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San Jpresentative, K. J. BldwtU, 742 iXr, TUESDAY, NOV. 7, 1916, ri FOK A OREATER NATION til. Indiana Speeches of Charles Evans Hughes.) want to Bee America at peace. know full well that It Is an Idle a to suppose that America can a lasting peace If we forfeit our espect. A vote for me Is not a for war. It Is a vote for lasting' It Is a vote for the maintenance merlcan rights on land and sea, grhout the world. Ve can have rosperlty. we cannot achieve the 3 that we desife to attain, unless Vie free from the decadence of a e corrupted by materialism." would not want to be- President pountry that thought more of dol- han of human lives. -I would not to be : President of-' a country did not have the old spirit of and of 1881. The way. that we conserve our peace is to stand before the world, with our flag bol of justice, courteously, firmly onsistently standing for our just : in a world which desires our ship and where we desire .the ship of every nation." lat is my platform, fellow-clti-rf"you want my services, take I hat basis." ISGRACK TO jontyAusi. Chicago Tribune said that in his Mil speech, Mr. Hughes declared amid a of applause" that the ywhole Wilson tlve accomplishment must be wiped books for the good of th. country." t statement via telegraphed through ly country. On th. same day the MU- ccuuuri quuicu ,1 1 . IlUKlira us y the Wilson legislative accomplish "What they have done according to wn Ideals and principles has been de- rj -to the Interests of the united and must be undone If we are to sure basis of prosperity In this coun Both the Tribune and the Sentinel vocatlng the election of Mr. Hughes. quote Mr. Hughes In very similar What do oregonian denials amount the face of these two papers, on. of is published In th city where Mr. . made his amazing demand? Port- ournal. e least that can be said concern he foregoing paragraph is that It li rnalism. fif3 Chicago Tribune published a trrection of the error In Its original port and published It the day fol lowing. This is well known by the Portland Journal. The quotation from the Milwaukee Sentinel Is a sentence isolated from the context of Mr. Hughes' address. Ti5 sentence, with what properly goes , has been published three times Oregonian once in The Orego verbatim report of the speech, an answer to a correspondent's and once In an editorial. It en published not alone In the kee Sentinel, but In every per which subscribes to the As- Press service. lughes In his speech claimed ure of credit for the Repub- tor certain legislation adopted last four years. The Under- kriff and the ship-purchase law rred to a purely Democratic s things "done according to kvn Ideals and principles." He that "What they have done ng to their own Ideals and prln- las been derogatory to the ln- of the United States and must one." They have been, and ust be. what Mr. Hughes did say is also nown by the Journal, y If It ppe of achieving a reputa- or veracity it will yet pub- lie paragraph in full from it has extracted the sentence True, the campaign is ended. norable amends are impossible. is worth while to sustain the and ideals of journalism, else wasting taxpayers' money in ting a class in that profession State University. V tion than of development. Of course, the inventor who can make a water fall or a ton of coal do twice as much work as it formerly did is in a class with the symbolical individual who made two blades of grass grow where only one grew before. True conserva tion Is a form of creation" and the energy conserver Is entitled to full credit for his work. ENOUGH. Wood row Wilson has given the United States for four years an acad emic, anemic, theoretic and danger ously experimental Administration. He is always an unknown and un certain quantity, a perpetual conun drum, a living enigma, an intellectual kaleidoscope, and the country is today ready to give him up. GRAVE RISK. "No Intoxicating liquors," says the proposed constitutional amendment, "shall be Imported into this state for beverage purposes." Obviously, they may be- Imported for any other pur pose." The door is opened for end less controversy, for wholesale eva sion, for common perjury among drinkers of liquor that their pur chases are not for beverage pur poses. But let us assume that the loop hole so glaringly left In the proposed law is closed by court decision or legislative action. What then? The state will be dry for themanu- facture and sale of liquor as at pres ent and theoretically dry for its im portation, but wet, completely wet, as to its use. Clearly the importers of liquor in present limited quantities, who are now complying with law and desire to be always in accord with it. will be required either to give up its do mestic use entirely or will be con verted Into patrons and consorts of bootleggers and will be wholly out of sympathy with any scheme of pro hibitory law enforcement. The new bone-dry law is a leap in the dark. It Is a complete abandon ment of a moderate and qualified prohibition, which has abolished the saloon and all but eliminated drunk enness and the crimes which come from excessive drinking