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10 TIIE MORNING -OREGOXIAX, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1920 ESTABLISHED B( BENBT I- lUTTOCK. Published by The Oresonlan Publishing-Co.. 133 Sixth Street, Portland. Oregon. C. A. JIORDEV, K. B. PIPER. Manager. Editor. The Oregonian is a member of the Aaao eiated Press. The Associated Press 1 ex clusively entitled to the use for publication of all news dlvpatchea credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. Ail rights of Republication of special dispatches here in are also reserved. Subscription Kates Invariably In Advance. (By Mail Dally, Sunday Included, one year 18.00 Xally, Sunday included, six months ... V 25 Iai!j'. Sunday Included, three months . 2.2.1 Daily. Sunday Included, one month 73 Dally, m lthout Hundav. one year 6.00 Daily, without Sunday, one month, 60 Weekly, one year 1.00 Sunday, one year 6.00 (By Carrier.) 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Governor Cox's noonday speech in Portland followed the same lines as those at Salem and at other western cities. Believing that the word "pro gressive" and the name "Roosevelt" are great things to conjure -with in the west, he rung the changes on them, but was careful not to tell .-whither the progress of the demo . cratic administration "has led the rnimirv Ha hammprpfl hie- hilftinpss and the senate oligarchy, but the former phrase seemed outworn ex cept for those who would sovietize oil business and who, if they got the - power, would effectually dispose of I Cox and his like as "lackeys of the ' bourgeoisie." He referred to the Wilson league, unchanged and un- changeabje, as though it were the only possible hope of salvation for ! mankind. The reason for his 1 rapid turn to all these varied topics is easily found. Cox is in search of an issue which will retrieve the desperate fortunes of discredited democracy. 'T" V. I . . 1. T . t. : 43 - T -I ; and it leads him into perilous paths, ; from which he withdraws with the caution of the practiced, side-step- ping politician. He talks much of progress, but he is beautifully vague ! as to what he .would do to make progress. He glibly names Roose velt, conveying the unspoken sug- i gestion that fifth Cousin Franklin ! his running mate, is a second Theo ' dore. He throws a sop to the rad- i icals by suggesting, but not expressly saying, that he would never call out ' troops to disperse a meeting, however riotous and treasonable. He offers 1 I . x X I .1 , 1 uLLii iaj tuo uuu-pa.rtiEsa.il leaguers uy ' his arraignment of big business and the beef trust and by dilating on the ' evils of cold storage, but he does not explain why big business and the i cold-storage men have not been ; curbed in over seven years of demo cratic supremacy. He uses such language that the I. W. W. and other brands of reds may believe, though he Is not clearly pledged, that they need fear no interference with their activities if he should be elected president. I That is the tone of all Mr. Cox's speeches in the west. He adopted It as soon as he entered territory , wnere tne non-partisan league is strong. In Minneapolis, where work- ingmen are many amid a great farm ing population, he addressed his appeal to both labor and the non , partisans, telling of the wrongs done ; by "big business," "special interests" and "artificial control," but he of fered little more actual remedy than : . has Senator Harding, though he used phrases which raise vague hopes. At targo he talked in the same strain, appealed for an independent vote, Vnnd said his fight was against the senatorial oligarchy" and that he . 2 had no "quarrel with the rank and file of either party." His talk about ' "'big business." "vested interests" and - -"bought elections" caused the Fargo . Forum, in the state that is ruled by " the non-partisan league, to say: "It is the 'old stuff' " that "we have been Shearing for many -weary.' dreary , months," and that paper sums up his . speech by saying: ' 'a about the kind of campaign speech . on-o would expect from an average ean&i- date for the position of town constable. These speeches indicate that Mr. . -Cox realizes his desperate need of . "J. votes. He must talk about the league .fof nations in order to keep up the , appearance of "perfect accord" with " President Wilson, but he is more in . ! , terested in that other league which - is taxing North Dakota into bank- ruptcy. The candidate of. a party which has held complete control of both executive and legislative ' branches of the government for six jof the eight" years that its leader has been head of the republic should base his claim to public confidence "on the achievements of his party. but these he prudently forgets as . reviving .unpleasant memories. , 'Z What prospect do Mr. Cox's ante : "cedents and affiliations hold out that hls promises -will be kept, that the -hopes he awakens will be realized? In contrast with that senatorial oli garchy of which he says so much r; ana every memner or which was directly elected by the people of his stare, lie owes ms nomination to an i oligarchy of Boss Murphy of Tam- ; many and the bosses of three other state machines. Mr. Cox had an " arduous enough task to live down the record that Mr. Wilson has made -for his party. Sponsored by clean men, whose names and reputation were a guaranty of sound character and high purpose, he -might have done something. But he is doubly condemned by the auspices under which he comes before the people and by the kind of campaign he manes. THE MISSING THREE BILLION. There is official authority for the estimation that fully $3,000,000,000 of our national cash supply is hidden away by its holders or carried in their pockets. Of course, we are a nation of more than 100.000.000 people, and we require a considerable amount of small change in our daily affairs- but do you happen to have $30 in -your pocket? It would be neces sary for every man, woman and child In America to trundle around that sum if the pocket theory were , tenable. The conclusion is that short-sighted thrift- has retired this