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KEGLEOTED AT POBOOTTEN.
Four hundred thousand men are to
be benefited by the Adamson act, so
they think; but there are two million
other railroad employes who are not
affected by Its provisions and are not
Intended to be .affected. They are
neglected, igmored, forgotten.
There are millions of other workers
of all kinds who, it is said, are sym
pathetic with the cause of the brother
hoods, because they hope that in the
came way, or in some way, they, too,
may get better pay and fewer hours.
But how?
Not through President Wilson, who
has definitely asked for legislation
which will prevent the "recurrence of
such unhappy conditions in the fu
ture." He referred to the deadlock
between the railroads and the brother
hoods and the panic-stricken hurry of
Congress to compose the trouble by
legislation. Clearly there will be noth
ing else like it, if the President can
prevent it no wage-fixing or hour
shortening laws, no anything but a
law to avert any subsequent strike, or
to prevent a deplorable and ignomini
ous holdup of Congress by either one
side or the other.
Not through Samuel Gompers, presi
dent of the American Federation of
Xabor and confidential adviser of Wil
son. For here is where Gompers
stands, as witness the resolution of
the Federation passed in 1915:
The American Federation of Labor, as In
the past, as a In declares that the question
of resulatiun of wages and hours of labor
should be undertaken through trade-onion
activity, and not be made the subject of
law through legislative enactments.
So it must be through trade-union
activity. How, then, are the unorgan
ized forces to get help? Gompers is
against them and Wilson will not help
Can they doubt that Mr. Hughes,
who stood by every just cause of abor
while Governor and while on the Su
preme Bench, will serve all alike as
President, and not be a partisan of
one class as against another?
Does the Hughes record mean noth
ing to them?
IS DRY LAW VALID?
Following is part of a memorandum
eubmitted to The Oregonian by one
who has been a worker in the prohibi
tion cause:
' A law such as that proposed by J. Sanger
Fox and J. P. Newell, field secretary and
state chairman of the Prohibition party,
prohibiting importation, but allowing per
sonal use of the rich man's stock, had been
declared illesal by the hiebest tribunal
on June 27, 11H5. nearly a year before they
launched their proposal. This fact was
called to their attention, both by Attorney
General George M. Brown and by R. P.
Hutton, of the Anti-Saloon League, before
a conference of committees representing the
Anti-Saloon League and the Ministerial As
sociation, some W, C. T. U. state executive
committee members, the Prohibition party
central committee and their auxiliary, the
Women's Prohibition party. The Prohibition
party and Women's Prohibition party rep
resentatives refused to modity their meal
lire, even in the face of the United States
: Supreme Court, and, rather than seem to
present a divided front, the W. C. T. U.
and Anti-Saloon League indorsed the meas
ure, though feeling that in 'that form it
had been condemned before birth.
Elsewhere in the memorandum the
case of Adams Express Company vs.
Kentucky, decided by the United States
Supreme Court, June 14, 1915, is cited
The Oregonian has made it clear
that it believes adoption of the bone
dry amendment to the constitution
would be grievously harmful to prohl
bltion that bootlegging, and lawless
ness would follow and cast odium upon
. , the entire principle. Yet we are un-
, able to obtain a great deal of comfort
from the Kentucky case.
Therein the issue was whether the
state had authority to prohibit a car
rier engaged in interstate commerce
from transporting intoxicating liquors
into a district where its receipt by the
consignee for personal use or its pos
session for his individual use was not
prohibited by state law. The United
States Supreme Court held that inas
much as the liquor was not to be used
in violation of the laws of the state
of Kentucky, as such laws are con
strued by the highest court of the
state, the Webb-Kenyon law has nu
application and no effect to change
the general rule that the states may
not regulate commerce wholly inter
state.
It is the theory of the one who calls
onr attention to this decision that
it would vitiate the proposed dry
amendment to the Oregon constitution
if the same were adopted. If this
theory be correct, then the existing
law restricting importations for lawful
use is invalid. Clearly, if a law pro
hibiting importation for use not unlaw
ful is unconstitutional a statute limit
ing importation for the same purpose
is likewise void.
But there is a distinction that must
not be overlooked between a law which
applies only to the carrier and one
that applies to the resident within the
state. The existing prohibition law
makes it unlawful for any person to
. "receive" from a carrier more than
piven quantity within a stated period
The proposed constitutional amend
ment provides that no intoxicatin
liquors shall be imported into Oregon
In other words, the proposed amend
ment prohibits receipt by any person
within the state from a common car
rier or intoxicating liquors in any
quantity.
The Webb-Kenyon law prohibits
shipment of intoxicants in interstate
commerce if the liquor Is to be "re
ceived',' as well as possessed or sold
in violation of state law.
If the amendment shall be adopted
Oregon will not have prohibited per
sonal use of liquor, but it will have
prohibited "rtoeip t." Intoxicating
liquors transported in interstate com-
meroe become subject to. the-police
power of the- state upon arrival in the
state. The state may prohibit its re
ceipt by persons within its jurisdiction
just as it may prohibit its advertise
ment, its public exhibition oc its sale,
or its use.
