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THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN. PORTLAND, AUGUST 19, 1906.
LETTERS
FDR POSTAL SAV1HGSBANKS
THIS NATION CONSPICUOUS IN
LACK OF THEM.
All Other Civilized Nations Hate
Operated Them .Successfully
for Many Years.
TVOOD9TOCK, Or., Aug. , 14. (To the
Editor.) Apropos of the looting of the
Milwaukee-Avenue State Bank of Chi
cago, the question is very pertinent, "Why
liave we not been given postal savings
banks?
If security, soundness and the people's
welfare were desired, why have not postal
savings banks been adopted?
In England these institutions were es
tablished in 1861; in Canada in 1SS8; in
Austria-Hungary in 1S!3. They have also
Teen established in Germany. France,
Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, Italy,
Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, India, Cey
lon, Finland, Japan, Argentina, Australia,
New Zealand, Hawaii and Trinidad.
Postal Savings banks have been adopted
by almost every civilized nation in the
world except the United States. Why
should we not have them?
Dr. C. I. Taylor stated in the Medical
World that he had corresponded with a
large number of Congressmen on the
subject and In reply to this question W.
W. Bower, then member of Congress
from San Diego, Cal., sent a copy of his
postal savings bill, which had been pend
ing in Congress for years, and wrote:
"Bankers and money sharks do not want
any postal savings system. That is the
answer to your 'Wby not?' "
Just think! A score of countries have
government banks, which are absolutely
safe, ' sound and secure. The United
Plates is a conspicuous exception. Why
Is this? Bankers and money Bharks do
not want it. Of course not. No matter
bow secure these United States banks
would be, the money power wishes to re
serve this business for themselves. The
money power Is stronger In the United
Btates than anywhere else.
Were the Government to engage in the
banking business they would be crowded
out. Their golden harvests would be
reaped by the Government, which is the
people themselves. The stream of wealth
flowing Into their pockets would cease.
That Is why we have private and Na
tional Instead of strong government
. banks.
One of the Functions of Congress
Freedom says: "Under the Constitu
tion of the United States it is the sover
eign function of Congress to supply the
Nation with money. The function of sup
plying money ever since governments
were first established has been always
regarded as a sovereign function: 1. e.,
a function belonging exclusively to the
sovereign power, to the government lt
Sflf. Congress in the very beginning of
our government exercised this sovereign
function one the exercise of which more
than any other dlrertly touches every
Individual In the Nation, for the reason
that In civilized society moty Is an ab
solute necessity. In a civilized state the
demand for any product or commodity or
service, whether it be the simplest ne
cessity or the greatest luxury, expresses ,
itself In the shape of money, civilization's '
sole purchasing agent. It Is only the beg
gar who makes a demand directly for
food or Clothing. It Is for this reason
that it Is said "the demand for money
1 equivalent to the sum of demands for
all things whatsoever money being the
Instrumentality through which the wants
of man are satisfied. "
Favoritism to Banks.
It is characteristic of the money power
to compel the Government to turn over
the sovereign function of issuing money
to them, and characteristic of the people
also is their dullness In perceiving the
Iniquity of It all. There Is no reason
why the Government should , not print
and use its money instead of giving It to
the banks. If Its money is good In the
hands of bankers it is good In the hands
of the Government. Why should the Gov
ernment give the banks the face of their
bonds in bank notes, and still pay the
banks the interest on the bonds? Would
you give a man who held your note the
money for the note and then pay him In
terest on the note also? But that Is just
what the Government does to bondhold
ersIf they are National bankers. (Write
your members of Congress for a copy of
the banking laws.) Not only are the
bankers drawing interest on the notes,
but when the notes are redeposlted by
some one whom the borrower has paid,
the bank, loans them again and gets an
other Interest. This is done on an average
of ten time3 for each dollar.
An Object Licsson.
The Appeal to Reason has the follow
ing Interesting article: "The Pittsburg
(Pa.) Press of March 31 calls attention
with pride to the fact that savings banks
reports show that deposits are $600,000,000
greater than all the moneys of every kind
in the Nation: that if the depositors of
savings banks alone were to withdraw
their deposits there would not be money
enough in the Nation to pay them. The
Press says if they were to do so, other
nations would supply the money thus
withdrawn, so that business would go
right on. Jut think of the other nations
sending us over their pound, shilling and
pence; their peso, crown', franc, colon,
sucre. piasters, mark, drachma, gourde,
rupee, lira, yen, florin, sol. mllres, ruble,
etc. What a nice time we would have
doing business with the money of other
nations. One nation does not furnish an
other nation money. Metal passes back
and forth between nations, but it is not
money until It has gone through the
mint of the nation. But what strikes me
most In the matter Is that all the money
In the nation Is owned by savings bank
depositors, and that the trusts use that
money to organize monopolies and skin
the very people who furnish the very
money they are using! If the people were
towithdraw their money from the banks
every monopolist In the Nation- would bs
broken, but the people would not be
broken, for they would have their money
In thetr pockets to take advantage o the
tumble In prices that would occur.
"It was the knowing of this fact that
during a run on some Chicago bank a
few years ago the late P. D. Armour
stood along the line of depositors and
urged them to leave their money in bank,
offering to give his personal security for
their deposits. If the depositors had all
demanded their money. Armour would
have been ruined, and with him many
others whose sole hold on their wealth
Is the fact that the masses stupidly put
their money In banks for these gentle
men to manipulate."
The banks of the United States owe
their depositors 19,000,000,000 and have less
than 900.000,000 In cash!