vast sum, or the bulk of it, from circulation. "Miserly habits do not constitute thrift," declared S. W. Straus,' presi dent of tha- American Society for Thrift, commenting on the missing three billion. "Nor are avarice and penuriousness any better than the vice of easy spending. Thrift must be practiced intelligently. We can not spend or invest until we have saved, but it is just as essential that the investing and spending be done prudently as it is that the saving be done wisely." An indolent dollar is almost as disgraceful as an indolent citizen, and the essence of their indolence is the same. For the dollar is wealth created by labor, and designed to serve again and again in the inter ests of progress and employment. It is stored-up labor, and it has the potency of the minds and muscles that wrought it. The French peas ants, who are models of thrift, and who invest their toil-won savings in gilt-edged bonds, have a quaint con ceit concerning money. - They say, "Invest it and it will bear little ones." NOT DEAD, NOR SLEEPING. "The liquor question," declares Mr. Cox, "is as dead as slavery." Mere phrasemaking. It is not as dead as slavery. It is only half dead. When slavery was made unlawful there was no more slavery. There could not be. The question was thus automatically and finally determined. When liquor its manufacture, sale. distribution was made unlawful, the first great step only to end the traf fic was taken. The real struggle then began. 'It is now," continues Mr. Cox, "a question of law enforcement." More wiggling and quibbling. It is first a question of definition as to what is liquor and then a question of law enforcement. If the law is what it should be, under the prohi bition amendment, and is enforced, the liquor will be in time as dead as slavery. Not before. Mr. Cox's reply will please those democratic drys who are going to vote for him anyway if there are any such and it will not displease those wets who see in his election a chance for them. That is what Mr. Cox intended. If he can only be dry to the drys and wet to the wets he will run in Oregon as well as in New Jersey. But it Is impossible. A half-wet may run all right in New Jersey, where a half-wet is bet ter than no wet, but no half-dry will ever carry Oregon. gatiorin congress than on the Cham ber of Commerce. Both Senators Chamberlain and McNarywere mem bers of the senatorial committee which drew the Jones law. So was Senator Jones, who has got what he wanted from the admiral. It is up to the two Oregon senators to prove that they together wield more influence than one Washington senator, and all three Oregon representatives should assist them. Sending telegrams of protest is not enough. The matter is of sufficient moment for all five members of the Oregon delegation to go to Washing ton and camp on the trail of Admiral Benson until he admits that his de crees are not as the laws of the Medes and Persians by giving Port land the same rights as any other port of the Pacific coast. ONE SOCIAL EXPERIMENT. Sociologists have always been in terested in Pitcairn island, that tiny member of the Polynesian group,, where an unruly pioneer: element worked out its own destiny and founded . a minute but prosperous state. In a recent news dispatch we are told that an American freighter touched at the island, traded with its people, and sailed away much'im pressed by the thriving and con tented condition of the colonists. A mountain peak arising from the Pa cific, and surrounded by coral reefs, is Pitcairn island. Its area is not have been annexed and, as the Scan dinavian states would have been un able to resist German dictation, the Baltic would have become a German sea. Construction of the Rhine-Danube canal is contemplated by the Ver sailles treaty, but it is to be under international control and both it and the two great rivers are to be free waterways open on equal terms to all nations, instead of being means of German commercial and military empire. OLIGARCHY? OR CABAL? The senate oligarchy comes in for derisive and contemptuous attack by Mr. Cox. It is the people-hating, reaction-loving, law-evading, privi lege-seeking group that defies Wil son, rules the senate, holds up the peace treaty, mutilates the sacred covenant, conspires to run the gov ernment, and controls the White House (when it can). That is the Cox idea. The climax of its crimes (listen to Cox again) was the .nomination of Harding at Chicago. It is a favorite notion of Mr. Cox that the senatorial oligarchy, meeting in a hotel room in the darkness between the days, formed a new kind of midnight reso lution to name Harding, and put it over the following day. All this antedated' only a little while the astounding Cox discovery of a $15. 000.000 slush fund to consummate in November what was begun in June the purchase of the presidency for Harding. All important if true. But it is not true. It is true that many senators were at Chicago, and in their number were Borah, Johnson, and Mccor mick, who were not for .Harding. But -what about the senators at San Francisco? As many senators were there as at Chicago, and they had as much, or more, to say. They were led by Senator Glass of Vir ginia, chairman of the platform com mittee, and he saw to It that it con tained what President Wilson wanted down to the last syllable. There was Senator Pat Harrison, too, floor leader for Cox, and there were some fifteen other senators, all on the job for the senate, the administration and themselves. But they did not want Cox. Cer tainly not. Glass wanted himself. Few others did. Most of them want ed some other "than Cox. though they could not agree on the other. But they agree on Cox now, all of them. It is not exactly a senate oligarchy. It is -only a democratic senatorial cuckoo chorus. jno oiigarcny nominated Cox- o Harding. But a small cabal not so respectable as an oligarchy, and just as selhsh and hateful, hatched the scheme at French Lick, Indiana, headquarters of Tom Taggart- The original cabal of English history had five members. .The Cox cabal had the same number Boss Murphy, Boss