If this amendment passes Oregon
will be bone-dry in name.
VA1XET FORGE.
There are many American soldiers
who still sleep at Valley Forge, after
the bitter and terrible Winter of 1777
78; and a grateful Nation has raised
there , a magnificent monument to
them. They died for,iheir country
literally froze or starved for it but
they never thought of surrender to the
enemy, or of abandoning the sacred
cause of liberty, or of deserting their
heroic commander. Washing-ton. Those
were days of suffering and sacrifice,
and out of them a Nation was made
free.
Valley Forge is about twenty miles
northward from Philadelphia, and
there in December,-1777, Washington
withdraw with 11,000 men. Of these
not more than 7000 were fit for field
duty. The historian says:
"Bloodstains made by the lacerated
feet of barefooted soldiers marked the
line of march." There was "no shelter
but rude huts, which they built them
selves. The soldiers shivered with cold
and starved with hunger."
In his report, General Washington
said, among many other heartrending
things: "Men are confined in hospitals
or farmers" houses for want of shoes.
. Numbers are still obliged to
t all night by the fires. . . .
They sleep under frost and snow with
out clothes or blankets. ... There
are naked and distressed soldiers.
I pity these miseries, which
is neither in my power to relieve nor
prevent."
But let us hear other testimony as
to the men of Valley Forge. This is
from Secretary of War Baker:
I know that the Mexicans do not respect
merican life and property: I know that
they do not pay their debts; that they are
ragamuffins: that they desecrate church
property; that their money is no good, and
hat they are generally worthless. But peo-
le never respect these things in revolutions.
V'e did not resn-rt them in our Civil War.
Washington's soldiers in the march to Val
ley Forge stole everything they could get
heir hands on: took the silver vessels out
f the churches and sold them to buy drink.
They drove ministers out of the churches.
heir money was worthless and they were
st as baa cnaracters as aiexicans.
Well, "he kept us out of war." That
excuses everything with the present
Administration.
Washington didn't keep us out of
war. Yet that is no fair excuse for
wicked and wanton defamation of his
soldiers.
NOT THE "SAME COLBY.
Bainbridge Colby, who is to deliver
an address in Portland in behalf of
President Wilson, was a Progressive
who twice nominated Theodore Roose
velt to be President of the United
States. He is a fine speaker, and, if
one may Judge from his ringing ora
tions of the past, an upstanding Amer
ican who thinks that it is a disgrace
for any President to permit the Amer
ican flag to be insulted, or the Amer
ican honor to be sullied, or the Amer
ican dignity to be lowered.
On January 11, 1916, Bainbridge
Colby delivered a great speech in Chi
cago in which he made a tremendous
attack upon the Wilson policies of
evasion, retreat, vacillation and sur
render. Invoking the names of great
Americans of the past from Washing
ton to Roosevelt, Mr. Colby closed with
these thrilling words:
The past is secure. It is characteristic.
It is honorable. it fixes a standard and
imposes a duty in the present, from which
we should not swerve. Has that duty been
performed? I wish it were possible to
hlnk so. Does our country speak today as
he has been accustomed- to speak in the
glorious past? Can we regard ourselves
as the champions of civil liberty and of the
oppressed? Do security and dignity dwell
under the shadow of our. flag? Is Ameri
can citizenship all that ft has been in the
past, and all that it should be now? Has
he true voice or our country yet been heard
as to the unwarned sinking of defenseless
merchantmen, the wanton slaying of women
and children at sea, the trampling down of
National life, the interruption of our legiti
mate neutral commerce, the violation of sol
emn treaties, the substitution of frlghtful-
ness for faith ?
Better than a third or a fourth or a rirtn
note, from our State Department, each
excelling its predecessor in rhetorical finish
and dialectical refinement, are, it seems to
me, such rugged words as were spoken by
Grant at Firt Donelson:
No terms except unconditional ana im
mediate surrender can be accepted. I pro
pose to move upon your works immediately."
Better than long waiting lor tne cor
roboration of what is known, for the certifi
cation of the obvious and proof of the con
ceded, in matters where the lives of Amer
icans are Involved and In which our power
and disposition to avenge Insults to our
Nationality arc openly derided, better I
say, in tone ana substance, is tne policy re
flected In the famous message senx xrom tne
Treasury Department on January 2. 1881,
signed by John A. Dlx, Secretary of the
Treasury of the United States:
'If anyone attempts to naui a own xno
American flag, shoot him on the spot,"
With equal vividness aid tnis true Ajn en-
can Ism flash in the more recent message
nf Becretarv of State John Hay. auring tne
administration of Theodore Roosevelt:
'We want Perdlcaris alive or ttaiami
dead."
In these days of storm ana stress, or inai
and doubt, it is well to conjure these figures
from our mighty past. Let us lift up our
eyes unto them, as to tne nius, w nonce
Cometh our strength.