Here is a nut for the eminent finan
ciers to crack: There is, according to
United States reports, $2,500,000,000 of
all kinds of money in the country. Of
this amount the National banks alone
have loaned out at Interest $4,206,893,
078. Where is the balance? Well,
maybe there will not be a harvest by
and by!
"Secretary Shaw has rushed to the
rescue of Wall street and deposited
$4,500,000 of Government money in
about 25 National banks throughout
the country, for the purpose of im
proving the market price of the out
standing 2 per cent consols. A re
markable feature of the Secretary's
financial operations is that after this
deposit of millions was made the
banks were allowed a week In .which
FROM THE
to raise the collateral security. Sup
pose the banks had defaulted in the
interim?" (Appeal to Reason.)
When the speculators in Wall street
have put all the money In banks in
watered stocks, the Government rushes
to the rescue and deposits more mil
lions of public funds In the banks, so
the game of gambling can proceed
The people furnish the money for the
speculators to gamble with.
Everything possible is dona to favor
them. Banking laws are not enforced
and Inspection is a farce.
I know it Is hard for an American
citizen to believe aught against his
beloved country, but in the light of
the foregoing, why should we not have
postal savings banks?
CHAS. PTE.
STRIKES AT MRS. DUNIWAY
Mrs. Uuruh Declares "W". C. 'T. V.
the Most Potent Suffrage Body.
PORTLAND, Or., Aug. 15. (To the
Editor.) The various communications
in The Oregonlan concerning the temperance-suffrage
question have tempt
ed me to "rush into print," but busy
cares have prevented. The articles this
morning from a "White Ribboner"
and "A Woman Prohibitionist," with
the comments thereon have aroused me,
particularly as I am being congratu
lated over the phone as being the au
thor of the first letter. I hasten to dis
claim this honor, though in the main I
am in accord with the sentiments ex
pressed. Permit me to say that no such
awful breach exists between the W. C.
T. U. and the suffragists as the com
ments indicate.
The attitude of Mrs. Duniway now
made public, is no surprise to us. It is
well known that she is not reticent in
the expression of opinion and has never
been on this particular topic. Her an
tipathy to temperance, and particular
ly the White Ribbon phase of it is so
well known as only to provoke a smile.
1 am sure, however, that the hatred is
not shared by most of the members of
the equal suffrage for or of Portland.
The National president of the Equal
Suffrage Association is a prominent
White Ribboner. Susan Anthony was
first a temperance worker and while in
later years, because of the absorbing
duties of her suffrage work, was not
prominent in our ranks, was ever with
us and was an enthusiastic friend of
Miss Willard. These women represent
the equal suffrage movement. Mrs. Dun
iway has been able, because of her
persistence, to hold the leadership in
Oregon until recently, but has never
been a factor in shaping the policy of
the 'National Equal Suffrage Associa
tion. Miss Gregg, who was the manager al
most till the last of the campaign here,
was an old friend of mine, and a White
Ribbon woman. 1 organized two of the
counties and did much platform work
in others and no one ventured to sug
gest to me that I remove my white
ribbon. That the campaign carried
on, here was made possible by the
White Ribbon women I know to be true
as I assisted in outlining the routes
and Know upon whom we depended.
No other organization, not even the
equal suffrage, has done so nuch as
the W. C. T. U. to build up suffrage sen
timent, not only in Oregon, but all
over the United States. Our women
have been solicited for funds to carry
on the campaign Just entered upon. No
decision has been made as to the fu
ture plans, and will not be, I think,
until the annual meeting, but I can
venture to say that it will take more
power than Abigail Saott Duniway
possesses to command silence on the
part of our organization on this vital
question.
We have a department of equal suff
rage in our work with Mrs. L. A. Nash
at its head and are fully equipped to
carry on an educational campaign. We
have the advantage of having a per
manent organization throughout the
state, most of our local unions having
the department organized also. I ven
ture to predict that we shall carry on
our own campaign of education,
through our own literature and our
own speakers. But while doing this
there will be no ill-natured opposition
to the work of the Oregon Equal Suff
rage Association, most of whom are
women of beautiful character and
strong Christian graces.
The difficulties, they must carry in
the shape of one who is determined to
lead whether wanted or not, who would
rather ruin than fall to rule, is as much
as these women can well bear. I am
sure I can pledge them that, while for
the sake of harmony we will work our
own fashion, we shall bear no malice,
and shall walk the same way with
them.
We are indignant at the continual
and petty thrusts at our organization
through Mrs. Duniway, but we are a
lot of sensible women and. knowing
that she does not represent the real
equal suffrage movement in Oregon and
that the W. C. T. U. is too large for her
to inspire, we Bhall smilingly pursue
our way.
Women might "nave suffered these
things to make an unhealing breach a
half century ago. but not now. "A
woman prohibitionist" will see later
that the disloyalty of one woman to a
principle does not change the princi
ple, and will. I am sure, not be so il
logical as to ally herself with the
"aunties." We do not expect the millen
nium to dawn with woman's enfranchise
ment. Women are the daughters of men
and will make some mistakes doubtless,
as their fathers have done, but if my
knowledge of women. In 20 years of pub
lic work among all classes, is worth any
thing, they will give the balance of power
politically In favor of cleanness and right
and of course this will mean for tem
perance and prohibition.
Mrs. Duniway will have a hard time
to "deliver the goods" to keep her pledge
that the women will vote against the
present local option law.
God bless the women of the Oregon
Equal Suffrage Association, who must
suffer most from this embarrassment,
and grant them, wisdom bravely to meet
and conquer it.
