DEMOCRATIC TEXT
DATED FROM
Comparative Figures in Book
Begin With War Instead of
- With March 4, 1913.
INSINCERITY IS CHARGED
William K. Willcox Discloses Dis
crepancies in Juggling of Facts -Concerning;
Business "Under
Underwood Tariff.
BY WILLIAM "VTCLLCOX.
Chairman Republican National Committee
A large portion of the Democratic
text book is given up to a display of
tables and text showing our wonderful
prosperity under Wilson and the Un
derwood tariff. Strangely enough, how
ever, the statements begin with August
1. 1914. instead of. as would e ex
pected, March 4, 1913, or even October
3. 1913, the date of the adoption of the
Underwood tariff.
There is nothing in the Democratic
text book calling attention to the fail
ures, the idle men and the depression
in all kinds of business from October
1. 1913 to August 1, 1914. But after
August 1. 1914. and up to the present
time, we find that the United States,
has been growing continually in pros
perity, has been selling more and more
abroad, has been getting more for
what it does sell and that all this is
due to Woodrow Wilson and the Un
derwood tariff.
Insincerity la Charged.
This sort of campaign argument is
insincere, not to use a stronger word,
unless Mr. Wilson and the Underwood
tariff brought about and have con
tinued the war in Europe. In no other
way can Mr. Wilson and his tariff law
claim credit whatever for the unprec
edented exports of the last two years,
any more than they can claim credit
for the unprecedented agricultural out
put of 1915. When a table of figures is
shown giving the exports of manufac
tures under the Underwood tariff law
in one column, and under the Payne
tariff in an adjoining column, with the
Increased per cent made emphatic, then
It would seem that there is an Intention
deliberately to deceive.
In the first place, tariffs, that is
duties on imports, . whether large or
small, are not made for the purpose of
affecting exports. A tariff may be in
directly responsible for sales abroad,
because It may so stimulate home pro
duction as to enable a manufacturer,
or many manufacturers, to have a sur
plus that can be sold to advantage In
a foreign market, but tariffs are pri
marily imposed for the purpose of af
fecting the goods which we buy, and
not' the goods which we sell. And the
claim of the Democratic campaign com
mittee that our immense war sales have
been due to Woodrow Wilson and the
Underwood tariff should be noted by
the voter and given due consideration.
Intent to Deceive Seen.
The fact of the matter is that the
Democratic party, or the Democratic
leaders, are trying to do Just what took
place in 1844 and 1892. They are trying
to deceive the people about the tariff.
They are trying to ignore the results
of the operation of the Underwood tar
iff during the normal conditions and
emphasize the unusual conditions since
the war broke out and make the peo
pie think, if possible, that our war
prosperity, or battlefield prosperity,
has been cue to the Wilson Administra
tion and the Underwood tariff.
Figures are given and statements are
made that bear no semblance whatever
to the figures of the Government. For
instance, the official report of the Ce
bus Office says that the value of our
manufactured products in 1909 was
$20,000,000,000, and five years later. In
J 914, or two years ago. was $24,000
000.000. Now the Democratic text book
comes in and says that the total value
of manufactures during the fiscal year
lf16 is over S30, 000,000, 000, although
the exports of finished manufactures
for the year are less than J2. 000.000.000
These absurd statements of the Demo
cratic campaign committee will be ptib-
jisnea rar ana wiae and may possibly
give the Impression that thev are in
tended to give, but the voter should
consider them in connection with the
actual facts, and he should consider
that the Underwood tariff had a nor
mal operation for 10 months anil the
Wilson Administration for 16 months
before the war broke out: and it is
tnat normal period that should be con
eldered when getting at the true esti
mate of the effect of Mr. Wilson and
nia tariff upon the country.
INSURANCE COMPANY LOSES
Z.ane County Jury Awards $1000
Verdict to Widow.
EUGENE, Or.. Oct. 29 (Special.)
a- jury in tne Lane county Circuit
Court last night returned a verdict in
favor of Mrs. Pansy Beebe Davidson,
or Eugene, against tne security Insur
ance Company for the sum of 11000,
the amount of & life insurance policy on
which payment had been refused.
The company contended that . Mrs.
Davidson's husband, upon whose life
the policy had been issued, had per
mitted his policy to lapse, and after
contracting a fatal illness he had
sought to renew it by making back
payments without submitting to a
physical examination.
For this reason, the company declined
to pay the principal of the policy upon
ns aeam.
APPLE MEN STILL WORRY
Cars Lucking at Hood Klver and
- Freeze Danger Threatens.