It is the same Nation, the same flag.
the same Wilson, but not the same
Colby.
NOTHING STARTLING. -The
supporters of Mr. Hughes need
hardly be thrown into a panic by the
enthusiastic announcement of the non
partisan Wilson press that "the New
York Evening Post has definitely
abandoned Hughes." There would be
just as much occasion for excitement
over the revelation that "Colonel
Roosevelt had definitely abandoned
Wilson" or "King Constantino will not
join the allies."
The Post has not been in position to
abandon any candidate for President,
for it has had none. It has, however,
leaned toward Wilson with an occaV
sional squint toward Hughes. But from
the first it has been more or less
headed in the direction of the Demo
cratic camp, where it belongs. For
the Post is a Democratic newspaper,
with professions "of Independence
which it frequently realizes in prac
tice.
The publisher and owner of the
Evening Post, Mr. Oswald Garrison
Villard, is, or was, a member of Mr.
Wilson's backstairs Cabinet, and for a
long time it was not certain whether
he, or Colonel House, was the more
deeply intrenched in the Presidential
confidence. But Mr. Villard is a pa
cifist, and when the President finally
decided on a preparedness programme
the newspaper publisher began to show
signs of a desire to give up his back
door key. He wrote for the North
American Review an article on the
"Mystery of Wilson," in which he
sought to disclose the reasons for the
marked changes in the Wilson de
meanor and methods in the interim of
his transfer from Trenton as Governor
to Washington as President. The
Villard finding was on the whole quite
unfavorable to President Wilson, the
recluse and autocrat, as against Gover
nor Wilson, sponsor of the pgea door
and pitiless publicity in New Jersey.
Meanwhile the Post was favorable
to Wilson five days in the week and to
Hughes on the sixth. The course of
the Post has been one of the puzzles
of the campaign. It has been as varia
ble as Wilson, if that is possible.
BETTER TASTING POTATOES.
The principle of meeting a glutted
market condition by stimulating con
sumption has long been recognized by
merchants; unfortunately many farm
ers, who are too busy producing food
stuffs to study the business of creating
markets, are not alive to the fact. To
these the suggestion of a speaker be
fore the International Farm Congress
will come as a valuable hint of possi
bilities in a typical field.
The potato is not always a profitable
crop, at price that prevail when many
growers have gone in for it. The sug
gestion is made that the potato grower
should concentrate his attention on
producing potatoes to eat rather than
to sell. Heretofore, it is asafcrted. and
with- much truth, yield and extraneous
considerations, such as uniformity of
size and smoothness of surface, have
governed chiefly the process of selec
tion and production. But that is not
all there is in the potato that is val
uable; such matters as texture and
flavor for there is such a thing as
flavor in the potato if it is not smoth--
ered with salt are also regarded as
important. It is about the last thing
the farmer thinks of when he decides
on his crop.
The advantage to the grower of a
potato of super-excellent flavor would
be that people would eat more po
tatoes. The food value of the tuber
is well known. It is the stand-by of
thbse who would puton flesh cheaply
and easily, but it does not always
tempt the appetite, even when cooked
In deep fat, smothered with salt and
cut shoestringwise. But there is no
more reason, so argue the scientists,
why a distinctively good-tasting potato
should not be gtown than there is why
all apples should be Ben Davises. So
here is the secret. Produce a potato
that has a real flavor, all its own,
double or treble the consumption in
the households of the land, and make
of potato growing both a science and
n art.
The process, of course, involves a
long course of seed selection, but it
must be Selection based upon a differ
ent, or at least a more painstaking,
method than the present one. There
may be certain impracticable features
about it at first, but mankind has ad
vanced by overcoming obstacles. The
theory seems sound; and the man who
produces a potato that Is really de
licious deserves no mean place on the
list of the benefactors of mankind.
CONCRETE ON THE OLD TRAIL.
Kansas citizens have gone definitely
to work to devise a plan of building a
concrete highway across their state
along the line of the "old trails road"
of pioneer fame. The Old Trails Road
Association at a recent meeting ap
pointed a commission to Investigate
the proposal and this commission has
reported that It is entirely feasiblo
from every point of view. The steps
by which it arrived at this conclusion
are interesting.
It is estimated that a 14-foot con
crete road can.be built for $o00 a
mile. The state would count on 60
per cent of Federal aid, reducing the
local cost to $3750 a mile. One-
eighth of the entire cost, or $937.50
a mile, "would be assessed against the
local townships, and three-eighths, 'or
$2812.50 a mile, to the adjacent own
ers. The average cost per aero per
annum to the land in the districts as
sessed would be 7 1-3 cents and the
average cost to each quarter section
would be $117.33.