We'll fight In the next regiment to
yours, and when you change command
ers we will Join hands. Meantime we will
welcome any mho desire to work under
our banner.
ADA WALLACE! L'NRUH.
Spiritual Quality of Tennyson.
PORTLAND, Aug. 12. (To the Editor.)
Anent the communication. "Tennyson
and Immortality," in The Sunday Ore
gonlan, I desire to point out that Tenny
son regarded Immortality from the point
of view of the spiritualist, rather than
that of the Christian. He based his
knowledge of Immortality upon conscious
communion with discarnate spirits, as
witness the following verses from "'In
Memoriam:"
How pure at heart and sound In head,
With What divine affection bold
Should be the man whose thoughts would
hold
An hour's communion with the dead.
In vain ehalt thou or any call
The spirits from their golden day.
- Except, like them, thou too canst say
My eplrit Is at peace with all.
They haunt the silence of the breast.
Imaginations calm and fair.
The memory like a cloudless' air.
The conscience as a sea at rest. '
But when the heart is full of din.
And doubt beside the portal waits.
They can best listen at the gates
And hear the household Jar within.
PEOPLE ON CURRENT TOPICS
TAUGHT NEGRO "NO GOOD"
BLACK MAN'S EDUCATION .HELD
TO BE "LABOR LOST."
Southern Writer Says Schools Unfit
Colored Race for Their
Right Place.
PORTLAND, Or., Aug. 18.-(To the Ed
itor.) Negro education is "love's labor
lost." The many chlvalric families of
Dixie who have made this Northwest em
pire their home, and are proud of their
"new home" and "new friends," can but
think, as the afterglow of the Pacific
sunsets sweep their scintillations far
away o'er the Eastern horizon, of their
once home, sweet home, ere it was ac
cursed, as it is today, by negro domina
tion and rapine.
The careful observer in his travels over
the Union, cannot fail to see that in the
Southern states the negro has the best
facilities for educational advantages, not
ably in Georgia, where both white and
black are liberally educated, at the ex
pense of the general public, through the
public school system. Negro higher edu
cation comes through a very liberal as
sistance of Northern capital, and through
state and National aid.
The Constitutional amendment enfran
chising the negroes, who were an ignor
ant, semi-barbarous race, and who re
main so to this day, was a mistake; how
ever, this mistake was not made by the
Southern people. This same amendment
has- caused more estrangement between
the better elements of the North and the
chivalrous, respectable element of the
South than any other legislation from the
halls of Congress. .
Social equality can never become a fac
tor; .for there can be no Intellectual or
social affinity between the two races; the
white race will be master. These same
conditions confronted the whites and red
men; educational advantages were given
the Indian, and I have yet to know of
more aborlglals than one can count on
the fingers of his two hsmds that re
tained their acquired civilization; contra
riwise, I have seen them go back Into
their Indian barbarism, and that with
keener enjoyment, as though their con
tact with civilization had only Intensi
fied their savagery and the bestiality of
their savage natures.
Good Schools for Negroes.
The negro colleges of the South have
the best curriculum and the best corps
of teachers: the negro schools of our
cities are likewise so blest. There are
four negro colleges to one white college
in the South today that are aided by
Northern capital.
Our white schools have not standing
room for the pupils who want an educa
tion, and who are turned away by the
scores w.ith the remark, "No room." In
conversation with a certain professor of
one of the. white colleges, he said to me:
"We of the South cannot give the advan
tages to our students that are given to
the negro pupils in their colleges. First,
we are not as well educated as their
teachers; second, the teachers in the
negro schools, being Northern people, are
better paid, and having had better advan
tages in the North than we of the South
for the acquirement of an education, are
better qualified to instruct."
In order to .improve ourselves, we travel
abroad during our vacations, we go North
and East and West; we are acquainting
ourselves with the world and all It con
tains: we are becoming closer in our ties
of cordial friendship, with our Northern
friends; we are exchanging Ideas with
them for our good, and this exchange of
ideas has broken down the barriers of
distrust, engendered by civil strife, and
today, I am most happy to say, we are
one people, one language arid one In pur
pose, and that purpose ij" America for
Americans, and for that higher standard
of American citizenship that comes by
true education of the Anglo-Saxon race,
which is the only race for this continent
of free and enlightened people.
"Airs" of "Cultus" Negroes.
The many negro colleges of the South,
with their attending hosts, are good so
far as they go. Their many graduates
scatter abroad in different vocations or
as teachers. Some are excellent in this
respect: others soon put on supercilious
airs, that even the whites are not able to
afford. A an instance, I once noticed on
a Decatur train, a pretty colored girl seat
herself in the white coach; the conductor
very politely asked her to go into the col
ored coach; she declined to do so, stat
ing she was1 a graduate of college, and
was as good, if not better, than most of
the whites, and more especially than the
"poor white trash."
And just here would I express my wish
to you of the North, to you of the East
and to you of the West; you who are so
lavish with your gifts of money to found
colleges for the blacks; come to us and
found colleges for tlis same "poor white
trash," so-called by this negro college
bred girl. They are deserving of your
sympathy, they are deserving of your
help and assistance; more especially as
they are of your complexion, and blood
should be thicker than water; therefore
they, to a certain extent, demand and
have a right to expect your cordial cor
operation in their educational welfare.
AVhites Need Education. .
The Piedmont region of the South, being
of an elevation of 1000 feet and over, is
the most salubrious and healthy region
of the world. In this locality is the
place to found and establish a university
that will be to the whites what Cornell
and Stevens are to the North and Stan
ford to the "West.
