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Postage Rates 12 to 18 pages. 1 cent: 18 to 82 pages, 2 cents; 84 to 48 pages. 3 cents, 60 to BO pages, 4 cents; 62 to 6 pages, 6 cents; 78 to 82 pages, 0 cents. Foreign postage, double rates. Eastern Business Office Verree Conk Itn, Brunswick building. New York; Verree c Conklln, Sieger building, Chicago. San Francisco representative, R. J. Bldwell. " Market street. . PORTLAND, SATURDAY, NOV. 4, 1916. I WOODROW AND CHART.TK. The President's coming gave the Demo crats their first opportunity of the cam paign In this city for old-fashioned political enthusiasm on a big scale. Torchlights and red fire blazed In Fifth avenue as the hosts of Tammany Hall, headed by Charles F. Murphy, advanced upon Madison Square Garden, which was besieged by a tremen dous crowd before their arrival. From an Associated Press dispatch. New York, Nov. . 1916. Tammany's hosts -welcome 'Wilson. They are headed by Charles F. Murphy "boss" Murphy, the odious Murphy who makes politics a business ajid-who represents a political system which President Wilson professes to abhor! Does Woodrow Wilson tell Murphy, as ho told Jeremiah O'Leary, that he didn't want his vote or the votes of men like him? He wouldn't get the O'Leary votes, of course. But he has Murphy's. We find Murphy treated with a ten der and solicitous respect, which be gan with 'a political deal between Tam many and the White House over the New York postmastership and has ex tended into a general working ar rangement over Federal patronage, in cluding a job for Battery Dan Finn. Murphy heads the list of Tammany braves bound for Shadow Lawn. Mur phy leads the Wilson procession up Fifth avenue. Murphy Is ace high in the Democratic deck. The New Tork Post, a high-brow supporter of the President, calls him "Leader" (not "Boss" ) Murphy. Murphy has come Into his own. All the Democratic papers chortle with grlee when he claims New Tork for "Wilson. Tammany Is the same old tiger, teeth, claws and all. Woodrow smiles, and Tammany purrs, and everything is lovely, and the goose hangs high. Woodrow puts Wall Street In the Index Expurgatorlous; or that part of Wall Street which is against him. But Murphy? First he scorns, then en dures, then embraces Murphy. But where, oh, where, were Dia mond Jim Brady. Silver Dollar Sulli van and Battery Dan Finn? WHY TINKER? Further explanation of the prohibi tion amendment to be voted on next Tuesday will not be amiss. The amendment merely and only prohibits Importation of Intoxicating liquors for "beverage purposes." The Oregonian is advised by com petent and disinterested legal author ity, that inasmuch as the amendment specifically and only prohibits impor tations for "beverage purposes," It leaves the way open for Importations for therapeutic mechanical, scientific, sacramental and any other purpose except beverage purposes. What would be the result of adop tion of the amendment? In the ab sence of legislative enforcement pro visions there would be no legal im pediment to delivery by an Interstate carrier of intoxicating liquors to any person in the quantities now limited by law. If the recipient Imported the liquor for beverage purposes he would have violated the law but there would be no practical way to prove that that was his purpose. And if proved, there is at present no specific penalty pre scribed for violation of the law, and none in the amendment Adoption of the amendment means that the prohibition issue will again be thrown into the Legislature to oc cupy its time and distract its attention. Whether there would be as good a law as the existing one after it had been tinkered up to meet the requirements of the new amendment nobody knows. The existing law, if surveys and the word of the "prohibitionists themselves may be relied upon, has greatly dimin ished the number of arrests for flrunk enness, has decreased the number of arrests for larceny, has mitigated the social evil and has accomplished other moral benefits which indicate that It Is at least practical and effectual. Nobody knows whether the amend ment would produce benefits or detri ments. Why tinker with a law which Is the pride and boast of the would-be tinkerers? LET EUROPE GO TO IT. President Wilson points to his Tariff Commission as proof that he Is pre paring the Nation for the trade war which will follow the European war. But his party Is not behind him in any serious intention he mav have to use the Commission as "a means of commercial defense. The small be ginnings which he has made in that direction have been denounced by the most influential leaders of his party in Congress Senator Underwood and Representative Kitchin and "Vice President Marshall now adds his voice to theirs. He said at Paducah, Ky, on October 15: We havs a Tariff Commission which can and win protect us, but I am not proud of that Tariff Commission. If we truly be lieve in the brotherhood of man, then every man at Verdun is a blood brother of ours, whether he be French or German or Eng lish. If we were real Democrats we would fay to the cripples and the orphans