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Aniarllla, Tex. Tlmmons A Pope. ban Francisco Foster & Orear; Ferry News Stand; Hotel St. Francis News Stand; 1.. Parent; N- wheatley; Falrmount Hotel News Stand; Amos News Co.; United News Agency. 14to Eddy street; B. E. Amos, man ager throe wagons; Worlds N. 8.. 2625 A. Sutter street. Oakland, Cal. W. H. Johnson, Fourteenth and Franklin streets; N. Wheatley; Oakland News Stand; B. E. Amos, manager nve wagons; WeMlngham. E. G. - (ioUllleld, Nee. Louie Follln. Eureka, Cal. Call-Chronicle Agency; Eu reka News Co. PORTLAND. SUNDAY. MAY 17, 190. PROPERTY AND RIGHTS. Tour socialist and your single-taxer are really the same citizen -though they (or he) may not be aware of it. Both live on theory, and bad theory, which produces an acrid fla'tulence of eructation; like Job's adviser, who was likened by the old sage to" the man who had filled his belly with the east wind. Mr. Thomas Sladden, in a letter printed in The pregonian yesterday, took, the pains to say that, as a so cialist, he was Indifferent to single tax and to all forms of taxation, because everything, under the present system. Is taken out of labor anyhow, and the method doesn't matter. Perhaps It Is the profound conviction of the socialists that labor by which they moan wage labor has to pay every thing, that causes them to spend their time mostly in idle chatter, rather than In labor. But the single-taxer and the socialist are virtually on the same ground. They both want to strip own ers of property of their possessions. Mr. Sladden In his letter of yester day said: "Without the institution of private property,- taxes would be an absurdity and government inconceiv able. Who needs a government must necessarily pay the expense of that government. Governments are insti tuted in the interest of property and property alone." Here Is the extreme of error; and It is error of the kind that is positively immoral. It is im moral because it proclaims an utterly false view of the chief ends and aims of government and reduces all thought about the proper functions of the state to . mean, sordid and mercenary mo tives, and to merely material ends.. Kor it is not true that "governments are instituted in the interest of prop erty and property alone." They are instituted as much in the interest of the rights of person as of property, and even more; for personal rights are dearer always than property rights esteemed, so both by the citizen and by his government. All the machinery of law is supported by property, yet most of it is employed in protection of personal rights. It is government that protects the citizen from insult, as sault and murder; It protects him in his reputation and in the inviolability of his family life; it educates the whole mass of the young, of succes sive generations; it maintains regu lations for protection of the public and of private health, and watches while you sleep, as well to protect your person as your property; it enforces regulation for support of public and private morals, and keeps poorhouses as retreats for socialists and single- taxers, who have wasted their lives on agitation of silly theories and have nothing to support them in old age It does all these things because it rec ognizes a moral obligation to do them and it levies taxes on property not on the persons of socialists and single- taxers, or of others to get means to do them. Of course, it must support the rights of property, too, or it would have nothing to draw on for its benevo lent, moral and educational purposes, or for support of justice between man and man. It holds rights of person always superior to those of property, where the two come In conflict; and it will not permit men to defend their own property, except under closest re- si rictions and limitations, lest they abuse the persons of others; and of such cases the Jury must judge. Gov ernment, then, is not Instituted and maintained in the interest of property alone. Protection of property is but one of the Incidents of its duty, and it spends far more money and effort to protect, to help and to educate the people; to make roads, streets and bridges, protect individuals from wan ton outrage, conserve the general health and morals, and a thousand other things for convenience and com fort and safety of persons, whether owners of property or not, than it spends merely to protect property it self. But your hobbyist or utoplst never sees all parts of any subjecL His thought is fixed on his own particular hobbw-horsical notion. He cannot see human life steadily, nor see it whole. Everyone knows that large part of the expenses of our courts are caused by people contesting against each oth er, in petty quarrels, for their personal rights. Few of these people are tax payers. Yet they are allowed their day in court, at the expense of others. They are a tedious people. Is gov ernment, compelled to bear the ex pense of their petty squabbles, "insti tuted lor property alone?" But the rights of person and the rights of .property touch at innumer able points except in case of our agitators, who "haven't a bean," be cause they prefer agitation and spout ing and noise and sedition to the labor necessary for accumulation of prop erty. They are the Catalinarians de scribed by Sallust, who were "eager for the property of others, having squandered their own." They are the wolves of the forest or plain, howling in pursuit of the travelers, .and as im placable. It would be a pity if