In lawless re sorts' and elsewhere. The present law, yet an experiment. has worked well. But the new law takes the grave risk of throwing away the fruits of a year's accomplishments. It makes doubtful the success of every prosecution at least in the larger cities and it makes certain the an tagonism of classes and elements now friendly or at worst indifferent. WASTED ENERGY. passion for efficiency, which is vociferous if it is not always nt and practical, makes us hail tisfaction every plan for utlli- f small wastes of energy, even o frequently let large units of power go unharnessed. But making progress, nevertheless, ers of machinery, as the New lunicipal Journal points out. been found to be entirely prac- operate a motor truck with 'ined engine and storage bat that when the vehicle is going 111 on a grade that ordinarily equlre a strong brake the task lng back is put upon a gen that accumulates, while it is this, a sufficient amount of o be extremely helpful in get- the next hill. Of course, a starting from a certain point urning to the same place after its rounds of a hilly city will vered an exactly compensating - of up and down grades.1 It iosed to put this fact to use. of a similar nature have for ims been in use in a small r the running of self-starters rhts on r.utomobiles; the new are intended to apply the prin- l a larger scale. ally important development of ?a is being made on the Chi Iiiwaukee & St. Paul Railroad tana and Idaho. New electric 'tives are so constructed that top of the hill the engineer by f ei-sing his motor can convert it o a generator. Thus, while the in is being held back on the down ide it will be storing power to help up the next hill. By the time it 3 returned to its starting point, it jould in theory have lost only such ergy as was consumed by "friction." esent imperfection of storage feat- les probably will make the waste lewhat greater than that. Feeding current into the trolley wire above. ver, makes the power thus re- as it were, more immediately e. ' a is no doubt that we are on eshold of important Inventions In the direction of conserva- ft 1 V P ' POLAND AGAIN A NATION. One of the collateral results of the war has been a rivalry between the Teutonic alliance and the entente al liance In restoring Poland as an Inde pendent nation. One of the first acts of the Czar after the declaration of war was the proclamation that he would re-establish Poland as a sep arate kingdom undej- his sovereignty. Since the central powers occupied Russian Poland, they have sought to conciliate Polish national sentiment by reviving the Polish language, educa tion and culture and by giving the Poles a large part in the government of their cities. The purpose of Aus tria to grant autonomy to Galicla may be taken as a further step to win the friendship of the Poles, though no in tention to unite the province with Poland is intimated by Francis Joseph. The motives of this move of the central empires are several. They desire military aid from the Poles of Russian Poland as well as to cement the- loyalty of their Polish subjects. They also wish to steal the thunder of their enemies by being the first actually to emancipate one of the small nationalities and thus to im prove their standing in the eyes of neutrals. They also design to profit by that experience in another way. An independent Poland would serve as a buffer state at least to delay Russian invasion in the same manner as Belgium delayed German invasion of France, while In case Germany or Austria wished to invade Russia Polish gratitude would be trusted to -give a free right of way and probably mill, tary aid. The allies will doubtless outbid the Teutons for the friendship of the Poles by offering them a still greater Po land. They are credited with designs to take Galicla from Austria, Posen and East and West Prussia from Ger many, extending the new kingdom to Danzig and giving it an outlet on the Baltic Sea. This would take in the Polish population of both the cen tral empires and would bring the frontier uncomfortably near to Ber lin. But the two Kaisers are In the happy position of being able to deliver the goods they offer, while their ene mies have yet to conquer the whole of their offerings before they can de liver, any. .As Poland suffered dis memberment at the hands of all three of the empires immediately concerned, the renascent nation may have no scruples about accepting favors from both sides and tying itself finally to the winning alliance. Were the most generous plans of the allies carried though, Poland Would still be much smaller than It was at the height of Its power. Under the Jagiellones Poland extended from the Baltic Sea on the north to the Black Sea and the Carpathian Mountains on the south and from the Oder River on the west o a point far east of Dvinsk, Minsk and Pinsk in Russia. It in cluded the Russian provinces of Cour land, Livonia, Lithuania, Volhynia, Podolia and Bessarabia, the German provinces of Silesia, Posen. Pomera nla. East and West Prussia, the Aus trian province of Galicla and the Rou manian province of Moldavia. For a long time Slavdom, of which Poland was