity," as was found at San Luis
Potosi, a town hardly surpassed in any
town In India for picturesque poverty,
The upper-class Mexican is pictured
as even more churlish, impolite and
irresponsible than the countryman.
Poverty and open land exist side by
side. With vast areas of the finest
arable soil on every hand there is total
incapacity for systematic endeavor,
People take life as it comes, begging
rather than working, depending upon
errands of the most occasional sort for
earning trifling sums and seemingly
content when there is enough in hand
for the needs of the hour.
There is no thirst for knowledge,
Illiteracy is alarmingly high. In the
South more than 90 per cent of the
people can neither read nor write. It
is to be deduced that industrial educa
tion is all the more lacking. The peo
ple need leadership but lack the spirit
that accepts leadership of the right
kind. They are borne hither and yon
by every wave, without settled pur
pose, without serious ambition to bet
ter their condition In a permanent
sense or willingness to make the
slightest sacrifice for the benefit of
posterity. The value of Mr. Franck's
observations lies in the fact that he
grinds no ax of his own. airs ho griev.
ance, exhibits no personal animosity.
He sets down the facts as he found
them on close contact, and the picture
he draws is an altogether unlovely one,
FACTS ABOUT SERVICE PENSIONS.
Discussion of the so-called Sher
wood dollar-a-day-pension bill has
called forth a statement of the present
state of the law from Rev. Alexander
Blackburn, formerly pastor of th
First Baptist Church of Portland, but
now of Southbridge, Mass. His letter
was addressed to the Boston Tran
script. Dr. Blackburn is a Civil War
veteran of honorable record, having
served three years and having been
severely wounded at Chickamauga.
The original Sherwood bill provided
that all honorably discharged soldiers
and sailors who had served one year
or more should receive pensions of $30
a month. It passed the House in De
cember, 1911, bht was rejected by the
Senate. In its place a bill became law
on May 11, 1912, providing that sol
diers and sailors at the age of 75
should be eligible for pensions In pro
portion to service as follows: Ninety
days, $21 a month; six months, $22.50;
one year, $24; eighteen months, $27;
two years and more, $30; all who
served sixty days or more in the Mex
ican War, $30. Any person who was
wounded in the Civil War and who
from this or other causes arising in
the line of duty is now unfit for man
ual labor, is given $30 a month regard
less of age or length of service.
The policy of pensions based purely
on service was first adopted by Presi
dent Roosevelt. Toward the close of
his first term he instructed the Com
missioner of Pensions to consider every
veteran Who had served ninety days
and was 62 years of age and over
sufficiently disabled to receive a pen
sion of $12 per month. The substance
of this executive order was embodied
in the law of 1912, the rates varying
with age and service. To this extent
only has the policy of pensioning vet
erans on the basis of age and service
without regard to disability been
adopted.
Dr. Blackburn justly resents the sug
gestion that the veterans are mendi,
cants suing for public charity or .loot
ers seeking to raid the Treasury. He
states their position on the subject of
pensions in these words:
Permit me to say In behalf of my com
rades, both living and dead, that while we
believe that we did only our duty, we have
a Just claim on the Government we saved
and the Treasury we made rich. Men who
patriotically furnished the money to carry
on the war received their pay in full. They
?ut In paper money; they drew out gold,
his Is right. These men put In their lives
, ana crew out as pay sis a mon in la green
backs, which on tha average was worth
about $6. t This was never made up to the
veteran. w are not looters oc ir.s xreas-
ury seeking some scheme to enrich our
selves; we are not beggars asking the Na
tion's charity. We are men who expect
this Government, so rich and prosperous, to
reach out its hand to us in our declining
years la Just and rightful support, as we
reached out our hands to It when it was
tottering on the brink and snatched it back
to sarety ana a prosperous lire, v e are not
orgetful of what the country Is doing for
us. uncle Sam has treated his boys nobly
and liberally. Mere and there an individual
who does not know makes a howl. We won
der how much this patriotic watch-dog of
he Treasury would take In hard cash to go
through two days at Gettysburg, or two days
at Chickamauga or six weeks at Vlcksburg,
or a day or two on one of Farragut'a ships
In Mobile Bay?