human society had no means of defense against them; but it has. .Not only so, but it will defend and protect them in all their personal rights, and in their rights of property, too, if they should ever have property needing defense. But then they would cease to be hu man wolves. It is only the pauc'ty of the numbers of these people th.it in duces or permits society to give them quarter. Our new system, our new legisla tion, or so-called new system, gives them encouragement and opportunity; and for this reason, among others, it Is a great mistake. All radical depart ure from the landmarks of old ex perience is therefore to be dreaded. We fully believe, therefore, that the time will come when the good sense of the people of Oregon, in city and coun try, will see the necessity of re-estab lishing the old constitutional barriers. which now are wholly down. An in itiative statute may now do anything. There is need of surer defense, as our fathers thought, when they were mak ing constitutions. ., THE CLIMAX OF PERJURY. Registration is closed in Multnomah, with a total of 33,130 electors. Of these 25,730 are registered as Repub licans, 5590 as Democrats, and 1810 as miscellaneous or unattached voters. But who supposes this is a true statement? Who believes that the Democrats will cast only 5590 votes in Multnomah, and Republicans the great number of 25,730? To be specific, who Imagines that Cake's plurality over Chamberlain in Multnomah will be 20,140, or. that Ellis, the Republican candidate for Representative in Con gress, will get 20,140 over Jeffreys, his Democratic opponent? " The proportion of the registration in other counties is similar, though not quite so marked in differences. Is it a true registration? Why, then, is Chamberlain a candidate, contesting for the popular vote, and expecting to obtain a plurality? Just because it is known that the registration is a colossal lie, a perjured lie. Invited by a primary law conceived in folly and used by electors for de ception, and for fraudulent partisan ends. ' ' It is abetted by men of both parties. It marks the greatest dishonesty of politics, under present leadership, and of legislation under "the new system." The system makes a jest, a farce, a lie, of the highest duty of citizenship. All acts that follow the dishonesty of registration like this will take the like color of dishonesty from it. Use of the suffrage is the basis of govern ment and of legislation. When the beginning is palpable fraud and ac knowledged perjury, what is the fruit expected to be? This is "the new system" that was to enforce honesty in political affairs and in party conduct. It begins its record for enforcement of purity, in party government and legislation with a mountainous lie, supported by uni versal perjury. "A lie, an odious. damned lie! Upon my soul a lie; a wicked lie!" Emilia's fierce words in "Othello" are not unfit for the characterization The like of this is what we get by following the apostles of the new re form. Pure legislation will flow from this fountain of perjury, when men gather grapes from thorns and figs from thistles. GETTING REALTY MEN TOGETHER. In several cities of this state real estate dealers have recently held meet ings and formed local - organizations with a view to promoting harmonious relations among the men engaged in this occupation. The movement is one that should succeed, though it must be admitted that from the manner in which their business is conducted it must be difficult to get real estate men together in a permanent organization. The grocers have their regular cus tomers, the physicians their estab lished practice, and the lawyers their regular clients. They can organize for the common good without danger of their peaceful relations suffering from the frictions of business. Even the ministers, who hare their various and divergent methods of getting some people to heaven and shutting the doors against others, are able to main tain their ministerial union and dis cuss subjects of common interest. But the real estate business, as it has al ways been conducted, seems to have involved a practice of "knocking" that is not conducive to good fellowship. The man who wants to buy generally makes his wants known to many real estate dealers, looks at what they have to offer, and learns their prices. Quite naturally, in the hope of getting one piece of property at a lower figure, he quotes another dealer's price on other property, thus paving the way for the "knocking" which is designed to discourage the purchase of the farm or the city lot which a rival has for sale. It doesn't take long for that sort of thing to lead to hard feelings, re taliation and injury, not only to the dealers themselves, but to the com munlty. Though they may not be entirely successful, efforts having for their ob ject the organization of real estate dealers should have a beneficial Influ ence. If such an organization can be founded upon a plan which -will enable one dealer to speak favorably of any property his rivals have for sale with out injuring his own business or his chances of making a profit on a sale. a decided advance will have been made. With site exception of the newspaper proprietors, there is no class of people in a position to do more toward building up a com munity than the real estate dealers. They come most frequently into im mediate contact with men who are contemplating making this state their home. They have the opportunity to advance the reasons which will induce