THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN. PORTLAND, JUNE 9, 1007.
PRESIDENT. USES
ANCIENT. RELICS
Trowel and Bible of Washing
ton's Tims Figure in the
Ceremony.
MASONS AS GOOD CITIZENS
Cornerstone of New Temple at Wash
ington Is Laid and Chief Execu
tive Delivers Address to the
Brethren of His Fraternity.
WASHINGTON. June 8. President
Roosevelt, as a member of the blue lodge
of Masons, made an address at the lay
ing of the cornerstone this afternoon of
the Masonic Temple which is to be erect
ed here at Thirteenth street and New
York avenue. A large crowd was present,
including many prominent Masons.
The gavel and trowel used were the
same as those used by President Wash
ington in laying the cornerstone of the
United States Capitol, September 18, 1793,
and the Bible was used by Fredericks
burg Lodge. No. 4. of Virginia, when
President Washington became a member
of the fraternity.
Examines Ancient Relics.
The President spread some cement un
der the cornerstone with the trowel, after
ward shaking the hands of the me
chanics superintending the work, and later
was handed the gavel and also the Bible,
which he examined closely as he turned
the pages of the sacred book.
Deposited in the cornerstone are steel
portraits of President Washington and
Roosevelt facsimile copies of the Dec
laration of Independence, and the Con
stitution of the United States, Jamestown
Exposition medals and a newspaper ac
count of the death of President Garfield.
Music was furnished by the Marine Band.
President Roosevelt spoke In part as
follows:
f Roosevelt Draws lessons.
"Most Worshipful Grand Master, Breth
ren and Friends:
It is a privilege and pleasure to take
part today in the dedication of the home
temple. I am sure all of us muBt at-
preciate the courtesy of these brethren of
other lodges, which has rendered it pos
sible to use on this occasion the Bible
upon which the great first citlsen of this
Republic. Washington, took the oath
when he was made a Mason, and the Im
plement which he used as a Mason In
laying the cornerstone of the Cunlror
Surely there is no place, no other city In
the United States, where there should be
as fine a Masonic Temple as here in
vtasmngton, for It is In a sense a Ni
tlonal temple, where Masons from every
jurisdiction father.
Breaks Citizenship Obligation.
"I have but a word to say to you and
that word must always be aouronrlale In
any Masonic meeting where the name of
A asmngton Is mentioned. I ask of each
brother that he shall remember ever that
there la upon him a peculiar obligation
to show himself in every respect a good
citlsen. for. after all. the wav in which
he can best do his duty by the ancient
order to which he belongs is by reflecting
credit upon that order by the way in
wnirn ne performs his duty as a citlsen.
"lt me also point out that It is well
not to wait for times of unsual crises be
fore you become a good citizen. We are
nil of us aware of the temptation to
think what a splendid and herolo part we
wouia play If the times demanded It so.
while at the same time It is not always
necessary to do the workaday, humdrum
auues oi tne moment.'
SHAVING WITHOUT RAZORS
London Barbers Aghast Because of
Paste Test.
London Daily Mall.
scores of excited barbers forced
meir way into a room at the Cannon
street hotel recently to witness an x-
nioition or razorlesa shaving. They
were stirred to tense excitement by
seeing a deft operator remove a stub
bly three days' growth with th edge
oi a matcnDox.
l ne rasorless shavina- exhibition
was really a press view, organized to
show how, by covering a beard of any
s "i grow in witn a paste made fro
the -Razoriess Shaving Powder," 1t
was possible to remove such heard
with the blunt edge of a paper-knife
or timer articles. Tne paste, it was
explained, makes the beard brittle in
which condition It can easily be brok
en off.
, At 1:10 the six persons to be shaved
mounted the little platform and
walked to their chairs with the
gloomy, depressed air of condemned
persons going to their execution.
There were two mea wearing necker
rhlefs, who, "with a week's growth on
tneir chins, had apparently been re
rruiiea rrom me street; there were
also a falr-mustached young clerk, two
British workmen, and a portly, mtddle-
aa man witn Dusny side-whiskers
who looked the picture of a highly
respectaoie butter.
