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01Vl THE WIND.
The Mow York American presents to
Its readers a tubulated- stitlenient of the
taxcii due and un paid w lilch the cor-
porayons of the city ought to ra' un"
dor the franchise tax law which was
passed through Mr. Roosevelt's urgent
influence when he was Governor of the
etate. The table, which, covers the
years from 1900 to lf06. Inclusive,
shows that the sum of the unpaid taxes
ist very large. The only imaginable
reason why the property of these de-
fiant corporations -hats not been sold for
taxes, as that of an Individual would
have been, is that they are ail enor
mously wealthy. The law Is very con-
siderate toward any corporation which
is rich enough to extend "courteHiee"
to the officials elected to enforce it.
An example choen at random from
this instructive table may not be ii n i n -
tcresttng. Thus, Mr, Belmont's Metro
politan Street Railway has not paid its
taxes wince 1900. For 1901 it owes $407,
OOO; for 1S03, S360.000. while its outatand-
ins tax for vm is wooo. air, m-
jnont is one of the leading lig-hta of the
JJeniocrallc parly, and one of the most
dirrtin-guished opponents in the country
of municipal ownership. One can dip
cent n n excellent reason why this
hrewd and glided Kontlcmah should be
gi tip Hod With things as they are.
The number of corporations which
have not
paid t heir taxes for 1906 is
llfty-thre-
cord 1 ng to the Amerlcnn 0
table. It is these wealthy aggregations
which make the heaviest demands upon.
the Jivj-rt men t for favors and protee-
t ion. They are alwayr? maKins some
now and txpenslve pica (ol1 Speoill
pri v-f leges. They are al wa ys getting
Into trouble with their worfcmer and
vailing Upon the Government for sol
diers to guard their property. Yet they
- n-ver- under any consideration pay a
cent of taxes which they can ehlrk by
cunniniji intrigue or bribery, .These
are the corporations which clafmor loud
est " for a weaK government, because
under a weaK government they can
.continue their flenrcdutlons uncnecKea.
It is they that lecry reform most vo
vlferoUBly, because reform wou Id 00m
el them to bear their Just ehare of the
public burden It la ttay that reelat
most vlcloustly all legislation to protect
t heir employes and the -public from
mutilation and destfh, because safety
devices would diminish somewhat the
extortionate iivideiid on their wate-r-ed
x toe :k. It ia t bey t hat run to the Fed-
oral Courts tor inlunctions against
every legislative act which looks to the
public welfare, as did the gae com
pany when the New York Legislature
reiufcl Ha rates by stat-
ute. Grabbing everything In sight and
ahlrlcins all Uielr obllgatlonas to the
public, these corporations are heaping
up odium ag-aJnst themselves which is
certain to break In a storm of ruin un
less they men d their ways. The public
to long tried to rcctwe tnem to obc
dlence to the law by lawful means, and
it has conspicuously fulled. When the
law fails the American public is never
Drraanontly M a loss for remodicg in.
dependent of the law. What form this
remedy may take in the ase of the re
bellious corporations one need not try
to preMl hut unW they Voluntarily
cease tbeli- defiance. and that soon,
there Is a reckoning in store that will
cancel every debt with interest.
rROSPKRITT OF FLOCKMA8TER8.
The year 1906 -was a records-breaker
In fill Industrial and buslnosd lines.
Am. the annual statistics furnished by
t he larger newspapers of every state
?How, liie year vac one or prosperity
from Maine to Oregron and from the
Cireat Lakes to the G-ulf of Mexico. The
flocltmastert! of the country, and pari
tieularly those of 'the Rocky Mountain
region, came in for their -full share in
the returns of thta most prosperous
jear. The magnitude or this industry
is Indicated It can hardly be eompre-
hended by statistics sbowirur that
over 4.000.000 sheep were marketed at
Chicago alone, exceeding m number
those of the previous year by 75.000 and
excll Injc any previous record. More
over, the average cost of sheep during
the yiar. was 20 cents per head above
Any, ptpevioua Quotation-, In addition to
ttiie the wool clip was cnorinou s and
tiie pried high. Altogether the "sheep
barons" fared sumptmisly 9t the great
banauot spread by prosperity, and they
e n tf th e n e-s- year with p ros pecti? of
success equul a; least to tliaf.of the
year just ended. ;
Incidentally it jruty bo well to suggest
that the . flocTrtmasters . are abundantly,
able to protect their flocks from inair-
elons of the predatory coyote and other
mutton loving ii n 1 1 111 It. of the great
ranges. In this view repeal of the
scalp-bounty lav9 that are carried on
the statute-books "of many etates is In
firder, or will be when I-grlasl&tures now
ia. session or soon to commence get
down to work. The farmer fights at
his own expense ruet. ;r.txt and other
subtle enemies that threaten his wheat;
the orchardist is compelled o fight the
pests -that assail -his trees and their
fruit. ' Why should not the fockmaster
tight1 the enemies that prey upon his
Industry and .pay the expend of the
campaigrn out of the substantial profits
that accrue1 to him?