men to make investments in their sev eral localities. What a great advan tage it would be to all the cities and towns of Oregon if real estate dealers were so organized that no dealer would have a selfish' interest to serve by "knocking" any piece of. property or discouraging any wise investment. MIRACLES. In one of his irritating discourses Bernard Shaw tries to maintain the proposition that the human race has made no Substantial progress since the beginning of -history. The reader who can follow him without letting his anger overcome his reason has to ad mit that the perverse Irishman makes out something of a case. He cites our much-vaunted improvements to the bar of criticism one after the other, accuses them of being mere fraudulent pretenses which in no way increase human happiness, and scornfully con demns them. Boast as we will, he rails, what have we done toward the solution of the problems of life, the real ones? Have we not poverty, drunkenness, disease, the social evil, revenge, hatred, war, misery and death, just as they had it all in the plains of Babylon thousands of years ago? We have changed the aspect of the world, but we have not improved t, he thinks. Of course there is a great deal to say on the other side, but Bernard Shaw omits it because he has a thesis to sup port. His thesis is that mankind is too feeble mentally, morally and phys ically to wrestle with the difficulties of the world. On all sides, he says, in every struggle with fundamental prob lems, we have been defeated and we always shall be defeated until through the action of heredity we have pro duced a stronger, race. That this race ! coming he seems to believe firmly and he has even gone so far as to give i a name. He calls it Superman. When the Superman arrives the prob lems which have baffled us will all be solved. There will be no more pov erty, no more disease, no more suffer ing. The ills we have had so long we shall have no longer. Time will lose its whips and scorns. The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely. will be escaped wikhout using a bare bodkin and we shall no more be chained to the evils of life by the fear of something after death, because the evils will have vanished and life will be one unbroken joy. There is some novelty in Shaw's remedy for earthly ills, but none what ever in his belief that man is unequal to his problems. This conviction is inherent in all religions. From the lowest fetich worship to the purest Christianity It is insisted upon and re iterated. Permeating them all and providing a reason for their existence we find the same proposition that man cannot perform his tasks and fulfill his duties without supernatural help. Shaw teaches that the supernatural will ultimately rescue the race from its weakness and make it capable of helping itself. Religious teachers tell us that we must always seek the higher aid through prayer, or some thing equivalent to it. That this su perior source of strength is available in one way or another has always formed an article in every creed. It has been the mainstay of every faith. Most religions have been founded by men who claimed the faculty of reach ing the supernatural and applying its stores of energy to human affairs. In other words, they could work miracles, or pretend that they could. As time passes the power to work miracles, whether real or fancied, seems to die out In most religious bod ies. It is replaced by forms and cere monies, and when now and then a man claims to possess it like the an cients he is derided. Sometimes he is fcalled a maniac. Very seldom is he treated with respect. So far as one can observe today, the Catholic Church is the only branch of Christianity which still asserts the power to work miracles, but few unprejudiced stu dents of history would venture to deny positively that this power has been ac tive in many times and places since human affairs began to be recorded. Either many witnesses were grossly deceived or the primitive Christians possessed it and used it commonly Of course we may say flatly, that everybody who recites the alleged facts lies, but that is a very unsatisfactory way of disposing of these questions. People do not often lie about such things, though tHey may frequently be mistaken. As we remarked above, most denominations have by this time definitely abandoned the claim that they can work miracles, except in the ory. Still the belief that it can be done was never more vigorous than it is now. When President Garfield was slowly dying of his mortal wound somebody proposed that all the Christian in the world should unite in prayer for his recovery. The proposal was rejected as Dlasphemous; but we have never been able to see why it was so. Nor can we understand why Huxley's chal lenge to the religious world to try to move a balance arm by prayer should have been rejected. . Theoretically the churches still claim powers of this kind, and the refusal to submit them to a decisive test seems to savor some what of timidity. Bpt If the churches are content to abnegate the power to work miracles, other people are not. There are dozens of flourishing but un orthodox sects which declare that they possess it and exercise it every day. They may be prejudiced witnesses perhaps, but Professor William James, of Harvard University, is certainly un biased. This distinguished scholar gives us- to understand that his ob servations have distinctly tended to confirm the belief that something very much like miracles