The lathered men lay back for ten
minutes, having their photographs
taken and listening to banter, and
then the operator with a bone paper
knife began to scrape the paste off the
first victim. The bristles came oft
with the paste. The man got up from
his chair clean shaven, and the barbers
in the gathering were aghast. Then
came the turn of the other men. They
were shaved with the following ar
ticles:
The back of a lady's comb.
A postcard.
A wooden salad spoon.
A shoe horn.
A match-box.
When the remnants of the paste had
been- washed off. the faces were free
from the slightest suspicion of
beard. True, the process seemed rath
er lengthy and elaborate; true one of
the men mentioned that his face
smarted a little. But the results were
indisputable.
CHILDREN OF THE DESERT
The Arab Fete Is a Weirdly Vacu
ous Terformance.
Springfield (Mass.) Union.
Those wild calftaa'd sons of Esau
who roam over the desert or congre
gate around the pyramids and other
places ef interest in Egypt and Syria
In the hope of extorting backsheesh
Irom travelers, or who lurk in unfre
auented 'roaas in anticipation of plun
er, although a turbulent, predaceous
rare, are yet withal but children In
ame of tbetr tastes, pleased with the
merest trifle, and with far less educa
tion than a schoolboy.
iAn Arab fete is indeed a weirdly
vacuous and Inane performance. In
the background looms the mighty
pyramid of Cheops, the stupendous
structure towering majestically up
ward toward the skies, its vast propor
tions appearing in the fitful moonlight!
even more nuge ana proaigiuus man ui :
the glare of the day. In the Imrae- .
diate foreground is the flower-bedecked
garden of the great hotel built
under the shadow of those wondrous
relics of the past, the waving fronds
of graceful, lofty palms illuminated
witn colored lamps, reminding the
spectator of a scene from the Arabian
nights; while outside, formed up in a
ring, are congregated a large number
of wild white robed Bedouin men
only, their wives and daughters being
left behind in their tents in the desert
to attend to their household duties- in
termingled with many uritian iauie
and gentlemen.
The ring being cleared, the place is
brilliantly lignted up with colored
fires, hideous and discordant sounds,
upposed to be music, are produced
from probably the identical form of
nstrument which was in use when
Pharaoh ruled over the country, though
considerable effort of the Imagina
tion is requisite to enable the listener
to realize tnat any numan oeing can
regard that grating stridor as tuneful
melody. A number of shrieking Arabs
now rush in and perform- an Insipid
pantomimic dance, which, though it
appeared immensely to impress their
excited compatriots, is a most grace
less and uncouth performance, not worthy
of description.
But now a diversion is created by a
sudden sand storm from the desert, the
powerful Bengal lights coloring the sand-
laden atmosphere a brilliant red, tinting
everything In a weird and lurid hue, and
causing the. gesticulating natives to re
semble a spectral horde writhing In some
nary inferno. This, however, soon sub
sides, the moon again shines forth In
all her glory, once more revealing the
solemn grandeur and stately dignity of
that mighty monument of Cheops, the
Bedouin hie off to their desert homes and
the British speed back to Cairo by elec
tric rail.
And how immovable Is the East under
the miasma of Mohammedanism; for, as
the centuries go by. and as Christian na
tions continue to advance In knowledge
and in attainments, the Incubus of that
stranpe retrograde faith shackles and
fetters its devotees and enchains them
in the gyves and manacles of a cruel and
soul-destroying yoke.
SOUTH GLAMORS
FOB ROOSEVELT
In the Proletariat Line.
Puck.
"Old Horace Rlcketta is dead at last."
in well-modulated tones announced the
Philanthropist's private secretary.
Are you sure of that?" asked the
Great Man, solicitously.
Yes, sir; He was found dead In a
miserable garret, dead of starvation
with a partially gnawed boot In his
wasted band, and was buried by a sub
scrlption raised among his less unfor
tunate neighbors. He left a document
ivlng the details of his long and un
successful fight against this company
for his royalties on patents absorbed by
us, and saying that he was starving to
death, blind and deserted, murdered by
corporate greed. The unsubsidtzed
newspapers refer to the affair as very
pathetic, I believe."
"Dear! dear! murmured the Eminent
Octopus, sympathetically. "We really
must endow a Horace RIcketts library
somewhere."
His
War on Predatory Rich
Has Cut Old Political
Moorings.