Nugent, Boss Brennan, Boss Taggart and Boss Moore. A fine quintette to name a president of the United States. Somehow we prefer Lodge to Boss Murphy, Watson to Boss Taggart, McCormick to Boss Brennan, Wads worth to Boss Nugent, Willie (sena torial candidate) to Boss Moore, and Harding to Cox. more than two square miles, yet it maintains a population of 175 people, the direct descendants of mutineers. x In 1790 the island was colonized by the landing of nine malcontents and rebels from the British ship Bounty, together with a few natives of Tahiti, both men and women. The English mutineers were a rough lot, and the removal of all legal restraint gave tneir passions free rein. Kor a decade Pitcairn was the most un happy isle in the world. Vice and homicide had their way with the colonists, aloof from civilization, and in 1808 but one of the original set tiers was living. He was John Adams and from the wreckage of the Pit cairn social structure ne founded a colony that Great Britain eventually claimed. Of late there has been consider able discussion, serious and prank ing, regarding the idealistic proposal that a superstate be founded by men ana women oi tne wnite race, some where in the Marquesas islands, also of the Polynesian group. These col onists, bound for the land of always afternoon, would be mutineers from the present order of society distrait Or blase persons who believe that one may-dodge responsibility by shifting residence. Those who are content to remain in the white man's world and apply themselves to the dally task of winning bread and further ing civilization, will have not the slightest objection to .the coloniza tion of the Marquesas. Indeed, it were better for them and for us' if our parlor theorists and revolution aries were segregated from society and marooned in Polynesia to apply tneir theories. The men of Pitcairn held the stub born belief that egoism was the thing, and that it should be main tained by pistol and dirk. They abrogated the ruLs of the council and within a dozen years they were dead with one -exception. John Adams ah, how many scars that old sea dog must have boasted! saw the light whe. the last of hi comrades had a. grave in the coral, and applied to Pitcairn the princi pies of Knglish law and industry, as ne understood them. And Pitcairn has prospered from that day. uicse wouia-De colonists or the Marquesas might well derive a les son from Pitcairn island as a sig- nincant social experiment. If thej conclude, as all logical folk must, that Pitcairn failed in eg6ism and succeeded only as a law-abidin community venture, then they have no ready excuse for their own pro posed experiment. They may even become profitable citizens, if the les son is understood, and remain at home and build houses, and rear families, " and take those tasks that come to hand. i EFFICACY OF PRAYER. How potent is prayer? To those f little faith the theologians will reply that its potency is determined by the sincerity of complete belief. Thus we wander into the metaphy sical, where coincidence and theory are queerly tangled. Yet we have both spiritual and scientific testi mony that faith is a tremendous integer in our affairs. Savages pray for material blessings, while ethical prayer is largely the petition of the civilized. As surely as we know that material blessings do not always fol- ow devout prayer, we know that spiritual strength is given to those who pray. An interesting- addition to the library of theology will be the book which a Pennsylvania clergyman is writing. It is entitled "Answered Prayer." While other ministers were content to tell their flocks that prayer is often answered, if the heart is pure, letting the statement stand as proof, the Rev. Russell H. Con- well, pastor of the Baptist temple. Philadelphia, has kept an accounting of the results noted in his own min istry. He cites more than 1000 instances of answered prayer, and supports his faith with detailed nar ratives of the circumstances in each case. The testimony Is not his own. with respect to the individual cases, but is that of persons who sincerely believe that their prayers were spe cifically answered. ' The mere weight of numbers, all confirmatory and concise, would seem to preclude, the general application of coincidence to these attested results. Should such testimony produce a natural result it will, when pub lished, cause a great many wishful persons to practice a neglected de votion. Yet if prayers be answer able, in definite, material ways, om nipotence will not be deceived. We cannot conceive that the plaint of mortals for an adjustment of their own affairs will 'move the interces sion of deity, unless they are abun dantly deserving and something more than that. Ope perceives a ready reason why prayer mar be permitted to strengthen the spiritual nature always, but only to be infre-' quently manifest in a material sense We must take the world as we find it, and work out our own destinies, and leave it the better for' our hav ing lived and we must do this with but a vision of reward, by our own strength and bur own faith in our selves. If it were not so, if all materialistic prayers were granted, the world would no longer be or dered by divinity, but at the whim of mortals. One must be privileged to see Dr, Conwell's book, when it is printed to estimate its worth as testimony to the efficacy of prayer toward ma terial ends. That it must be of some worth is to be admitted for the wonders of faith are not manifest only in Philadelphia. BY-FRODCCTS OP THE TIMES Farmers Want Other Books Than Those Telllne About Fertiliser. A farmer down in New Jersey who is in the habit of reading the books sent out by the state library com mission said: "Seems like city folks down to the state house think. because I'm a farmer, I want to spend my nights reading about fertilizers. Bless your heart! I don't. I want to git out and above fertilizers. I want to read some thing, say, about the stars I see every night. I would admire to know 'em all by name and when one of 'em comes peekm' round the corncrib, to say: 'Why, there's old