the. nucleus, reached as far west as the Elbe, and only by continuous war did the Germans push the Slavs eastward. War has left the people of Russian Poland in such wretched plight that they are now more concerned about food, clothing and shelter Jhan about the restoration of their ancient nation al glory. Russian, German and Aus trian armies have swept to and fro across the land until through vast areas every vestige of habitation is destroyed and the country is 'denuded of crops and cattle, while millions have fled to the interior of Russia. Mili tary necessity has caused Germany to carry away much food, and the best skilled workmen have been tempted away to German factories. All ef forts of Americans to arrange terms under which food may be passed through the allied blockade for the feeding of the civil population have failed. Poland will come into being as a nation under clrcumstAnrnii vin j to those of a migratory tribe which nas occupied. a new wun country, but with this difference, that the able bodied .male population of Poland has been carried off. ' Vast suras of money and much energy must be expended in putting the country even in a posi tion to support its population. Much more will be required to restore it to its ante-bellum prosperity. Should either alliance in the war win decisive victory, it will probably try to exact from the vanquished the funds neces sary to restore Poland, but both may b so financially exhausted that Po land will be left to Its ow,i resources, which are now almost nothing. Poland will" begin its new career as a nation delivered from the chief source of its former weakness. Power in the old kingdom was vested in the King and the Diet. The latter was composed of the feudal land owners, to whom were later added the bishops and representatives of free cities. The mass of the people were mere serfs under the nobles and had no voice in the government. The nobles were more interested in preventing action by the Diet and in limiting the power of the King than In the good of the country. They would neither pass a law nor elect a King unless the vote was unanimous, and they only voted money for the government in exchange for concessions which were often de structive of royal power. The only other ways to get action were to ex terminate the minority, if it was small, or to have a civil war, if it was large. The factions made alliances In neigh boring, countries and latterly picked candidates for King from neigh boring dynasties. NPoland thus be came a constant breeding ground for war, and the partitioning monarchs had one excuse for their acts, that Poland was a public nuisance. The conditions which dismembered Poland cannot be restored. Much of the land has passed into the hands of the peasants, who cultivate it, the old feudal estates having been largely broken up. Mines have been devel oped, manufactures established and great modern cities have grown up, establishing that middle class which is the bulwark of every nation. The new Poland will doubtless have rep resentation of all classes In its Parlia ment, it will have no veto by a minor ity of one, and if Its foster-parents should supply it with a royal family that is willing to 'establish a constitu tional monarchy. It may become an orderly and prosperous member of the family of nations. good iokd, rKi.rrKJt rsi Four more years of Woodrow Wil son are sad enough, to contemplate. But four more years of the Wilson Cabinet who can possibly ask for it, without a justifiable suspicion of san ity, or at least of sobriety. Four more years of Josephus Dan iels. Angels and ministers of grace, defend us! Four years more of the pacifist and nonenity and blunderer and village oracle Baker, Secretary of War. There has been one year of Baker a year too much. Four more years of the egotist and political ( pawnbroker William Gibbs McAdoo, official son-in-law. Shades of John Sherman, Lyman T. Gage, William Windom, Salmon P. Chase and Alexander Hamilton! jFour years more of David F. Hous ton! 'A first-rate college professor spoiled to make a Cabinet officer not the only professorial job-holder In the Administration. Four years more of Albert Burleson, machine politician and headsman. Let him go back to his Texas convict farm and his 40 per cent of its net profits. Four years moreof William Cox Redfield, protector of inefficient and criminal 'marine inspectors who do not Inspect (vide the Eastland trag edy). Four years more of Thomas Watt Gregory. Who can think of anything to be said for him? Four years more of Robert Lansing! Not a bad prospect, however, if they let him alone, which "Wilson will not do. Four years more of Franklin K. Lane! We hope so. if there is to be a Democratic Administration. He ranks with Garrison, who was too big for a little Cabinet and resigned. Lane is the only one of first-rate cali ber left. Four years more of Woodrow Wil son Is a verdict for his bush-league Cabinet. the quarter bale to the acre crop is heard from with emphasis again. The farmers who broke the prairie soil and "one-cropped" It almost to death in the West are In a position to sympathize with the cotton planters and