of Europe, "If you can make and undersell American factories In America, go to it. and if It will save you from starvation and suffering God aid you." If you people- don't like this fool's paradise, as the Republicans call It, try three days In hell at Verdun. If American producers were open to competition from the "cripples and orphans" of Europe, they would also be open to that of the men who will have been brought to the highest effi ciency in the armies and of the men and women who will have developed the highest skill In the munition fac tories. They would also be open to competition from the coolie labor of Japan, China and India. While Eu rope, Asia and Africa would have the free run of , the American market, Americans would be prevented from invading the markets of Europe and of Europe's colonies by two great com mercial leagues of nations. Should President Wilson and Vice President Marshall be re-elected and Should Mr, Wilson die before the ex piration of his term, Mr. Marshall would step into the White House and would carry with him the ideas which he expressed at Paducah. He would urge upon Congress the passage of laws in conformity with them. Those ideas are the cardinal doctrine of the Democratic creed, from which the party never wavered until political ex pediency dictated a pretense of con version to protection on the eve of an election. Once in again, the party would act according to its real con victions, especially if Mr. Marshall be came its leader. The only possible assurance of that economic preparedness which Is neces sary to prosperity in times of peace Is to be obtained by the election of Mr. Hughes as President with a Congress controlled by the Republicans, for they believe in the policy of protection, in which only some Democrats make a show of believing. 13 IT A GOLD BRICK? Is or Is not the Adamson act a gold brick? Let the gentlemen of the brotherhoods who hope It is not, but fear it may be, consider the dilemma of Grand Chief Engineer Stone, who said in a letter to his organization October 10, 1916: We are receiving a number of letter! re questing definite information regarding the application of the Adamson eight-hour law, but we are not in position to give any defi nite Information on this subject, for ws do not know yet Just what the law means. We ere from time to time furnishing the general chairmen with euch Information as Is obtainable in the matter. "PROVING" A CAMPAIGN LIE. Some day we may reasonably ex pect the Portland Journal to reproduce from Its own columns in bold and con vincing facsimile Its famous announce ment that the Supreme Court of the state of Washington had gone "wet" by declaring the dry law void. The Identical words reprinted from the col umns of the Journal are as follows: "DRY LAW "VOTED NOT EFFECTIVE BT HIGH COURT." The Supreme Court of the state of Wash ington last week reached a decision over throwing the law passed by the last Wash ington Legislature putting atate-wide pro hibition into effect. Evening Journal, Dee. 2, 11)15. There you have It; a monstrous, de liberate, inexcusable and palpable newspaper swindle and fraud. Tet It would be quite in keeping with the Journal's persistent practices for it to declare that the state is now "wet" and the law Invalid, to Ignore th known and ascertained facts and to prove its allegations by newspaper quotation from its own columns. No less presumptuous and indefensi ble is the Journal's offensive and cheeky repetition of the exploded falsehood that Mr. Hughes had de clared in a public speech at Milwaukee that the "whole Democratic legislative accomplishment must be wiped off the books for the good of the country." The only foundation for this declara tion is a report of the Milwaukee Hughes address in a Chicago paper. To give the color of credibility to the invention, the Journal gives a photographic reproduction of the Chi cago newspaper's Milwaukee story a proved distortion and mutilation of the actual Hughes utterance. By its pretended acceptance of the Chicago newspaper's account of the Milwaukee affair, the Journal is obliged to discard Its own report printed at the time (September 21, 1916) and containing no reference to the alleged threat by Mr. Hughes. It must ignore every press association's report, every other newspaper account and the stenographic record. But these things are easy for such a newspaper. THE B RATING OP AN AS3. Over In Morrow County there is a Democratic newspaper which has never heard of the fifteenth amend ment to the United States Constitu tion. Probably if you would mention "grandfather clause" it would have visions of an old gentleman encum bered with the paws of a wild beast. From that newspaper, the Heppner Herald, we glean the following illu minating discussion of the negro and mulatto amendment submitted to Ore gon voters at this election: This measure, instigated by the colored population of the state, can be laid directly to their efforts without the assistance of but very little of the white population. If passed this amendment would put the black In Oregon on an even political