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PORTLAND, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER S. 1916.
PRECEPT AND PRACTICE.
President Wilson uttered some noble
sentiments at Buffalo. Let ua com
pare some of them with his own per
formances: "I want to register a solemn pro
test here against the use of our for
eign relationships for political advan
tage." He sanctioned the treaty , of
apology and blackmail with Colombia,
thereby reflecting on the conduct of
his predecessor in office, Theodore
Roosevelt. He permitted Mr. Bryan,
as Secretary of State, to seek appoint
ment of men In the customs service
of San Domingo for no other reason
than that they were "deserving Demo-
. "We are not going to be-drawn into
quarrels which mean nothing to us."
He deliberately drew us Into a quarrel
between Huerta and Carranza in Mex
ico. "It is not characteristic of this Na
tion that the people should divide
themselves into classes," he said in
his afternoon speech, but In the night
speech he said: "If the capitalistic
class of this country is going to con
tinue to drive hard bargains with the
laboring class " thus doing the very
thing which earlier in the day he had
said was not an American character
istic. President Wilson himself has done
much to widen class division by treat
ing business men as suspicious char
acters; by denouncing as exploiters,
unworthy of the protection of their
Government, those Americans whose
enterprise- had taken them to Mexico,
and by urging Congress, at the behest
of a small part of one class, to pass a
law conferring special favors on that
small number.
"You have got to bind a Nation to
gether by feeling, by heartbeats."
True, but he has set them at odds by
denouncing some without discrimina
tion between the law-obeying and the
law-defying, while he has helped oth
ers to extort favors from Congress by
force.
All of the people Indorse the fine
sentiments which Mr. Wilson ex
presses, but the majority do not be
lieve he Is the man to put them In
practice. Mr. Hughes will do that.
LIGIIT BREAKING INTO THE SOUTH.
Sound protectionist doctrine has
taken hold among the farmers of the
South. A pamphlet on "Cereals and
the Tariff" has been issued by H. N.
Pope, of Port Worth, Tex., president
of the Association of State Presidents
of the Farmers' Educational and Co
operative Union of America, which is
the more remarkable because all the
officers of that organization hail from
the Solid South. He urges farmers
to study the tariff and condemns past
tariff legislation for having protected
the manufacturer and not the farmer.
He says:
The whole trend of tariff legislation Is
to protect capital and labor engaged in
manufacturing and to expose to world com
petition capital and labor engaged in pro
duction. And especially Is this the case
with the Underwood tariff act under which
we are now operating. It is perhaps the
most antagonistic expression which Congress
ever made toward the agricultural inter
ests of this Nation and had not the European
war arrested its operation, would have
bi ought disaster to farmers of the Nation.
Mr. Pope goes on to prove his state
ment by giving in tabular form the
rates of duty on the principal cereals
under the different tariffs, beginning
with that of McKinley and ending with
that of Underwood. He shows in this
way that the Underwood law treats
the farmer much worse than did the
Wilson law of Cleveland's day. The
present Administration put on the free
list corn, wheat, rye, cornmeal, wheat
flour and rye flour, all of which were
subject to duty under the Wilson tar
iff, and has materially reduced the
duty on other cereals.
Mr. Pope tells the farmers that pro
tection is the effect of any tariff and
that the question is whether it shall
be given both to the manufacturer and
the farmer or whether the former
shall have protection while the latter
operates under free trade. He main
tains that so small a proportion of our
wheat crop is exported that the price
is influenced by a protective tariff.
He shows that free corn has brought
In Argentine corn with lower prices,
and how the same statement Is true
of Chinese eggs.
If Mr. Pope's teaching takes hold
among the Southern farmers, there
may yet be a real Republican party In
the South. What he says is as true for
the Northern as the Southern farmer.
It applies to Oregon wool, Oregon
wheat, Oregon corn, Oregon fruit,
eggs, butter, cheese and other prod
ucts of the farm. They are all in
the same boat, and have only been
given a brief respite by the war. For
Oat they have not to thank the Demo
cratic party; the results of that party's
work were shown before the war be
gan and before the war orders began
to flow in.
ANOTHER DIPLOMATIC VICTORY.
The diplomatic victories of Presi
dent Wilson do not stand the wear and
tear of time. One of them was pro
claimed in the following terms in the
Democratic campaign textbook for
1914:
Peace restored In Santo Domingo The In
surrection which has disturbed Santo Do
mingo for months has been brought to an
end by the unanimous acceptance of Presl
den Wilson's plan and the installation of
e. provisional President upon whom all fac
tions agree. The new President Is the head
of a university and a man of high character
An election will be held shortly, which the
United States will oversee, and the people
of Santo Domingo will thus enjoy what they
have long desired, namely, an opportunity
to select their own President by a free and
fair ballot. Heneeforth, Santo Domingo will
enjoy peace and prosperity. Another vic
tory for Democratic diplomacy, which has
brought peace and terminated a war!
On October 24, 1916, this Demo
cratic peace was broken and war was
renewed by a battle in which two
officers of American marines were
killed. Hence the President has not
kept us out of war; he has not re
spected the right of. other republics
to have a revolution whenever they
choose; and Santo Domingo does not
enjoy peace and prosperity.