to counsel with them, but they, too, are In a similarly peculiar situa tion this year. The prices of all grains are a strong temptation to go on rob bing the soil and putting off the saner rotation sysfem. The South Is likely to be longer coming to it, because of its Innate conservatism, but' sooner or later, war prices or not. there will be a. forced change. And when it comes the ordeal of soil restoration Is likely to be a long and tedious one. a policy of pitiless beorect. President Wilson and Postmaster- General Burleson have carefully staved off until after election any publicity for the manner in which the civil service law was perverted to make lawful the raiding of fourth-class post offices by their party. After having approved the refusal of the Civil Service Commission to give the Civil Service Reform League access to the eligible lists for fourth class postmaster, the President on October 10 wrote to the League prom ising to re-examine the facts. On October 2S Mr. Burlesson wrote to the New Tork Evening Post stating that Information is "immediately available here and now" that 6 6 per cent of the Incumbent fourth-class postmasters were not disturbed by the Wilson Administration and offering to permit the League to examine records in his office to verify his statement. In a public statement the League says it "finds these figures inconsistent with data published In reports "of the Civil Service Commission" and there fore wishes to examine the evidence. Accordingly, it wrote to the President on October 81 expressing the hope that he had already examined the matter and that his examination would lead him to grant the League access to the records. Mr. Wilson was too busy be tween October 10 and Si to give at tention to so small a matter. It Is safe to assume that, if he should be re-elected, he will take that fact as ,a public indorsement of his policy of pitiless secrecy and spoils distribution among the Job-hunters and will not yield to the League's Importunities. If he should be defeated, he may be ex pected to leave the entire matter as a legacy to Mr. Hughes. What a harvest there will be for the Democracy, if they should retain the Presidency and control of Con gress. Four more years In which to establish new commissions and bu reaus and to exempt all the clerks, inspectors and agents to be employed thereunder from the civil service law. Four more years In which they can add to the spoils by adopting riders to appropriation bills, taking thou sands of existing offices from under cover of that law. Well may they paraphrase Bluecher's exclamation on looking down on London: "What a splendid city to sack!" Barbed wire Is another one of the many American inventions that are playing an important part In the war in Europe, and It will be remembered that Its first extensive employment as a means of defense was In 1898 in Cuba, when the defenders of Santiago got special mention In the newspapers by the prodigal use of it at all points of approach a fact that probably had much to do with the terms the Span lards were able to obtain in the nego tiations that followed and that never would have been granted if our troops had had a reasonable prospect of tak ing the position by frontal assault. The lesson was still better learned in the Russo-Japanese War. But the young man who first thought of the idea was moved only by a desire to keep hogs out of a field without build ing a fence that would cause great snowdrifts to accumulate. The wire alone was all right, so far as the snow was concerned, but the barbs were added for the benefit of the hogs. The first barb-wire patent of record is said to have been issued in 1867. COTTON AND TTTE SOCT1I. The high price of cotton has brought about a not inexplicable re versal of sentiment In the South to ward the one-crop policy that it has followed for so many years, not al ways to Its advantage. It Is not long since editors and educators and far seeing business men on the other side of the Mason and Dixon line seemed to be united in an effort to persuade the people to diversify, to get away from the idea that cotton alone was "king." It is only a couple of years since there was an aggressive attempt to limit production by law in some sections, but this fell through because of obvious legal difficulties. Local officials, however, were preaching everywhere In the cotton belt that the people were making a mistake in putting all of their eggs Into one bas ket. The propaganda was only be ginning to make headway In a few sections when it received the setback of its life. Cotton Is now enjoying Its full meas ure of war prosperity. Not only Is it selling at around 19 cents a pound, or $96 a bale, but every bale of cotton raised means also the production of about 1000 pounds of cottonseed, which, because of the exceptional de mand for oils which are essential in the. manufacture of high explosives, lo now worth nearly $40 a ton. This seed only a comparatively few years ago was thrown away. Now It serves to bring the total value of the cotton to about $115 a bale, or 23 cents a pound. It Is forty-six years since the price was so high. Planters