basis with the white. The idea of allowing this to occur we do not believe to have appeared serious to anyone. We call the attention of the voters of Morrow County to this meas ure so that they can vote against it in such large numbers as to materially assist the vote of the state and so overwhelmingly de feat the measure, that so disgraceful a thing as even allowing a measure of this nature on the Oregon ballot shall never occur again. This stupendous Ignorance Is not confined to the Heppner newspaper. The Oregonian has received an earnest request from a subscriber for infor mation as to whether negroes now vote in Oregon. "Some say they do: others say they do not," writes this Inquirer. Now who would have thought It necessary to state that there is and can be no denial of suffrage to a. citi zen because of race or color? Or that more need be said of this amendment than that there is a relic of antebellum days in the Oregon constitution which it is desirable to eliminate because it is dead Wood? But the newspaper stands In a light different from that of the ordinary voter. It is supposed to be a molder of public opinion and an accurate compendium of information. Yet Heppner has a newspaper which is totally unaware that the boon of free dom and equality grew out of the Civil War, and it is also publishing the threadbare criminal and obvious false hood that Mr. Hughes advocates re peal of rural credit. Federal reserve and child-labor legislation. HIGHBROWS. Offense has been taken by President Hibben, of Princeton, at the use of the term "highbrow," made frequently nowadays and interpreted by him as an expression of scorn of intellectual things. He makes this fierce assault on those who employ the word: "It is generally ejnployed as a weapon of emasculated minds which are content dully to range along the dead level of the trivial and the commonplace." That ought to finish those at whom the good professor aims his shaft, but it is likely to miss a good many who have another conception of the "high brow" in mind. To most persons it is a pleasantry meant to describe the individual who puts mere books above the humanities; who sets himself in a separate world, as if the intellect were everything and he and his little circle were in possession of most of the supply; and chiefly It applies in this sense to the person whose assumed superiority is not genuine. To borrow a word from the English, what the average man means by a "highbrow" is one who puts on intellectual "swank." The good professor runs In serious danger of classifying himself, without any help from the outside, as a "high brow," it may. be true that there ace persons who are content "dully to range along the dead level of the trivial and the commonplace," but we believe they are not very many. The hidden springs of human ambition are deeper than they seem to the super ficial observer. The ready ' homage that people in "all situations pay to the man Whose achievements amount to something when they are made to understand them 13 evidence enough that they aro either awake or willing to be awakened. Cut there are so many wiseacres who are not genuinely wise and who solemnly parade thplr wares before the public, that those who do not possess a nice senso of discrimination sometimes are deceived. and afterward are inclined to bo sus picious of all. Unfortunately, we have no law governing the labeling of wis dom. The use of "highbrow" in- its mod ern sense denotes a "show me" atti tude rather than a feeling of contempt for the real thing in attainment. Being called a highbrsrw Is also one of the penalties men pay for taking them selves over-serlously. Somehow the judgment of the mass nearly al ways works around to the right way. Profound knowledge does not make for contempt of one's fellow-men, and the kind of intellect that hoists itself upon a flimsy structure of Its own rearing must not complain if occasion ally the props, are pulled from under It. THE 5L4N WITH THE TICK. Joseph Garrett, real or fictitious. worries the Democratic spellbinders. word-weavers and buncombe-dealers almost as much as Mrs. Hanlcy. They dared not attack Mrs. Hanley, but how they tore into those two pigs which she sold to a Democrat at a price above the current market quotation, using the proceeds to buy a ticket for Portland, where she was to make a political speech. She made others, too, to the great edification of the public. Lucky pigs, to have contributed to so felicitous and useful an enterprise on Mrs. Hanley's part. Joseph Garrett has spread his name and fame throughout Oregon and the Northwest, too. He has a wife and six children, he says, and he works on a railroad as a lowly section hand, and he gets $2 a day so he says or 18 cents per hour, as the record shows. We don't know which is cor rect. And he works "dam hard." Joseph Garrett, section hand. Is a fearful bugbear to the Democrats and other apologists for the Adamson act. They can think of no way to dispose of him but to deny his existence. So they have always done. But it will not be possible always for President Wilson and all