FAIRBANKS BOOM IS DEAD
Articles of Incorporation.
WALTON 4 LAFAYETTE Portland: cap
ital. S40O0; incorporators. Fred S. Walton.
J. Lafayette Berry, Winnie E. Hammond.
BEHNKE-WALKER BUSINESS COLLEGE
Portland; capital. $80,000; incorporators.
H. W. Behnke, I. . M. Walker, M. A. Zollinger.
Marriage ucenses.
NAGEL-KAMUSHER Ike Nagel, 29, city;
Mary Kamusher, city.
KNOWLKS-WALKLET J. Harland
Knowles. 25, ity; Jessie Gertrude Walkley,
over Is, city.
Alienated From Bryan by His Own
ership Ideas, Democrats Want
Southern CandidateBoth Par- -ties
Want Roosevelt Again.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash
ington, June 8. Politically the "solid
South" is in a state of fermentation.
Ever since the war the South has been
solidly Democratic until Missouri
joined the Republican ranks in 1904.
The negro question made the Soutj sol
idly Democratic and the negro ques
tion is all that has kept it so. Elimin
ate the race question and tbe South
would become fighting ground in every
National campaign.
Notwithstanding it is always found
in the Democratic column, the South
has never held a President since tne
Civil War. Democrats of the South
believe that their consistency entitles
them to recognition at the hands of the
party and there is a stronger demand
now than ever before for the nomina
tion of a Southern man on the National
Democratic ticket, j There has been
such a demand In years past, but never
so strong as at the present time.
There has recently sprung up a great
deal of talk about nominating Senator
John W. Daniel, of Virginia, for Presl
dent. Mr. Daniel has launched no
boom of bis own, but his friends have
enthusiastically, declared in - favor of
bis nomination, and the suggestion
meets with a great deal of approval in
ins own and other Southern States.
Tt is not likelv that he will be nomin
ated, but, if bis name is presented f&
the next convention, it will be enthu
siastically received and it would not be
surprising if the solid South, for a
time at least, should stand out in favor
of his nomination. The trouble is that
the South, though solid, does not con
trol a majority of the votes in a Na
tional convention, and the same lnflu
ences that have prevented the nom
ination of a Southerner in the past
will prevent the nomination of Senator
Daniel in JSJS.
South Really for Roonevelt.
The indorsement of Mr. Daniel. 'how
ever, is arousing less interest In the
South than the Indorsement of Presl
dent Roosevelt. Notwithstanding his
Republicanism. Mr. Roosevelt is more
popular in the South today than any
politician of either party, and he is
popular with both parties. His popu
larity in the South is due to two
causes, r.s explained by Governor
Blanchard, of Mississippi, in a recent
discussion of the subject. First, his
stand with regard to corporations
meets with the unqualified approval
of the Southern people. The President
not only promises but practices the
policy of protecting the interests of
the people against the encroachments
of predatory wealth. Secondly, the
President is half Southerner by birth
and the Southern people bank heavily
on blood.
Mr. Blanchard. in his talk with a
prominent official from Washington,
said that the people ef the South un
qualifiedly indorsed Mr. Roosevelt's
stand with regrard to corporations. Me
took the popular side and after taking;
position and announcing hia purpose.
set into motion the Government ma
chinery to carry out hiB ideas and to
actually protect the people at a time
when they most seriously needed Fed
eral protection. Mr. Blanchard said
that personally he admired Mr. Roose
velt, because he was a man who "did
things"; that others promised reforms
and promised protection to the people
and never kept their promises, while
Mr. Roosevelt made good alj his prom
ises. .
Because. Re Fights Plunderers.
The views of Mr. Blanchard are- in
teresting in connection with the dec
laration of John Temple Graves, of
Georgia, who announced that in his
opinion, the people of the South pre
ferred the nomination of Mr. Roosevelt
to that of any other man of any otner
party. Mr. Graves, like Mr. Blanchard,
primarily attributed Mr. Roosevelt's
popularity through ne South to nis
eourse with regard to corporations. .
That the- South generally indorses
Mr. Roosevelt's position with regard
to corporations has been shown time
and again in the last Congress. Oh
every issue involving corporations.