But the Old Trails Road Association
has taken pains to show that this out
lay would be strictly in the form of
an Investment. It estimates that the
saving to the Owner of each 160 acres
by reason of economies in bn'iling
crops to market and supplies to the
farm would .be not less than $50,
which it will be admitted is a large
return on an outlay of $117.33, divided
over a period of ten years. In other
words, the farmer would have most
of his money back with big interest
long before he was called upon to
spend it. The same authority esti
mates that- land values would be in
creased $3 an acre by the new road,
or $480 for each quarter section.
This estimate is probably conserva
tive. The Influence of a good road In
determining the value of a' farm is
well known. Even if he were called
upon to pay the entire cost, instead
of only three-eighths of it, the farmer
would not be out of pocket, but it is
regarded as just that the townships
should pay part of the cost because
of the broad benefit to the entire com
munity. The opportunity to obtain
Federal aid puts the scheme on a
bargain basis.
The entire road, construction of
which it is believed would stimulate
other states to build connecting roads.
would cost $3,750,000, but this sum is
large only when viewed in the ab
stract. The problem becomes rela
tively simple when resolved into its
elements and when compensatory ad
vantages are considered; so that a
"belt of concrete 500 miles long"
seems already to be something more
than a dream in Kansas.
WORK FOR TIIE SUN TO DO.
We are all familiar with the prln
ciple of economics that predictions are
ultimately futile because of the con
stant entrance into our calculations of
the elment of the unexpected. It is
not so very long since the world was
deeply concerned lest the supply of tal
low should become inadequate for the
candles that were regarded as a vital
necessity. We learn that our coal
measures are not inexhaustible, and
already some are worrying about it.
A few years ago we were told that the
supply of rags would not be equal to
the demand for them for making pa
per, but now it is something else in
the paper situation that is bothering
us. So it is not likely that Director
Manning, of the Federal Bureau of
Mines, will cause many to lie awake
nights with his estimate that the coun
try's supply of petroleum will be ex
hausted in a matter of thirty years.
' It is not that we want to give up
our automobiles, or in any other par
ticular to lower our standard of living,
in which gasoline has become an im
portant social as well as industrial fac
tor. Considering everything, our stand
ard of living is not higher than it
ought to be, or than we deserve, and
we are bound to uphold It, being a
people who look up and not down. So
many of our problems have solved
themselves, just as the discovery of
kerosene came in time to confound the
prophets of a candle famine, that we
look with confidnce to every future
day. We talk some of conservation,
and to be on the safe side we ought
to do more about it, but on the whole
we let tomorrow take care of itself.
Perhaps the gasoline famine will be
taken care of. by cigantiq arrangements
for the harnessing of water power, and
a perfect storage battery, and a few
other things: or perhaps, despite dis
couragements .of the past few years,
by development of a process for mak
ing industrial alcohol that shall be in
fact within reach of all. At any rate,
that is the lively hope of almost every
one, and we go burning up our gaso
lfhe, quite oblivious to the warnings of
Director Manning or anyone else..
The recent annual report of the
Smithsonian Institution summarizes
the result of costly experiments bear
ing upon the industrial utility of the
heat of the sun. Men have been seek
ing a solution of this problem for 250
years, but their chief progress has been
made within fifteen years. A British
engineer reports' that the goal has
nearly been reached. An improved
solar plant tested in Egypt has yielded
results ten times as great as any
previous effort. This 'is encouraging
not only because it denotes real prog
ress, but because it has reached an
extremely practical stage. It is not
yet promised that the sun will furnish
our heat and power under all circum
stances, but the enterprise is being
made to pay where sunlight is common
and coal and oil are dear. Coal would
not be worth more than about $20 a
ton where the sun of the African des
ert could compete with lt This helps
to conserve at least part of the fuel
supply heretofore diverted in that di
rection, and there is always prospect
that the solar engine will be still fur
ther improved. Transmission of power
has made enormous strides within a
decade.
There is one more crumb of com
fort in the words of scientists. We are
told that the sun is growing hotter in
stead of colder, as we had supposed.
Thus do our discoveries synchronise
with our needs.' Direct sun power
may be realized before our oil wells
run dry.
The Oregon Agricultural College is
doing valuable work .in the special field
of clover production, since this legu
minous plant is so important a factor
in our combined problems of fertiliza
tion and feeding. Attention is called
to the fact that clover Is subject to a
seemingly increasing number of pests;
in fact, the clover field would seem to
be a veritable insectarium. No part
of the plant escapes. The grubs and
beetles or the root-borer are found
In the roots: the young ovule is de
stroyed by the maggot of the seed
midge and the developing seed Is eaten
out by the seed-chalcld. In addition to
these, there is the clover mtte, waich
attacks the leaves, blossom and stem.
The reasons why one grower gets a
good crop and another does not are
declared to be chiefly entomological.
Proper cutting and timely rotation are
the remedies nearest at hand, and the
threat of serious loss in case of neg
lect emphasizes the value of the study
of insect pests by every clover grower.