Abuses of the pension system have
arisen chiefly from the passage of spe
cial bills introduced by members of
Congress and based on claims of dis
ability made by them but which had
failed to pass muster with the boards
of surgeons acting under general pen
sion laws. The amount depends on the
ability and influence of the member
with the pension committee. The vet
erans have never favored this method
of granting pensions, preferring that
each claim be established under fixed
rules and independent of political in
fluence. A separate bill was formerly
passed in each case, but the many
vetoes by President Cleveland brought
the practice into such disrepute that
all the special bills of a session are In
cluded in an omnibus bill as the surest
means of putting them all through.
Unquestionably it is the Nation's
duty to provide for those who have
been disabled in its' defense and for
those who, . though not so disabled,
have become incapacitated by age or
sickness. This should be done not by
way of compensation for the service
rendered nothing can adequately
compensate for that but as a token
of the Nation's gratitude. The men
who defended the Nation did so for
no money consideration, either in pay
or pensions. To regard pensions as
either compensation or bounty is an
insult which they Justly resent. That
pensions may not be so regarded, their
amount and conditions should be clear
ly established by general law applying
to future as well as past wars. Above
all, that the good name of the men
who actually fought may be free from
any shadow of dishonor, the pension
system should be kept free from any
taint of fraud, and to this end special
pensions should be rigidly restricted
to meritorious cases which cannot be
covered by general law. "
Roumania has a navy, a fact that
may have escaped the average reader
of the war news, but this navy never
will be heard from in a sea engage
ment. It consists of two divisions, one
consisting of four 700-ton river mon
Itors and the other of half a dozen
torpedo-boats. The fatter are small,
but are used as convoys on the waters
of the lower Danube. The nation has
a considerable number of merchant
vessels, which are being used in the
transportation of troops and supplies
for the operations In the Dobrudja.
These river operations, while common
ly classed as the work of the navy, do
net seem to meet the popular require
merits of naval work, but they have
played an important part in the con
duct of the war in the Balkans. Thus
far British, Austrlans, Bulgarians and
Roumanians have participated in
them, beginning with the days of the
heroic defense of Belgrade at the out
set of the war, and the story when it
is written will make one of the inter
esting minor chapters of the great
conflict.
The difficulty of mounting a gun
that would shoot from an aeroplane
without wrecking the machine by its
recoil has been solved in an exceed
ingly ingenious way by devising a
weapon that shoots both ways at once.
although one projectile is sacrificed
One of the first aeroplane guns was
made so that when ifr was fired the gun
Itself disappeared' in the opposite di
rectlon, but this involved sacrificing a
gun for every shot. The new idea is
to have two projectiles, according to
a description in the Scientific Ameri
can, the effect being to produce re
coil in opposite directions, each suffi
cient to take tip the other, achieving
a complete balancing of forces. The
Importance of the Invention is that it
makes it possible for airmen to carry
weapons of greatly increased carrying
power, discharging a larger and more
destructive missile. The only limit at
present to the possibilities of the aero
plane weapon is in weight, and with
the huge battle planes now being con
structed this is not a serious matter.
The old, familiar story of the woman
who was bound not to be left behind
in the fight for the mother country
and so donned men's clothing and
fought long and bravely at the front
before her secret was discovered Is
being told again and again in private
war' letters. It makes goodTomance,
but seldom bears the ordeal of inves
tigation. Often, in the versions that
reach us, she Is decorated for bravery
before betraying her sex, and the num
ber of crosses and orders that she Is
credited with having received is stu
pendous. Most of the stories are im
aginary, as recent investigations have
shown. There are so many ways in
which women are serving their coun
tries ably and efficiently that it is a
pity anyone thinks it necessary to in
vent tales of deception to add to her
glory.