In the country the leaven of progress la
working. Constant contact with the
mighty forces that are developing this
wonderland of rich mineral and agricul
tural resources sharpens the ideas of the
country boy and girl, and today they are
crying out that Macedonian cry, "come
and help us"; we, too, want knowledge;
we, too, want an education."
What a vast field for Christian, unsec
tarian, non-political usefulness here pre
sents Itself to the benevolent, charitable
and wealthy people of the United States
to come and help us! Build us a Cornell
University, a Stevens, a Stanford, with
preparatory departments. Give us work
on the college farm, that we may thus
acquire practical agriculture; give us
shops that we may acquire trades; give
us the arts, that we may become profes
sionals; give us the sciences, that we may
become scientific, and, above all, give us
co-education In all branches of art and
science, that the future mothers of our
Southland may know the culinary art as
they may know the winsome arts of so
ciety. What a revolution would ensue in do
mesticity if our Northern capitalists
would see this as It Is! Education would
help the country folks to change the
snuff stick for a more Intellectual thought
entlcer; education would change the un
dercurrent of commonplace, intolerable
twaddle to literature and science: educa
tion would beget a longing, irresistible
in the extreme, for a higher plane of
civilization than an ox cart locomotion
and the attending conversation that one
hears coming out from under Its flapping
cotton sides. '
Learning Does Negro No Good.
Negro education Is "Love's labor lost"
in 99 instances out of 100. What they
get a smattering of is soon forgotten;
their whole system ot remembrance is
learn today, forget tomorrow; no reten
tion, simply automatons.
Again, among the artisan classes the
negro is a factor, and a very imperfect
one at that. He can drive a nail: he can
shove a Jack-plane: he can lay brick and
stone in a manner; but he is no logician:
he cannot, conceive nor design, nor can
he arry the same into execution. A
white boss must always be over him to
make him understand and comprehend
his . allotted task. The amount of work
he does at the trades is about one-half
what a white man will do. And a so
called skillful negro artisan, of whatever
trade, cannot do In a day of ten hours
one-half what a white skillful artisan
will do in the same trade or occupation.
This is an everyday occurrence. The
great objection to negro help is Its shlft
lessness, its vanity and petty peculations
in the home, and its lack of stability
when at work in whatever avocation.
Black Man a Political Misfit.
The enfranchisement of the negro
placed in the political arena thousands
of ignorant, semi-barbarous beings with
not the first intellectual thought in their
makeup. And if the North could but
know of the carpetbag monstrosities that
were in the South during the reconstruc
tion period and of their piratical domina
tion and of the way they used the brutal
negro to further their own schemes of
self - aggrandizement, the true Northern
people would know a tale of horrible
brutalities that they would blush to think
had ever happened to their white kith
and kin in our Southland.
And yet, during all these years, the
good people of the North have not taken
a single serious step to help the poor
white trash, so-called. No schools have
been opened to them: no halls -of learn
ing have opened 'their doors to receive
them; in their log cabin homes, window
less, they sit and. gaze out of the open
door, and wonder, in many instances, if
England is further away than Virginia,
or If New York City Is as large as At
lanta. And when they come into Atlanta
and see the electric cars, they put me in
mind of the Indians who told me in
Montana of the trains "heap wagon; no
hoss."
Little Money for Schools.
In discussing the status of co-education
in the South, it is due to her people to
say that they have not had the financial
ability to carry out their desires in that
line. The cultured classes view with deep
concern the needs of the masses for
greater school facilities, but the South is
poor in this world's goods as compared
with other sections of the Union.
It must be borne in mind that she
emerged from the war thoroughly dis
mantled. Its effects upon her material
prosperity were as fatal as the deadly
upas upon human life, not to mention
she was conquered and hopes shattered.
Such of herubstance as had not been
consumed In defending the cause she
espoused, did not escape the demands
and requirements - of an invading and
conquering army. The carnage of war
ended and her resources gone, the South
found her peculiar system of labor also
lost to her, arid from this last 'she has
not, and never can recover while depend
ing upon the shiftless negro, and here is
a wonderfully rich and Inviting field for
white labor of the better, class.
It is not designed here to discuss an
issue that should be relegated to the
past. The lapse of nearly a half century
should cool pasion, assuage grief and
give opportunity for reflection. We are
now, with our, sister states, the American
people and under one flag, and I do as
sure my fellow countrymen of all sec
tions that if there come a time In the
future when the proud banner of this
great nation shall want for stalwart
arms and brave hearts to bear It onward
and upward, none will respond with more
alacrity than the sons of the Sunny
South.
Not Understood In the North.
My contact with these people has given
me opportunity for. close observati-.i and
keen scrutiny. They have been in the
past, and are now, misunderstood by the
masses of the North, and especially by
those who have never been with us. This
people Is bearing up bravely under a mas
sive burden a problem the solution of
which will yet stagger' the statecraft of
this whole nation. It is. In my opinion,
a burden the people of the North will,
sooner or later, feel called upon to help
them bear, rather than to aggravate the
peculiar and complex nature -of it. From
politicians there is not anji hope of re
lief to the South in this vexed question
of the negro. It must come from the
conservative masses, who have at heart
the' good of the whole country.