There has been much comment on
the competition of automobiles with
railroads, particularly with interurban
and branch lines, but the Railway-Age
Gazette finds some consolation for the
railroads in it. This competition acts
as a preventive of branch-line building,
"thus preserving capital for better
ments to existing lines." ' It makes a
good highway, built with the public's
instead of the railroad's capital, serve
ss a feeder to the main line. Unprof
itable branch lines have been a drain
on many a railroad. Good roads with
auto traffic may now take their place
and the railroads may center their
energies on improving their main lines,
enlarging their terminals and increas
ing their equipment, which are the
most urgent needs of the time.
Judging by the recipes given for
some of the concoctions sold as boot
leg whisky, those who imbibe the stuff
would have a better chance of sur
vival if they went up against a whole
battery of machine guns in Europe.
They would also have the exhilaration
of the fight before they died, and that
must surpass the exhilaration pro
duced by bootleg whisky.
Escape of six convicts from Sing
Ping prison in an auto truck suggests
the need of an expert psychologist to
decide who shall be trusties. Many
convicts no sooner become trusties
than they prove unworthy of trust.
Professor Hugo Muensterberg should
be added to the staff.
A dispatch from Chihuahua says:
"Villa ordered the houses burned and
permitted his men to commit atroc
ities on the defenseless inhabitants."
Does Secretary of War Baker mean
to say that the Generals in the Revo
lutionary War were that kind of men?
Rev. W. A. Arnold, of Cathlamet,
was the right kind of "fighting par
son." He fought for good roads, which
do much to reduce the amount of
profanity. That is where the cause
of religion and the cause of good
roads meet.
There is a single discordant note in
the story of the Forest Grove man
who watched his hen lay the second
egg within ten minutes after she
dropped the first. He failed to keep
on pressing the button.
Great Britain is spending $35,000,000
a day. This is somewhat more than
the Democratic Congress spends, but
by perseverance Its peace expenditures
may catch up wjth British war expen
ditures.
Elephant Butte dam is complete,
This is another big enterprise for the
Southwest, Meanwhile, Oregon proj
ects languish, and money that should
go to them is diverted.
The Wilsonites evidently consider
free speech their exclusive privilege.
The loudest shouters for liberty are
usually most grudging in conceding it
Portland misses a lot of glory with
her warmed-over name. Seattle has
a plan to "get" the cruiser Washing
ton when the new dreadnought is
named.
It's easier to get out of Sing Sing
than it is of Salem. More than a
bluff is needed at the latter institu
tion. License records show there are 800
fewer dogs in this city than last year.
One does, indeed, miss the fleas. N-
Try as they might, the Beavers can
not crowd into last place. Oakland
will not budge.
Hood River develops a great plan
of community co-operation in saving
the apple crop.
When a mute couple has a lively
quarrel, the crockery is safe, at any
rate.
This war has stopped the 'Cunard
boast fit never, bavins lost a. vessel
TVILSON AND LABOR.
"Labor unions reward the shift
less and incompetent at the ex
pense of the able and Industrious.
They drag the. highest
man to the level of the lowest."
(February 25. 1905.)
"We speak too exclusively of
the capitalizing class. There is
another as formidable an enemy
to equality and freedom of op
portunity as it is. and that is the
class formed by the labor organ
izations and leaders of the coun
try." (March 18. 1907.)
"I am a fierce partisan of the
open shop." (January 12, 190$.)
"Labor is standardized by the
trade union. ... I need not
point out how economically dis
astrous such a regulation of labor
is. . The labor of America
Is rapidly becoming unprofitable
under its present regulation by
those who have determined to re
duce It to a minimum." (June IS,
1905.)
(When refusing? to slam a dec
laration In favor of the eltrht
hour day movement): "Nothing of
this sort can be decided thus in
the abstract." (September, 1906.)
OUR DUTY UNDER. MOMIOE RULE
Its Maintenance Tlqulrea Redress for
Other Nation' Wronea.
PORTLAND. Oct, 20. (To the Ed
itor.) I understand that, at some time
In the past, when one of the powers of
Europe was threatening to protect its
citizens, or its citizens property, In
Mexico, the United States gave to the
said power some sort of an assurance
that, if they would withhold action, th
United States would guarantee them
redress for the loss of life and of
property.
Will you kindly state what the facts
are in connection with this matter?
Also, under the Monroe Doctrine, could
the foreign power enforce redress
against the United States?
OLD SUBSCRIBER.
We have no knowledge of such assur
ance having been given. No definite
agreement between nations has been
made fixing the obligations which the
Monroe Doctrine Imposes on the United
FUtes. for that doctrine has not been
formally recognized by other nations,
nor have its conditions been defined.