General Bell's unvarnished story of
Villa's raid on Chihuahua has stung
Carranza to a pursuit of the bandit
more relentless than any he has yet
undertaken. Possibly if a corps of
correspondents was located at Chi
huahua under military protection,
with freedom to tell all that they see
and hear in uncensored dispatches.
Carranza might run down Villa and re
move all cause for retaining our army
in Mexico.
The sight of some Portland citizens
who have returned from the military
training camp would soon convince Mr.
Vanderlip that training is an economic
asset of the highest value in peace, and
is well worth while, even if the United
States never has another war.
Poor little Luxemburg gets it agoln
and acomin', being trampled on by
the Germans, and bombarded by the
allies. That is the penalty of being a
buffer state.
If Senator Lewis persists in con
juring up dangers of war, he will be
classed as a militarist and required to
wearthe abandoned title, "Colonel."
The real Issue is not peace, but the
right kind of peace. The peace of
Vera Cruz, Columbus, Parral and Car
rlzal is the wrong kind.
So many Greeks have already Joined
the allies or declared in their favor that
King Constantino is a mere tail-ender.
If the New York Guardsmen do not
care to vote the eight-foot ballot, they
may. use it as a, sheet on their beds,
prohibitionists and lafferty
Brother Fox Explains About That
Little Political DrsL
PORTLAND, Or.. Sept. 29 (To tha!
Editor.) With reference to your recent
editorial headed "McArthur." you close
by the query "What i, or will be, the
lesson to be drawn from the defeat of
McArthur and the election of Lafferty 7"
This query is very easy to answer. This
will be the same kind of lesson Mr.
Hughes is endeavoring to teach the
country with reference to protection.
In The Oregonian recently Mr. Hughes
was quoted as saying that if a policy of
protection Is desired the only sure way
to obtain it is to" elect an administra
tion pledged to that policy. If Lafferty
be elected, as I believe he will, the
lesson to be. drawn will be that the
people have now realized that if they
want National prohibition they will
have to send someone to Congress as
their representative who Is pledged to
use his efforts in that direction.
The Oregonian states with reference
to Mr. Lafferty and his endeavors to
obtain the support of a number of dif
ferent political groups, "he will do
nothing for any of these elements in
Congress." Mr. Lafferty's record during
the two terms at Washington was so
eminently satisfactory to the leaders of
the prohibition and reform forces in
Washington that they have publicly
stated that they would like him re
elected as they knew exactly where to
find him on all questions of that nature
and he did not need to be labored with
to vote right. Since Mr. Lafferty's last
visit to Washington he has studied the
prohibition question more closely than
ever and Is convinced that it is one of
he most pressing political Issues before
the people today.
He is basing his campaign (as is
Mark V. "Weatherford. the Prohibition
candidate from the First District), al
most entirely upon the Prohibition
ssue and his election will mean that
Orrgon will have in the halls of Con
gress a man prepared to lead in aecur
ng National prohibitory legislation by
every possible means.
We agree with you lr your state
ment "Your average Congressman is a
coward," but the most conspicuous
form of cowardice in evidence in Wash-
ngton is a catering to the liquor-con
trolled party machines, which have
successfully defrauded the people out
of National prohibitory - legislation
Oregon is tired of this brand of repre
sentatives and Intends to send A. W,
Laffeity and M. V. Weatherford to
Washington to remedy that condition.
J. SANGER FOX.
BIRD SCARCITY IS ALONG RIVER
Enosch Thln" Elsewhere to Satisfy
Modest Sportsman.
PORTLAND. Sept. 29. (To the EdI
tor.) I have been reading with great
interest the articles of sportsmen re
garding the proposed closing of the
Chinese pheasant open season.
1 believe with them that this greatest
game bird of the world has had a "hard
Winter, with its deep snow, and an
unusually wet Spring and Summer; but
the well-known ability of the bird to
propagate under the moft trying cir
cumstances, and its wonderful sagacity
In eluding dogs and men, combine to
protect it far more than our game laws.