Perhaps the renewal of trouble has
some connection with the fact that the
provisional president whom Mr. Wil
son kindly selected was, like him,
president of a university.
THE CRIME OP BEING AN AMERICAN.
Dr. Haffner, a German passenger on the
train, who was mistaken by the (Mexican)
bandits fp an American, was struck over
the head by one of the bandits, who used
his gun as a club. From Associated Press
dispatch on Laguna raid.
The American who ventures now to
go into Mexico takes a .fearful risk.
At Santa Ysabel eighteen law-abiding
American citizens, bound for work in
a mine and given safe conduct by the
Carranza government, were slain be
cause they were Americans, and for
no other reason. Altogether, at least
500 Americans have been murdered in
Mexico, three Frenchmen, one Eng
lishman and no Germans not one.
The only explanation made -for fail
ure to protect Americans is the pusil
lanimous excuse that Wall Street seeks
to exploit the Mexican people, and that
it would wrap itself in the American
flag to protect its investments and it
would annex Mexico,
j How many of the 500 dead Ameri
cans hail from Wall Street?
MR. FACING-BOTH-WAYS CORE
''Ws have in our midst just now,
ladies and gentlemen of Oregon, Sen
ator Thomas Pryor Gore, of Oklahoma,
who is no mean spellbinder, and who
is willing to teach the world square or
the world round, just as Schoolmaster
Wilson requires.
In those dark hours when the Lusl
tania issue was acute, this same Sen
ator Gore, who is uttering lachrymose
gush .about how "he kept us out of
war" the man of peace in the White
House kept us out of war arose in
the Senate and used these incredible
words:
Mr. President: I introduced this (Gore)
resolution because I was apprehensive that
we twere speeding headlong upon war. ' Per
haps I ought to go further and say, what
I have hitherto avoided saying, that my ac
tion was based on a report from the highest
and most responsible authority, that certain
Senators and certain members of the House
In a conference with the President of the
United States received from the President
the intimation, If not the declaration, that if
Germany insisted upon her position that
the United States would do the same, and a
breach of diplomatic relations would follow
and a breach of diplomatic relations would
probably result In a statt of war. and that
war miiMit not be of Itself of necessity an
evil, that the United States might by enter
ing tile war now brlnjr it to & conclusion.
On the "highest and most respon
sible authority," which he never dis
closed, and mindful, of course, of his
oath as a Senator, Mr. Gore made the
astounding charge that the President
of the United States .welcomed war
as not necessarily an evil.
What is the testimony of Senator
Gore worth as to President Wilson's
herculean efforts to keep the peace?
"WE ACT LIKE COWARDS."
Senator Chamberlain, chairman of
the military affairs committee of the
United States, is a convert to the Dem
ocratic theory that license should se
given to Mexico, or any foreign power,
to kill, or permit to be killed, every
American citizen within its borders,
so long as it makes reparation. Other
wise we are not able to account for
the present Chamberlain defense of
Administration vacillation, timidity
and weakness and- the former Cham
berlain denunciation of the words and
lack of deeds he now praises.
For example, on January 8, 1916
(less than a year ago). Senator Cham
berlain said in a New York public
speech:
When Hayti lias a revolution and
refuses to pay lier debts, we send war
ships and a few marines and take
charge; but when it comes to dealing
with the greater powers of the world,
instead of acting like a brave, cour
ageous and noble Kation, we act like
cowaVds, I am ashamed and sorry to
say.
Wool and Panama tolls are other
subjects which the Senator ought to
discuss.
Was President Wilson right when he
yielded to Bryan on his demand for
free wool? Or was Senator Chamber
lain right when on a certain mo
mentous occasion he arose in his seat
and threatened to bolt the action of
the Democratic caucus if it shoved
free wool down Oregon's throat? But
he didn't. He never bolts except be
tween elections, merely to entertain his
deluded Republican" supporters.
Was President Wilson right when
he was for free tolls or against them?
If the former, why did he change?
If the latter, why did not Senator
Chamberlain make the Oregon pro
test against free tolls effective?
President Wilson is just now shed
ding salty tears over sectionalism and
partisanship. Senator Chamberlain is
the same style of non-partisan.
When did either of them ever rise
above the demands of partisanship?
A TEXT,
"You have lost your kingdom," said
a courtier to King Albert, when Bel
gium had been invaded and conquered,
"Ah, yes," he replied; ''but I have
saved my soul."
"Fatted ease" is the term applied
by Colonel Roosevelt for the smug
contentment which the Nation seeks,
or would seek if President Wilson
could have his way, in its panic
stricken avoidance of the plain path
of duty.
There Is another greater than any
of these who had something to say in
a parable about one who sought pros
perity and luxury at the cost of con
science, humility, charity, patriotism,
life and religion:
And ho said unto thent. Take heed, and
beware of covetousness ; for a man's life
consisteth not In the abundance of tho things
which he possesseth.
And he spake a parable unto them, say
ing. The ground of a certain rich man
brought forth plentifully:
And he thought within himself, saying.
What shall I do, because I have no room
where to bestow my fruits?
And he said. This will I do: I will pull
down my barns and build greater; and there
will I bestow all my fruits and my goods.