HHYf
Oregon has a. Democratic Governor
and a Republican legislature. The
Democratic Governor insists on the
rigrht to appoint the membea-0 of the
proposed State Railroad Commieelon,
tr u are to Have a railroad commie-
eion. - The Republican Lepisla-ture is
solng: to obect. -Any one with hIf n
ey-e can see already that the rail-road
commission scheme is In great danger.
It Is to be involved at the outset, in
the furious inaelatrom of Oregon poli
tics. The .Democratic Governor will
not have a. commission at all unless he
can have hie lei nl of a eo mm lesion and
the Republloa-n Leginlature will have
no commfoplon that it cannot name,
It is nonsense to say that under the
Teal Kobemo the State Senate will bave
a voice in the appointments. It will
nave a voice only in their possible re-
jection. and. if they are rejected, it
will he .t -the- Senate's jxir 1 1 . for all
the Governor- will have to do will be to
wait until the. Legislature adjourns and
reappoint his men.
ht will do. folio win
That Is just what
the illustrious pre-
cedent of the President of the United
State?, who never consults the United
States about any appointments and Is
not disturbed by an occasional rejec
tlon. Cuftoms Collector frum, at
Charleston. S. C, was rejected two or
three timod, , on I y to be reappointed by
the president. The only result' ot the
great fight on Cram wafl to defer the
beginning of his official term, and he is
today enjoying t he emolu mentn and
privileges of Uie Collcctorship at
Charleston under appointment by the
President and confirmation by the Sen
ate. Why thie tremendous insistence at
the bog-Inning of the railroad commis
sion fight that ft shall be appointed by
the Governor? Is the Governor of Ore-
gun the only authority qualified to se-
lect competent members of a railroad
or any other commbwinn ? Wh y
wouldn't a commission elected toy the
Legislature, or elected by the people,
or named by a. st&te boaixi cotistetin
of the Oovarnor, Secretary rrT State' and
State Treasurer, who name many state
eommksiong. be as efficient as any
other? Why?
FREDERIC RASKIN'S LETTERS,
With this Issue The Orejironian -begins
a daily eervice of letters by Krederlc J".
Haskin, a well-equipped, versatile, vig
orous writer who knows the United
States- like. a. book and1 lay, hold of
topics that he knows will entertain ma
well as instruct the busy reader in
those, the busiest of all times. Aa be
fore announced, tfae live subjecte he
takea up afford tmirh variety ifhat Jn-
torest in them cannot flag. .
Afr. Haskln is not an essayist
neither is he a philosopher. but
young man of abumiiUH vitality, wbo
believes that America will rule the
world. Facts are bis chief stock ii
trade, and he presents them attract
lvely. He comments, too, but nearly
Always in epigrams. Hie optimism 1e
In sharp contrast with writers who
think and try to make folk believe the
country is going to the bad.
This Is not to say that Mr. Haskln
finds nothing to criticise. but he
flow despair. He is convinced that
any normal younj? man or woman can
succeed In America by industry and
thrift. By indirection he appeals to
young pple to do their beat, and
pol nts ou t t he never-f ai Ii ng reward
A 11 the while he entertains them.
The Oregon ia a commends Mr. Hae-
kin's letters on account of their new.
ness. their varied interest n-d their
hopeful spirit. We believe the Paclrlc
Northwest will relish them in connec
tion with the dally chronicle of the
world's news so fully presented every
morning.
IS TIIK VAIXKV ASI.KEI?
Want of enterprise Is the charge that
PS oiten fieen maae against ttie Wil
lamette Valley. The indictments have
ben presen ted time after time-, fi rst
upon one specification and then upon
another. Upon one of indictments
a trial has been had. and the verdict is
rallty. Secretary E. Tt- Xake. of the
State Horticultural Society, voiced the,
opinion of the popular Jury when he
eon-dem-ned the appls-srowe
of the
w uiamette Vadley- ror the
jre to
come to the annual meeting -wltft a
suitable exhibit of their product. Lack
of enterprise . flie charge made an-d
proven against Willamette Valley ap-
Wrora not as individuals, hut as
body. There were a few growers
v no iimtie ui snowing t uat was
pected of. them, but the Valley grow
pi's as a whole made a most humiliat-
ing failure.
Neither Profesor Lake nor the t
pie In general ijas anything to say
against Willamette Valley applets. The
ooa Jrtiver people nave long asserted
In aesison and out or season that "W" J 1 -
mm Yftiivjr appiw are Mewr ,w
their own product. This assertion has
been met by vehement denial and the
counter assertion that the Valley can
and doea raise "lust as good" apples as
any region on earth. Agua-inst the
charge made The Oregon lan and other
newspapers defended, the Willamette
Valley. Tha defense bad been so vis:.
orously waged that the case had been
almost won for the Valley. Krow, how
ever, wiren it came to a matter o
proof, ae well a denials, the Willam
ette Valley growers, fell down and fell
hard.