The writer has been out many times
the last few weeks with an unusually
intelligent little English setter, and
while the birds are fewer than last
year (which by the way produced an
unusual 'crop of birds), there are still
plenty to satisfy any but a game hog.
This may not be true of the country
immediately adjacent to the Columbia
River, for the sleet and snow were
worse in those districts than any other
place. And this is the country to
which most of our wealthy fellow
countrymen refer when commenting on
the scarcity of birds.
It does sound nice, I know, to call
upon all sportsmen to save the Chinese
pheasants, especially by men who are
wealthy enough to own or control great
duck-hunting preserves with perchance
a small lake to rent.
Let me put In my humble plea for
the vast majority of sportsmen who
are not game hogs, who obey the law
and to whom the opening of the "'China
season Is a great event in their lives.
Cut the season to 10 days if need be,
cut the limit from five birds to three,
from 10 to five; but give the vast ma-
pority Just one chance in the open with
a dog, a gun, God's sunshine and a few-
hours from the humdrum of,every-day
lire, i view wltn alarm the tendency
of the day, to ape our foreign brothers
to own ana control great preserves,
where only the wealthy can enjoy this
great pleasure of life and which makes
of tle poor man who, too, loves sport.
a common poacher.
A. W. BROOKINGS.
CRUELTY IS SEEN IN ROUND-VP
Barbaroua Instincts Gratified by Spec,
taele, Snya Correspondent.
PORTLAND. Sept. 29. (To the Edi
tor.) I have been a subscriber to you
valuable paper for many years and
beg permission to give expression
throuch- Us columns, of my opinion o
the Pendleton "Round-ups." I feel sat
Isfied that I do not stand alone in
the beliefs set rtrth herein.
The close of the "Seventh Annua
Round-up" marks the seventh degrad
Ing and inhuman event that Pendleton
has little cause to be proud of, and n
civilized community ought to tolerate
such exhibitions as these. That it
purpose is largely commercialism,
makes It even more horribl". I claim
that such activities, from the human
standpoint alone, should be suppresse
by the proper authorities, for the crue
ana innuman "stunts tnat the poor
frightened and abused animals are put
through are second only to the Span
ish bull fights, so severely condemned
by proper thinking people.
The holdenish young women who
take pride In "roping a steer" or "let
her buck" exhibitions show only the
sign of savage Instincts and little, if
any, refined or civilized Impulses.
These feats are not in the least ele
vating or uplifting and certainly not
the proper kind of entertainment for
our young people to witness.
The Indian is in hi true glory and
element when he Is taking part in this
sort of spectacle, for the savagery in
him is simply manifesting Itself, but
for the "white man." who boasts of his
achievements in overcoming and sub
duing me savage man. 1 fall to see
whereby he has made much headway.
The Pendleton Round-up shows only
the savage instinct In man "cropping
out." anj for the "elite" of our state,
such as our Governor, etc., to have to
turn to such barbarous, such ferocious
amusements, marks us as "wild and
woolly" In reality.
MRS. IT. II" SMITH
227 East Fortieth Street.
Fee for Funeral Service.
PORTLAND. Sept, 29. (To the Ed
itor.) Please Inform me whether It is
customary for one to pay a minister
for officiating at the funeral of one's
mother, the minister being an old fam
ily friend and the one who married
two of the sons.
CONSCIENTIOUS ONE.
If you can afford it. It Is entirely
proper to mall a check afterward, but
if you have been put to great expense
and are not well to do, under the cir
cumstances I am sure the minister will
not want you to. Under any circum
stances, however. It Is right to send
him a little note of thanks. If the min
ister gets a large salary and you -can
afford a tribute to the memory of your
loved one. send him the check, asking
that he use it for home missions or
some good cause.
Fault of Seir-Made One.
- Atchison Globe.
Another fault with the self-tnade man
is that he usually admits it.
OBSERVANCE OF SABBATH DAT
Those Who Break Commandments Least
Considered In Kingdom of Heaven.
PORTLAND, Sept. 29. (To the Ed
itor.) In The Oregonian Monday ap
pears arf editorial headed, "Revising a
Church Ritual," which avers that the
Bible gives two reasons for God's es
tablishing his sabbath, his rcstday.
