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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.