The Oregonian still believes, and Fro
fes&or Lake believes, that the proof
cowa oe- nao. out uirough the lack of
enterprise on the part of growers it wa
not brought forth and the case goes
practically by default in favor of Hood
River. Instead of all making an effort
to re-estabusn ana sustain tne wnianr
ette Valley, each hung back to let the
others do the work with the result that
It has not been done. So far a the
world knows, or, from present indica
1 Uone, ia likely ta koowt Ui Wiilamtte
Ik not an appl-growing pction
mentioning. The Valley is a p-
parontly indulging in a. Rip Van Win
Ule sleep. rxi wt re it not a. part of our
own beloved Oregon we would be
tempted to say, don't dlsturb.tts slum
bers. - ,
1 - i
.such must not be tl
"policy;" Neither ihe "Willamette Valley
nor any other section of the state muet
be permitted to mi?e' Its opportunities.
What the Valley moet needs la not a
revlv-kl of apple-gTowtng, nor an in-
crease of manufactures, ror the build-
ihsr of electric lines. It needs, first of
all. the development of an enterprisina:
spirit, an advertising spirit, which wiiil
not let the people rest until the whole
world knows what that part of Oregon
has done and can do.
' A MltLSTOXE ABOI T HIS NECK.
The Chicago Tribune'- has given its
readers a rkldle to solve. It is pro
posed in the form of three questions:
"Which would, you rather have been
bo rn, rich or poo r ? W h ich would you
prefer for your baby if you had the
choice? 1 Ioe It help or hinder a child
in the race of Tl fe to be born poor? T 11
stating the terms of this triple riddle
we have ventured to modify somewhat
the lan guage of our metropolitan con -temporary,
though, we trust, not the
meaning THe subjw-t offers such at
tractions to the reflective mind that we
cannot refrain from dlecusslriR it a lit
tle ourselves; but before sett in out to
sail tho inviting sea we must remark
that the whole- matter- is really com-'
prteed in the single query whether t: is
better for a child to be born rich or
poor. ' . '
The argument wiH flow more pmooth
" iX we decide at the outset what wo
mean by the word '"poor." If we take
it to mean the condition, of those chtl-
en who are born in the slums In - dire
int of food, clothes and air to
brcatne, smitten wun aisease uerore
they come into the world and morally
blighted before thoy learn to speak,
the question does not admit of d.lscus
slon. To be thug born is to be born as
one of the darnried. The child who en-
era the world through the gateway of
the elums might well imagine some
jeering fiend to have ushered him Into
the Inferno and to have launched him
pon bis career ' with the precept.
Abandon hope." For tue erum-born
child there is no hope. He is fore
doomed to pepd It Ion of bod y and sou I.
and. if by chance and the unconquer-,
able energy of his manhood one of
them does sometimes overcome his fate
and. rise -to better things, bis achieve
ment is a miracle that proves the rule.
The word "poor" must not mean for us
the sou 1 d es t royi n g poverty . of the
iluxns If we are to concede -two sides
to the Tribune's question.
Possibly one might go a little farther
without serious diumer of error. There
degrees of Indigence Itfss ruinous
than mat of We slums, wiiien never
theless conspire to blight the eoul and
degrade thn body of a chilci. It is a dis
tinct disadvantage to him f o be born of
parentis who are obliged td toll so, long
and hard for a living that they have no
time to father and mother him. Ety
"fathering" a child we rrtean that di-
vine companionehto, nurtfre and gov-
rnance by virtue of whK'h the male
parent may possess his so rust and daugh
ters of the high teaching. of experi
ence, the stem calls of dty. and the
obligations of honor.- Sad b-ithe loss to
a child whose father- seeks afs hOme at
night outworn with dead'k toil; for
whom thr can be no moifriinsr hymn
to the A liTi iR lit- because of ilie. imperi
ous majMiate to rush to bis labor. Woe
to the boy who never saw his father at
play. Woe to the nation vi;rioo chil
dren's -fathers have ceased to, play with
tnem. Why tiave the poor i forgotten
God? Because they have neither time
nor strength left from their toil to re
member him.
By "mothering" a child we mean the
gathering at her knee at bedtime to
learn the magic lore of fairyland, to
hear of the love that mak.es the world
beautiful and will some day hind all
men- In one great brotherhood. To
mother a child is to fill his life with
sweet and gentle Bu&gestlon, to teach
him the law of kindness and the beauty
of obedienci'. Just as the rather efti
his feet in the path of duty, so the
mother shows him the golden land-
scapes of love through which duty
1 a d s him. Wha t time for al 1 th is Is
there in the homes of the poor who live
by daily toll? What strength Is there
for it? Mow can a woman mother her
children who spends the night laboring
n a factor)'? How can a child De
mothered who has become a bond slave
In the pitilese Industrial mill? Can
there be a. doubt that to a child who
has missed those things the loss is in-
finite? Is it rational to conceive that
ft ean be- an advantage to any one to
be born with the millstone of poverty
a.Uut tils neck and his faoe forever
held to the grindstone of toil?