A large percentage of these are labor
ing under a delusion a to the character
of the negro and his usefulness as a
citizen. I aver as a solemn- truth that
he Is today an incumbrance and a po
litical nuisance, and I do not put It too
strongly If. I add, a blighting incubus
upon as fair a portion of this great
American continent as the sun shines
upon a section abounding in wonderful
resources of wealth and climate, and
needing only the strong arm, brain and
money of the white man to work out as
tonishing results. We invite the better
element to come among us, the better
class of the Northern and Western peo
ple, but not the foreign scum: we invite
the coming of such an army of relief
and will welcome it. We need only to
bs released from the domination of a
seml-barbarlc race to become a section
to which every American citizen can
point with pride.
And if this grand end Is not accom
plished at an early day, the past record
of the Anglo-Saxon race will belle Itself.
The field is too inviting, and the suffer
ing of a gallant people too prolonged, to
admit of longer delay. Let a benevolent
North once realize the true line of duty
as to a brother and the end will be
reached.
Negro Had Done Nothing for Himself
One hundred years of Hayti and San
Domingo and many years of our own
efforts to make a useful citizen of the
negro should surely have some influence
In' determining his possibilities. The
thoughtful man, free from prejudice,
kindly disposed and content to view the
negro character In its true light, will
analyze him thus: In a period of 25
years, aided by the tremendous power of
the general government and a sympa
thizing North in money and educational
advancement, he has done nothing for
himself.
As a slave, he divided the Union, pre
cipitated a war, deluged the country in
blood, cost millions of money, created a
public debt, estranged our citizens, and
continues to estrange and retard the de
velopment of one of the fairest portions
of our Union. And finally, to the negro
may be traced indirectly the requirement
of a pension list of $150,000,000. which for
60 years must remain a burden to the
taxpayers of the country.
WILLIAM W. GOODRICH.
White Ante Benefit Crops.
New York Herald.
Natives of the east coast of Africa do
not object to the presence of the great
white ant colonies in their neighborhood.
The ants exercise great fertilizing power
on the crops. A resident of that country
writes: -"Every season I have seen the
wonderful effects the white ant hill pro
duces on the Kaffirs' maize and corn.
Whenever there happens to be an ant hill
in a garden its immediate vicinity can
be at once distinguished, as the maize
and corn are fully double the size of the
surrounding crop. The bush country . a
few miles from this place Is swarming
with white ants and has also a large na
tive population. The ants do not attack
green crops to any extent."
III ITS ECONOMIC ASPECT
HOW EQUAL SUFFRAGE WOULD
RAISE WOMEN'S WAGES.
Mrs. Eva Emery Dye Comments on
" the Recent Attack Upon the
White Rlbboners.
OREGON CITY. Aug. 16.-(To the Edi
tor.) It Is with regret that I have noted
the recent attack on the W. C. T. U. The
true leader conserves every force and
hamonlzes them. We all ' recognize
the splendid pioneer work of Mrs. Duni
way, a woman who has stood for a cer
tain principle through days of unpopular
ity and days of recognition, and now. In
the evening of her tempestuous life, it is
not wise to take too seriously the final
flashes of a spirit that has long been ac
customed to battle. Rather let it pass as
the ebullitions of an impatient tempera
ment that longs to see the fruition of a
llfework before answering the summons
to a wider hereafter. The suffrage work
in Oregon is now in younger hands,
trained in newer and more conservative
methods, and averse to the "hammer
and tongs" of yesterday.
Many Forces Working.
Many forces are working toward the
enfranchisement of woman; first, the vast
body of suffragists who look upon the
ballot as the distinctive emblem of citi
zenship; secondly, the noble work of the
W. C. T. U., who, though numerically
few in Oregon, have fought a valiant
battle; third, the various organizations
of progressive thinkers, socialists, spir
itualists, and others who are seriously
studying the problems of human duty and
responsibility; fourth, almost all philan
thropic organizations looking toward the
welfare especially of women and children;
fifth, the Grangers and fraternal orders,
accustomed to seeing women stand side
by side with men in all executive and ad
ministrative offices, and sixth, and most
important of all, the laboring people
themselves, who, through labor unions
and federated trades councils all over the
country are beginning to realize that
5,000,000 women are working for wages
so low that it amounts to coolie labor in
the United States. The labor unions and
trades councils, both state and National,
have repeatedly passed resolutions Indors
ing woman suffrage, and in many cases
have assisted women in organizing unions
for their own protection, but in every
case have realized that the ballot in
woman's hands was the surest safe
guard. It is not strange that mills and factories
will employ women for 75 cents to $1 a
day, in preference to men at $3 a day, if
they can do the woik. But it Is strange
that men themselves cannot see that it
is better for the man to get his $3 a day
and let the woman stay at home.
Equal Wages.
The first law passed in Colorado was
that ien and women should have equal
wages for equal work, and the suffrage
states are the only states in which this
rule does prevail. As between the two,
manufacturers prefer men, unless in cases
of special or delicate workmanship, for
which women are better adapted than
men. In teaching, for example, women
are better adapted than men to the care
of the young. And only in the suffrage
states do women teachers receive the
same pay as men for the same work. Dis
crimination in wages is the bane not only
of women's lives but of men's, for every
time a woman can be found to do a man's
work for less, she will be given that work.
And women have no redress for the low
wages until the ballot gives them power
to make and maintain laws for equality.
This very law for equal wages for equal
work has raided women's wages in Colo
rado 5 per cent, and at the same time
has diminished the number of those who
are driven into lves of shame 3 per cent.
That one argument alone speaks volumes
for the beneficence of the ballot in the
hands of women. ,
Few Immoral Women.