And I will sav to my soul. Soul, thou hast
much goods laid up for many years; take
thine ease, eat, drink and be merry.
But God said unto him. Thou fool, this
night thy soul shall be required of thee;
then whose shall those things be, which
thou hast provided?
So Is he that layeth up treasure for him
self, end Is not rich toward God.
It may be hoped that there will soon
be another White House sermon on
service and humanity, with the fore
going for a text.
Just as the people of England are
returning to their Winter schedule of
time, the days being so short that no
liglft is saved by setting the clocks
ahead an" hour, Greece has entered
upon a modified daylight-saving plan,
but it has a double purpose in view.
Moving forward of the hands of the
clocks twenty-five or thirty minutes,
according to the difference between
local and astronomical time at Athens,
has brought all of Greece within the
zone of Eastern European time. A
peculiar feature of the change is that
it was made partly to facilitate rail
road communication between Athens
and the other capitals, of Europe, just
as in the United States we have our
zones of railroad time, which would
make it appear that at least some
Greeks believe the end of the war is
not far away. The incidental saving
of daylight has proved popular and
there is said to be agreement that the
old-time system is not likely to be
restored.
COME ON THE CARPET, MR. WHITE.
Colonel Sam White goes far from
the path of legitimate and warrant
able campaign utterance when, in a
final appeal to Democratic voters, he
makes the amazing assertion con
tained in the latter part of this para
graph :
We believe that the people are In favor
of all the progressive legislation enacted
under his (Wilson's) Administration, and
are opposed to any repeal of the rural
credits law, the Federal reserve bank
ing law, the child labor law, the numer
ous labor laws, and many other laws affect
ing the welfare of the people. Mr. Hughes
has openly stated that he is opposed to all
these law and would urge their repeal If
elected.
The Oregonian challenges directly
the veracity of this statement. It does
more. It denounces it as a gross, mis
chievous and indefensible mutilation
of Mr. Hughes' rel utterances. He
has nowhere made any such declara
tion or threat, open or implied.
The authority for this peculiarly
contemptible campaign roorback is
doubtless the Portland Evening Jour
nal, which professes to have found
it in a Chicago paper's report of Mr.
Hughes' Milwaukee speech, Septem
ber .20, 1916. No press association
carried any such report, not even the
press association serving the Journal.
But the stenographic account of that
address, aa heretofore reported in The
Oregonian, shows, without any chance
of misunderstanding, that Mr. Hughes
had attacked the ship-purchase bill
and the Underwood tariff, and said
that what they had done "derogatory
to the interests of the United States"
must be undone. Of course it must
be undone.
There is further misrepresentation
from the reckless partisan pen of
Chairman White. This, for example:
Mr. Hughes and his party workers are
demanding that the United States inter
vene in Mexico and annex that country.
This means a long; and bloodyguerrilla war
fare. ,
Come forth, Mr. White; come forth
from behind your barricade of cam
paign humbug and buncombe and let
us know where Mr. Hughes advocated
either intervention or annexation of
Mexico. Let us know. If you know
it, or saw it anywhere, it has escaped
all other than your eagle eye.
THE SWINDLE!
Mr. U'Ren succeeded in having
eliminated from formal resolutions
adopted by Grand Prairie Grange No.
10 the specific charge that his single
tax measure was framed with intent
to deceive the voters, but only because
the members of the Grange had no
evidence that there was wilful intent
to deceive. The resolution as adopted
indicates that the Grange had its own
notions about the matter, regardless
of lack of evidence, for the resolu
tions contain this paragraph:
"Whereas, said measure is nothing
more or less than a single-tax bill in
disguise, framed so as to mislead the
voters, and to force all land out of
private hands and into state owner
ship through excessive taxes, or land
rentals."
The proposed 'amendment is indeed
a swindle on its face. It begins with
this resounding declaration: "We de
clare that all citizens have equal
rights." It then proceeds to deny cer
tain citizens the right extended to
other citizens to borrow money from
the state upon inadequate security.
"If the sum total," reads the amend
ment, "of all the property owned by
any family shall exceed $2250 in value,
then no part of such fund shall be
loaned to any member of that family."
If a man's minor son be bequeathed
$2250 by a distant relative, the father
is denied tho advantage of the pur
ported home-making privileges of the
amendment, although the bequest does
him no individual good.
If a man's two sons have saved
$1125 each, the father cannot borrow
money to establish a home of his own
without breaking up his household.
If a young man desires to quit the
parental roof and establish himself on
a farm of his own he cannot do so
with state aid if his father happens
to possess $2250.
Yet one who has $2000 in his own
name may borrow from the state on
the security of what he intends to
do with the money and need pay no
interest for the first five years.
No intent to deceive? Then why
begin class legislation with a declara
tion that all citizens have equal rights?
CRISIS IN TEACHERS' PENSIONS.
That a crisis Is impending in tho
pension Bystem inaugurated by the
Carnegie Foundation for the Advance
ment of Teaching is indicated by a
protest made by Professor Joseph
Jastrow, of the University of Wiscon
sin, against certain changes proposed
in the system of administering the
teachers' pensions and annuities.