happens with fair frequency. In his opinion there is a reservoir of energy lying not very far beneath our routine life, an oceanic supply of strength, health and volition, upon which we might draw at will if we would but learn how to do it. ' The Christian Scientists and some other denominations aver that they have learned how. If this theory is true, it may turn out that we can solve the problems of the world without waiting to produce Bernard Shaw's Superman. Why should we not all become Super men by availing themselves of this su pernatural, ur sub-conscious, resource? Of course those who declare that it exists may be mistaken; but the evi dences that they are not mistaken seem to accumulate rather rap Idly, while there is an increasing mass of testimony from people of sane judg ment that they have quaffed of Its waters and been refreshed. May not this sea of sub-conscious energy turn out to be the "healing flood" wherein the old hymns proclaim that we may bathe and come out strong and clean? YOCXO MEN'S FOLLY. Seniors at Stanferd have decided to boycott the commencement festivities because about fifty of their, number have been suspended in the last few weeks. They want it understood that they will either rule or ruin, or both. If they can't have their own way, they won't play. They have decided upon principles of conduct which they think ought to govern men in their relations with each other, and they propose to adhere to them. Authority is some thing to 'which they will not submit. Rather than acquiesce in the wishes of those who have been selected to gov ern the affairs of the university, they will depart from the institution with out their diplomas and begin their ca reers in the world at large with a spirit of absolute independence. One cannot help but wonder whether they will carry their ideas of ndividual liberty with them when they enter business or the professions. As employes of large business con cerns, will they refuse to obey instruc tions and finally quit unless the head of the establishment gives in to their every whim? As members of the bar, will they refuse to recognize the au thority of the court if a rule shall be declared that no attorney shall appear in the courtroom In an Intoxicated condition? As members of political parties, and of conventions, will they defy the majority and walk out if they can't have their own way? These are practical questions that naturally arise in view of the attitude the seniors at Stanford have assumed near the close of their college days. Let us hope they will reconsider and act wisely. THE SETTLER NOT TO BLAME. ' It is easy at this distance to criticise the action of theiloneers of the Mid dle West and Northwest for methods which they used in subduing the forest lands of the Nation methods that, in the light of the present and its needs and with an eye to the future and its still greater needs, produced a grievous waste of our timber resources. When, however, the hardy pioneers of the great West, moving slowly acress the Alleghanles, penetrated the primeval wilderness, known as the .Northwest Territory, they halted for better pro tection against the rigors of Winter and the miasms of the sodden prairies, that were little better than great steaming, undrained swamps, in the belts of wood land along the streams and began making clearings for their homes. It was. necessary for them to employ the most expeditious means to get rid of the timber that interfered with agriculture. Mills there were none; markets there were none; and between the pur pose of the sturdy settler to make a living for his family from the soil and the achievement of that purpose stood the forest primeval. The settlers' weapons were the ax, the saw and fire. These he used with vigor and deter mination, hard pressed by the needs of the present. He did not expect, and could not be expected, to take into consideration the needs of a century later. Nature was at his very doors, meeting, as is her wont, his endeavor with obstacles, and yielded grudgingly her right of domain. Coal mines had not been opened up in the great West at that time, and the settler must have fuel; fields, cleared at a cost of labor almost incredible to the people of this generation, must be fenced; houses and barns and sheep folds must be built out of material close at hand and laboriously fash ioned to the settler's uses. Present needs were all absorbing, and they were met In the only way possible, by vigorous 'onslaught upon such re sources of Nature as the wilderness supplied. , It was thus that fine groves of wal nut and hickory fell before the ax, were whlpsawed into clapboards for cabins, and schoolhouses built of logs of the same now invaluable timber; the great fireplaces were fed all Win ter long with logs riven for that pur pose with .maul and wedge logs of even grain and generous girth, the like of which is no longer to be found while the Immense surplus that could not be used and must be got rid of. If the settler would have corn and pork and potatoes for family use, was piled in great heaps and burned on the for est floor. Naturally the descendants of these pioneers, looking back in imagination at huge bonfires of walnut and hick ory and sugar maple and elm and oak timber not brush, but trees deplore the palpable wastefulness of the forest wealth that was the country's endew ment from Nature, and, with a feeling of exasperation, wonder at the short sightedness of their ancestors. But in point of fact was not this