Southern Senators voted to sustain the
President; and some of the most im
portant corporation legislation enact
ed by the 69 th Congress was made
possible only by . the votes of Southern
Democrats. Some did not admire the
President personally, but very few
failed to sympathize with his attitude
on this, the leading Issue of the pres
ent day. With Southern Democrats
supporting the President by their
votes. It is reasonable to assume that
there is some foundation for the dec
laration of Mr. Graves.
The Georgia editor, no doubt, goes
further than most Southern Democrats
when he favors the unanimous renom
lnation of Mr. RooseVelt by both par
ties, but many Democrats In the South
would today vote for Mr. Roosevelt in
preference to Mr. Bryan, and not a
few would vote for Mr. Roosevelt In
preference to any other Democratio
candidate whose name has so far been
mentioned. The antipathy" for Mr
Roosevelt that followed the Booker
Washington incident and the Cram ap
pointment in South Carolina has ap
parently entirely disappeared. They
are not mentioned today. They have
been passed by as insignificant inci
dents unworthy of further contempla
tion in view of the gratifying work
that the President has done looking
to the suppression of Improper prac
tices on the part of great corporations.
Fairbanks Movement Dead.
While the Southern Democrats are thus
looking with favor upon Mr. Roosevelt,
a remarkable change has taken place
amomr Southern Republicans. A year
ago it was conceded that Vice-President
Fairbanks would get more southern votes
In the next convention than any other
Republican candidate. In fact. It was be
lieved that Mr. Fairbanks would have
practically the entire Southern vote. He
had been working for the support of the
South ever since his election as Vice
President. His henchmen have been
traveling through the South working up
sentiment In his favor and they had
pledges from leading Republicans in al
most every Southern State that they
would exert themselves to the utmost to
secure Fairbanks delegates to the next
Republican convention-
Now all this has changed. r,ate ad
vices by men who have canvassed the sit
uation are to the effect that the Southern
Republicans' are enthusisstieally In favor
of the renomlnation of Mr. Roosevelt
Talk of Mr. Fairbanks has almost entire
ly died out. Old promises have appar
ently been forgotten. The' Southern Re
publicans have awakened to the fact that
Mr. Fairbanks is not the kind of a man
to carry out Mr. Roosevelt's policies with
regard to corporations and In. their minds
It is far more Important that the reforms
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Veneered
Tailoring
The town is full of it All
looks no stability. It's the
parts you DON'T see in
clothes that are responsible
for the' shape-keeping: of the
parts you DO see. .
HART, SCHAFFNER .
& MARX
Clothes are not all on the out
side. They more than "look
deep." They make a mighty
good appearance, but back of
all this is good, substantial
making. We guarantee
clothes satisfaction.
2 and 3-Piece Suits
$10 to $35
Copyright 907 by Hart Schaffner fc? Marx
WE ARE SHOWING AN EXTREMELY LARGE LINE OF CORDUROY
CUFF BOTTOM TROUSERS AT S3.5Q -
Sam! R
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Diatt ez: 0.
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Corner Third and Morrison Streets
of the present administration shall IS
continued for another four years than
thst political promises to Mr. Fairbanks'
friends should be lived up to. Of course,
none of these promises were binding, for
no one. was authorised to absolutely com
mit any of tbe delegates to the next con
vention. But regardless of what the
promises are worth, there seems to be no
doubt whatever that they will be abro
gated and that the great majority of
Southern delegates will go to the next
Republican convention pledged to Mr.
Roosevelt. -.
May Stampede Convention.
A solid South and a solid West pledged
to Mr. Roosevelt would be in. a fair way
co stampede the next Republican National
convention, especially if the North was
divided among Cannon, Taft and Knox.
All three of these men seem determined
to press their candidacies to their utmo6t
ability and yet among the three Knox is
the only one who seems certain of having
the Indorsement of his' own state. Mr.
Taft will have a very difficult fight to get
the Ohio delegation because of the Fur
aker opposition, and it now seems that
Mr. Cannon will have trouble in getting
the Illinois delegation because of a move
ment started in that state by the chair
man of the Republican committee ,to
force the selection of a delegation com
mitted to Mr. Roosevelt. With the North
' divided among these three candidates;
with distrust of Mr. Knox because of
his long affiliation with corporations; dis-
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satisfaction with Mr. Cannon on account
of his advanced age, and the streng oppo
sition that is certain to be raised to Mr.