These changes will be considered at
the November meeting of the trustees
of the Foundation. The proposal In
substance is the withdrawal of the
age pension and the substitution "of a
contributory (compulsory) system by
which the professor and the institu
tion each pay half the cost of such
combined insurance and annuity after
the age of sixty-five as each professor
cares to pay for within certain limits."
The Foundation pays the cost of main
tenance, guarantees the rate of inter
est and provides for disability. A por
tion of every annual salary is to be
retained for a pension. It is in effect
a system of compulsory thrift. Tho
Foundation's contribution is consider
able, for the guarantee of interest and
of administration expenses In them
selves remove one of the difficulties
that so often beset insurance organiza
tions. Taking care of the disability
feature of the system is, of course,
another substantial contribution. But
the problem is nevertheless not a sim
ple one and there appears to be wide
spread objection to it.
The fundamental question of the de
sirability of any compulsion in a mat
ter of this nature is among the serious
Issues raised. If the professor is to
be compelled to contribute, it is argued
by some, he should have absolute
choice of the form of his investment,
in which the mere offer of the Foun
dation to make certain contributions
toward administrative costs does not
settle the principle involved. There
are those who say that the oppor
tunities for private investment and the
offers of commercial companies may
be nearly, if not quite, as good. What
he receives, then, from the Founda
tion is practically only the disability
pension. It is argued that participa
tion by the institution is not as a mat
ter of fact a substantial contribution,
since it tends to "react against ad
vance of salary." It already has been
charged that certain institutions under
the, Carnegie) plan, have readjusted
their salary lists to fit the new situa- I
tlon; that institutions whose professors
were working under the prospect of
benefits later in life were able to "un
derbid those not able to offer tho same
advantage."
It appears that if the change is
made it will be substantially a reversal
of the original purpose of the Carnegie
pension fund, which was to compen
sate for the poor reward that teaching
offers as a whole. It was to be re
garded not as a charity, but as the
due of a profession already under
paid. Eut more recent references to
Mr. Carnegie's "noble charity" have
stirred more or less feeling. Teachers
coming under the provisions of the
fund are naturally interested in the
determination of this phase of the
Foundation's policy, '.. Either their
work for the benefit of humanity
and the importance of the teacher to
the welfare of the state is universally
admitted is recognized as a thing
to be compensated for as a matter of
right by a certain freedom of care
for the future a freedom which will
permit them to give whole-hearted ef
fort to their teaching, . else it is a
simple matter of business, in which
the individual teacher will feel that
he has a right to choose the form his
Investment shall take and the amount
he shall put into it. As has been ex
plained, the contributory part taken by
the institution is dismissed as being
only an apparent, and not an actual,
help.
The crux of the difficulty seems to
be that the administrators of the pen
sion system sought to extend It with
out sufficient reflection as to a pos
sible cul de sac into which their course
might lead them. There has been con
flict between the principle of adequate
pensions for a few hundreds and small
pensions for some thousands. It was
a question whether there should be
"a fair retiring allowance in a limited
number of colleges," or a "very poor
system in a large number." It comes,
so far as the Foundation Is directly
concerned, to an issue between co
operation In a system of pensions for
the great body of teachers and pay
ment of the entire cost of a sys
tem benefiting a comparatively small
group. There is on the one side "com
pulsory thrift,"-with -all the disad
vantages of a compulsion as applied to
anything, and on the other what the
critics of the system call "imperial
benevolence."
Mr. Carnegie's position In the con
troversy is not stated. He may or may
not feel that he has done enough In
this particular direction and that it is
for the supposed beneficiarie'9 to fight
it out among themselves. But the
situation illustrates forcibly the fact
that it is not at all easy to gtve money
away wisely. Mere largess Is. not what
is wanted. Scattering handfuls of gold
in the crowd is out of date, even in the
story books. On the other hanll, the
question of what to do to help without
pauperizing, what to do to stimulate
endeavor instead of paralyzing initia
tive, is not a simple one. Mr. Carne
gie meant well, no doubt; but he seems
to have opened a veritable Pandora's
box of perplexities.
Ben Hogan, reformed pugilist, who
died in Chicago Wednesday, was a
square fighter and lost the world's
championship to Tom Allen in the
early '70s because he fought fair. In
those days all English champions used
doubtful tactics until the Vise of John
L. Sullivan put fear into their hearts.
Tho second mate and two firemen
of the tug Vigilant, after the captain
and other members of the crew had
abandoned her, will collect a nice sum
in salvage and will have a good laugh
at their shipmates' expense.
Counting the "For Rent" signs
about the city, it is true there are more
Wilson signs than Hughes signs. And
Wilson ' signs are bigger, too, if you
count among them the closed lumber
mills in Oregon.
Importing wheat from Australia to
the United States is the latest case
of carrying coal to Newcastle. At
present prices wheat growing on va
cant lots would almost pay.
Why is it that when you scratch a
non-partisan, you always find a Demo
crat? Republicans do not assume that
disguise. They need not, for they are
proud of their party.
A man who put his consort on tho
streets to earn money for him got only
six months. If he had killed her he
might have been given twice that time.
If all of those fourteen states vote
dry, and actually go dry, it will be
a long time between drinks for the
transcontinental traveler.