One great fear among good people has
been that immoral women woujd prepon
derate in the use of the ballot. This Is
not borne out in a single case where suf
frage prevails. On the contrary, the un
fortunate ones prefer to remain un
known. They do not register; they hide
and endeavor to efface themselves from
public recognition. But even if this were
not true, are not most of the women of
America good? Is it not the good women
that are appealing for the ballot? Even
if. every bad woman in the whole coun
try voted it would be but an insignificant
per rent, and have they not Just as good
a right to vote as all the vast army of
bad men?
And finally, the suffragists of Oregon
have an ideal president in Mrs.' Henry
Waldo Coe. a woman whose modesty is
only surpassed by her calmness and ex
ecutive ability In the midst of multitudi
nous details. She can do ten things at
once and do every one well. A woman
of broad education, of superior mind and
charming personality, she is especially
fitted for the honorable position to which
she has been chosen by unanimous elec
tion. EVA EMERY DYE.
"SELL NO PRUNES; WAIT."
W. K. Newell Says Prices Are Sure
to Go Higher.
GASTON, Or., Aug. 15. (To the Editor.)
There is a dispute as to the reason for
the present low price of prunes, but let
the reason be what it may, no grower
should contract at the present time at
such figures. Everyone knows that there
is a shortage in the dried peach and apri
cot pack, as well as nearly all kinds of
canned fruits, and consequently there
should be a market at a fair price for
every- dried prune that will ba produced
this year. In the article from Salem In
your columns yesterday, Tlllson & Co.
say that the packers are doing their best
to keep up prices. Perhaps they are. I
do not wish to do them any injustice,
but why then do they. In the next line,
proceed to say that California will this
year provide 200,000,000 pounds and Ore
gon 40,000,000 pounds, when the best In
formation that any one outside the pack
ers' circle can get Is that the "California
crop will be from ' 120.000.000 to 140,000.000
pounds, and Oregon's 25,000.000. A differ
ence of 75,000.000 to 100,000,000 pounds
amounts to something, especially when
the Eastern jobber Is depending on the
local packer for his crop reports.
I have examined many orchards and
interviewed many growers, and I believe
the estimate of 25,000,000 pounds for the
crop of the Northwest to be a safe,
conservative one. By no possibility can
the present number of dryers, operated as
they must be, short handed, turn out 40,
000.000 pounds. Note the report yesterday
from Dundee, second only to the Salem
district in production, that the crop
would be much lighter than expected
earlier in the season.
A report came from Salem some days
ago that fully 60 per cent of the "crop
had already been contracted to Eastern
jobbers by the packers here. I venture
to say that not one-half of 60 per cent
has been contracted to the packers by
the Oregon growers.
The thing for prunegrowers all 'over
the Northwest to do Is, to get together In
their respective localities and talk the
situation over and agree not to sell at
the present time: wait until the crop is
&t least partly dried and thea demand a
reasonable, living price. To be stampeded
Into selling at present prices means
ruination of the industry.
W. K. NEWELL.
AGAINST WHIRL MARRIAGE
Old Method of Launching on Matri
monial Sea Preferred to New.
PORTLAND. Aug. 18. (To the Editor.)
Has the secretary of the matrimonial
department left his desk for a better po
sition and, in his anxiety to get away,
forgot to close the doors, leaving them
open for any kind of seeker for fortune,
debauchery and notoriety to use the de
partment to their own selfish aims? or.
has the man lost his instinct in regard
to love and marriage, and has the law of
love lost its attraction between man and
woman? What are men and women mar
rying for today? What promotes such
marriages as the one performed at the
Oaks last week? Is it for love, is it for
the obedience to the call of Nature? or,
is it only one more cog in the mysterious
wheel of evolution; or "something" we
don't know what, that promotes us to
take a giant-whirl Into the matrimonial
sea? Would it not be better for the
embryo life promoters to go to the shores
of matrimonial sea and take notice of
the weather condition and as to what
kind of craft would hold upright at the
most severe weather than to be whirled
into it at the speed of 60 miles an hour?
The matrimonial sea is filling up with
wreckage of matrimonial crafts that have
been wrecked in a 60-mlle gale: the shores
are lined with the flotsam and Jetsam of
such ships: the foul smell that comes
from the existing condition will make
the strongest of young men and women
hesitate as to the desirability of embark
ing. Ninety-nine per cent will go back
among the tall trees of .bachelordom; yet
net contented, but at least they have the
sweet, pure mountain alp with which to
breathe out their loneliness.
The following lines bring out plainly
the present day matrimonial spirit: '
Some times the captain tells his mate,
"Let's take a whirl, mind not the fate,"
But the end will come to sixty gait.
And then you'll find it is too late:
You are sixty miles from your gate.
Another captain to your ear will blow.
And then your love to him wilt flow.
Divorce court you think it slow.
And with him you take another go
Over the line to Mexico.
E. M.
FOURTH COMMANDMENT.
Did We Learn Anything Worth While
From the Jewish Law?
SUNNYSIDE. Wash.. Aug. 16. (To the
Editor.) The thoughtful editorial article
in The Oregonlan concerning Sunday ob
servance prompts the writer to ask a
brief space for the following reflections:
The fourth commandment, as The Orego
nlan observes, has reference to the sev
enth day. and that day .has not been ob
served by the great mass of Christians.