This is not according to fact-
From Exodus xx the article correctly
quotes that God tola his chosen people
to "remember" the Sabbath day a con-
tant reminder that their God was the
Creator. The very word "remember"
points to a previous establishment. The
Scriptures themselves teach that it ex-
sted since creation; was set apart and
hallowed at creation.
The article, however, suggests a dis
crepancy by saying: "In Deuteronomy
observance Is enjoined as a memorial
of the setting free of the children of
srael from bondage in Egypt." It
quotes the 15th verse of Deut. v, but
omits the 12th to 14th verses, which
read: "Keep the Sabbath day to sme
lly it, as the Lord hath commanded
thee." Note well the word "hath."
Then the verses go on: "Six days thou
shalt labor .... but the seventh
day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy
God." etc A repetition therefore of the
fourth commandment as spoken by God
at Sinai and written by him on tables
or stone, to be placed in the ark which
was made in exact copy of the one in
beaven as shown to Moses. There ii
no reason for its establishment given
simply a reminder to keep it. to sanc
tify it, that is: set it apart for holy
purposes. They knew why, for God had
told them. And finally, as an especial
reason why they should remember,
their escape from bondage Is cited., A
careful reader will readily feel that
this reason not to forget it, is by no
means a reason why God instituted the
Sabbath for his people.
The custom of birthday parties Is to
recall and celebrate the birthday. But
to send a special invitation to a certain
guest to attend the party is a reminder
to the guest of the existence of the
party and not an explanation of the
existence of the birthday.
In the Episcopalian prayer-book in
the order of communion on page 209, is
given the reading of the ten command
ments, but only the Exodus xx test.
hence tnere is no danger of anyone s
being mystified thereby. But because
that reads that we should keep the sev
enth day, it leads to questioning, just
as I used to wonder why we asked the
Lord each Sunday to help us keep the
Saturday holy. There being no answer
u either the Old nor the New Testa
ment to this question, the easiest way
is to eliminate it and your editorial
says amen to it.
But even if the editorial were correct
and if Deut. v:l5 were really the reason
for keeping the Sabbath, it is a fact
well known to Bible students that
"Egypt is symbolical of darkness and
sin; that being brought out of bondacre
represents being broupht out of dark
ness into the gospel lisht by the same
mighty hand and "outstretched arm"
that led the original Israelites out of
Egypt, and that for that very reason.
the children of God, being Christ's,
therefore Abraham's seed, the true Is
raelites of today, have in the weekly
Sabbath a constant reminder that their
God who created the world, also re
created them and made them new crea
tures in Christ Jesus.
It would be well to recall Matthew
V19, wherein it is stated that whoso
ever snail DreaK one or the least com
mandments and shall teach men so.
shall be the least considered in the
kingdom of heaven. It Is a serious
thing for puny man to try to improve
on the law as spoken by Jehovah and
written by Him on the tables of stone.
AN EX-EPISCOPALIAN.
This Code of Ethlca.
Louisville Courier Journal.
"I can't understand this code
ethics."
"What code is that?"
"The one which makes it all right
of
to
take a man's last dollar, but a breach
of etiquette to take his st cigarette."
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scribed, true to life, in the latest letter.
THE MILLION-DOLLAR WALL This is not too high a valuation
to place upon a small portion of the house of Joseph E. Widener,
where two Donatello sculptures and a Mazarin tapestry are dis
played. They were brought from Florence and are almost beyond
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WOMEN THE FIREBUGS Women start most of the fires, says
Henry Caldwell in a page article, telling just how they do it. What
to avoid in future in household tasks is outlined pretty clearly in
this instructive lesson.
THE TEENIE WEENIES These tiny folk have another thrilling
adventure that will be full of interest to thousands of little readers
of The Sunday. Oregonian.
ROUND-UP PICTURES This big event of state-wide interest is
pictured in a comprehensive way in The Sunday Oregonian. The
Round-up is now a matter of state pride and all who could not go
will enjoy the action photographs of this great Western classic.