Great Britain alone has assented to the
right of the United States to maintain
It as a National policy. In practical
application, other nations would prob
ably claim from the United States re
dress for loss suffered In other Ameri
can countries whenever the United
States prevented them from obtaining
redress directly. Should the United
States deny its liability, the other na
tion would be likely, if strong enough to
fight this country, to ignore the Monroe
Doctrine and take satisfaction by oc
cupying territory of the offending na
tion in defiance of the doctrine. It
would then devolve upon the United
States either to fight for the Monroe
Doctrine or to abandon it. To avoid
this contingency, the United States
might compel the offending nation to
satisfy the claim or itself undertake to
satisfy It. These are only surmises as
to what would happen, for It is diffi
cult to form an opinion as to a hypo
thetical case. It is. however, a sound
general principle that, if this Nation
prevents other nations from defending
their rights lest our National policy be
set at naught, it must assume defense
of those rights.
LABOR BETRAYED HY LEADERS
Central Council Trying; to Deliver Vote
to Democrats.
PORTLAND, Oct. 20. (To the Edi
tor). The Central Labor Council is
making desperate efforts to deliver the
labor vote bodily to the Democratic
party. It is generally presumed that
the Labor Council is organized for
the purpose of advancing the interests
of labor. Ostensibly this is the case.
but in reality it is a political organiza
tion, composed of members who in
variably are Democrats and worlf, in
cessantly to throw the vote of organ
ized labor to the Democratic party.
There are many laboring men who
cannot be thus tricked, and retain their
Independence in matters political. They
do not care to consort with the Equis,
tne Jobelmans, ana tne element that
resort to anarchistic tactics when good
women visit our city. This sort of in
sulting method seems to tickle the
Jackson Democratic Club, who fath
ered and abetted the rowdyism; but the
decent men and women of Portland and
the state should, and I believe will,
resent their actions at the polls. As a
member of a Portland labor union I,
for one, condemn the Central Labor
Council for the course it Is taking
and for its encouragement of anarch
ists. CADMUS.
Bryan Again nobbed.
PORTLAND. Oct. 20. (To the Edl
tor.) As an example of how the pres
ent Administration will In the future
protect American citizens abroad and
as laudatory of such a policy, let me
call attention to the following from an
article in the October Atlantic Monthly
by Dr. Charles W. Eliot. Speaking of
the conditions in Mexico, he says:
"Of course the Democratic Admlnls
tratlon was active and urgent in using
diplomatic and consular representation
on behalf of Americans whose lives or
properties were endangered in Mexico,
and In aiding such persona to withdraw
temporarily from the country. Amer
ica has now turned Its baric on the
familiar policy of Rome and Great Brit
aln of protecting or avenging their
wandering citizens by force of ayns,
and has set up quite a different policy
of its own. .
If this is to be the protection afford
ed American citizens abroad, why elect
Wilson, and discredit the original
apostle of the "scuttle policy," William
J. Bryan? ALEX BliUNSTHN.
Poblle Defender Unnecessary.
PORTLAND, Oct, 20. (To the Edl
tor). We note with gratification that
a beginning has been made by the City
Council to reduce the payroll and either
abolish or consolidate various positions
The Council is congratulated upon its
realization of a public duty in these
trying times.
There are other position that might
be abolished without affecting the
public service, for instance, that of
Public Defender, for which we pay
$150 a month. With a Municipal Judge
such as the fine, rare typo that we
now have, we may safely trust that
thers will be no miscarriage of Justice.
It is anomalous that the city should
employ a prosecutor and at the same
time employ a defender.
We hope the good work initiated
by the Council will continue, at least
until the public revenue warrants
change. PRO BONO PUBLICO.
A Msrrlaxe PropoaaL
Dallas (Tex.) News.
Samuel Do you think your father
would object to my marrying you? Sally
I couldn't say. Sammy. If he s any
thing like me he would.
Eating and Enough.
Atchison Globe.
A man doesn't think there Is enough
to east unless he has an opportunity to
eat too much.
People and Government.
Atchison Globe.
The people who imagine they-are the
government are also fooled in several
other ways x
WILL DEMOCRATS REPUDIATE MOBI
If Net. Their Yellow Bade Ru Doable
Slsrnlf leasee. Says Mr. Moore.
PORTLAND, Oct. 20. (To the Edi
tor.) The decent Democrats of the
city of. Portland, feeling deeply the
humiliation of Saturday's outrage, ve
hemently protest that the rowdies and
hoodlums who disgraced the city by
denying freedom of speech and the or
dinary courtesies of decent society to
the Eastern ladies who came here in
the Interest of Mr. Hughes do not rep
resent the real spirit of the Democratic
party. But all the evidence is against
them.
The Portland Journal by Its shame
fully brutal attacks, by its distortion
of facts) anij by its continuous appeals
to class prejudices and the basest pas
sions, sowed the seeds, and a demon
stration that has never been surpassed
by the I. W. w. of Portland was the
legitimate fruit of its editorial.
It is the same spirit that prompted
Tom Burns to scatter on our streets
four years ago the shamefully vulgar
and scurrilous anti-Roosevelt circu
lars that were publicly denounced by
men of all parties
It Is the same spirit that prompted
the guttersnipes who mobbed these
ladles in Chicago.
It is the same spirit that recently
tore out a rail in a West Virginia rail
road over which a Hughes special was
to pass.