It is well to talk about the nobility
0 labor, Lalwr is noDie so long as it
conduces to the bodily and .spiritual'
Krowith of the man who labora; but
when it dwarfs him, when it puts out
the light of his spirit, wastes his mus-
v and distorts t he bones of hie limbs,
iere is the nobility of it?- Such, labor
a curoe, precisely as the Bible
sta.mp9 it. And to he horn ii the1 ne-
Bsity of such labor" is also a curse,
verty of this kind, therfor, we in u t
admit, ia no bleesin-j. to a child. But
there is also a degree of riches which
acts . much In the stt.me way. The
woman whose wealth makes' her a so-
dety leader knows, quite as little of her
children as the poor -factory slave. So
far as the welfare of the child Is con
cerned. It matters , not whether its
mother 'lasses tl)G night toiling in a
mill or smiling artificial smilea In the
porfumed bowe-rs of fashion.. In either
caee it suffers lethal deprivation. : It we
neeA a. law- to top nlghl work for.iKe
women, of poverty, "we need one jurt as
badly to stop -nigh-t difisipatioh for the
vT ifWltft; Qn cannot, imagine
either that It Is' a great advantage to
a baby to have sucta a man as "Mr.
Corey for . a father. All his wealth
would not compensate ror the depcr
ate Inheritance, bodily and - spiritual,
which he transmits. The loss - corn-pan
ion ship of such, a father? a boy has the
better for him. ' What eould he teach a
son of the great virtues and divine nac
rifices -whlct have Tnade uren immortal
and reaeemeia the nations? . i( ,
What the child needs ie a normal
childhood.' It needs a mother who has
time to love and a father who has time
and strength to rule, we set Mary, the
mother of Jesus, on high in heaven be
cause she bore the redeemer in her
boeom; but the mothers of the men
whom he redeemed we harness to our
machines, while the children for whom
he died are marshaled' by the mill loil
into perdition, We render unto God
our holiee-t reverence by the na,me of
Father, while out of the men whom he
calls his sons we grind the fatherhood
by deadly toll, It is idle for society to
J pxaj.se the family and laud its virtues
Va Ilfy
wort h
o Ions' as we deny to the greater num
ber of families the means to fulfill
themselves.' That child ii most form-
nate who is born in a family where
there i enough, and no more; who has
a womanly rporher and a etern but
kindly father; and who parses his
youth in healthful play and strict obe
dience. That child is most to be cn-
vied who thinRs his father the greatest
man in the world and his mother the
best woman, and never in after years
finds reason to change his mind.
Ot B AMERICAN ARISTOCRACY.
' In tho daily bulletin regarding his
movements and intentions Mr. w. E.
Corey ystirda-y announced that he will
not marry during hte present European
trip. Trite is fnteresting. for our little
world on this side of 'the Atlantic has
become d eepl y absorbed in w a tch In g
the course of th fs vulgar steel king
and his chorus lady. And yet we never
took- any particular Interest In Mr.
Corey before he was drenched in the
golden shower wbiohf our protective
tariff poured over, the steel barons,
Riches throw out a peculiar glamour
which effects- quite a transformation In
very common clay,: and as a nation we
perhaps render a good deal of homage
where reproach would be more appro
priate. But it seenw to be a. necessity
tha-tj we have something to -worship in
lieu of a mildewed aristocracy such as
bends -the knee among the foreigners.
"We-are inclined to make light of the
British, who "dearly love a lord' and
yet the breathless anxiety with which
we seek the news and gossip regard
ing our vulgar rich, as well as the other
kind if there be any is perhaps fully
as grotesque and unaccountable as to
the -conduct of our foreign cousins.
"Litke all other nations,' says Mark
iWn In his autobiography. 'e WOr-
ship money and the possessors of
ine.v . Doing our aristocracy. and w
have to- have- one,- There te perhape
more truth in this statement than In
om e of t ho se m ade by H uc k le berry
Finn or Tom Sawyer, for it mut""be re-
memCcred that the aje of our country
or, to be more accurate, the youthful-
neas of ou r co u n t ry h as ba r red u s
from , the possession of a home-grown
aristopraer, such as is worshiped in the
Old World . More than a century ago
England was in possession of an arts
tocracy which even then waejeo old,
mildewed and revered that It had made
menials and lickspittles out of -millions
of common people.
We could not' "dearly love a lord" at
that time, because our lords wore grub
bing su.mps, fighting Indians or ex
changing beads and booze for buckskin
moccasins, venison, dried fish and other
eommodkN which the female mem
bens of tfae "first 'families' of America
had prepared1. Perhape we are not to
blame that we have not the real' thins
in ancient lineage, which is said to be
necessary in building up a simon-pure
aristocracy of the Eiigiish brand. it
must be remembered that whenever our
"first families" of the present day trace
their lineage -back very far they aire In
continued danger ot a surprise, The
coat of arms which emblazons the
ro ys 1 encu tch eo n o f Eu rope pro n oral 1 y
Its illustrative of mme great event
which gave the founders of the family
their start in life. In our country the
back, trail or some of our first fami
lies wouJd lead into a retail whisky
store, or something worse, which prob
ably had nroved the foundation- for the
wealth which made our modern arimoc-
racy, Other "family . trees' if; exam
Ined too closely, would perhaps disclose
eome of the -family da.ngling from
limb with a nooee around the neck."