man Jupiter," familiar and knowin' like." This New Jersey farmer ha9 the right idea of the use of books and reading. He does not want to become so completely absorbed in his work that ..he can neither think nor talk about anything else. He wishes to keep outside of his work and re main master of it. He resents the at- empts of others to dehumanize him. The same problem comes, in greater or less degree, to every one wno is forced to earn a living. By far the largest part of the activities of any individual is concerned with bread and butter. The majority of mankind are never emancipated from the daily struggle to procure food, clothing and shelter. But it makes a vast differ ence whether one is mastered by this necessity or remains master of it. Minneapolis Journal. Those Who Come and Go. Indian Commissioner Sells, who was banqueted at a Lapwai hotel by fifty Nez Perces, probably is accus tomed to such courtesy in his official rounds, though it does not conform to the popular idea of the "Injun. It shows the merit in the republican plans of long ago in lifting the abo rigine out of his blanket, though. . A man met death at Newberg by contact with a loose wire. Nobody saw the accident, and the presump tion is that he took hold of it, as one naturally would. All loose wires are not charged, but some of them are at times. What about those who leave them in that condition? Whether or not Maine Is a polit ical barometer and whether of not TIIE DANUBE IN BRITISH HANDS, certain states art sura to s-r. r-.rnb- One of the first and greatest com- I lican. every republican In these parts war is that I ought to be wearing a Harding and FACE TO FACE WITH AN AUTOCRAT. In its demand that' Portland ship ping shall be released from the stranglehold of the Seattle agent of the shipping board, the Portland Chamber of Commerce has come face to face with the stone wall of opposition erected by Admiral Ben son, the chairman and practically the whole board. On every point that iB raised in the interest of Port land it is found that action has been taken to please the three favored ports of New York, San Francisco and Seattle, which appear to have more influence than all other ports and the interior combined, and that this action will not be changed until the new board established by the Jones law has been organized. That is the edict of Admiral Benson, from which there Is no appeal. we inus nave to aeai witn a new autocrat, subordinate to the chief autocrat, to whom he is directly re sponsible. According to the old law. the board should have five members, but three have resigned and their places have not been filled, and Mr. Donald does not assert himself, so In effect Admiral Benson is "the whole thing." He has reinforced his power by giving orders to his subordinates that they must make no promises or agreements without first obtaining authority from him. That makes his authority absolute, but it also fixes all responsibility on him. Although he refuses to move. Port land must find means to move him. It is intolerable that the right of Portland to do shipping business on equal terms with other ports should be denied and that the commerce of the port should be destroyed at the arbitrary dictate of this one bureau crat. The task of moving him falls more properly on the Oregon dele- mercial results of the British business interests have se- cured control of the navigation of the Danube river, which Germany intended to make one of the chief means of fastening its grasp on the commerce of Austria-Hungary and the Balkan states. The Danube Is the great waterway of Kaumann'a visionary Middle Europe, for it is navigable from Wm, Wurtemburg, to its mouth in the Black sea. It is the main water highway of Wurtem burg, Austria, Czecho-Slovakla, Hun gary, Roumania, Serbia and Bul garia, and is their outlet to southern Russia and Turkey. A British corporation directed bv several of the greatest shipowners and bankers has been formed with a capital of $6,000,000 and has bought the three principal Danube steamship companies, which have hundreds of tugs, passenger steam ers, docks and wharves and over 1000 barges. This company will carry a great traffic in grain, cattle, coal, lumber and oil on the river's 1750-mile course. Under the treaties with Austria and Hungary the river will be regulated by an international commission, which will maintain the channel, make improvements, regu late rates and service and collect dues. The river is navigable for steamers of 8000 deadweight tons as far as Braila, 100 miles from it3 mouth: for vessels of 600 tons and barges of 1500 to 2000 tons as far as Turnu-Severin, 600 miles uo. where a canal was cut through the Iron Gates: and thence to Regens- burg by boo-ton barges and passen ger boats. Draining an area of 300, 000 square miles, the Danube Is to Europe what the Mississippi is to North America, and is the only great river of that continent flowing from west tt east. One of the grand schemes of com mercial world-conquest which were cherished by Germany was the con nection of the Danube and Rhine by means of a ship canal and the deep ening of tne former river to aecom modate larger vessels. The Oder, flowing through Prussia, was to have been connected with the Danube in the same manner. As the Rhine and Elbe and the Elbe and the Oder are already Joined by canals, Germany would then have had a network of waterways by which goods could have been, carried from -any part of the interior of the empire by the shortest route at the lowest cos to tne tsiacK sea without passing through the open sea, where they would have been exposed t6 attack by an enemy or to storms. The pan German beme included absorption of Holland, which would have made the Rhine an all-German river. The Baltic provinces of Russia were to Coolidge button. both sexes. That very old man who was re leased from McNeils island over a year ago, held for counterfeiting. again is in the toils of the law for the same offense. He is now 90 and his next term better would be for life. An Oklahoma prospective bride groom forgot his fiancee's first name when