waste of forest wealth a necessity? There were no loggers or lumbermen, mills or markets, in the great West in those days. The advance guard of civilization was afoot in the forests, ax and flint and tinder in hand, blazing the way for the demand that is now here, and, finding that the supply has been exhausted, charges wanton waste fulness upon the first proprietors of the land. In the light of the present it is easy to substantiate this charge. But what sturdy man among us, who, were he projected with his family into a forest wilderness and left to wrest his livelihood from the soil, would fail to make present use of his surround ings without regard to the needs of a future generation? The pioneer can not fairly be said to' have made a mis take when he took the shortest and indeed the only means of making the forest land habitable. If he would raise corn and hay and cattle and hogs, the trees on his land must first be disposed of. These trees were cum berers of the soil merely not fine specimens, centuries old, of the finest commercial timber of the future." He got them out of his way and is not to blame for it. The greed of the lumber man who came after him is another story. Not necessity, but avarice, urged this later wastrel on. And it was be fore this avarice and its mighty equip ment in men, methods and implements that the forests of Illinois and Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota, fell as before whirlwind and fire. It is scarcely fair to say of the pio neer, as was said by the President in his address to the assembled Govern- ors in Washington last Wednesday, that they were unaware of any duty to posterity. They were performing the greatest possible duty to posterity, in opening up the wilderness and provid ing. In the meantime, food and cloth ing and shelter for their own. This they- did in the only way at that time possible under the conditions which surrounded them. When the Ameri can settler felled the forest he proba bly did not consider the question of a timber supply for a second or third generation. Why should he be ex pected to do so. since the preservation of the seeds of posterity by feeding and clothing and sheltering his chil dren occupied his time, thought and endeavor? Let any one disposed to blame the first settlers of the Middle West for extravagance in dealing with the abounding resources of Nature in that region in the early years of the nineteenth .century read that portion of the history of Abraham Lincoln compiled by John Hay and John Nico- lay that deals with the conditions sur rounding the boyhood of Lincoln be fore he passes judgment. THE ARMORY APPROPRIATION. In defence of the Armory appropri ation which is' threatened by a refer endum, an argument is advanced which merits attention. What are the young men In our towns to do for places of amusement, it is asked, now that the saloons are being closed all over the state? They will not go to church, and even if they did, it is questionable whether they would be much amused. The armories, if they could be built, would provide innocent resorts for young men, and at the same time give them the benefit of military discipline and instruction. The grangers- argue against the ar mories on the ground that the militia benefits the corporations more than anybody else, while the corporations shirk their taxes whenever they can, throwing the burden on the farmers. Why should the farmers of the state pay for armories to train troops to help the corporations? they ask. One must admit that the argument is somewhat delicately balanced. With out trying to decide it we may venture to set before the reader a few facts culled from the wide and flowery field of experience, a' field where people who love argument sometimes neglect to wander. In a little town not many nviles from Portland there were four saloons, all well patronized. Some kindly people in that town bethought themselves how they might entice the young men away from the saloons. There was a church where the gospel, or what passes for it, was preached every Sunday. There was also a Sun day school, but these means of grace did not seem to be very efficient, Finally the kindly people set on foot a scheme to build a gymnasium and clubroom. They did not go to the state for an appropriation. They did not go begging to the benevolent. They formed a stock company and sold shares. The people of the town bought the shares as an Investment, and be fore long there was money enough on hand to buy a site and erect a build ing. Every young man In the neigh borhood was interested. They were all eager to help. To furnish the gymnasium and club room our enthusiasts gave a minstrel show, followed soon after- by a scenic display which they called a "vudvil." The funds were forthcoming. They bought a piano, some decks of cards, trapezes and the like, and the trick was done. This humble enterprise is more popular among the young men of that town than all the saloons to-: gether. Sunday mornings and after noons, if it is pleasant, they play base ball, but if it rains they stretch their muscles on the trapezes. They play cards with none to molest them. They delight their souls with the harmonies of the self-playing piano. And all these delectable things they have pro vided for themselves without aid from the state and without soliciting char ity. What man has done man can do. Herein lleth a Ujsson for the philan thropists, who wonder what the young men will do with themselves when the saloons