are" count ing on 25-cent cotton before the pres ent crop is disposed of. The same agencies that were preachjng diver sification two or three years ago are singing a different song. "Plant cot ton everywhere," says one leading journal of the South. "Every acre not required for other essential crops should be planted to cotton," says an other. One hardly recognizes in the chorus the voices that were calling "Buy a bale" in 1914. It would be useless to try to stem the tide at this stage, yet to an un prejudiced observer at a slight dis tance it would appear that the ap parent blessing of high prices might not be real. It is hard to get a man to look to the future when there is ready money right before his eyes. "Two-bit" cotton is a hard argument to beat In an almost exclusively utili tarian age. Yet it is quite conceivable that it may be looked back upon as a curse. We already read that the crop is far below expectations, which points to further wearing out of the soil: The most serious phase of all is the check the movement for diversifica tion has received. It will take years to recover the ground, even after cot tot prices return-to normal and when War has caused such devastation In the forests of Europe that the Pacific Coast may be called upon to supply it with lumber for many years. This Coast may also be asked to supply large quantities of seed for, saplings for replanting of destroyed forests. The Pacific Coast is not sharing to any extent in war trade during the war, but It will have a large share of that which will come after the war. RAILROAD SHOULD PAT ALL COST Portland Stands Alone In Sharing Coat of Regrades at Crossings. PORTLAND. Nov. 6. (To the Editor.) The taxpayers of Portland cannot fan to look with approval upon the action of the Council In connection with the budget and particularly with ref erence to the decision that the elimina tion of trade crossing's on the O.-W. R. & N. Railroad will be deferred until some future date. The plans as prepared contemplate a cut of some 11 feet by the railroad com pany and the building; of viaducts 14 or more feet above the present street grades. In other words the railroad company was to go down only part way and the streets were to go up part way: the result being the closing of all streets except those where viaducts were, to have been constructed and con siderable grades' at the viaduct ap proaches. In other words this project meant a series of humps through the city and enormous damages to the property abutting the viaducts and on the closed streets. In other cities where srrade crossings have been eliminated, the railroad com panies have been required to go all the way down or all the way up. When a railroad company goes all the way down the damages to abutting property are comparatively small. In the O.-W. R. A N. situation the only practical way is to go down and the railroad should be required to go all the way down and not fill the city wth a long row of unsightly and damaging viaducts. One of the most objectionable features of the project as proposed is the method of defraying the cost. The Supreme Court of the United States has held that a municipality may. under Its police power, require the elimination of dangerous grade crossings and compel the railroad company to pay the entire cost of such elimination. I have given considerable attention to this subject and cannot find a single Instance In which any city In the United States has paid any of the cost or the elimination of grade crossings such expenses in other places having been borne entirely by the railroad com panles. The City Council is supposed to con stitute th. city's business management and it is astonishing, in view of the facts above stated, to find that our business managers recommended to the voters that they amend the charter in such way as to require the city to pay for work, which ought to be paid for ana which In other cities Is always paid for by the railroad companies. This measure provides that 20 per cent shall be-paid by district assessment and 20 per cent from the bridge fund. The engineer's estimate In connection with this matter was that $180,400 would be paid by the city, but that was with an estimate of only $40,000 damages to abutting property. The Council has al ready awarded $10,000 damages to be paid on one parcel of property if thi project is carried through and the total damages would undoubtedly amount to many times the estimate of $40,000. The provision for this work should be eliminated from the budget now being prepared and a charter amend ment should be passed repealing that provision of the charter which provides for payment of any cost of grade eliminations from the public funds, then the grade crossings should be ellml nated by requiring the railroad com pany to go all the way down. L P. LOCKWOOD. The best course for an American who contemplates travel In Latin America is not to take a passport, for then he will not so readily betray the fact that he is one of those for whom there is always an open season everywhere. Reluctance of Carranza to send his troops against "Villa appears to be due to the fact that upon