About Tuesday night the Democratic
party will feel as though that 600-ton
counterweight of the interstate bridge
had fallen on it.
When the Australian soldiers at the
front vote on conscription, they are
likely to reverse the decision of the
stay-at-homes.
Professor Dryden's "Oregons" have
to be satisfied with third place in the
contest at Storrs, Conn., but the breed
is young.
Think of it! Tillamook cheese
scored highest . In a Massachusetts
show! But, come to thmk of it, why
not?.
John Barrett might be the key to
loosen the deadlock of the border
commission. John is a versatile genius.
If every state. had a Mrs. Hanley,
there would not be so many political
mollycoddles and jellyfish abroad.
The wedding presents of tho St.
Louis brewer's daughter were mostly
the results of five-cent sales.
Farm labor Is Baid to be scarce in
the Dakotas, The wanderer who tries
anything once is satisfied.
That shake in New York was alto
gether too previous. It was not due
until Tuesday.
Captain Koenig will be pardoned for
calling the blockade a farce, for he
proves it.
New York Democrats are enjoying
their parades while the parading is
good.
The raingod had his eye on the de
ficiency in the early hours of yester
day. Winning a world's series makes a
club worth two-thirds of a million.
The war-god's game suffers from
the ice-god's Interference,
MAN WHO HELPED HAKB HISTORY
Late Franklin Johnson One of Oregon
Delegates to Vote for Lincoln.
PORTLAND, Nov. i. (To tho Ed
itor.) The death of Franklin Johnson,
at Fjrookline. Mass., October 9, 1916,
deserves more than the passing men
tion that It received three weeks ago,
when this pioneer of Oregon was gath
ered to his fathers.
This man participated In the nomina
tion of Lincoln, in the Republican Na
tional Convention, at Chicago, May 18,
1880. He represented Oregon In that
convention. His vote was one of the
five that Oregon gave to the great
emancipator, and that started the Re
publican party on Its historic career.
Four of Oregon's five votes went to
Lincoln on the crucial third ballot. One
of them was Johnson's. The fifth
Joined in before completion of the
Oregon by proxy In that
convention were Horace Greeley, the
great journalist, of New lork, to whom
the Seward delegation of New York had
denied a seat; also by proxy, Eli
Thayer, who in Congress the year be
fore had braved his constituency, in
Massachusetts, to join the Democrats
for admission of Oregon as a state. The
two other Oregon delegates were Joel
Burllngama and Henry Buckingham.
The sixth delegate, Leander Holmes, did
not arrive at Chicago in time for the
convention. Greeley's Influence, which
was against Seward, gained the nom
ination for Lincoln. And Oregon seated
Greeley.
Johnson wrote to his "home paper"
at Oregon City, "The Argus," from
Hamilton, N. Y., under date of June 1,
I860 (published July 14, I860):
"During the third ballot there was
tolerable order, until Oregon declared
for Lincoln, rendering his nomination
certain. At this point the enthusiasm
became Irrepressible."
Franklin Johnson belonged to the
well-known family of Heiekiah John
son, who came to Oregon in 1845 from
Ohio. He was a brother of W. Carey
Johnson, who died at Portland. July 6
1912, and of Hezekiah II. Johnson, the
present County Surveyor of Clackamas.
tie was born in 1836. He was a prof!
cient scholar in Latin and Ureek, and
was a professor of those languages in
the University of Chicago. Early in
life he was a printer, next a teacher.
and then a Baptist minister. He was
a man. of accomplishment and deserves
remembrance In the annals of our state.
His life work was elsewhere, but his
youth and family connections belong
to uregon and he represented Oregon in
a great crlsid of our National history,
LESLIE SCOTT.
FARM EH STI UIES JITNEY l'ROBLKM
Publle F.nponrnsri liualnena That Holds
No Ambition or Future.
EUGENE, OY., Nov. 1 (To the Ed
nor.; i ao not live in Portland. I do
not own property there. I visit it twice
a year on business and pleasure, the
latter mostly. The last time I was
there a brief study of the "Jitney" was
a very refreshing and entertaining sub
ject to me.
I sat for two hours one day on
Twenty-third street and watched the
seemingly endless procession of the
little passenger Fords and wondered if
iney were not some new wrinkle in the
"Oregon system," as long as they
seemed to be backed up by the Port
land Federation of Labor, who would
doubtless brother tho "JinrUksha"
mode of conveyance were it started
mere or me Airican way or carrying
ins traveler slung On a pole between
two stalwart negroes. And who can
say that the frivolous public would not
patronize either?
But to ao back to the jitney. I no
ticed that the drivers were nearly all
young men. a well dressed, leisurely,
clean-looking class. In fact, they could
safely wear without damage a dress
sun in tne business.
They had that day one. two and three
passengers, sometimes more.
I drew an opinion therefrom that
those young men got a bare llvinir nut
of a traffic, but preferred it for the
reason that it Is the city life. Tt is soft
and easy, requiring but a modicum of
sum and accompanied by but little am
bition for anything better. In fart
ambition is scarcely necessary, for tile
jitney driver has about as coed a limn.
pect for the future as a Laplander. He
is witnout responsibility and is tax
and damage proof. Yet the public
imiuumio mrra oi same rare In lieu
of the old, reliable, responsible street.
cars that constitutes a solid factor In
"What fools we mortals he!"