are closed. Possibly the state-built armory will solve the question; but the community ought to do something to that end. WOMAN'S WORK IN THE CIVIL WAR. Mrs. Emily W'oodley, the last sur vivor of a band of thirty-five young women of Philadelphia who enlisted as nurses in the Civil War, died May 15, at the age of 73 years. A. recital of the incidents of her life following her enlistment in the Hospital Corps, at the age of 26 years, is of interest to everyone whose memory runs back to the events of that heroic era in the Nation's history. It recalls the visit of the venerable Julia Ward Howe to the encamped Army of the Potomac, which produced the "Battle Hymn of the Republic"; of the bitter fight with unsanitary conditions in Washington hospitals, that was waged by Louise M. Alcott, from which she temporarily escaped with her life, but which re sulted in her death while yet in the prime of her intellectual powers; of the plodding, sturdy, helpful ministra tions to the sick and wounded that took Walt Whitman to many a battle field; and of the heroic self-sacrifiee in life and death of the grand army qf their associates in emergency tents, hospitals and on open fields, where fell the slain and wounded of the great war. Few of this grand phalanx of prac tical patriots and humanitarians re main . to retell the story of war from the standpoint of individual suffering and heroism. The reason is simple. The tax upon the strength and energy of a hospital nurse in time of war uses up in a few years the vitality that would otherwise have carried its pos sessor to old age. Where one has lived, like Emily Woodley, seventy three years, a hundred passed on, like Miss Alcott, in the prime of life. With much less ostentation than Usually attends congresses of National organizations, the Nurses' Associated Alumnae has held its annual session at San Francisco and has adjourned. Though there have been no public re ports of the papers read and the dis cussions had at this meeting, it is safe to say that the gathering has been a profitable one' to those who partici pated in it, aad valuable to the large number of sufferers who will unknow ingly be benefited by the results of the conference. The nurses will return to their work, better prepared for the im portant work in which they are en gaged. Most of those in attendance at the meeting probably hold positions of supervision, and upon their return to their homes they will give to all those who work under their directions the Iif-nofi nf tVin tnfnrmntiAn trained As I a class, nurses are intensely in earnest 1 in their work. Though constantly as sociating with and laboring tor people whose ills and infirmities render them trying to the patience, nurses are al ways cheerful and ready to answer every call. Neither the unjustified complaints of the ungrateful nor the cruel criticisms of the thoughtless les sen their zeal in alleviating the pain or ministering to the wants of the un fortunate who come under their care. With compassion scarcely anywhere else to be found, they do what they can to relieve the sufferings of those whose own vicious lives have brought on loathsome disease. Happily their efforts are frequently rewarded by ap preciation and their lives made more pleasant by words of acknowledgment and gratitude. Theirs is a work of unselfishness and benevolence, and if. in their annual conference, they have found pleasant respite from the ardu ous toil of daily tasks and the disa greeable scenes of the hospital and sickroom, they have received a well- earned rest and recreation. The story of another mother-in-law that strange, unreasonable creature who is not fond of a son-in-law that is an habitual drunkard and cruelly neglects and mistreats his wife, her daughter has been told in a Seattle court by an abused son-in-law. The wife's application for a divorce, 'sup ported by the charge of habitual drunkenness, cruel treatment and fail ure to provide, was answered by her model spouse by calling his wife's mother a virago and her sister an in termeddler in ' his domestic affairs. The plain duty of these women was, of. course, to encourage this exemplary husband in getting drunk and abusing his wife. Will the mother-in-law never learn to approve the actions of the man who so far forgets all obli gations of manhood and marriage vows as to starve, neglect and abuse his wife her daughter? It seems not. For years and years. The Oregonian put up Oie argument for the Republi can party. It might as well have piped to the frogs In a pond. Because there were no Republicans, or very few. Not only did appeal-come to nothing, but the more earnest the appeal, the more active and vigorous the work of the knife-wielders. Brethren, have it all your own way' You enjoy the work of evisceration (Anglice, gut-cutting). You know nothing of the history of parties, of the historic course of poli tics, or of the fundamental differences between parties; and you don't care. Some day there will be another Civil War. Then we shall have politics that will arrest your attention. Meantime, you are simple " enough to think that one party or one policy is as good as another. King Manuel of Portugal followed along the line of least resistance in dealing with the regicides who placed him early on the throne. The conspir ators who killed his father and brother are men of rank and influence in the realm, and already the young King is practically at their mercy. It remains for Manuel to make peace, if he can with this turbulent