Such oatsee and they are frequent-
show the difficulty of getting up much
or an Idol of royalty in this .country
until more of t'ac oldest Inhabitants die'
off or the local histories throughout the
country -are revised.- .A. whisky bottle
dormant and a red Indian rampant
would maKe a lively coat or arm?, and
it would be full of significance in the
case of some' of our vulgar rich; but it
Is not to be considered. In fact, we are
too young to Indulge in the worship of
any kind of aristocracy except that
whtoh has the credentials In negotiable
eeruritiee. The Engflioh "dearly love a
lord" and the Americans dearly love a
dollar providing it has multiplied with
sufficient rapidity. For that reon the
former will . continue to exhibit the
greatest
interest in the title-bearers
ho are
fu ppoeed to gi ve tone to t lv
country.
while we will continue to in-
slst on the fullest new of the move-
men ts of Senator Got-Roeks. Mrs.
New-Rich and aU of the rest of the
aristocracy w,hrcri in theee proeperour?
times is sprouting' more raptdly than
a tepid pond in June
NEW HOMER IV CANADA.
The encouragement that has
given to the occupation and develop-
mi of the great prairie region of
Oanada beyond "Winnipeg by the Ca
nadlan Pacl no Railway Company and
the immigration department of the govr
ernment at Ottawa has resulted in an
toniehlng development of the wide
area that pa ys. tribute in traffic to the
railway and in taxes to the govern-
ment. The figures In which this growth
is -recorded furnish indisputable evi
dence that it is of a permanent and
most substantial and progressive type,
Taking stock of its year's work, the
immigration bureau .t Ottawa flndi
the results very .satisfactory. The in
ventory shows that during the season
of 190S-S a total of 189.000 immigrants
arrived in the Dominion, an Increase of
OYer the number the preceding
year a substantial gain of husky ag
ricultural laborers from the Scandlna
vian States, Great Britain and the
United States, a very large per cent o:
whom, with their families, were imme
diately located on the abounding whea-
lancte beyond Winnipeg.
The harvest laborers carried into the
province by the Canadian Pacific dur
ing the season of 1906 numbered- 22.S50,
an Increase of 6500 over the number
who went in for the prairie harvest 0'
lOS. Of these laborers, the two forces
that combine to encourage immigration
tO Canada, ViJ., th? Canadian racmc
Railway and the government at Ot
tawa. count on 40 per cent remaining:
to -make . their .homes in the pratri
provinces; and that within the nex
two or three years a large proportion
of them will have become Homestead-
ers upon quarter sections of govern
ment land or settlers upon land PUT
chased from the railway companies.
This expectation is fortified by the fact
tfiat 50,000 homesteaders went into
Western Canada during- the twelv
months ending September 30. 1906. and
entered liJ.oOO square miles of farm
land.
The climate, soil and marketing fa
cilities of thds prairie land of West
crn Canada are similar to the condi
Hons that prevail in the Bakotas. Yet
the immigration agente of Canada
have, by adroit management, drawn
many settlers north across tne Amer
icnn border la the Interest of Canadian
development. This im perfectly legit
imate, it belnar to the interest of the
Canadians to get these- people u they
can. and that of the. American Gov
ernment to keep them If it can. In the
latter interest it will be well to heed
the plea recently made by Dakota
homesteaders, who are suffering bit
terly with the cold -because of the pre
vailing fuel famine, to be allowed to
leave their holdings until Spring, amF
with their families seek, some more
sheltered place. Of - -the fuel situation
on the prairies of Western Canada
nothing- ha been said, but it is reason
able to suppose that the Canadian Fa
cific has made provision against a coal
famine that would either drive out or
exterminate the settlers that the com
pany has -been at such pains to bring In
and locate.
The tactics
of the- thugs who
into Insensibility
at
ari d
t ac k ed , bea t
robbed a. Chinajnan of the email ?av-
Ings of bis industry in.-hte room on top
of an abandoned water tower. at Pret
yman s Station very closely resemble
those of the brutal assailants of Dr.
oh n son. "Had they thrown the Inscn
Ible victim from the tower, the plm-
artty would have fcm complete, This
they probably would have done had
conditions leading to their own imme
diate safety favored the act. Cjulte
attirally the murderers of Dr. Johnson
have changed their base of oieratIon.
That they have gone out of business is
ot to be .supposed. Neither is it prob-
i. i i.l tili.t Ii TV I . 1
able tnat tney nave lett tne city, w nar
is more probable, then, than that they
reappnared at Mount Tabor and made
a defenseless Chinaman in his lonely
abode a victim of their desperate, and
brutal quest of unearned spoil? It may
be hoped thkt Non Tung will be able
o fjvf an accurate description or tiw
hugs who availed
hi
and identify
m promptly In
cae they a re
danger that they
i ought before him :
(Elected to obviate by throwing his
sen soles" form
from his
room in the
water tower.