F. M. LAMB.
IF NOT EEX, MAKE A BIO NOISE
Advertise Your Own Virtues, Is Lenaon
Gained From Mr. Wilson.
PORTLAND. Nov. 2. (To th VA
tor.) It has always been one of the
cnaractenstics or the American people
to heap ridicule upon the man who
"toots his own horn" or "decorates
himself with his own bouquet." We
smile when we hear a man praise his
own real or fancied virtues. If wo
know him wejl enough we laugh up
roariously and this may bring him to
his senses. If the man who is guilty
ui una weaaness occupies a great of
fice, we ought to have little admiration
for him.
Woodrow Wilson wrote the present
uemocrauQ platform and In it ho tella
us exactly what he thinks of himself.
He says "Woodrow Wilson utanria tn.
day the greatest American of his gen-
3A anvil.
In an interview with Miss Ida Tar
bell in Collier's Weekly he amplifies
this declaration of his own greatness
by stating that Abraham Lincoln was
a "marvelous figure," and then prompt
ly attempts to show a similarity be
tween himself and "Honest Abe." He
states that Lincoln felt a great lone
liness at times, and then tells of his
own "loneliness."
Despite the fact that Mr. Wilson
speaks in a mysterious language, we
are told in the same interview how he
acquired his marvelous power of
"speaking and writing clearly and ac
curately." Truly, Mr. Wilson has established
another great precedent. If tho people
are dilatory in seeing and acknowledg
ing your own great qualities, don't be
slow in speaking up for vourself.
FREDERICK GROUXEliT.
611 Plttock block.
You Cnn Vote Away From Home.
PORTLAND, Nov. 2. (To the Editor)
As the days draw nearer fori the Presi
dential election I feel I am doing Mr.
Hughes a great injustice that I can
not vote for him, and still it is not
entirely my fauid. I will shift some
on the Government for the reason one
can only vote In their home town.
I will have to start at the begin
ning no you will understand why I
wou't be able to vote. I have a home
stead. Have had It over four years. I
go there In the Spring, return in the
Fall to Portland in order tow work so
I can earn enough to return. I love
it there, but circumstances alter cases.
My motto has always been, "Where
there's a will there's a way." I have
the will, but can't afford the way.
Here's hoping that Mr. Hughes will
be elected.
WOMAN HOMESTEADER.
If you are registered etaewhere In
Oregon you can vote In Portland for
state and National candidates by se
curing from the County Clerk of your
home county a certificate of registra
tion and presenting It at any polling
place. If not registered you can swear
in your vote with the aid of six free
holders.
Considerate for the Fish.
London Opinion.
Child (In swimming) Doesn't It
make the fish awfully cross, us wash
ing la their waterl
OWN WRITINGS AGAIN DISPUTED
Woodrow Wilson's History Cited to
Prove Error of Political Deductions.
PORTLAND, Nov. 2 (To the Edi
tor.) "Like causes produce like re
sults" and "history repeats itself." are
well-known sayings and only too true.
Yet It seems that schoolmasters who
have taught these axioms and historians
who have written of cause and effect
do not profit from their own studies
and writings.
I read In "A History of the American
People," by Woodrow Wilson (tho same
Wilson who has been making history)
in volume III, the following regarding
the effects of the great European wars
which ceased with the defeat of Na
poleon: For the first time sine the revolution In
Prance ... the seas w cleared of
hostile armaments. Questions of impress
ment and the rights of neutral carriers at
sea fell quietly out of sight amidst a gen
eral pear . . . peace changed tne very
face of trade.
American skippers no longer had the. luc
rative, advantage of commanding; the. only
vessels free to pass from port to port
amidst a world at war. There i, In
deed, still plenty of carrying- to be done at
sea. Crops fell short In Europe after the
scourge of war, and America filled all ships
she could ret with grain for markets over
sea. English merchants poured their goods
onca again Into the American ports ao long
shut against thcra by embargo and
war. ...
It wns manifestly a menace to every
young Industry that a flood of English im
ports should continue to pour Into the coun
try at open porta. The remedy was a pro
tective tariff ... it was pretty sure at
tho end to become an effective barrier
against all foreign competition.
Those are fine words and good
logic written by a man who at that
time had no political aspirations and
were no doubt his true beliefs. But
what do we see now? That same
man telling American labor and Amer
ican mechanics they have nothing to
fear, that Europe will be too busy to
bother with dumping her merchandise
into this country.
The German nation is not all at the
front, rot all engaged in the manu
facture of munitions, not -all engaged
in producing foodstuffs for the armies
at the front. Her industries are kept
going by a government which hopes to
recoup from the scourge of "a world
war" by world trade. The men at the
front will be released to the factory
and mill the moment peace comes; in
the meantime thousands who never
worked before hare learned to do so
and the result will be a country teem
ing with industry. What applies to
Germany applies as well to England,
France and Austria.