his cuckoo following ft ignore Joseph Garrett and his 18 cents per hour and his ten hours or more a day. They have put it over on Joseph once and he will wield his pick and shovel at the same old wage and for the same old long and dreary day. Once, but never again; never again. The neglected 8 0 per cent of railroad workers are going to have something to say. PROSPEROUS NOW; BUT LATER WHAT? Wool is high, wheat is high, potatoes are high and the producer is on vel vet. He knows that the war has had much to do with high prices, and he knows that the war is the only pro tective tariff now between him and severe, persistent and disastrous for eign competition. The Democratic theory of low prices for the consumer is 'in radical and permanent opposition to the producer's desire for the highest possible market price. The true interest of the public lies between the extremes. But the Democratic party is for low prices for all farm products. That is its historic attitude. It has been demonstrated again and again lately by its action in placing the following products among others on the free list: Bacon Beans Beef Beeswax Berries of many kinds Broomcorn Buckwheat Cattle Corn and eornmeal Cream Fats and crease Flax Flower and crass seeds Fowls Hams Hides Lambs Lard Meats Milk, condensed Mutton Potatoes Pork Bye and rye flour Sheep Swine Tallow "Veal Wheat - Wool Grains " Is the resumption of foreign Impor tations after the war In all these prod ucts of no concern to the people of Oregon, Washington and Idaho? "He kept us out of war"; but what has he done to keep us out of poverty? TRANSLATED FROM THE RUSSIAN. The capacity of Americans for pa tient study and the mastery of difficult things will be tested to the utmost In years to come in connection with the movement to promote the study of the Russian language in the United States. Europeans have made the charge that we are a superficial people, that while we may not lack a certain brilliancy we are unwilling to pay the price of substantial intellectual achievement, that we demand "results" at once and are satisfied with less than perfection if perfection takes much time to ac quire. They compare us with the re search workers of. other countries, to our disadvantage. If they are right, as it is our patriotic duty to believe they are not, the success of such courses as that recently fostered by Mr. Hill for the study of Russian In the University of Washington is prob lematical. For it does not take a pro found master of language to glimpse the fact that the prospective student has something more than the adven ture of a Summer's day ahead of him. We already have several so-called "translators," and naturally we have been compelled to accept their work at face value, lacking the basic knowl edge upon which to criticise. But a Russian critic, who appears to know more about our language thai we do of his, has recently made a bitter in dictment of the work of Britons and Americans in translating Russian works: He is rendered into English for the Boston Transcript, whose habi tat is - a guarantee of its scholarly equipment, as compLaining, for exam ple, that a recent translation of a work of Chekhov is full of Instances in which the mistranslation of a single word has perverted the entire sense of a passage. Thus, he says, out of Os trovskl. the great dramatist, this trans lator has ' made "ostrov," an island, while the difficulty of translating cer tain idioms is such that when Chekhov says and wo have the Boston trans lator's version of the Russian critic's words "You have been a victim of your environment," he is made to say in the American, "You got out of bed on the wrong side this morning." We wish we had a profound knowledge of Russian ourselves, so that we might follow the subtle idiomatic processes of both languages through which the twist was made, but this is not to be. We must be content with the reflection that it Is truer than ever la this study of all studies that a "little knowledge is a dangerous thing." When we think of the possible consequences of such a blunder on a prospective order for a shipload of Oregon apples or two cargoes of bridge timbers we stand aghast. It is true that foreigners have a good deal of trouble with our own language and that In our merry way we extract all possible amusement from their situation. It is a curious thing that we print specimens of the struggles of others with our idioms in the funny column. But if it is true, as Henri Bergson has said in his "Essay on Laughter," that laugh ter does in a sense "correct men's manners," then we ourselves are in for a reformation. How Russia will enjoy itself when the first installments of our new efforts begin to arrive on the other side, and how our left ears will tingle If we happen to realize what it is all' about! We have been a shut-in Nation, so far as our linguistic accomplishments were concerned. Wo have made the other fellow learn our language and laughed at him while he was doing it. It looks as If the shoe might bo on the other foot for a while. An expert has figured out why the wheels