That there is any command to set aside
the seventh day and substitute the first
in Its blare no person can affirm. The
literature left by the Apostles makes no
connection at all between the two days
the Jewish and the Christian. At the
Council of Jerusalem, in the requirements
s'ent out to the Gentiles, nothing is said
about Sabbath obligation. Paul affirmed
that the Sabbath law of the Jews did not
rest upon him, and he never made an
other day take root In the sanctity of the
Jewish Sabbath. In the writings of the
fathers of the church of the first three
centuries we find no appeal to the fourth
commandment to shed sacredness upon
the first day of the week. If we look
squarely Into the face of the fourth com
mandment we cannot discern anything of
moral law, but we do see In it a splendid
contribution to human welfare. We are
now ready to ask undogmatically do we
learn anything worth having from the
commandment given to the Jews? It
stands a lighthouse sending illumination
into tne nignt or tne centuries to come
It was very natural because of erreat con
nections that the New Testament should
call the first day of the week the Lord's
day. If the seventh day was associated
with' creation, the first day could . not
-break away from resurrection. As to
how we shall keep the Lord's day is to
be decided by Intelligence and conscience.
The laborer needs good Sunday laws to
protect mm irom capital, nunsxy and de
vouring, and the civilization we ail need
In states and communities justifies re
quirements eminently humanitarian. Is
worship helpful? '(. J. HOADLEY.
rUTELEn' CUIUS.
EAST via
SOUTH
UNION DEPOT.
S:S P. If.
OVFRLAKD EX.
PRESS TRAIN'S
for Salem. Rose
burg. Ashland.
Sacramento, Of
den. San Fran
Cisco. Stocktoa.
Los Angelea, Kl
Paso. New Or
leans and the
East.
Morning train
connects at
TVoodburn dally
"except Sunday
wltt' trains for
Ml. Anrel. Sllver
ton. Brownsville,
and Natron.
Eugene passenger
connects at
Woodburn wit b
Mt. Anrel an
Sllverton local.
Corvallla passea
ser. Sheridan passen
ger. Forest Grove pas
ecnger. T:S5 A. M.
S:00 A. M.
7:13 P. M.
4:15 T. 1L
J0:U A. K.
i:00 A. M.
4.60 P. li
6:50 P. If.
8:35 A. M.
2:80 'p. H.
10:20 A. M.
00 P. M.
00 A. M.
Dally. Dally except Bunday.
' PORTLAJTD-OSWEGO SUBURBAN
SERVICE AND YAMHILL
DIVISION.
Depot. Foot of Jefferson Street.
Leave Portland dally for Oswego at 7:40
A. M.; 12:60, 2:06, 6.20. 6:25. 8:30. 10:lO,
MAO P. M. Dally except Bunday, 6:30. :3U.
8:40, 10:25 A. M. Sunday only. S A. M.
Returning from Oswego, arrive. Portland,
dally, 8:36 A. M. ; 1:55. 3:06, 6:15, 7:35.
t:A6, 11:10 P. M.: 12:25 A. M. Dally excep.
Sunday. 6:25. 7:25. 8:35, 11:45 A. U. Sun
day only 10:00 A. If.
Leave from same depot for Dallas and In.
ermedlate points dally, 7:30 A. M. and 4:15
P. M. Arrive Portland 10:15 A. M. and 6:25
P. M.
The Independence-Monmouth Motor Line
operates dally to Monmouth and Alrlle. eon.
nesting with 8. P. Co.' trains at Dallas and
Independence.
First-class fare from Portland to Baera
mento and Ban Francisco. $20: berth. 13.
Second-class fare. $16; second-class berth. $1. SO.
Tlekets to Eastern points and Europe; also
Japan. CTilna. Honolulu and Australia.
CITS' TICKET OFFICE. Corner Third and
Washlnrton Sis. phone Main 712.
C. W. bTINGER, . WM. M'MIRKAY,
Citg Ticket Agent. Gen. rasa. Art.
San Francisco & Portland
Steamship Co.
Operating the Only Direct Steamers
8. 8. Barracouta and Costa Rica sail alter
nately every seven days with
FREIGHT ONLY.
JAB. H. UEWBO.N. AGENT.
Phone Main 268. 248 Washington St.
WILLAMETTE" RIVER ROUTE
Steamers for Salem. Independence and Al
bany leave 6:45 A. M. dally (except Sunday).
Steamers for Corvallia and way points leave
6:45 A. M. Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
OREGON CITT TRANSPORTATION CO.
, . VCiea ud Dock, tool Taylor St.
TRAVELERS' GUIDE,
Oregon
ShoijtLine
Union Pacific
3 TRAINS TO THE EAST DAILY
Through Pullman standards and tourls:
sleeping earn dally to Omaha, Cblcago, bpa
kane; tourist sleeping car dally to Kansas
City. Reclining chair ears (seats tree) to iae
.asi cany.
UNION DEPOT. Lesvea. Arrives.
CHICAGO-PORTLAND " . .7
SPECIAL for the Bast : A. M. 6:00 P. 31.
via Huntington. Dally. Dally.
SPOKANB FLTER, :lg.-
For Eastern Washington, Walia Walla. L-?gn.-.
Co"r d'Alene and Great Northern poID'.e-
ATLANTIC EXPRESS 8:15 P. M. 7:15 A. M.
for the Best via Hunt- Dally. Dally,
ingtoa.
PORTLAND . BIGG9 8:15 A. M. 6:00 P. M.
LOCAL, for all local
points between Blcgs
and Portland.
RIVER SCHEDTJLg.
' FOR ASTORIA and 8:00 P. If. 5:00 P. M.
way points, connecting Dally, Dslly.
with steamer tor Ilwa- except except
co and North B-ach Eunday. Sunday,
steamer H&ssalo, Ash- Saturday
st. dock. 10:0O P.M.