The dumping of merchandise, or as
Historian Wilson says, "the flood of
imports," will come as surely as it did
In 1815 and our salvation la a Govern
ment which will protect the American
mechanic and manufacturer by an ade
quate protective tariff which will be.
as Historian Wilson says, "an effective'
barrier against ail foreign competi
tion." Can this be left to the Democratic
party which tries to allay the anxiety
of thinking: Americans by soft words
and irresolute action or worse, no ac
tion at all? In the words of Hashimura
Togo "I ask to inquire."
ANXIOUS.
I
HUGHES ACTION OX FULL CKEW
Bill Vetoed Hernuae It Ignored Varying;
Conditions on Holds.
PORTLAND, Nov. 2. (To the Editor)
Please state through your columns
wliat stand Governor Hughes took in
regard to the full-crew bill in New
York State while Governor of New
York. W. 1'. WILLIAMS.
Having secured the establishment in
1907 of the Public Service Commissions
to supervise railroads with full au
thority over their service. Governor
Hughes' In the same year vetoed the
full-crew bill, giving his reasons as
follows:
This bill upon the facta developed before
me upon the hearing and undisputed is
c. early unconstitutional. Such a measure
should define the service required with
suitable reference to circumstances and con
ditions, so that the law would apply in
proper cases and not otherwise. The bill
takes no account of the differences betweeu
the different roads and parts of roads in
switching and switching facilities, and of
the fact that what muy ba necessary in
the case of some railroads may ha wholly
unnecessary in others. In tho case of the
New York Central Railroad it was shown
that th trackage and switching faculties
on Its main lines were of such a character
as to muke unnecessary the employment of
a third brakemun in accordauce Willi the
provisions of this biil.
To require the expenditure of a very
larxe amount of money testimated at sev
eral hundred thousand dollars annually)
without necessity for the cmtluy in simply
arbitrary exaction and a taking; of prop
erty wlthour due process of law. The bill
does not refer lis requirements to any
proper standard of necessity or provide any
criterion by which its pruper application
under varying conditions Ls to be deter
mined. It contains an absolute requirement,
which, upon the facts conceded before me.
cannot b Justified.
When One Moves From l'reclnct.
PORT LA N D. Nov. 2. (To the Editor)
I noticed In The Oregonian October 30
the statement that voters who have
moved into another precinct since the
registration books were closed can ob
tain a legal transfer to new precinct
by calling at County Clerk's office in
the Courthouse. This, according to
my understanding, would relieve the
voter of the tedious ordeal of having
to be sworn by f reeholdenB. But when
I presented "my case at tho County
Clerk's office 1 was told that this could
not be done now.
Was also told that the easiest way
would be simply to go to the old poll
ing place and vote. When I remarked
my vote might be subject to challenge
they said: "You have a right to vote
somewhere and they cannot challenge."
Wu I correctly informed, and will It
be safe for me to follow the advice
given and take mv chances?
ANXIOUS SUBSCRIBER.
If you moved from one precinct to
another since the registration books
closed (October 7) there ls no reason
why you should be denied a certificate
of registration by the County Clerk,
which will entitle you to vote In your
new precinct. Literally construed,
however, the law in this particular is
for the benefit only of those who have
moved since the books closed. If the
change of precinct was made prior to
October 7 the Clerk's office holds that
It has no authority to Issue the certifi
cate. We know of no penalty for voting In
a precinct from which one has removed
his residence, but we cannot foretell
whether such vote would be received in
event of challenge. Election boards
follow the law as they understand it.
in event they have not been advised
by competent authority, and all boards
do not construe election law points the
same way.
Believes ng Hughes.
PORTLAND, Nov. 2. (To the Editor)
I believe that the management of our
National affairs should be In the hands
of a business man. especially In the
next few years. Therefore I believe
In Mr. Hughes thoroughly.
P. C. WEST.
Mohawk Building.
'Noted'' President.
CHEHALIS. Wash., Nov. 1. (To the
Editor.) Is it safe to assume that
President Wilson will go down in his
tory as a "noted" President?
HEAUEK.
Meaning; of Fend d'Orellle.
PORTLAND, Nov. 2. (To the Editor.)
. What is the literal meaning of Pend
d Oreille? STUDENT.
Lobo of tho ear.
In Other Day
Twenty-Five Years A.
From The Oregonian of Nov. 3, 1S91.
A largo gathering of people were
present at the Portland Hotel yester
day morning to hear Henry Villard dis
cuss the plans' and future of the rail
road situation in this district, especial
ly the O. U. & N. and the Union Fa
il' Villard specially bewailed
the condition of the O. R. oi N Com
pany and said there was no hope under
existing circumstances for the Union
Pacific.
It is reported that Colonel R. A. Mil
ler, of Jacksonville, is thinking of en
tering the race for Governor on tho
Democratic ticket.
The much-talked-of American extrav
aganza. "Sinbad." will open at the Mar
qua in Grand tonight,
B. K. Harvey, of Woodlawn. Is suf
fering wttu an attack of quinsy.
London The Maybrick Insurance
case started in the court of appeals
here yesterday. Mrs. Maybrick is con
lined in JaiL She. was convicted of
murdering her husband and has been
trying to collect JlO.oOO insurance.
A number of Portland business men
nave, sent protests to Washington
against the erection of a Federal build
ing on tuo Eaat Side,
i StIeet SuPer'htendent Taylor has out
lined a plan for renaming and renum
bering the streets of Portland. Tho
plan is to make the West Side street
continue their names on the East Side,
thus 'L street of East Portland will
become East Stark street and so on.