of a moving vehicle shown on the motion-picture screen sometimes appear to stand still, sometimes to waver between forward and backward and more often to travel backwards. The motion picture, as everyone knows. Is simply a succession of photo graphs taken at the rate of about twenty to the second and each repre senting an instantaneous snapshot. If the s15oke of the wheel In the period it takes to make a picture moves to a position almost but not quite where the succeeding spoke stood In plcturo number one, the eye associates It with its former successor, because it is nearest to It, and which seems there fore to have moved slightly backward. If the number one spoke In the inter val between snapshots exactly takes the place of the succeeding spoke, the eye detects no change, and the wheel seems to be still. If the camera is cranked at an approximately steady rate, while the vehicle varies its speed. It will be seen that a confusing series 5T illusions Is created. It Is well un derstood that the teritt "motion pic ture" Is a misnomer, since the separate pictures of the series in themselves do not depict motion. An amazing project, even In our world of big things, is one seriously proposed by Holland to drain a large portion of Zuyder Zeo, by which some 500.000 acres will be reclaimed at an estimated cost of $44,220,000. A bill embodying the proposal is pending in The Netherlands Parliament and is said to have a good chance of passage. A dam nineteen miles long will be re quired and the work will take four teen years to complete. The obstacles aro not so much of an engineering as an economic nature. For one thing, the fishermen who for centuries have made a living from the waters it Is proposed to pump out must be com pensated, according to the sense of Justice of the Dutch people, who abhor anything that savors of confiscation; and the canals of Amsterdam, which have been flushed and freshened by the waters of the Zuyder Zee, must be taken into account. It is calculated that the dam will be completed In the ninth year of the undertaking and that work on dikes for the reclaimed area can begin in the fourth. Many as are the ships building In American ports, but few of them promise to remain American. Most of the contracts are the result of Eu rope's Inability to replace the waste of war fast enough with its own re sources. There is good reason to hope that the industry will develop to per manency, but the benefit to be derived by the United States will be decidedly limited, unless we retain a goodly pro portion of the new tonnage as the property of our own citizens for the service of our own commerce. Were we to build ships for 6.11 nations but our own, the situation would provoke satire. The Oregonian last Monday printed a dispatch from Washington purport ing to give statistics of lumber imports from Canada, in which through error the amounts were misstated in one paragraph. Senator Chamberlain seizes upon this error to accuse The Oregonian of deliberate misstatement. The Oregonian freely acknowledges the error, which it has already cor rected In the main by giving the cor rect figures In an article published on November 2, but it is quite willing to compare its record for accuracy or veracity with Senator Chamberlain's any day. The car shortage has existed so long and has been steadily growing so much worse that the Southern Pa cific should have "woke up" long ago to tho fact that its Eastern connections were not returning its cars. It did not wake up until Oregon industry was well-nigh paralyzed nor until it was prodded hard by the Oregon Utilities Commission. Its officials have known for months that the Eastern roads were using its cars for their own traf fic, while Oregon Industries were dwindling away for lack of those same cars. All have relatives, direct or remote, in the battling countries. It is not to our credit to gloat on prosperity brought by manufacture of war mate rials that are enabling them to keep at it- Yet that is the basis of the present Democratic "prosperity." If Mrs. Zinsser's daughters should Win that $10,000 each by learning to cook, they will have a double attrac tion to suitors which will make them irresistible. ' Just when the Austrians get a little encouragement by defeating the Rou manians, the Italians come up with another stinging blow. ' The celerity with which is covered any Wilson money that strays Into sight shows how the betting men feel about the result. The cost of dying Is mounting and It's better to stay well. If also expen sive. It is surely more comforting. Mr. Hughes fa optimistic, and that is what the country wants. Optimism means prosperity. Wilson cannot send American mall to Germany on a cruiser. Hughes will, if necessary. In these days of athletic women, mashing will soon be as dangerous a sport as football. Hughes says the Flag means pro tection to Americans, and Hughes will make It go. TO THOSE WHO NEVER SUFFERED First Voters Told of Hardships of Democratic? Free Trade. BY W. J. CCDDT. Enough attention is not being given the "first voter" this year. Why not start him