Mr. Harrlnmn appears now In the
role of philanthropist. -He Is going to
pa y $32,500 for the use of enough
rci&M-cars to relieve the coal famine
Kansas and Nebraska. Through
whoe fault but Ha vrtman's came -this
woeful lack of fuel ? It it a note-
worthy favor for a corporation that hag
grown so rich that it cannot find ln-vest-nient
for Its surplus to expend a
trifling sura in order to correct a sin of
omision? The people of those great
states for more than a generation have
axed their industry to swell the Union
Heine's revenue, They are not men-
dlcants. They are willing and able to
pay the top price for cos I and full
freight rates, but they want the coal.
he-very least Harriman can do le to
haul it. The present expenditure of a
few thouevand- won't be missed out of
the next 10 per cent dividend.
Even Kmperor "William admits that
something may possibly .be learned
rom the Japanese In training, strategy
and other matters pertaining to miH-
t ary efflelen c y. Fou r o fficer of the
general staff of the German army, hav-
ng made special preparation for the
service, "including a study of the Jap-
se language, will go to Japan and
devote two -years to a careful study of
he -methods by -which the soldiers of
he Mikado keep themselves In uch
splendid fighting- trim, afield and in
camp. The detail of officer for thte
service Is ' especially 1 complimentary,
since the Japanese army received its
modern training from German officers
and the studv ordered Is an admission
that the pupil bss outstripped its tutor
upon some Important points in military
science.
The extension of library -privileges to
the growing community of Sellwood.
under the auspices of the Portland Li-
brary Association, is commendable.
The city suburbs, mot less than the
country districts, need library facili
ties for the entertainment find infltruc-
tlon of the reetlens. eager element that
must and will find entertainment sone
Wfiere (luring the long Winter evenings,
The peoplf. of Sellwood have made val-
ia n x: errort to neip tnetmseives in tnis
line, and the Library Association has
come to their aid at a time when it
feemed that their unaided effort must
fall- The value of the movement is
evident and the timely aet&istance ren
dered is greatly appreciated.
The desperadoes bent" on robbery and
murder who are worKing this city at
present eem to go in palrfii and trios.
They are doubtless prepared to refttet
arrest after the manner of the reckless
and determined of their kind. Hence
the officer who gets the drop on them
will need to be bHuidy with his gun or
legs.
Eetlmatep. -made at the time of her
death, of the value of the "late Amanda
Reed's Portland real estate need re
vision. Nearly alt of It has doubled
not on -paper, but the eash It wljl brin
In open market. The object of he
benefaction ha not suffered financially
by the delay consequent on litigation.
JUSt or unjust, enough publicity has
been given to the manner of Senator
G-uggenhetm s election to annul any
Guggenheim's . eW
genuine effort ho
country's eervice,
genuine effort ho had in mind for hi.
Americans will bave no sympathy to
waste on the German insurance com-
panles whose Mrthtiunke clause M
fence failed In the courts of the Father
land.
Portland's aide hills afforded, J'OUth
the rare sport of coasting yesterda
Happy was the coincidence of the flt
pnowlall and tneciosea scnooinouBe
Emaciating ful conditions In Portland
present no terrors to the provident man
who mien his casement wim mm
and coal laet Summer.
JJever was an Oregon Legislature
wakM go vigilantly as the one which
convenes tomorrow' will- be scrutinized
by the- plain people.
Senator Guggenheim, of Colorado,
has been claesified. Still he will doubt
less be permitted to second a motion to
adjourn,
Last week's weather had: no chilling
effect on buslnees, as witness the 36
per cent Increase in bank clearances.
For the next forty day Salem wi
enjoy ner biennial season or higrh-tlde
prosperity.
To the legislature of Oregon:
member the referendum; also the initl
ative.
Good morning: "Will this little breath
ol old keep VOU from, churchl
COMMENT ON CURRENT STATE TOPICS
Free Passes to State and County Officials Closing Saloons by Keeping
Tnem Open Indirect State Revenues and. Iirect State Expenses
Clerks and Spectators at Legislative
c
OMPTJLSORT issuance of passes to
state and county officers, as pro
posed 4y some, is likely to be at
tended by questions that have not yet
been discussed. To cosider the subject
in its . general features is easier than
solving some of the problems presented
when it is studied in its details. What
constitutes a state or county officer is,
for example, an important question. It
the proposed law be limited in its appli
es tion to officers elected by the people.
It will fall short of its purposes. Among
the officers who do much traveling in the
public service are the Master Klsh
Warden, the Adjutant-General, the State
Land Agent, members of the State Fair
Board, and other officers who are ap-
potntive.- But if these are included in the
list to whom free passes are to be ex
tended, it Is difficult to see where the
line will be drawn. If all appointive
officers are also included, the list would
extend to superintendents of all statft
institutions, employes of all the depart
ments, deputies and assistants, who may
do some traveling for the purpose of ftt-
.tending
of passe:
to public duties, hut whose use
would be chiefly for private pur-
poses. To enact a law general in its
terms would leave doubt as to its appli
cation : to make it specific as to the per
sons to whom it will, apply will take con-
siderable time in studying the methods
of transacting public business.