HOOD RIVER, Or., Oct. 29. SDe.
cial.) With no assurance of relief, the
shortage of refrigerator cars continues
the greatest worry of local fruitgrow
ers and sales agency officials. Up to
date the Mount Hood Railroad Com
pany reports a shortage of 77 freezers
and 28 lumber cars. The O.-W. R. & N.
at this point is short more than 150
refrigerator cars. The proportion of
the crop already moved is negligible.
Growers, who fear disastrous results
from a freeze, should apples be caught
exposed, are negotiating for the base
ments of local business houses and
public halls.
Rooster Hock Climbed.
Chester Treichel, Clement Blakney
and Dean Van Zandt announced yester
day that they climbed from the base
to the summit of Rooster Rock in 18
minutes. These three Portland young
men started from the city at 7:50 A. M.
yesterday. None of them had ever as
cended the rock before, but they had
ail heard the climb was an unusually
difficult one. After climbing Rooster
Rock the trio hiked to Crown Point and
returned to Portland by automobile.
All three are members of the Mazamas
and the Mohawk Athedial Club.
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VISIT OF YOUNG WOMEN TO U-53
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WASHINGTON. D. C, Oct. 19. (Special.) The social neutrality of which
the National capital has boasted is tottering because of these two charralns
girls, who are prominent in the smart circles both here and Newport.
The offense committed htr the two young women was nothing more nor
less than their visit to the U-53. when the German submarine docked at New
port for a breathing spell. The fact that Miss Caperton. the daughter of Rear
Admiral Caperton, who Is still in active service, was practically the mistress
of the launch which took these two young women with their escorts to the
German ship, is alBO a matter of comment. "The mother of Miss Kahnestock
has given generously to the International
Fund for French Orphans and the French
DEBATE IS HEATED
Democratic Chairman's Ac
tion at Forum Questioned.
QUESTIONER IS APPLAUDED
H. M. Esterly Takes Liberty to Ex
pound View Following Discus
sion by Member of Woman's
Party and Educator.
"It is quite fortunate in the discus
sion of such a warm political question
that we have escaped without a riot,'!
began H. M. Esterly, chairman of the
Open Forum discussion at the Unita
rian Church last night at the conclu
sion of the speaking, in his best jok
ing manner. And he proceeded to come
perilously near precipitating that which
he said had been avoided.
For, "As there is no one to gainsay
me, I shall give my opinion on this
vital question," he continued, and pro
ceeded in the expression of a Demo
cratic viewpoint of the campaign of the
National Women's party against Mr.
Wilson. When he had concluded, Mrs.
Ida Finney Mack rill, of San Francisco,,
state chairman of the National Wom
an's party in California, arose.
"Mr. Chairman, I would like to ask a
question," she said. Mr. Esterly nodded
consent.
Questioner la Applanded.
"I would like to know if it is cus
tomary in a debate and discussion of
this nature for the chairman of the
meeting to have a voice after other
speakers have been silenced, to give his
partisan opinion."
A storm of applause followed and Mr.
Esterly colored. He stammered a few
remarks to the effect that he had not
meant to be unfair, etc., when Mrs.
Mackrill said, "I was only asking a
question." Mr. Esterly brightened up.
"Then I'd say yes," he answered.
The debate proper was between Mrs.
Mackrill and Professor William F. Og
burn. of Reed College, on the propriety
of the methods used by the National
Woman's party to further the cause of
suffrage. Mrs. Mackrill said she was
not a Hughes partisan, but merely anti
Wilson. Professor Ogburn frankly ad
mitted Democratic tendencies.
Bourbons Are Represented.
Bourbons were well represented at
the meeting. There were R. W. Mon
tague and Elton Watklns, both hardy
exponents of the Democratic cause.
They both had their say, too. There
happened to be no Republican leaders
among the men present at the meeting,
but several women beside those of the
National party responded with Republi
can sentiment when the meeting took
too partisan a turn.
In the rebuttal by Mrs. Mackrill, for
which she was allotted five minutes,
Mr. Watkins interrupted with a ten
dency to argue the matter, until si
lenced by a murmur of disapproval and
an audible hiss.
Chief argument for the Wilson par
tisans was that the tactics of the Na
tional party were wrong in opposing
the re-election of "Mr. Wilson because
of his stand on the single question of
suffrage. On the other side was pre
sented the record of the Democratic
party in consistently opposing suffrage
for women, making such tactics neces
sary. ENVOY DENIES CRITICISM
(Contlnuea From First Page.)
rera and the member of the news bu
reau staff who gave It to the press.