FOR DAYTON. Ore- 7:00 A. M. 8:30 P. V.
gon City and Yamhill Dally, Dslly.
River point. Ash-aL. except except .
dock (water per.) Sunday. Sunday.
For Lewlston. Idaho, and wav nnlnts ?rora
Rlparla. 'Wash. Leave Rlparla 6:40 A. M .
ct upon arrival train No. 4. dally except Sat
urday. Arrive Riparla 4 p. if. dally except
Friday. '
Ticket Office. Third and Washington.
Telephone Main 7IS. C. W. Stinger, City
Ticket Agt.: Win. McMurray. Cen. Pass. Act.
TOE COMFORTABLE WAY:
; TWO OVERLAND TRAINS DAILY j
THE ORIENTAL LIMITED
The Fast Mail
VIA SEATTLE OR SPOKANE.
Dally.
Leave.
PORTLAND
Time Schedule.
Daily.
lArrlve.
R.n 'To and from Ppo-
Kane. m. Paul, .viln- 7:00 am I
IneRDoM. Duluth and I
1:45 pm All Points F.ast VIa:6:50pmtl
I To and from St. I
Paul. Minneapolis.
1:15 pmjDuluth and All S.OOpmf
, Points East via
I Spokane. I
(treat Northern Steamship To.
Palling from Seattle for Japan
and China ports and Manila, car
rytnK passengers and freight.
S. S. Dakota, September 2.
S. S. Minnesota, October 20.
NIPPON YLSEN KAISHA.
(Japan Mail Steamship Co.)
S. S. AKI MARU will sail from
Seattle about September 4 for Ja
pan and China ports, carrying pas
sengers and frelirht.
For tickets, rates, berth reserva
tions, etc.. call on or address
H. DICKSON, V.. P. T. A..
122 Third Ht., Portland, Or.
Phone Main 680.
TIME CARD
OF Ji RAINS
PORTLAND
DAILT.
Depart. Arrive.
Teliowsiune Park-Kansaa
Clty-St. Louis Special
for Chehalls. Centralla.
Olympla, Gray's Harbor.
South Bend. Tacoma.
Seattle. Spokane. Lewis
ton. Butte. Billings.
Denver, Omaha. Kansas
City, St. Louis and
Southwest 8:30 am 4:38 pat
Korth Coast Limited, elec
tric lighted, for Tacoma.
Seattle. Spokane. Butte,
Minneapolis. St. Paul
and the East.. 3:OOpm T:0g asj
Puget Sound Limited foe
Claremont, Chehatls.
Centralla. Tacoma and
Seattle only 4:30 pm 10:3 pns
Twin City Express for Ta
coma. Seattle. Spokane.
Helena. Butte, St. PauL
Minneapolis, Lincoln.
Omaha. St. Joseph, Bt.
Louis. Kansas City,
without change of cars.
Direct connections for
all points East and
Southeast 11:45 pm 8:58 ps
A. D. Charlton. Assistant General Passen
ger Agent, 255 Morrison su, cornsr Thus,
Portland. Or.
Astoria and Columbia
River Railroad Co.
Lea'es.
UNION DEPOT.
Arrives.
Dally.
For Mavrers. Rainier.
Dally.
Clatskanle, Westport,
Clifton, Astoria, War-1
:00 A. M
renton. Klavsi. Ham
11:53 A. K
mond. Fort Stevens.
Gearhart Park. Sea
side. Astoria and Sea
shore. Express Sally.
Astoria Express.
Dally.
T:00P. M.
8:30 P. SI
Portland-Seaside Flyer" Saturday only.
leave Portland 3:10 P. M.
C. A STEWART. , J. C. MA TO,
Comm'L AgL. 24i Alder st. O. F. P. A.
Phone Mala 80S,
Columbia River Scenery
Regulator Line Steamers
THE EXCURSION STEAMER "B A I LET
OATZEBT". makes round trips to CASCADE
LOCKS vry Sunday, learlnr PORTLAND
at A. M., raturnlnff arrives Q P. U.
Dally servtc between Portland and To
Dalle Meept Sunday, leaving Portland st T
A. M.. arriving about 5 P. M.. carrying
freight and passengers. Splendid accommo
lat'.ona for outfits and livestock.
Dock foct of Alder street. Portland; foot
of Court street. Tfce .Dalle Phone Mala
SU. PortUod.
SOUTHEASTERN ALASKA
ROUTE.
From Seattle at 9 p. m.
for Ketchikan. Juneau,
Skagway. White Horse.
Dawson and Fairbanks.
8. B. City of Seattle, Au.
gust 10. 20, 80.
8. S. Humboldt. August
4. 14. 24.
8. S.
City tvla Sitka).
August
11. 25.
Nome Route. 8. 8. Senator, Aug. 17.
FOR SAX FRANCISCO DIRECT. .
From Seattle at 9 A. M. City of Puahla.
August 9.
From Seattle st B A. M. T matllla. Aug 1.
Portland Office. 249 Washington fit.
Main 22U.
O. M. Lee, Pass. At Ft. Art.
C. D. DUNANN, O. P. A., San Francisco.
Steamer Chas. R. Spencer
BffilME
J
Cottage
FAST TIME,
t'p the beautiful Columbia, the most enjoy
able of river tripe. Leaves foot Oak St. for
The Dalies and way points dally at 7 A. Jf ..
except b rlday and- Sunoay; returning at til
P. t. Bunday excursions for Cascade Local
leave at A, return f. M, Aaan
Alain 280. - " te""
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