HERBERT KAUFMAN'S PHILOSOPHY Another page of the writ
ings of Herbert Kaufman will be printed Sunday. This is good
medicine and readers of The Oregonian are following it closely. It
is worth anyone's while to read and digest.
OLD FAVORITE POEMS The old poems page of The Sunday Ore
gonian has recalled many an old favorite that had long been for
gotten. There is another big assortment of good poems you will
like them all.
AUCTION BRIDGE DEPARTMENT A new feature of The Sunday
Oregonian in future will be a department of auction bridge, edited
by Annie Blanche Shelby, an expert n this absorbing game. Watch
for it tomorrow. If at all interested in bridge, yiis department will
inform you thoroughly on the fine points of this pastime.
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In Other Days.
Tweiitr-tlve Yearn As.
From The Oregonian, September SO, 1901.
Salem, Or.. Sept. 29. Dr. Harry
Lane's report filed when he left the
State Insane Asylum as superintendent
on August 1. has at last been divulged
after lying two months in hiding. It
seems the report was a pretty strong
document charging a number of things
indirectly. The report says the asylum
has been the particular prey of poli
ticians. Boston and St. Louis are runlng neck
and neck for the pennant in the Amer
ican League, ad Chicago is Just barely
ahead of Boston for the National
League flag.
San Antonio, Tex. Another chapter
Is recorded in the famous McCabe-
Stein romance and tragedy. McCabe's
beautiful ls-year-old wife Inez some
time ago shot and killed Judge Max
Stt-in, political rival of Jndge McCabe's.
nd both he and his wife were arrest
ed. They both escaped, the wife from
the Mexican jail, the murder having
been done on Mexican soil, and he
from the Jail at Victoria. McCabe has
been rearrested.
Roumania is only a pawn In the
mighty game of war for which Europe
is preparing.
James Olson, boss joiner of the
Union Pacific boneyard. met with a se
vere accident yesterday while repair
ing the wheel of the steamer Potter.
His skull was fractured among other
injuries.
The East Portland Chronicle office
was destroyed by fire yesterday morn
ing. Superintendent Parley, of the Port
ing Hallway, tendered his resignation
to take effect November 1 at the meet
ing of the commission yesterday.
C. A. Rhea, the father of Heppner,
is in Portland and for a few days may
be found at the tit. Charles.
CRITICISED, YES, BIT BY WHOHI
Democrats Who Nott Talk o Much
Over Lincoln Asked (location.
PORTLAND. Sept. 29. (To the Edi
tor.) Considering that two-thirds of
the specific promises made to the peo
ple in the National Democratic plat
form in 1112 have been specifically vio
lated by the Wilson Administration, and
that therefore it was supposed the
limit had been reached in a campaign
of sheer pretense and steamroller bunlc
"he kept us out of war" and "I'm
es good a Republican as I ever was,
but will vote for Wilson" by the
Democratic talkfesters. one cannot
claim to be at all surprised at the ap
pearance in several Democratic papers
of a cartoon representing Mr. Wilson
in the flesh in a contemplative mood
with a shade of Abraham Lincoln in
the background saying, "Be patient, Mr.
President, they criticised me, too."
In view of this supposed consolatory
assurance on the part of Lincoln's
shade, it is very pertinent to ask: "Who
criticised him?" An answrr to this in
quiry will give occasion for a double
column editorial, srtting forth in detail
who it was that criticised Lincoln and
It was done incessantly, bitterly and
outrageously. Who .was it? It lasted
throuch the entire four years of his
term as President. Now Just who were
his critics? T. T. GEER.
UK KEPT LS Ol'T OF WAR..
Twice we invaded Mexico.
But alas! that was not all.
Soldiers were slain at Vera Crux
And others killed at Carrlzal.
Why were these brave boys killed?
And what did they go there for?
There surely is some mystery here
I'or Wllnon kept us out of war.
S. M. VENART1.