right? Why not tell the young woman about to exercise her right a few thlcga she should know? A young man asked me the other day why the Democratic party was al ways for free trade. This is what I told him: The real Democrat is an aristocrat. He believes In but two classes the lord of the barony (himself) and the men who work for him, serfs in one country, slaves In another, peons else whore. He wants no middle class. The big Democrat Is ambitious to be a producer, seller and shipper of raw material. Before the) Rebellion It was cotton, with the labor of slaves. His plantations ran Into thousands of acre!. Now it Is corn, wheat, wool, cattle anything he can ship by car load or tralnload, produced by under paid labor, with Immense profits to him. With this country open to the sellers of the world he can buy what manu factured goods he needs at lowest prices. These goods are made by cheap labor abrond. Tl big Pemorrat would live In lux ury; his "hands" would elmply exist. He wants no middle class of well-paid worklnjrmen; he wants no shops and factories, which would give employ ment to the sons of :ils "help" and en able them to rise above the conditions of their paretite. The first votr this year has no Idea of existence tinder free trade condi tions. Ills parents and grandparents know th experience was bitter and never to be forsrotten. They were days of losses, hunper and despair. I wa born in 1864. Two years later James Buchanan was elected Presi dent and bognn what for 24 years was called "the last Democratic 'Adminis tration." During tho last year of Bu chanan's term I got my first lesson of Pemocratlc "prosperity." This w In Worcester, Mass. Lake Qulnslgamond lies close by the city. The post road to Boston crossed the middle ofhe lake on what was called a "floating" bridge. This van replaced with a rock and gravel highway rock Masted f rom the eternal hills that abound there, and It was done by day labor. Because It was a political year the authorities paid the hichest price to tne men for reasons plain to anybody "on" In poli tics. They pnld the men 60 cents a dayl Big. strong, able-bodied men they had to be, too. To be sure, the th intra they had to buy were cheap, what there was of them, but 60 cents a dav did not go far! It is within the memory of many men that during: the second term of Grover Cleveland they would have been glad to work for even 60 cents a day. but there was no work to be had. Those were free trade days, toe). I need not tell the first voters what the Republican rarty has done. It Is In the histories of the country. I do not tell the flrt voters how to vote next Tuesday. I ask them to think before they vote. Farmer and Car Shortage. SALEM. Or., Nov. S. (To the Editor.) There are a great many buyers out contracting grain, potatoes, etc., and usually offer a price on or below pres ent conditions of the market, to be de livered F. O. B. shipping point. Now. many of the farmers are not aware cf the serious shortage of cars, and sell their produce to be delivered P. O. B. shipping point, and sign a contract or memorandum to that effect. Some receive a small payment thereon, while others do not receive any payment. (1) How long can the buyer force the producer to hold his product and do liver upon receipt of cars? (I) If no payment is made, can the buyer force the seller to deliver after a reasonable delay, say 80 days? AX OLD PTTBSCrtlBER AND FARMER. (1) A reasonable length of time, provided the contingency of car shortage Is not nominated in the con tract. What constitutes a reasonable length of time depends upon various circumstances surrounding each case. (2) In this question variation of facts and conditions affect the legal rule. A general answer cannot be glverr. Single Tax Defined. ALBANY, Or., Nov. 2. (To the Edi tor.) What is single tax. and what is its purpose? .SUBSCRIBER. Elngle tax as defined by Henry George contemplates one tax. All pub lic revenues for National, state, county and municipal purposes would be raised by taxing land values Irrespective of improvements. Taxes on Improve ments and personal property, and all forms of direct and Indirect taxation, such as tariff duties. Internal revenue taxes and the like, would be abolished. The purpose is to take over as taxes that which the user of land must pay to the owner of land either as purchase money or rent; In o"ther words, to make every land user a tenant of the Govern ment. Interest on Note. SCOTTS MILLS. Or., Nov. 2. (To the Editor.) 