Taft because of his tariff and labor views.
it would seem comparatively eay for ths
South and West, if working as a tmit,
to stampede the Northern -delegates for
Mr. Roosevelt when the next convention
gets down to business.
South May Decide Choice,
The South occupies a position which will
nabla It to play an important part In
the National campaign of next year. Very
generally througH the South there is dis
satisfaction with Mr.. Bryan's uovern
ment ownership ideas and general lack:
of sympathy with his initiative and refer
endum policy. Heretofore, the South has
been consistently Iemocratic and has
largely supported the party nominees,
regardless of who they have been and
what the Issues have been, but there is
no small amount of unrest among South
ern Democrats, due to their lack of sym
pathy with Mr. Bryan and their unqual
ified sympathy for Mr. Roosevelt. It
may transpire that the South will hold
the balance of power and may determine
the Jesuit of the next campaign by con
trolling the action of the Republican con
vention. BURROWS FINDS BUGBEAR
j
Will Propose Constitutional Amend
ment Itorbiddlng Polygamy.
OREGONIAN NEWS BURKAU. Wash-'
lngton, June 6. Senator Burrows, of
Michigan, who, with Senator Dubois, of
Idaho, led the unsuccessful right against
Senator Smoot, does not know when hs
Is defeated. He now talks of another
amendment to the Constitution prohibit
ing plural marriages. The evils of Mor
monism have become a bugbear to the
Michigan Senator. He has talked so much
with Mr. Dubois that ne has auowea nim
self to believe that the practice of polyg
amy is spreading rather than dying out.
The Smoot Investigation showed that
polygamy Is practically extinct. - While
many 'Mormons oeiieve mm piurai mar-
rlsges are proper, they are willing to .
abide by the law, and it is the unbiased
Judgment of sensible men who pavs
studied this question thst polygamy will
eliminate itself if ths Mormons are left
alons.
Mr. Burrows has developed a mono
mania on the Mormon question, however,
and he will probably talk Mormonlsm
In season and out until he is bumped
again by the Benate. The fact Is thst
the Senate was sick and tired of talk
about Mormonlsm when It came to vote
on the Smoot case, and it will display
very little patience with Mr. Burrows
if he attempts to revive this Issue at the'
coming session. The vote on the Smoot
case was positive evidence that the Sen
ate did not sympathise with Mr. Bur
rows and Mr. Dubois, and if another vote
should be taken, the probabilities sra
that Mr. Burrows would be defeated even
worse than he was last Winter.
THE PERSONS JiT'MBERED ARBt t. WILLIAM t. HAVWOOD, DErEXDAXT OS TRIAll , JOHS V. SCGEKT, FROSECTJTlJlQ ATTORJfRT; S, PETER BREEW; 4, EDMl'XD F. BICH
ARDSO' , CLARENCE 9. D ARROW. ATTORSETS TOR. DEFENSE) , TOM CAHALIX, DETECTIVE! T, MRS. HAYWOOD, WIFE OP DEFBJfDAWT. - -
Perplexing Problem in Civics.
Kansas City Journal.
Once upon a time a friend wandered
into the office of the -president of a
street railroad company and found that
magnate engrossed 1ft some apparently
intricate calculation. "What kind of
a problem are you working out?" akni
a friend. "I am trying; to figure out."
replied the magnate, "which would be
the cheapest, to put up a man for
Mayor and buy enough votes to elect
him, or let ths other fellows elect their
man and then buy him." " This earns
problem has been pondered over by
others outside of street railroad offices.
Prominent Railroad Mm Cored
of a Bad Cold.
i had a cold hang on for over twe
months, which developed into catarrh of
the head and stomach. My breath he
came so offensive that I shunned people,
as they did me. The mucus from my
head kept dropping Into my throat and I
would hack, cough and spit constantly.
It was disgusting and caused me Intense
mortification. My stomach was upset
and I had no appetite. I used a dozen
remedies before 1 tried Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy. That settled It It
touched ths weak spot, and effectually
cured roe. I used but three bottles of it.
and the result was wonderful." James K.
Smith. Treasurer Brotherhood of Railway
Trainmen, 170s 3d. Ave., Birmingham, Ala.