.Then inere Is another question of pu t-
lie Interen involved, The proposed jaw
contemplates that the pass list shall be
limited to those who hold ofrk-lnl position.
Then a man who Is In office will have
he advantage of free transportation in
making a campaign for re-election, while
outsider who desires to contest for
his position must pay his fare. That
would be an Immense advantage to those
who are In. especially under the direct
primary system, which necessitates con-
siderable traveling in making1 a cam.
palgn. It Is understood that In the past
the railroads have 'been very liberal In
issuance of pa?ses to candidates and that
they have not discriminated but have
sued to all candidates for an office if
to any. One of the objection that has
been mado to the direct primary law is
that it gives a great advantage to an
n-ii mlx'ti t. who will have a solid support
while the opposition will be divided among
new aspirants for the place. This ad-
-antage would be greatly increased if the
ncumtaent had the privilege of free
ransportation while his opponents Had
to pay their fares.
VERT town that ever tried to en
force a eloslng period 'for saloons,
whether for certain time at night or on
undays. has had difficulty in securing
observance of the law, Even in towns
where such a regulation is supposed to
he In force, hack doors usually a ITord
cans of entrance thougk the front
door be locked and blockaded. Then
raid occurs and men a re found i n
the saloon, the f-xpln na tion is usually
made that the proprietors were merely
looking after private business or chat
ting with friends eod prf not open
for business. Salem has tried some-
Mnf new in closing laws and the- re-
suit of the experiment may be of. value.
An ordinance that has Just gone into
effect in that city provide that all
saloons shall close at mldniehti and
atV cloned, tile ordlnnnre rqulra that
luring- the closed period all curtain.
screens and othfir obstructions to tho
view must '
removed so that the In
saloon may be seen from
terior of th
he street. This will permit all persons
to see whether the law Is being ob
served or not. The same rcoulrempnt
applies to Sunday closing. Halem pa
pers quote liquor dealers aft saying that
t-hey will obey the
aw for a wl
people will
le. but
forget
that after a time
about It and they ran return to former
methods.
RRQXTENT repetition of the assertion
in market report. that the great bulk
of the Oreaon potato crop in of poor
quality and therefore, does not bring a
good price recalls the effort of an Ore
commission house last year to in
farmers to Import fancy bmcI from
Wisconsin. Tn order to encourage the
Importation of the seed the firm offered
to take orders for all who wished to buy.
forward the orders when a carload had
been subscribed for, ana let tne growers
have the potatoes at actual cost. It was
estimated that the cost would be a
bushel. After sending out several hun-
dred elreulars and taking (he matter up
personally with many farmers, the orders
secured aggregated on 1 y a few bushels.
father than pay the price named the
farmers used -eed of their own growing
and probably used i the culls, consisting
of small, knobby and otherwise Imperfect
potatoes. They planted the seed on
ground that had been- planted. ' to the
kind of seed year after year. Till
practice. It is said, accounts for the de-
terloratlon of the potato prOfJllflt. Th
plan of the commission house mentioned
was not that the farmers should import
811 ttlCir Cvd Pt tnat thejr should each
import a few bushels, plant these Upon
well-prepared soil and raise enough for
their own seed for the following yea:
thus socurinz an abundance of good seed
at comparatively small cost and graatly
enhanclriK the value of their crop. Pr-
liaps a change ot methods in potato
growing win not be experienced until the
subject receives as much public attention
as the reform in apple growing has hs
fCNACTMBNT of laws for the raising
S. of state revenue from indirect aourcei
has for one of Its objects the divorce
ment of the slate attJ eOUlltj' fiVfiUlllS
of raising revenue, so that tbere will no
longer be any temptation to reduce t
SeSSvd Valuations, This end is already
accomplished by the law establishing
fixed ration according to which the coun
ties are required to pay their state taxes.
but since there has always ocen oouht
as to the
sired that
lidlty of this law it Is de-
soon as possible the state
"secure practically all its revenue from
Indirect gourees. The attainment of that
end would entirely remove danger of re
newed reduction of assessments to rtdicu
lous inures. Put unless there should oe
a rapid increase in the amount of reve
nue from indirect sources or a denial of
many of . the demands that are being
made for appropriations from the state
treasury. the - expenses
increase more rapidly
of the state i
than tfae indirect
revenue, so that the state viij t jetting
farther away from the , coveted goal
rather than nearer. For example. If a
law be passed which will add V1CO.00O a
year, to the revenue from Indirect sources,
Sessions.
but other laws be passed which will :
increase the .nate expenditures
the state will be farther than ever from
elimination of a direct tax On property.
One of the state? which now derives
all its state revenue from indirect sourco
has been aided In that change by shifting
much of the state expense upon the
counties. Wisconsin requires the counties
to, pay a very large part of the expense
of maintaining tlieir Insane. Tlw same
plan could be followed here in Oregon.