meeting the Vil listas many of them cease to be Car ranza soldiers. They do not care for whom they fight, provided the looting Is good. Before another election day the law should be changed, to provide more pay for members of election boards, especially those who serve at night. The work of counting and recording the vote requires expert service. England need not worry about the supply of ships. The Columbia River district Is fast becoming equipped to make good the deficiency. WILL BE HARD TO UNSCRAMBLE So Chance to Make Mesa la Mexico Be cause It la Already Made. PORTLAND, Nov. 6. (To the Editor.) Some excerpts from President Wil son's speeches, with comments: They do not want a peace obtained as gentlemen obtain It, but only as braggarts obtain It. Roosevelt maintained peace for more years than Wilson has, aud he did not do it as a braggart, either. He was more respected by European crowns, presidents, popes and rulera of all kinds than any of all the Presidents of the United States. When Roosevelt said "spade," everybody knew Just what he meant, there was not an end less number of notes that meant noth- Inar to anyone. t v him, citizens. reaction In the TTnltfrt states at this Juncture of the world"s affairs would h. one of the moat serious tilings that could happen lu the worm. What a wonderfully selfish asser tlon! No one Is capable of handling foreign relations except Wilson! But that will be proved after next jiarcn to be but self-esteem. To put it In the words of the Boston Transcript. "We look for the election of Mr. Hughes because we believe that character will win over cleverness, whenever the great Jury of the Nation sits in judg ment." In th. meantime, we have got a sort ot world spirit that we never had before. One or the aimeullts wiin America nn m-eii that she has been too provincial. She had thought too exclusively of her own development. Wilson In this assertion would make capitalists believe they should take more interest in foreign investment. But his Indifference toward their pro tection and defense outside of the United States is not In the least to be overlooked by Investors. He would not stand back of those who would have shared in the six-power loan to China. He haa flatly and absolutely refused to protect them in Mexico. He calls those who have investments there "ex ploiters and propagandists," and they need not look to him for protection, bo it is not likely that financiers will take his words without a little salt. And that certain gentlemen say they would have taken some other way that wotild In evitably have resulted In war. I am not ex pecting these gentlemen to have a chance to make a mess of it. "Chance to make a mess of It?" That statement is absolutely true In every respect. The President has headed off all chances In Mexico at least. The mess he has made himself, and has kept it well stirred to the bottom. It la a mes of President Wilson's own mak ing, and It will be hard, awfully hard, for the next President to unscramble lc CHAS. BARNETT. A headline saying "Cleveranders Eat Goat" does not refer to twenty years ago. Then thev ate crow. - . Sympathy goes to the boy not quite old enough and no chance to press the limit today. If these were "them good old times," everybody would ride once in an auto today. Mark the sample ballot early and take It to the polls, bo you will save time. Tou will get the result in your home tonight, but you'll miss the shouting. When It comes to tolling the lambs, Tom Lawson is premier bellwether. In a week it will almost be for gotten. That is the American spirit. The Joker in the holiday today means harder work tomorrow. The country will swarm with dis credited prophets after today. Snow fell yesterday, took a slant at the prospects and subsided. Rain does not deter the Oregon voter. Good roads bring out a good vote. L Tnesday, November 2. PORTLAND. Nov. . (To the Edi tor.) Rutherford B. Hayes was elected President in the year 1876. Can you please tell me on what day of the month and week the election was held. A SUBSCRIBER. Snnday. PORTLAND. Nov. 6. (To the Edi tor.) Can you tell me the day of the week of September 1, 1907?- READER. THE OPEN SEASON FOR AMER ICANS. Down In Mexico the only things for which there is always an open season are Americana and Chlnar.ien. There have been killed 500 Americans, 300 China men, two Frenchmen, one Eng lishman and no Germans. From speech of Mrs. E. B. Hanley at Portland on November 1. Germans are perfectly safe, even In the midst of the Mexican revolutlo l. One Englishman has been killed, but that murder brought consequences which have- so lar deterred the Mexicans from -committing another. Three hundred or more Chinese have been killed because, unfortunately, they have no government able to rro tect them. But BOO Americans have been murdered because their Government, though able to protect them, refused to do so. Professor Charles J. Bullock, of Harvard. THE OREGOXIAVS ADVICE TO VOTERS. Single Item Veto 300 Tes; 301 No. Vote SOO YES. Ship- Tax Exemption 301 Tes; 303 No. Vote S02 TEJ. Negro and Mulatto Suffrage S04- Yes: 305 No. Vote 304 YES. Full Rental Value Land Tax (Single Tax) 806 Tes; 307 No. Vote 307 NO. Pendleton Normal School 808 Yes; 309 No. Vote 30S YES, Anti-Compulsory Vaccination 310 Tes; 311 No. Vot, an NO. Bill Repealing Sunday-Closing Law 312 Yea; 313 No. te S12 YES. Permitting Manufacturer of Beer 314 Yes: SIS No. Vote SIS NO. Prohibition Amendment (Bone Dry) 316 Yes; 817 No. Vote 317 NO. Rural Credits Amendment ($18. 