It is the spirit of the Democratic ed
itor in Southern Oregon who urged that
these ladles be pelted with cabbages
and rotten vegetables.
It is the spirit that prompts Wilson
supporters to gather all along the line
to hoot and Jeer, and that promises the
same demonstration in San Francisco.
It simply means that they dread the
results of the work of these women
and that they dare not accord them the
treatment that every instinct of Ameri
can chivalry demands.
There is no limit to their brutal a esse
of Hughes and other great Republican
leaders, but a legitimate critLeism of
the policies of the man whom Mrs.
Hanley has aptly described as "the sa
cred cow of the Democracy" must be
prevented by force and violence. The
silly, pitiful and cowardly excuse for
these outrages is that these ladles came
here to tell the women of Oregon now
to vote, yet scores of Eastern Demo
crats In past years have been Imported
into Oregon to tell men of Oregon how
to vote only to bo treated by Republi
cans with courtesy and respect.
But on Saturday the Democratic Club
officials rode up and down the streets,
flaunting their yellow banners urging
the mob to deny the visitors respectful
treatment and the right of free
speech. At a meeting in the evening,
when the outrage was fresh and
public indignation was at a white heat,
addressed by a Democratic candidate
for Congress and an ex-Demncrtlc can
didate for Congress and a Democratic
Collector of Customs, there was no
protest. The officials of the Demo
crattc State Committee are mute. It
Is amazlntr that men who are gentle
men in the ordinary relations of life
utta,r no word of protest, but approve
by their silence, when the Democratic
Fred- Jobelman. the Burns ide-street
agitator, and the Democratic Dr. Marie
Equi. who has so often figured in
street disturbances and In our courts,
indulge with their riotous companions
in their characteristic riotous methods.
Is there no rod blooded Americanism
among the Democratic leaders? If they
have not the courage to denounce a
Democratic rabble like this, then does
the yellow badge and the yellow pen
nant well typify the yellow American
ism of the Democratic party, that
shows no respect for American woman
hood either abroad or at home.
CHARLE3 B. MOO RES.
GRATEFUL RAILnOAD PRESIDENTS
Of Course Tney Are for Man Wkl
Overthrew Free Canal Tolls.
PORTLAND. Oct, 20. (To the Edl
tor.) Some of the press seem to be
rylng to make capital out of the fact
that Mr. Lovett. president of the Union
raciflc, is supporting President Wilson
lor re-election.
There is no reason why Mr. Lovett
should not support President Wilson.
The transcontinental railroads were
the chief opponents of a ship canal
The Democratic platform of 1912 fa
vored free passage for United States
coastwise ships. The candidate Wil
son, on the stump, approved and advo
cated that plank.
Later, when President, he personally
appeared before Congress and advo
cated the repeal of a law. already
passed and In force, to that effect. This
Congress did. '
I understand canal tolls are $1.25 per
ton, vessel tonnage. Generally speak
lng, car capacity at the present time
Is eO.OuO pounds, or 40 tons, with load
limit 10 per cent more than indicated
capacity. At 40 tons per car. and 11.2a
per ton canal tolls, this makes a handi
cap of $50 per car asainst water trans
portatlon. while it is certainly an ad
vantage to the railroads. Under these
conditions, why should not Mr. Lovett,
or any other transcontinental railroad
official, support Mr. Wilson for re-elec
tlon? E. C. M'DO ELL
A NICKEL AND A NOD BUYS TIIE NEWS OF A PLANET IN
The Sunday Oregonian
HERE'S DAN SMITO! The second salutation of this noted illustra
tor, special artist for Oregonian patrons, is a feeling color sketch,
"When the World Waits for Peace. Appearing in the magazine
section, this page feature carries also a paragraph plea for peace,
INVASION BY EUROPE'S BEAUTIES-rStars of feminine loveliness
from over the water have risen in the theatrical firmament of thia
country. A special contributor to The Oregonian's Sunday maga
zine speculates in interesting vein on the cause of their coming.
Illustrated with photographs of the conquering beauties.
JOHN BARLEYCORN, OUTLAW A tensely told tale of the South
ern moonshiners, the fighting mountaineers whose defiance of our
revenue officers has written into history a page peculiar to Ameri
can history. With slashing pictures from actual photographs taken
in the "moonshine' districts.
EIGHTY MILLIONS IN PLACER GOLD Frank G. Carpenter, spe
cialist in clear-cut yarns of the Alaskan country, tells in the Sunday
magazine of his automobile trip along the richest creeks of the
interior. How Uncle Sam's purchase price has been returned to
to him tenfold by the industry of the prospector.
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A MOVIE HERO? Most of the thrills
that fascinate in the films are real the daredevil stunts of men
and women whoBe livelihood is gained by a blase disregard for
accident or death. Told in the Sunday magazine, with illustra
tions of spectacular film scenes.
THE SCARLET RUNNER Readers of this enthralling serial, ap
pearing in the Sunday Oregonian, will keep appreciative pace with
its dramatization in the current film play of the same title. The
second chapter is presented.