. . . . ... . .... 1 .-l-t.a
if desired, and mat such a yiaii iiiibiii
be deemed desirable is indicated by the
recommenaation that counties to charged
with the expense of maintaining their
feeble-minded in the institution which it
tt now propoM.fl tarmll be eaablisred. The
Board Of Public Buildlns Commissioners
ha3 made this recommendation. Tending
In tile name direction would be an amend
ment n'hich would require the counttea
to pay inc Circuit Judges and District
Attorneys. Other changes of similar
nature might be made", not increasing the
burden of taxation upon the people, but
shifting It from the state taxing system
to the county and thus a Id. ng the move
ment to put the state upon an indirect
revenue basis. It has been remarked by
those in a position to observe that thrrft
Is danger- of the state Increasing its ex
penses faster than its Indirect revenue.
and thus faiiins; in one el the policies
that has received wide popular approval.
W
ITH . organization of the legisla
ture apparently settled, the mem
bers of t
the past
e t wo houses bega
reek to pay some
to the matter of sflcctlng siiDorfllnaic
officers and clerks. Though the de
mand for clerkships is not tr gr.-t
in the matter of numbers as it was
during- the hard times, the pressure Is
Just as strong, for those who wish to
go to .Salem for iO days are Just as
an.ioiis as ever. The ordinary clerk-
ship pays but $: a os y . and in th
times when niont industrious people
have good employment, there are not
so many as formerly who are willing
to quit their regular work: for a short
season of employment at the Capital.
But to those who have no employment.
the $3 a day looks as big as it ever
cilrt. .X r 1 there lit te plenty of ap
plicants for all the positions that are
to he filled. Every member has a
friend who wants a place.
The general reference to " a day
does not mean in legislative employ-
ment what it does in ordinary occupa
tions. Tlio legislative clrrk draws pay
for 40 days, including Saturdays and
Sundays, upon whleh there Is no work .
done-. VV orkincr li ve days In a week,
the clerk draws pay tor seven, h nd
then some, It Is the invariable rule.
to allow ''overtime. Toward the end
of .the session there Is always a rush
of work and the clerks must put in a
few hours work in tlif evening. This
overtime Is caref ully credited and paid
for. notwithstanding the clerk m a y
have been idle nine-tenths of the tim
earlier in the session. It is related that
some Instances the committee ap
pointed to report the amount due ATo
clerks has urged members of ' the Lee-
la t tire to put in claim for "overtime""
for their clerks, though tbe members
protested that the cictks did not work
after the regular hours. Desiring to
allow their own friends extra pay. the
members of the committee wanted to
enlist other members In the support of
the add It ional allowance. These fea
tures of legislative employment account
In nome degree for tne eagerness of
many younjr people to secure clerk
ships, notwithstanding the cost of llv
ng at the Capital during; a session
amounts to at least 11.50 ft day. And
usually more. Pome ot tbe clerks do
not bfRln their work unttL several days
after the session opens, put draw pay
from the first. Purinff the first two or
three weeks there la little to be done
and the clerks have practically a va
cation from their usual occupation at
home. "Without these incidents of
clerkship lire there would be little at-
traction in the compcnEation paid.
PrtOM the point of view of the spec
tator in the gallery, the present
oflulfltlve session will be more Inter-
esting than
been. Rathe
previous sessions ha
r. there will be much le
of tiro tiresome, and uninteresting- roll
call.. Heretofore much of the time of
the legislature has been given to the
passage of charter bills, and as these.
arc all passed from one reading: to an-
other under suspension of the rules, a
great deal or time 1 1 tats been spent In
taking a vote on the question whether
the rules shall bo suspended. Scarcely
ythlng could be more monotonous
than the of t-repeated calling of the
roll with few of the members answer
C to their names. Vet this formality
t necessary. Now there -w 1 1 1 be no-
charter bills before ttic Legislature
and there will be more time for (hi
nslderatlon of bills In which there
more general Interest and which w411
lilVltC flCDate, The country visitor sv.s
to Salem with the Idea that the Legis
lature spends most of Its ttmo debafc
ng questions of vital Importance to
the tale. He is therefor disappoint-
ed It he sits In the gallery half a day
and hears nothing but roll calls. it
taKB a lively dUcuesion o make tho
Legislature Interostlnar to the gallery.
The rherB B07.
Heiiry David Thomii.
My life Is liUe a str-Ml upon the beach.
-m n- 1- tho occsir. r.lRf I c-ar jeo
My t&rdy ntap Its ws.ves omt.lma
reach,
Sometimes I llay Is lei them oVflrflif.
Iy sole vmploymn
To place my a.!
tWs
other peUle. and e&ch sUl moil
Elfill
kln1y to my 2i .
J have l)Ut few companions on the-shor,;
They scorn the strand who tail upon the
The middle sea contain no crimson dul:
Its dr-eper waves cast up no pa.rl te
Along the shore my hand is on Its pul9,
. And I converse with many a shipwrecked
' Her Moods.
Clara llingsr Grn.
A. midnlnhi rampant, bloodhound winds
Abroad for prey.
And growllnc eas that crouch and !
On ship at bay.
A. mnminic bland.
aea demur.
Ai.d nature smiles aputogy
lor wack-aid don.