000.000 Bonds) 818 Yes; 819 No. Vote 310 NO. State-Wifle Tax Limitation 320 Yes; 311 No. Vote R20 YES. In Other Days Xwenty-riva Year. A a.. From The Oregonian November T. 11. Washington senator Mitchell of Oregon is again advocating the amend ment to elect Senators by a direct vot. of the people. London The English government has notined Its representatives in China to tell that government that England will elve it a reasonable tim. to punish the leaders in the recent outrages, after which time Shangftal will be seized. The earthquake which occurred In Japan October IS cost the loves of 6500. r Bat's' receiving teller at Ladd & Tllton's Bank, who went to California a few days ago . to arrest John Davidson, a machinist, on a charge of forgery, is on his way" home with his man. The annual tree-planting day of the nr,io,ne.r,Ved ?!,terdy- Among those participating in the programme were Messrs. Oates. Adix. Wall, and McMul ien in voeal ouArtt mimKAW.. - 1 mKa?- Mar, Jub'tz. chronlcle'r and prophet respectively; Walter McMullen. v i vuci. ana .tiinnt. r l- , orator. ""uo' class The recent exploits In rriin . many of W. Burns as told in the ?n,PatCI" h"ve " considerate interest amour tho.e wh i 1.1 - " "IIV 14 j I II HG KEPT V OCT OF WAR." He kept us out of war." of course. of oi But down In Mexico They've killed, five hundred men Whfch shows the claim Is so! We sent our ships to Vera Crus To have the flag saluted. But brought it back shamefacedly. While Huerta loudly hooted. Nineteeen boys were butchered there. But It didn't make a Jar. Because we felt so good to know He'd "kept us out of War." W. sent our troops below the line Three hundred miles or more. To capture Villa "alive or dead." Though "he's kept us out of war." i But for the last three months or so. So far as one can hear. They haven't made a single move To get that buccaneer. Although he's on the rampage Almost within their sight It's easier to keep away When one's "too proud to fight.' We rushed across the border Imbued with fiercest heat. But now we're squatted down there. Laid low with coldest feet! We dare not use a railroad Nor go Into the towns, We suck our thumbs In silence Because Carranza frowns. At Parral and at Carrazal The massacre was fierce Our boys were killed by bullets Shipped over there by us. For Woody kept that embargo "A-going up and down. So all those bloody bandits , Were heeled from toe to crown. It was "on aaraln and off again," And on again, again. Until the fame of Finnegan Will in the shade remain. A hundred women, likely more. Went through the pangs of hell. While captives of the beastly brutes Into whose hands they fell. But even that concerned us not. What cared we for their plicrht? Our love Is for the "submerged" scum And then, "we're too proud to fl ; h t." The election In November Will show to what decree Our people are the victims of A false psychology And whether Wilson, with his wiles. With "we're too proud to flpht." Can cause them to declare with him That plainest black is white. T. T. GEER. as good as gold? DR. WILSON AX D LABOR IT.NIONS Makea Severe Attack and Supports It In SuliMequent Letter. Woodrow Wilson delivered the bac calaureate address at Princeton Uni versity, June'. 1909, seven years ago, one year before he became Governor of New Jersey, and three years before he became president, in which he made a strong attack on labor unions, say tng among other things: Yoo know vibat the usual standard of the employe la In our day. It la to Kit'e a. little a. he may for hi. waxes. labox la atanuarulaed by the trade unions, and thi. Is the .taudard to which It Is made to conform. No one Is Buffered to do more than the average workman can .do. In some trades and handicrafts no one In nuffeifd to lo more than the least skillful of his fe! lows can do within the hours allotted to a day's labor, and no one may work out of hours at all or volunteer any thing beyond the minimum. A citizen of New York, Edsrar R. Laverty. wrote a letter to Dr. Wilson challenging his statements and solicit ing the names of the labor unions which "bring about the results you specify." Dr. Wilson s reply wfts: Prtnreton University, Princeton, N. J. June J a, ivin. My Dear .sir: Your letter or June incn contains a very proper challenge. quite agree that I ought not to make the statement I did make about the trades unions, unless I were ablo to cite cases In veriucation or my statements. I. of course, had no Individual trada unions In mind which I can name by nutn ber. but I had In mind several cssvs of buildings In New York City; for example, the bricklayers working on which stnt about one-third of The working day sitting around, smoking th?tr pipes and chatting .because thy had laid tie number of bricks to which they werj limited for