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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.
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