A permit to wed has been granted to
Henry Decker and Laura Turpin.
Half a Century Ago.
From Tho Oregonian of Nov. S. 184.
W'Ukes Booth, whose body Secretary
Stanton took so much pains to bury so
that nobody would know where it was.
Is reported to be in Europe. The story
is that tho man whom Boston Corbett
so heroically shot was a poor wretch
hired to impersonate Booth to enablo
the latter to escape. Whether this fact
Is true or not will never cease to be a
suspicious circumstance.
The entire property valuation of tho
state at tho last current report was
$24.!71.762.24. or a little more than
$312.12 to each man.
Forty-nine wagons loaded with 300
Norwegians. recently reached Salt
Lake. They are converts to Mormon
ism. The Middle Cascade-Portland Rail
road is nov- open for transportation of
freight at $5 a ton.
There has been found In the woods
beyond Robinson's Hill a carpet base
that had apparently been rifled of its
contents save for a Bible marked with
the name of P. R. Kennedy. The bag
bore the same name and an effort is
being made to clear up the mystery or
perhaps worse.
Professor Rutjes, who has been a suc
cessful teacher of music in this city,
has discontinued that profession and
will engage in other business.
The woods on tho summit of Mount
Tabor have been afire, for several days
and last ni.cht they presented a mag
nificent spectacle.
I.XDIAX PLEADS FOlt HIS PEOPLE
Whites WIio Live In Glaaa Houses Told
ot to Throw Stones.
PORTLAND. Nov. 2. (To the Ed
itor.) I have noticed several articles
of late in The Oreuoninn about our- red
brother, tho Indian. Kverybody seems
to be asalnst "Lo." In the first place,
I would liko to n.k what the Indian
ever did that h Fhould be so sinned
nsuinst. Then the whites invaded his
home and pushed him farther and far
ther West until he turned and defend
ed himself. Then he was shot down ami
crimes were committed by the white.
Bk-nmst the Indian women and young
girlo. How about the Imltle of Wound
ed Knee, or the massacre of Wounded
Knee? The whites called it a fair
fit lit. Could you, who are human, helt
hatred when you would look upon slain
children and women? You who holler
against the Indian, go study him. You
say his brain is not normal, and he is
stupid. He was pretty cunning In all
his battles when he used bow and ar
row against riile fire. Study the Indian
and Indian mythology. Are there any
sweeter names than the Indians'? 1
can itive you a few that are beautiful
and easy to pronounce. Go and study
the language of Lo, and maybe you
won't feci like holkrini;. 1. you know
how he is treated on the reservation by
the whites? All the Indians you see
are not alike. Get away from the rail
roads and look for yourself.
1 was born of the great Sioux Nation
and educated in Carlisle: have served
in the Navy and Philippines. This is
the Indian's home. He is wiser than
you. Yet you don't let him vote. Go
to Glacier National Park and meet old
Tail Feathers. He ls educated in wis
dom of the world, taken from Mother
Nature and not from pretty books.
You who live in glass houses should
not throw stones. Before the coming
of the white man the great tribes were
rich. Now they are in iiseate and pov
erty and must rely ou their conquerors
for mere existence.
You have all and now you want
more. The Indian is more trustworthy
for a friend than any white. He is not
in for vice and graft and traffic in
souls. A BLOOD INDIAN.
State Ixsues Iionds.
KOSEBUKG, Or.. Nov. 1. (To the
Editor.) Answering our statement of
belief regarding bonding of state for
farm loans, I do not understand the
state guarantees the payment of these
bonds, the land only being security. I
know this is so with the Government
bill, and supposed It was so under tho
state measure to be voted on. In any
event the farmer pays the bill anil
should have the say rs to the main
feuture of tho act and if he has to have
lawyers to do his legal work he should
have the final disposition of tne same,
whereas at present he has not more
than 10 per cent of the power vested
in making the laws of the state though
the Legislature, while the owner of
possibly 60 per cent of the state's
wealth. J. M. MOORE.
Certainly the state guarantees tho
bonds. Section 2 directs the State Land
Board 'to issue and sel or pledge bonds
in the nair. - of the state" up to 2 per
cent of the assessed valuation ($18,000.
000 in bonds) and "to place the proceeds
in the State Treasury in a fund to bo
known as the "rural credits loan fund." "
The farmer pays tho bill In the end
if the loan fund is properly adminis
tered and safeguarded. Taxpayers gn
erally are interested in proper admin
istration and in the adequacy of the)
law designed to rrotect the stale to tho
tune of $18,000,000.
"Chatter" at the Polling Ilncea.
PORTLAND. Nov. 2. (To the Editor.)
Is there no remedy for the incessant
chatter of election Judges and clerks
while people are trying to mark their
ballots? We certainly need all our
wits v.h!le thus employed. I vote la
Montavilla. and at the primary elec
tion there it wns almost Impossible
even to think clearly. I have served
on an, election board for two years,
and 1 assure you our chairman would
not tolerate for one moment that there
should be talk WUilu voting is being;
doue. J'OIEK,