the day bv the union to which they belonged. I had in mind numerois e.nrloncea of my own In dealing with workingmen In Princeton. where X once found It Impossible, for ex ample, on a very cola evening to get . broken window pane mended st the house or an Invalid friend, because the prescribed labor hours of the day were over and the glnzler could not venture, without rleking a strike, to do the work himself, and could not order any of his workmen to do it. I bad In mind scores of lnsi.nces. in snort, lying w'thln my own experiences and resting upon the testimony of friends in whose ve racity I have every reason to have the great est confidence. I. of ponrw, wmM not. In the ran. of more than one or two ef the, inntanr-ew, give leftai proof or my -Hpnuinn, not tlie evi dences I have are entirely enfflctent lo con vince me of Mie general truth of the state ment 1 made, very truiT mirr., WOODROW WILSON. Mr. Kdgar R. T.averty. Questions In Naturalisation. BLACK ROCK. Or., N"ov. 5. (To the Editor.) (1) A and B came to this country with their parents, while quite small. Their father never took out his naturalization papers. If he had, would it have been necessary for A and B to take out papers? (2) Does a man's papers include his wife, children that are under 21 years of age. (3) Does a woman loso her rltrht to vote by marrylnir a man who Is not a citizen of the United States? LITTLE LL'CKlAKCTE. 1) No. (2) Yes. (3) Yea. here. .-. - """" - -- - irineraoerfa nere as a dashing young man about town, for- "sent ior an Eastern manu facturer of crockery and glassware. e?1HTarnarT.h courtmartial of Colo- fherrra. . - . ""lull, Oilier a coward! h" Cal1"1 hl uPior rell known in the Northwest, has Just ompleted a book called a.?1!?! com Arisen," or Oregon and Washington. oook caned ai.i. Talks of aTourlst About - naif a Century Ago. From Th. Oregonian November 7 1S66 Among the freight J mgayaWfTn: case, contain whl- 111 9urch. Salem. Tne organ l.el . 111 Da the finest and largest one In this state. It will be remembered that Captain Han thU0"" T'11 dellrat Oro Fino BrlLi U v"ln Jecture upon the or .British Columbia. J. H. Shepherd, who u -. dent of this city and who has been n soliciting patronage for the steamer Pacific, leaves this morning for &an Francisco. t..A, beneflt " given to the favorite little comedienne and vocalist, Clara, last evening. The temperance lecture of Rev. C. C tratton will be postponed to some future date while the church is under going soma repairs. The National College of Business snd Commerce will In a few davs be opened at the hall over Mr. McCormlck's book store on Front street. THE GOBLI.VS'I.L GET YOU. Little Woodrow Wilson to the White House came to stay. To pass the He that makes the Demo crats so glad and gay. And little Woodrow promised, as ha passed the White House door. That he would stay there Just four years, but wouldn't stay no more. But now that time Is ended and election comes again. And he says it would he terrible to turn him out again. "And if you do,- he tells us. -why 1 haven't any doubt That the gobllne'H get you If you Don't Watch Out!" And the railroad men they made a row and started in to strike. "We'll tie things up." they said. "If you don't do Just what we like." And the people made a holler and the people made a roar. And Woodrow he reviewed the situation o'er and o'er. And he says: "We'd better give m what tahey want or don't you see I'd lose their votes and that "would be a great calamity? So we'd better legislate before they make too loud a shout. Or the goblinu'll git us If we Don't Watch Out!" saw the And the Democratic party storm arise and grow And they marked the big disturbance In the land of Mexico. And they started in to clear It. but in Summer and in Fall. They found, to their annoyance, that It wasn't cleared at all. And they called out the militia, but they didn't use 'em. for It was quite against their policy of keeping out of war. "Let us keep on watchful waiting while Villlstas shoot and scout Or the gobline'll git us If we Don't Watch Out!" Oh. the Democratic party and its Demo cratic chief They are coming. Father Abraham, a comlng fast to grief. With their twisting and their dodslng and , their makeshift and '.heir ruse. They are whetting up the Nation with an appetite for HughcJ. So, as the campaign's ending, they had best quit writing notes. Or there's something sure to happen when they start to count the votes. And remember former pledges over which they used to shout Or the goblins'll git them If they Don't Watch Out! DEAN COLLINS. : Mr. Alderson's Religion. PORTLAND, Nov. 6. (To the Ed itor.) KindJy state the religious affil iations of VV. C. Altlrson. Republican nominee for County Superintendent of Schools. How about his wife? C. 1L HARDY. 26 East Twelfth Street. W. C. Alderson. Republican nominee for County Superintendent ot Schools, is the son of Rev. C. Alderson, for over 50 yer.rs a minister of the Methodist Episcoiial church In Oregon. His wife la the daughter of Rev. II. H. Brown, a pioneer Methodist of this state. They are both graduates of Willamette Uni versity and attend the Methodist uturch. i: .