he applied for the marriage license. He'll remember it all right later in married life when he gets over the dearie period. ' This applies to There are few girls in this country who have not heard the nursery rhyme supg by mother: Roek-a-b?re. babr. on the tree ton. Whn t i - wind hlnws the cradle will TOcV : When the bourn breaks the cradle will fall. And down will come cradle, baby ana ail. But how many know the origin of these lines? Shortly after the Pil grim Fathers landed at riymouth, i Mass.. -a party were out in the field. where the Indian women were picking strawberries. Several of these women. or squaws, as they are called, had papooses" that is, babies and, hav ing no cradles, they had them tied up in Indian fashion hung from the limbs of surrounding trees. When the wind blew these cradles would rock. A young man of the party, observing this, peeled off a piece of the bark, and wrote the above lines, which, it is believed, was the first poetry-written in America. Occasionally of late, pessimism has become so intense that there have been predictions of a panic in 1920. But if history is to repeat He elf, says writer in Leslie's, there will be no such financial disaster this year. In no presidential year since the na tion began has a panic occurred. Business may have been dull and there may have been plenty of depres sion, but this has never culminated in a general crash.' The fact is as cu rious as it is reassuring. The explana tion may be that the powers of in dustry and finance are particularly ori guard during presidential cam paigns, having made due preparation beforehand, having trimmed sail care' fully and exercised- special vigilance. They have been ready to meet any possible storm and so have not been struck hard by unexpected blasts. The editor of the Chicago Tribune must be a disciple of Lucullus. Heai him: "Today we picture a steaming gleaming ear of Golden Bantam "corn, fresh trom the pot, its lustre en hanced by a bit of butter, its savor made piquant by a dash of salt, and for those who like it pepper. -The very thought tickles the palate. It Is more than food. It Is an Inspiration. It makes us forget the red terror, the political campaign, the high cost of living, and cling to life and to our dally task for another week, when it may become a reality. Such realities are rare. When one tastes the season's first ear of Golden Bantam corn, fresh from the pot steamed, not hoiled. one's attitude toward life Is subject to change. The rdinary physical processes suddenly take on new importance. The busi ness of fueling the human furnace becomes a pleasure. Faces across the table, bisected as they are by ears of Golden Bantam com, take on new significance. 'They are a product of the corn, full of health, full of strength, full of life, full of posslbill- ies for good, and soon to be full of corn. While machinery business is good as a general thing in the east, auto mobile lines seem on a decline, accord ing to O. C. Feneisaon, who has just returned to the Oregon after four mojiths in the east. He is going on to San Francisco with a shipment of ma chinery just purchased for a plant. which may locate later on the Colum bia river. Mr. Feneisaon said he had occasion to visit a large specialty company manufacturing auto top holders and was told by officials that from 40 to 50 per cent of the orders from the firm had been canceled re cently by reason of a decrease in demand for such accessories. The local man was all over the east, saw the Dempsey fight, visited in St. Joe, Chicago, Grand Rapids and Washing ton, D. C. and talked politics wher ever he could find someone interested. "Harding, is running strong all over the eastf' he said, "and it looks as though Cox is going to be the worst beaten democrat since Cleveland." When he was 14 years of age Judge Martin White ran away from his home in Kansas to fight in the Indian wars of 18G8. Then he came out west and settled at St. Helens and last year ran for county judge. When the votes were counted W. J. Fullerton had beaten him by three ballots and went into office for a month. Then there was a recount and v nite louna nim- self six votes to the good and has been judge ever since. About six months .ago he was reminded of his boyhood escapade during the Indian wars when he received a pension for services at that time. Judge White was at the Imperial yesterday with George M. McBride, manager of the Columbia City Furniture company. Mr. McBride is a son of tl chief Jus tice of the Oregon supreme court and used to be a state senator. Although Captain W. Hclraan hails from Portland he has been so long away from here on ocean voyages that I he had forgotten all about tne nign cost of living. wnen ne put up . the Multnomah he told his friends there about selling a wardrobe trunn to a friend in Japan. It seems he had originally paid $40 for the trunk and thought he was putting over a good business deal when ne boio it tor $60. Captain Helman reached Port land anr) decided he could use a simi lar trunk. He went shopping anu found that the same article would cost him Just $150. When the new. Oregon hotel at Cottage Grove was formally opened Sunday the celebration was not neg lected by Portland torn. . bertson of the Seward and Cornelius drove with his wife and Mr. and Mrs. F W. Beach to the Lane county town to witness the festivities. Mr. Beach is publisher of the Northwest Hotel News and secretary of the Oregon Hotel Men's association. While in the section the party made numerous side trips, returning yesterday. Tom Crawford. La Grande attorney, came clear in from eastern Oregon to -hear Cox. He was bound not to miss anything and went to Salem to hear the candidate speak there, came came back on the train with him ana spent yesterday around the Imperial with fellow democrat. There are two things that will get Mr. Crawford to town, politics and ball games. He is a confirmed ball fan, both foot and base. Along with other things he if an ex-circuit judge. RECOMPENSE IS DIE TO PENDER Writer Thinks State Should Compen sate Him for Years in Prison. PORTLAND, Sept. 