1) A says to B. In the pres ence of witnesses, give me your note for $"0. I don't want any Interest, but, to make the note legal, put S rer cent In the note; will knock off the interest when the note is paid. A puts note In bank for collection. Can bank col lect the 5 per cent interest? , (2) Is a note legal that bears no In terest? SUBSCRIBER. (1) If the bank Is acting simply as a collecting agency and did not purchase the note prior to Its maturity, prooT of the agreement will protect the bor rower from exaction of interest. (2) Yes. THE OREGOXIAN'S ADVICE TO VOTERS. J Single Item. Veto 300 Yes; 301 J No. Vote SOO YES. f Ship Tax Exemption 303 Yes; I SOS No. Vote 302 YES. Negro and Mulatto Suffrage 30 Yes; 305 No. Voje 304 YES. Full Rental Value Land Tax (Single Tax) 306 Yes; 307 No. Vote SOT NO. Pen-lleton Normal School 308 Yes; 809 No. Vote SOS YES. Anti-Compulsory Vaccination 310 Yes; 311 No. Vote 311 NO. Bill Repealing Sunday-Closing Law 312 Yes; 313 No. Vote 812 YES. Permitting Manufacture of Beer 314 Yes; 315 No. Vote 315 NO. Prohibition Amendment (Bone Dry) 316 Yes; 317 No. Vote 317 NO. Rural Credits Amendment (flS. 000,000 Bonds) 318 Yes; 319 No. Vote 310 -0. State-Wide Tax Limitation 320 Yes; 821 No. Vote 3SO YES. MX'AI FCNDAHBNTAL LAW MUST 8TAXD Higher Exactions of SlnKle Tax Would Be Paid by Consumer. PORTLAND, Nov. 3. (To the Ed itor.) I cannot understand how Mr. U'Re-., the modern Moses, hypnotised the best men In the labor councils with his last single tax measure, so that chalk looks like real flour through the spectacles furnished by U"Ren. Ho Insists always that single tax will abolish) land speculation and re duce the price of land. Revenuo for public expenses must continue in the same old way. but single tax would call for more tax burdens on the masses. Why does a landlord buy land now? If he speculates right, he gets back his outlay to operate the property and a proCt. If wrong, he loses, as often happens. Why does a merchant rent of him? Because tho merchant specu lates to get back his outlay and a profit. Neither can keep from bank ruptcy unless ho makes good. Who pays all these Itens to both? Tho con sumer. Under single tax tho same landlord and merchant will speculate on loca tions. Who will pay Tho consumer. No slnsrle tax or any law can modify or repeal fundamental principles. Among these are liberty to select trade markets. No law can dictate where speculators shall fix them nor where people shall go to trade. If tho state owns good locations shall it compete with private owners? Or shall It scale rentals and let locations go to the nrt applicant? The latter would cause cor ruption to disturb our commercial life. Under single tax larire amounts of land could not and would not be used anv more than now, because of tho laws of trade. If the state gets them, taxes must go up on the rest and the con sumer pays the bill! U"Ren does not promise to. reduce taxes nor the hiarli cost of living. He waves us back to state land we could not use, so that we may starve on It. Let u kill this measure five to one and prove that Oregon Is safe, sane and bound to protect her good name in no uncertain manner. ROBERT C WRIGHT. Family Liquor Imports. PORTLAND. Nov. 2. (To the Kdt tor.) I am over 21 years of age. living with my parents and paying them for my ooara. on these conditions am I entitled to my two Quarts of whlskv or 24 quarts of beer every IS days, as well as either one of my parents? I Should think as I am supporting mv self, although living In the same house. I should be entitled to a separate. ship ment. A READER. Tho prohibition law states expressly that two members of tho same family cannot legally receive more than the two quarts of whisky or 24 quarts of beer In tho allotted period. Courts have not yet Interpreted all who may be In cluded In tho 'Tamlly" Intended by the law. Tho District Attorney has con fined his Investigations thus far to cases In which husband and wife both send for the limit of liquor, but your case would seem to be included In the prohibition. Boys, Girls and Grown-ups,Too, Meet These New Characters in the Comic Supplement of The Sunday Oregonian "Slim Jim" and "Dem Boys" will be introduced to Oregonian readers tomorrow. Turn to the comic section and enjoy their antics. They will be there every week to entertain you. Don't miss their first appearance. And with them you will continue to pet the two best comic features existing "Old Doc Yak and "Polly and Her Pals," THESE ALSO IN TOE BIG SUNDAY TAPER. CHARLES EVANS nUGIIES The frontispiece for the Sunday maga zine section is a life-size portrait of Charles Evans Hughes, central figure of the strife for a Greater America in the election of Novem ber 7. Framed in the National colors, this splendid picture is worthy of preservation. MEN WHO nAVE LOST TnE PRESIDENCY A tale of the tragedy of defeat, written for the Sunday magazine by John Elfreth Wat kins. Good losers and bad ones, leaders who met defeat jauntily or who passed away broken in health and heart. How Henry Clay, often defeated for the Presidency, kept his courage and never lost hope. FUR FARMS OF ALASKA Fortunes in furs are made on the fox farms of Alaska, writes Frank G. Carpenter, traveling correspond ent in the Far North. They raise the wonderful silver grays in netted pens, like chickens, and sell the pelts at prices that might well make Midas green with envy. An illustrated Sunday maga zine story. TnE SILENT THIRD DEGREE More subtly torturing than the crude methods of detective fiction is the "silent third degree," that wrings confession from the criminal by merciless mental sugges tion. Notable among the cases so treated, says a writer in the Sunday