The bureau, set up some time ago with
G. F. Weeks, formerly a press ceneor
for the Carranza government at Mexico
City, at its "nead. had been regarded as
the semi-official mouthpiece of the em
bassy. The employe who issued yesterday's
statement wan G. F. Edmunds, pub
licity representative of the embassv
until the bureau ras organized. Ed
munds asserted that the statement was
dictated to him at Atlantic City by Ca
THE MORXING OREROmX MONDAY, OCTOBER SO, 191G.
STIRS SOCIETY AT CAPITAL.
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brera, who authorized him to make it
public. Weeks tonight telegraphed Ca
brera disclaiming responsibility "or lue
action.
The appearance of the statement
caused consternation at the Embassy.
Mr. Arredondo promptly had a confer
ence with Mr. Cabrera over the long
distance telephone. Later he explained
that the bureau had prepared and is
sued without authority the statement
as a result of remarks made by Cabrera
Friday to a representative of the
bureau. He said Cabrera made no un
pleasant references to the American
Government, and moreover, was not ex
pecting his remarks to be quoted.
"They were speaking." said the Am
bassador, "about the situation In gen
eral, and especially in Chihuahua, as to
how Villa had been able to cause such
alarm. Mr. Cabrera said, not for pub
lication and without expectation that
his remarks would be used, 'the Ameri
can Government could help us by In
creasing its vigilance to prevent am
munition from getting into the hands
of Villa and by expelling from the
United States a great number of Mext
can refugees who are very well known
as enemies of the de facto government
In Mexico.
Cabrera Warns Public.
"This the American Government could
do strictly within the province of
American neutrality laws.
Further than these remarks, it was
said, there was no reference in any
part of Mr. Cabrera's conversation to
the United States Government or its
officers.
"The public should be warned," Mr.
Arredondo added, "that many false
statements have appeared and will con
tinue to be published in the United
States by enemies of the de facto gov
ernment. whose purpose is to bring
about intervention In Mexico and armed
conflict between Mexico and the United
States.'
RAILROADS BUYING GARS
DEMAND FOR LARGE QUANTITY OK
LUMBER IS CREATED.
Do UK la a Kir, Yellow Pine and Oak to
Be Required Northern Pacific 'to
Build in Owi Shops.
CHICAGO. Oct. 29. (Special.) In
consequence of the continuation of the
extreme car shortage in all parts of
the country, railroads are extending
their rolling stock equipment through
large orders for new freight cars of
all types. This situation is resultitng
in a demand upon the general lumber
market for large quantities of lumber
of the various kinds that go Into car
construction, principally yellow pine,
Douglas fir and oak.
Approximately 15. 000.000 feet of lum
ber will be required to fulfill the con
tracts for new cars placed within tbe
last 10 days, while if the many in
qulrles which have appeared in the last
three weeks materialize into orders at
least 25.000,000 feet. If not considerably
more, will be called for by car manu
facturing companies.
Orders placed recently and the amount
of lumber which will be necessary to
construct the cars are as follows:
Chicago & Northwestern Railroad,
placed with the American Car & Foun
dry Company. 1500 30-ton boxcars and
1000 composite gondola cars; with Pull
man Company, 8.000,000 feet; Wilson &
Co., placed with Haskell & Barker Car
Company, 250 refrigerator cars. 2,250,
000 feet: Duluth. South Shore & At
lantic Railroad, Haskell & Barker Car
Company, 200 40-ton natcars. 200 40
ton boxcars and 10 40-ton refrigerator
cars, 1,400.000 feet; Northern Pacific
Railroad, 500 boxcars in own shops,
2.300,000 feet.
AID FOR JEWS IS PLANNED
Largest Charitable Project Ever
Launched Is Undertaken.
NEW YORK, Oct. 29. What was said
to be the largest charitable project ever
undertaken was started here today
when it was announced that a campaign
to raise $10,000,000 in 1917 for Jewish
war sufferers in Europe had been be
gun by the Joint distribution commit
tee. This will be in addition to $6,000,000
which already har been expended.
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IMPORTS OF LUMBER
FROM CANADA LARGE
Amount 1400 Times as Great
as Given by Senator Cham
berlain in Speeches.
OFFICIAL FIGURES SHOWN
Canadian Department Estimates of
Value Even Larger Than That of
Washington Shingles Also
Imported In Quantity.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 29. (Special.)
Official statistics gathered by the
United States. Government at Washing
ton, and by the Canadian Government
at Ottawa, show that Senator Cham
berlaln in recent speeches has distort
ed facts in his attempt to show that
the Oregon lumber market has not
been Invaded or monopolized by lum
ber from Canada, and it further ap
pears that the export on lumber from
Canada to the United States, according
to Canadian figures, is even greater
that is shown by the statistics com
piled by the United States Department
of Commerce.