13. (To the Edi tor.) After reading the matter con cerning the release of John Arthur Pender in The Oregonian, I am con strained to observe that ' it ie most remarkable that the man after all the nine years of suffering from gross mistreatment by state and society yet retained such clear conception of right and doing right. His will power must have been marvelous to have withstood the dishonor, dietrust and hate that the publio placed upon him at the time of his conviction, and to his everlasting credit may we say that had he been of ordinary men tality he surely would have yielded to prison influence and become one of the forlorn inmates, with a great hate and grudge against society, law and justice, thereby increasing the uncontrollable desire for revenge. It is easy to harbor an imaginary in justice. How much easier must it be to nurse a real case till it re places calm and sober judgment. Yet we find in the governor's statement that "all who Investigated this man found him of the same favorable men tal and moral status at all times." So strongly was the governor con vinced of his innocence that he says: "A great injustice was being done the man in allowing him to continue to be confined in the penitentiary." This being so, how much greater was the injustice done him by the state, the courts and the people in convicting an innocent man and keeping him there for years, and in the same measure did they do injustice to his wife and aged mother. We cannot condemn too strongly the system of so-called justice which permits such gross crimes to be com mitted on innocent men in the name of law and order. In support of this we read the report of the parole board, who. after investigating, say: The evidence which convicted him (Pender) waa of More (Truth Than Poetry. By Jamea J. Montague. The Portland baseball -team has signed a recruit from the California melon league. The main trouble with the team seems to be that too many melon leaguers are already on the payroll. - When the first effect of the threat ened British coal strike is to haTve the nation's sugar ration, the labor party's chance of winning the next election is badly damaged. Prohibition, Governor Cox avers, is now a dead issue in the United States. Just a trifle premature, Gov ernor. It will be a dead issue after the November election. What one sees of Tillamook county, going and coming, looks clean. The creamery and dairy idea is educational and spreads easily. Whoever killed Hedderley, alleged bootlegger, was handy with his gun and so, too, were the killer's com panions. Taking the visit every way. Doc Morrow gets the most satisfaction out of it. - It was managed with rare finesse. "Harding Promises Sober Business Era," says a headline. In short, boozeless administration. "Rain and wet grounds" and it's nearing the end of the season: Isn' it positively disgusting? It really begins to look as if the wets will have to declare a thirst strike. Great day today in the great state- across the Columbia. It is the season for rain, that's all Buy an umbrella. The Chamberlain crowd- had him all their own. Bruce Barton in "Collier's" disposes of the "tired, business man" myth by following the t. b. m. through a typi cal day. We were reminded while reading his article of the story of a young millionaire who claimed to work, but who was eeen one morning to run down the steps of his man sion and jump into his car. "What's your hurry, Dick?" asked a friend who was passing by. - "Oh," said the other as he glanced at his wrist watch, "I've got to get down to the office right away, or I won't be in time to go out to lunch eon..". It is doubtful if the little group of men who proposed tne first labor parade by the Knights of Labor in New York in the fall of 1883 had the least idea of how the idea and the movement would spread. Here, 38 years later, we have Labor day a .legal holiday In all the states, ex cepting possibly three of the western states always the first Monday in September. The Knights of Labor, in 18S2 and again in 1884, held a parade in New York. Then they passed reso lutiona that all parades of the kind were to be held on the same day, the first Monday in September. Workers began agitaiton 'for making the day a legal holiday. Colorado was the first to acquiesce. The Los Angeles Times tells where a number of w. k. people ought to get their mail: ''Candidate Cox, Salt Creek. Wyo. The demagogue, Pleazall, Wyo. The suffragette. New Freedom, Pa, The newly-wed, Honeyville, Utah. The old maid, Primm, Tenn. The bachelor, Jane, Minn. The highbrow. Brqwning. 111. The lowbrow, Nick Carter, Tex. The profiteer. Pirate Cove, Alaska. a There are 1,000,000 blind and at least 400,000 deaf in China. India has 500,000 blind. Nearly 5 per cent of the population of Cairo is said to be physically defective, usually blind or half blind. The natives of the African jungle, instead of being the lusty savages of imagination, are for the most part physically below par. The great majority of them are mal nourished and diseased and marked physical defects are common. - About seven or eight years ago Emmett Cachran came in from Hepp ner looking very much the part of the hayseed. He put up at the Im perial, where some one started quiz zing him about his ranch. It soon developed that Cochran had 13.000 acres of land' fend 30,000 head of sheep and still didn't regard himself as being much of a personage. He is still ranching, but has taken up bank ing as a side issue. Mr. Cochran is again at the Imperial. Another Hepp- ner man at the same hotel is J. w . Bevmer. who shares honors with Cochran both as to banking and stock raising ability. Ed Bartlett, formerly of La Grande but now mayor of Estacada, is a proud father and is proclaiming the fact to acquaintances ai the lm perial. Laist spring his daughter presented him with twin' grandchil dren and this summer his son went to Antwerp to throw the discus at the Olympic games. What more could a parent ask, he reasons. The man who decides what the Marion- county tax roll is going to look like each year is Ben F. West of Salem. Mr. West