TnE NEW "GLIDE CANTER" In the Sunday magazine Barbara
Craydon describes this "really new waltz, the invention of a wom
an. Comes forward now Miss Dorothy Martin, petite advocate of
"the corsetless dance."
PORTLAND AS AN ART CENTER A full-page feature story, abun
dantly illustrated, telling of the art treasures that are held by Port
land collectors. The Ladd trove of etchings, recently 6old for
$150,000, is but one instance of the appreciation that distinguishes
the city.
HERBERT KAUFMAN'S PAGE "Great stuff!" is the dictum of the
thousands who turn regularly to this Sunday feature for the com
mon sense criticism and advice
the sore in spirit.
TnE WEEK IN PORTLAND SCHOOLS Edited by students, this
regular feature of the Sunday issue is invaluable to those who have
the interests of the city schools at heart and who would keep pace
With the progress achieved. .
ALL TnE NEWS FOR EVERYONE.
THE OREGONIAN.
In Other Days
Twenty-Five Years A so.
yrora The Oregonian October 21. 1S9L
Stockton. Cal.. Oct. 20. Sunol in a
race against 'time made a game, mag
nificent finish here today and lowered
the record of Maud S. by a half sec
ond. He did the mile in 2:08 U.
Charles H. Perkins, formerly a well
known hotel man in Portland, who
has been In the mines in Idaho for
three or more .years, has returned to
make his home here.
W. J. Thomas, one of the most gal
lant policemen of the city, has been
detailed to cover the Fulton Park dis
trict and the White House road on
horseback. One of the principal need's
for him Is to check the fast and care
less driving on the White House road.
Henry Miller, of Grants Pass, yester
day purchased from Mr. Van B. De
Lashmutt a yearling colt named John
Mann, paying 1100 J. The colt is a full
brother of AJtao, who has a record of
2:22Vi.
S. W. Chlldera is now In the city ar
ranging for the shipment of some
thoroughbred sheep which he pur
chased from the well-known breeder
James Withycombe. of Washington
County. He will take the sheep to his
farm in Klickitat County, Washington.
London John Dillon's speech eulo
gizing Parnell has considerably soft
ened tae sentiment of the Parnellltes
toward him. and there is a feeling that
lie is now the strongest man in the
two factions.
Herman Santes arrived yesterday
from Phillipsbursr. N. J., for the pur
pose of putting up the standpipe tor
th East Side waterworks.
FOREIGN POLICY WAS APPROVED
The Oregonian Criticised Cleveland's
Domestic Policy, However.
SILVETITON. Or.. Oct. 19. (To the
Editor.) I note, for election -purposes
only, you are lauding the late Grover
Cleveland. "What Cleveland Would
Have Done," etc I have read your
paper for 30 years and remember well
the abuse you heaped upon the man
you laud so much now. You blamed
him for all the ills the country was
suffering with, and referred to him as
the "Stuffed Prophet." Your lansruaara
was obnoxious and vile. Look up your
files and you will agree with mo you
are very inconsistent.
I buv Tour Daner for the new anA
not to be told how to vote. However
you will know tetter about It after
election day. as Wilson will undoubt
edly carry Oregon by 6000.
GEORGE FIRTH.
When Grover Cleveland was Presi
dent The Oregonian criticised his polloy
In regard to the tariff and other do
mestic legislation, but it approved his
handling of the Venezuela affair and
his action in maintaining the rights of
the United States and American clti-
sens abroad. There is a wide difference
between the two lines of policy.
The Oregonian does not undertake to
tell" any of its readers how to vote.
It does consider that its duty to its
reade requires it to discuss publio
affairs, to draw conclusions from
events and to advise its readers how
to vote. Of course they are free to
follow or reject its advice.
The Oregonian does not claim such
exaft knowledge of the intention of
the voters of' Oregon as would enable
it to predict dogmatically that any can
didate "will undoubtedly carry Oregon"
by any certain number of votes. Our
opinion, however. Is that Oregon will
vote for Hughes by a large plurality
and probably by a majority.
But all this is beside the mark. Does
Mr. Firth think Mr. Wilson is up to
the Cleveland standard? What does he
think yes. know Mr. Wilson would
have done In the Venezuela crisis had
no been President?
Postal Profit and Lois.
NORTH POWDER. Or.. Oct. 19. To
the Editor.) There seems to be some
conflict of authority in this place as
to whether the Postoffice Department
of the United estates has been placed
on a paying basis the last three years.
Please answer whether or not during
these three years the Postofflce De
partment turned over any surplus to
fie Treasury Department of the United
States, over and above all expenses
from the postal earnings. If so. about
what amount? C E. HESS.
In 1914 (fiscal year) there was a
postal surplus of Jl.390.7i3.
In 1915 there was a deficit of $11.
297.861. In 1914 there was a surplus of $5.-
200.000.
of Herbert Kaufman, specialist for
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