Senator Chamberlain in his speeches
has been citing what purports to be a
letter from the chief of the Bureau of
Foreign and Domestic Commerce,
which says that in 1910, 1.045,000 feet
oi lumber was imported from Canada.
nd 1.021. 000 feet in the year ended
June 30, 1913. the last year the Re
publican tariff law was in effect, while
this same authority says that lumber
imports from Canada were 900,000
feet in 191a and tbe same In 1916."
Amount 1400 Tlroca as Great.
The annual trade statistics Issued by
the Department of Commerce at Wash
lngton show in print that in the year
ended June 30. 1915. there was Import
ed into the United States from Canada
a total of 908.6tl3.000 feet of lumber,
valued at fl7,140.333, while, during the
fiscal year 1916 Canada shipped to
the United States 1.10,018.000 feet of
lumber, valued at ' (22. 082.507. The
amount of lumber actually Imported
therefore. Is more than 1400 times as
great as the amount Senator Chamber
lain has stated.
In the matter of shingles, the statis
tics of the Department of Commerce
show that In 1915 the United States
imported 1,487,116.000 bundles, valued
at J3.104.CS8, while In the fiscal year
1916, ended June 30, last, shingle im
ports had increased to $1,769,333,000
bundles, valued at 13.593.696.
These figures were compiled by the
Democratic Department of Commerce
at Washington.
Canadians Eatlraite Value.
The report of the Canadian Depart
ment of Trade and Commerce does not
give the quantity of lumber or shingles
exported to the United States, but does
give the value of both commodities.
From the official Canadian report it
appears that in 1915 Canada shipped to
the United States lumber worth 122.
279,891. and in 1916 had increased its
export to $27,345,236.
The Canadian figures 'further show
that in 1915 Canada shipped to this
country shingles valued at $2,945,159,
and in 1916 shingles valued at $3,619.
409. These latter estimates were com
piled by a Government not Involved in
the present campaign in the United
States. It should be explained, that the
Canadian fiscal figures are for the
year ending with March, while the
American figures are for the year end
ing with June.
"HOLDUP" IS RESENTED
POSTMASTER WILli 3VOT BE CO.
. EHCKD INTO CONTRIBUTING.
Demand Made on Behalf of Democratic
Campaign Fund, With Threat of
Loss of Job for Non-Compliance
CHICAGO. Oct. 29. (Special.) Post
master Williams, of Castroville, Cal.,
has resigned because tie will not sub
mit to being "forced to contribute to
the campaign fund of Woodrow Wil
son as a Federal officer. The activ
ities of the Democratic committee and
of Postmaster Selph, of St. Louis, in
this connection have already been pub
lished. From Luverne. Minn., .and
other places comes the information that
Democratic posters are being hung up
in the postoffices urging the ejection
of Wilson, in violation of law. The
resignation of Mr. Williams and his
reasons therefor are explained by him
self, as follows: ,
"One week ago Mr. Tynan called on
me at my postoffice and told me I
ought to contribute to the Democratic
fund. First he asked me to give 10
per cent of my annual salary, which
would be about $90. 1 refused. Then
he suggested my giving a month's sal
ary, about $75. I still refused. Then
he suggested half a month's pay. He
told me he bad been sent to all the
other postmasters and' they had con
tributed from $10 to $15 a month
the limit which they could afford. I
told him I would not contribute a cent,
and he said that United States Senator
Phelan was strong enough to see that
I did pay or lose my Job. He told me
I could send my money to James K.
Moffltt, vice-president and cashier of
the First National Bank of San Fran
cisco." LONG PRISONER
PATIENT AT I VKIRMAT Y KEPT 10
MONTHS IN BASEMENT.
Man Inmate Accused of Her Forcible
Detention Probe of Institution
Conditions la Began.
TOUNGSTOWN, O.. Oct. 29. After be
ing confined in the basement of an
infirmary here for ten months, her
sight practically gone, her body emaci
ated, her mind almost wrecked and
dressed in male clothing. Miss Marie
Higgins. aged 27. today escaped and
told her story. Tho young woman had
not seen Daylight since December 28.
she said. Joe Serak. an inmate of the
infirmary, is now under arrest follow
ing her revelations.
Miss Higgins went to the infirmary
last December because of illness and
In a short time disappeared and it was
supposed she had escaped. Nothing had
been heard of her since.
She said today that she groped about
her small prison and, finding a door
ajar, slowly made her way to one of
the corridors, where she was discov
ered. She said Serak had given her
only scraps of food. County authorities
tonight began an investigation of
Serak's alleged part in the affair and
also conditions at the Infirmary.