is county as sessor, but he hasn t forgotten tne time when he was a printer, and it Is still a great temptation for him when he sees a stick of type and an inked-up apron out in somebody s composing room. Mr. and Mrs. West were at the Seward yesterday. Seagoing "rafts to carry lumber from the Columbia river to San Pedro were first built by J. Evenson. Clats- kanie logger, who is at the Benson. The big log floats are 400 feet long and 50 feet wide and are cigar- shaped. The company Mr. Evenson is connected with has its mill In the California town. One of the frequent visitors at the Oregon is Nathan Weil. Hillsboro merchant. Now Mr. Weil is generally a good-natured individual, but ever since Saturday he has' been fairly bursting with glory. He has just cause, for on that day he reached Portland with his rand-new bride from New York. He has been back east for a short time. When the first of the month comes around every who owns a house in Salem flocks to the office of Charles A. Park 'down on Commercial street. The reason is simple; he has charge of the water office, where, incident ally, gas bills must also be paid. Mr. Park is at the Seward. One of the people who see that Ore gon's red-cheeked apples get known over the world is Bennett Ee Beixe don. a ruit broker from New York. He has Just been at Hood River with his sister, Sara De Beixedon. and the pair are now at the Portland. , Mrs. A. G. Barker, who has been In Seattle this summer; registered at the Seward yesterday on her way back to Eugene. She is housemother at the Gamma Phi Beta sorority, and will shortly resume her duties there. Mr. and Mrs. George H. Shinn of St. Helens favored Portland with a visit yesterday. .Mr. Shinn used to be deputy collector of revenue under David Dunne, but now confines his attention to the Columbia County Abstract company, of whlch he is president. the fllmsle.t type He was the victim or puouc opinion anu nut the victim of that dearee of evidence which aaya that no man shall Jtand proved iruilty unless the evidence shown such tq be the caae beyond a reasonable Again, we read: "Public sentiment in Columbia county was at whte heat." Further on it says: "Public opinion was demanding the apprehen sion of someone, and Pender proved to be the victim." I think that the word "haDDened" would be better, as T io not concur with the idea con veyed in the last quotation. I do not believe that public opinion or the the public generally desired the ap prehension or conviction of anyone but the real and guilty party. I am - that it would be impossible to find, even in Columbia county, at that time one person who wa demanding the apprehennsion of merely some Th nu was followed closely at the time and we could only attribute Ma onnviotion. because of the said flimsy evidence, to a com-oinaiiun circumstances and to the fact that the accused did not have the re sources to prolong the cane to the point where public .opinion subsides. Inasmuch as the people of Oregon have through their processes or deprived this man of his honor and liberty and Indirectly nis ageu inui... of her home and causing mucn row and Buffering to all inose '"""f diately concerned, would it not be in keeping with the honor, responsibility and ideals of said people to cause. through their legislative proceed, an appropriation of at least $10,000 to be given him to compensate in n.rt in Ihn loss of nine years' use fulness and the fruits of honest labor which he would have orainamy in quired in that time that he may re- - his aired mother hrr home and to himself and wife a cottage of their own. The cprner stones of this great re ...kir.. a-a its contented ho'iics and ;,(Hs So let us, the holders of the previously said public opinion or .ntiment which condemned the man now acquit ourselves in so far as .. hv restoring to him his due equity in the pursuit of happiness n , .rrf to cause him to for get the great injustice and serve ii a measure toward restoring his con in hnmui nature and man . ,j nk... is th taxpayer who Klltu. " - - would refuse this obligation? tv.. incirwxed sentences apply to all and like treatment should be accorded .11 who have unjustly suffered as did this man. I". nuoi.oy.., -4216 Sixty-fourth street North. AMBITION. I used to believe that the haughtiest thing Since the days of old Tiglathpelesar (The khedive. you know), was aa early day king Like Attila. Richard of Caesax. I fancied in youth that a king on a throne With vassals and subjects to cower. Whenever he spoke in a threatening ton Held the peak of unlimited power. When feeling abused, as the best of us do Who crawl this terrestrial globe on, I often have felt that I'd not be so blue If I had but an ermine trimmed robe on. I have longed to bark out rasping words of command. And issue brief, roughly termed orders. And shake like an earthquake a ter rorized land Clear out to its uttermost borders. But I hanker no more for a sceptre and crown. No power or pelf Td be- rich in. I have seen the effect of one terrible frown When frowned by & cook in a kitchen. She dries up the beefsteak: the eggs she serves raw; She makes a black paste of the gravy: And the household regards her with reverent awe For a man is the slave of his slavey. And now when I'm feeling unhappy and down (A state that I often am brought to No longer I yearn for a sceptre and crown To make folks behave as they ought to. Just give me an apron, a long handled poon. And into the kitchen inject me. And let me with kettles and sauce pans commune. And I'll make the most haughty respect me! Hope. Let school teachers he of good cheer. A young man who followed that pro fession for four years has just in herited ISO.OOP.OOO. - Decide for Yourarir, Is this a presidential campaign, or merely a dissension in the Roosevelt family? nig: Bnnlnesa Chance. There is a fortune awaiting the man who discovers an effective anti dote for home brew. (Copyright 1020 by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) To Mountain Maid. By Grace 1".. HalL LNSCIr PUT ON I'ROGBESSireS Inference From Cox' Sluh Fond TalK Is Tkat Taey Are for Sale. OAK