magazine, was that of James B. McNamara, of Los Angeles dynamiting notoriety. ODD CONTRAST OF FIGHTER AND DANCER Two Englishmen and how they answered the call of country. There is Vernon Cas tle, famous dancer, who literally set his breast against the bay onets and took his chances with the shrapnel and the gas. He may be dead. And there is Freddie Welsh, lightweight champion pugilist of the world, who is charged with shirking the trendies to make money in tho American ring. He is alive. The Sunday magazine tells about them. FINDING MODELS FOR FEMININE SINS It's in America that women most nearly approach the Greek ideal, says Raphael Kirch ner, who is typifying the "seven deadly sins" in a series of sym bolical panels. An interesting article by Barbara Craydon in the Sunday magazine. THE SCARLET RUNNER Fourth episode of the immense motoring adventure series, by the Williamsons, in which the Prince is cap tured. Keep pace with the film dramatization by reading this swift, skillfully told story in the Sunday magazine. THE TEENIE WEENIES Grown-ups thought it was a bumble-bee buzzing in the grass, but it was really the little people busy at their sawmill, making timber in preparation for the long, cold Winter, foretold by grandpa. You know where to find the Teenie Weenies turn over. FIFTY YEARS OF PAPER MAKING The manufacture of paper is an important and historical Oregon industry. The fifteenth anni versary of the mills at Oregon City is the occasion for an illustrated article. ' TRAMPING THROUGH AUTUMN FORESTS William F. Wood ward, prominent Portland business man, with Mrs. Woodward, has just completed a tramping trip in Southern Oregon. He tells tho story of their "hike" in an entertaining article, well illustrated. MORE OLD POEMS Thousands of readers find great enjoyment in the old-poem page of The Sunday Oregonian. Rend more of these favorites, culled from old scrapbooks, tomorrow. HERBERT KAUFMAN'S PAGE A "regular fellow" is this noted contributor to the Sunday issue, with an intuitive understanding of the problems that perplex and the issues of success and failure. That's why the thousands read his page, and are helped by it. THE PORTLAND SCHOOLS A full page of student gossip and news, edited by class members of the various schools. An enter taining and trustworthy criterion of school progress, appearing every Sunday. INFORMATION FOR VOTERS For the information of voters The Oregonian will publish in the Sunday issue a complete sample ballot, together with a list of polling places' and other data of election procedure. FIVE CENTS EVERYWHERE THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN In Other Days Twenty-Five Yearn Aao. From The Oreeonlan of November 6, 1SP1. Election returns from the important states east of tho Rockies show that MrKinley has been elected Governor of Ohio, Mower in New York. Russell In Massachusetts and Bolscs in Iowa. Astoria, Tho British ship Strath blahe Is a wreck, pounding to pieces on North Beach nine miles north of Capo Disappointment. The bodies of Captain Cuthill. Donnld Macleod. a car penter, Richard Hughes, ablo seaman, and a Thomas Hunter, a cook, have been recovered and are at Ilwaco. Tho body of Mr. Lewis, a passenger, has not been found. The rest of the crew Is safe. The ship drifted ashore In a srale while trying to make the Colum bia River. She was from Honolulu. The chronometer apparently was faulty. W. D. Edwards and Charles L. Fox. young men from Pan Francisco, have come to Portland to locate permanently. Achilla Perelll. tho noted sculptor, who died recently, was ono of the most distinguished sculptors In tho United States. Seventeen carloads of red sandstone from Utah have arrived and will bo used for the entrance of the Worcester building. J. William Dawson, of Monmouth and a graduate of the Normal, has been chosen historian of the graduating class at Ann Arbor University. The. great Costlkyan collection of Oriental rtisrs will be on display at tho Masonic Templo In a few days. O. II. Bellinger has reslcned as sur veyor of East Portland and Council man Pcroglns' son has been appointed in his rlace. Invented by Jonnny Heeaan. PORTLAND, Nov. 2. (To the Kd ltor.) In Tho Oregonian October 30 I noticed two pictures of an Oregon housewife extracting fruit Julco by the use of a clothes wringer. This step to ward freedom to tho housewife was discovered by a woman, so tho Item states. 1 think I can truthfully ssy that this Is not a new method In Portland, as I found It In practical use here three years ago by a native-born Portland boy. While visiting at tho Keegan home "Johnny," as he Is always called, was asked to squeeze some fruit. Being al ways a willing worker In the kitchen, he started to squeeze tho fruit by hand. Keeling that something more modern should bo invented for this task. Johnny proceeded to the basement and applied the clothes wrlrnrer "with such good results that he obtained almost a quart more of Juice. o here is the discovery for the wel fare of housewives niado by a member of your Portland police bureau and a "Wobfoot." J. J. Keenan. A CONSTANT READER.