Victrolas from $15 up
On the easiest terms
AH the Victor Records
Sixth and Morrison
Opposite Poetoffice
Dealer in Sleirria$t and ether
good Piano. Pianola Piano,
Victrolas and ' Records. Player
Rolls, Cabinets, Etc
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BILL IS WAGE GUT
Trainmen With Short Runs
Receive Lower Pay.
MILEAGE BASIS ABOLISHED
Principle of Premium for Overtime
Also Abolished Adamson Law
Construed by Attorney for
Liibor Organizations.
CHICAGO. Oct. 28. (Special.) Every
trainman affected by -tbe Adamson
law who works less than eight hours
a day is due for a cut in his wages
after January 1, 1917, when the Adam
son law goes Into effect. This is not
only borne out by the reading of the
law itself, but It Is the Interpretation
of the law by Newton L. Clawson, at
torney for a large number of labor
organizations in Indiana and a rec
ognized authority on labor law.
Mr. Clawson's analysis of the Adam
son law has been widely circulated the
past two weeks, especially among rail
road employes, and the effect of the
statement has. been to halt the swing
of railroad men to Wilsoit and to turn
many to Hughes. In other words, rail
road men are awakening to the fact
that the Adamson law was a "bunco"
act. not doing at all what it purported
to do, and they also now see that the
law will be a detriment rather than a
benefit to many of their number.
Overtime on Pro Rata Basin.
In the case of trainmen who nor
mally make runs of more than eight
hours, the law will bring an increase
of wage, but the overtime will not be
paid on the basis which they asked,
time and a half, but on a pro rata
basis. Mr. Hughes, in explaining the
act, has voiced repeatedly the opinion
that overtime should be paid at a pre
mium. It was President Wilson who
acquiesced in an amendment to the
Adamson law cutting out the time and
a half provision for overtime.
In the states of the Middle West,
in Indiana, Illinois. Wisconsin. Minne
sota, Iowa and Nebraska, where train
men have been fully advised of the
true purport and effect of the Adam
Fon law and where many engineers and
conductors today are running on four.
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Combination
"A CALICO
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Fay Tincher as the
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Columbia
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five and six-hour schedules, there has
been a noteworthy change of political
sentiment on this issue alone. It was
In this region that the opinion of Mr.
Clawson was first spread, and his rep
utation and standing are such that
trainmen have confidence in his Judg
ment and credit him with good faith,
especially since he analyzed the law
not for any political organization, but
for an impartial railway magazine that
had asked for his view.
Mileage Baala la Abolished.
Mr. Clawson holds that when the
Adamson law goes Into effect every
trainman working less than eight hours
a day will receive pay for only that
portion of the day which he works;
either that, or he will be required to
make a longer run than has been re
quired of him in the past to receive
the same wage he Is getting today.
It also Is the view of this attorney that
the Adamson law does away with the
mileage basis of pay, leaving no option
with the railroads but to pay on the
time basis. He clearly draws the dis
tinction between wages paid to train
men and salaries, and shows that wages
fixed according to a definite standard
do not guarantee 'so much a day. but
so much an hour, and that the aggre
gate days' pay Is determined by the
number of hours worked.
The full opinion of Mr. Clawson is
being sent to all parts of the country,
and, as it reaches the more remote
states, a further change of political
sentiment among railroad men is ex
pected. POVERTY IS RECALLED
EDGAR SI ILLS SPEAKS OX STREET
AT OREGOX CITY.
Danger to American Workmen Predl.-t-ed
I'nder Contlnnatlon of Free
Trade Democratic Kale.
OREGON CITT, Or.. Ozt. 29. (Spe
cial.) Oregon City voter-i were not
called upon to picture In their mlndf
the conditional In some far-a.vay corner
of the country by Edgar Mills, ex-Tro-gressive
and " one-time assistant attorney-general
of Cuba, last night. He
only called to mind the depression of
two and three years ago when the big
paper mills right here in )regon City,
the lumber mills throughout the North
went and almoxt every other manufac
turing industry were crippled. He re
minded his audience tht gathered
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that two years ago when the American
paper market was flooded with foreign
paper and pulp, the inllU here were
running five days a week anl that
many were out of Jobs.
Danger to the American working
man, when the European war ceased,
under a continuation of a Democrats
free trade policy was pounded home by
the Seattle man.
He called to mind the big charity or
ganizations that were needed In every
part of the Nation under free trade be
fore the war.
Mr. Mills touched on conditions In
Mexico and reviewed the dealings of
the Administration with the Mexican
issue.
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