GROVE, Or.. Sept. J 2. To the Editor.) If Governor Cox's accusa tions were true, -rfho would he expect to be bought? Is his estimation of the democratic voter of the kind that he thinks it is boodle Instead of prin ciple that he is Interested in? Being an old time-politician he should have a good chance to judge that party. Or is his reference to sale directed at the independent, progressive and new voters of male sex or does he hold the woman voters in such esti mation that he thinks the republicans could buy them? Where there is a buyer there must be a purchasable product to do busl ness. and he surely gives the repub licans credit for sense enough not to waste money purchasing voters it al- readv has. So the purcnases must have been .in his mind from some of the above-named elements. It would look as if they would be pleased to h classed in the purchasable class In no other way can a logical deal be carried out, for a buyer does not nurchase that which he has Governor Cox is feeding fine words and nromises to the progressive voter In hf sneeches and accusing him of beine- for sale in his slush fund at- i-i.saiinnn ro we stand for that? I. as a Roosevelt republican, do not. Thit onlv hone -the democrats have is to get up a strife between the dif ferent elements of the republican nartv and they work on that at elec tlon time and between times they fiirht a progressive as hard as they do a rejrular. Do you hear of Cover nor Cox advising support of progres sive republican nominees lor con gress? There are lots of them in the west. "Progressive" means with a demo crat, "you vote for me and I will vote the 'straight democratic ticket my self." On the thoroughfare we've passed, say mountain maid. Where the superficial touch so long has lain. You, a timid misplaced creature, half afraid, Child of forest glen, oft kissed bv sun and rain: In your eyes the tenderest blue of high-hung skies. On your cheek the rosiest tint of dawn's deep glow; And I marvel that from out your paradise To tho feverish town you ever care to go. You have braided rays ef sunshine in y,ur hair. On your lips the elderberry Juice is red. And the sweetness and the freshness of the air In your, mountain home is haleed 'round your head; You arc like the frightened creatures of the wood. Shy and modest as 'twas meant that maids should be. Yes we'd change you yes, we'd change you if we could. And we'd make you like the other maids we see. We would robe you in the garments that we know. We would tone the flaming color in your cheek. We would regulate your accents soft and low. And we'd teach you when and how 'twere best to speak: But O maid, long not for madness of our thrills. From the marts and streets of men real joy has fled. Rest content among the glowing sun drenched hills. That the wine upon your lips may long be red! PROGRKSSIVE. Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Clerf of Burns are at the Seward. Mr. Clerf Is a rancher and found his duties at home' calling him back to Harney .county last night. His wife will remain here some time longer. J. Myrick of Yakima was among the new arrivals at the Benson yes terday. Ho is manager of the motion picture .house operated by the Jensen & Von Herberg interests of Portland in the Washington town. Instead of taking his stock through Seattle for shipment, H. Chambers prefers to deal with the Portland market. He is a stockman from the country around Olympia and is to be found at the Perkins. HOMH SONtJS. My ain lad comes a-doon the brae. And. oh. he is sae.fatr With fluted lip and crackling "e'e. And bonnie. stark red hair. He whistles as he steeks the door. And oh. I fling it wide! ATrd set the humble paritch. oot. The bannocks doon beside. We sit agin the dosing fire, Jtony a nicht the same. For there's naethins 'ike in wurld A simple heart and hame! M. NKLSO.V the Land Offices In Oregon.' .RICKRBALL. Or.. Sept. 12. ITo th Editor.) Where are the public land offices located in Oregon? I would like to get information concerning homestead land. SUBSCRIBER Burns, l.a Grande, Lakeview. fort land, Rostburg,' The -Dailes, Vale. In Other Days. Twentj-Mve Years Ago. From The Oregonian of September 14, 189n. New York. Yesterday was an ex citing day in Wall street and for a time threatened to be a repetition Qf Black Friday of years ago. Washington. Information as to se cret Investigations made by order of the navy department indicates that President Cleveland is seriously con sidering intervention by the L'nited States in Cuba and that war with Suain is a oossibf lit v. A buffalo escaped yesterday from the wild west show at East Davis and East Twelfth streets and was lassoed by cowboys at East Eleventh street. A committee will go over the line of the proposed Klickitat railway next week for the purpose of secur ing deeds to the right of way. Fifty Years Age. From The Oregonian of September 14. 1870. Berlin. The official report of the capitulatioh of Sedan states that 122, 000 prisoners were taken. Washington. The contract for transporting the mail daily from Oro- ville. Cat., to Portland has been let to Hill Beachyfor J158.000 per aja-num. Salem. The Oregon legislature, met for the sixth biennial session. The senate was organized and elected John D. Fay of Jackson county presi dent. Ben Hayden was elected speaker of the house. The message of Gov ernor George L. Woods was submitted to the legislature. Two very large kilns of brick, the second one for one of the companies and the third for the other this year. are now burning at tne yaras on I am- hill street at B street. Klsrht Typea of Lawful FVe. MULIXO. Or.. Sept. 13 (To the Edi tor.) Iwuld like to know the herd ing law as to line fences between twe ranches, or two neighbors. What kind and what height of fence is lawful? How long does a verbal agreement stand good? SUBSCRIBER. Eight types of lawful fence are de scribed In the statute. Inquirers as to lawful fences should mention the type they have in mind, as the entire statute is too long for quotstion In these columns. The question as to verbal contracts is too indefinite to permit an answer.