element. This, of course, he cannot do by prosecuting the leaders. Hence the prosecutions have been dropped, tho young King thus seeking, through the adroit ways of diplomacy, to strengthen the alle giance of the people of the ancient dynasty. This decision not to prose cute the slayers of his father is re garded as a fair specimen of diplo macy in a situation where little choice of procedure was left. It will be - understood, of course that all talk of "no party" and of "non-partisanship," in the election of Senator, is nonsense. Mr. Cake, if elected, will be a Republican Senator; Mr. Chamberlain, if elected, will be a Democratic Senator. It cannot be otherwise, on either side, in the na ture of things. Question then is whether you want a' Republican Sen ator or a Democratic Senator. Or don't you care? You will, however, have one or the other; and there is no need of equivocation about it. Several weeks ago it was reported from Washington that on one occasion when Senator Bourne entered tho President's office Mr. Roosevelt laugh ingly slapped, him on the arm and said to a circle of friends, "This is the greatest Taft booster.". And out here in Oregon there are many who are of the opinion that Bourne was responsible to a large degree for that Taft instruction. Tacoma and. Seattle are quarreling about which place is the better from which to see the fleet. Both are equally bad. The only real satisfac tory places from which to get a real view of a real fleet on a real ocean are at Yaquina Bay or Tillamook Head or North Head. "Strange to say," remarks the Johnston (Pa.) Democrat, in discuss ing the Oregon amendment, "not a single .plutocrat in the world is advo eating the single tax." Strange, in deed. Strange to say, also, not a single plutocrat in the world is advocating murder. Your socialist or single-taxer isn't willing to work and create anything for himself; he Wants what others have gained by their labor, or inher ited from the labor of their ancestors. He is one who has yearnings for di vision, not for addition or multiplica tion. Salem and The Dalles will both have cherry fairs this Summer. Let us hope that growers from The Dalles will carry off most of the Salem prizes and growers from Salem win the' first places when they go to The Dalles. We should think that the colored voters would be greatly shocked by the assumption that Foraker can de liver, or sell them, to Taft. No one ever bought or sold a colored voter. Possibly that interesting declaration in the official Rose Festival poem that our roses are "everywhere" and are also rare may have been meant to cover present contingencies. , Will these single-taxers please come forward with a memorandum of the lands they- own, if they own anything except the brass in their faces? "Is- this a dagger that I see before me. the handle toward my hand?" Republican voter reciting and mus ing on passage in "Macbeth." SILHOUETTES BY ARTHUR A. GREENE. Every time a family skeleton is dragged from the closet stock in the crematorium takes a Jump. . A shoe dealer may rAnestly claim that his sole purpose in life is to please his customers. e What bas become of the old-fashioned mother who used to get out the "big spoon" and dose the kids with sulphur and molasses every Spring? e People who never have their suits pressed may always be sure of wearing the latest wrinkle. e The wheat crop seems to need saving as often as the periodical religious con vert. At the recent "Governors' conference" at the White House it is not recorded ju what the chief executive of North Carolina said to the Governor of South Carolina, but 1t was probably something concerning the conservation of the water supply. a . m m Life Is JSk slate upon which our follies are writttW. From time to time we rub the spouse of repenteneo over it in order to begin our follies anew. Sotnplimps an nr-tinn mnv lw Krtth politic and slileerolv errarnmiR an I vl. denced by the election of Judge Will- lams to the Chicago convention. Tlie Movin' Man. Ike Johnson had a loving wife. A lignt brown, colored belle. Who had one purpose in her life; To be what she called "swell." She tried in vain for many years Tlo lead Darktown s smart set. And when each time she failed, her tears Betrayed her deep regret. And then she'd say, "We'll move away." Order the wagon and we'll move agin. We'll change our neighborhood. Dey don' know a lady in his heah street Ah'm sho' misunderstood. If we lived a little bit fuhdah uptown isone of dent niggers ud dare throw me down. Ah jes' won't live roun' such folks as dat. Ah m goln to look foh another flat. So order de wagon an' we'll move agin." Then Ike would wall, to no avail: "Ah'm tired a beta' the movin' man; Tired of Ilvin' in a furniture van. How long yo goin' to keep a changin" yon home: If yo don't get settled. I'm going to roain. Everybody's makin' spoht of me. Everytlme dey see me dey shout with glee, 'Look at de swell coon; ain't he gran'? Dere goes Ike Johnson, the movin' man.' Boys AVho "Made Good." It is reported in the dispatches that Dr. William A. Quale, of Chicago, is to be one of the new bishops of the Methodist Church. A story goes with this announcement one of those thrilling romances of the rise of the lowly which fill the annals of everyday American life. Some 20 years ago, when we were all that much younger, "Billy" Quale was a tall, rawboned, lanky youth, a stu dent at a Methodist freshwater col lege "working his way through." He was adolescent, a rangy, awkward boy whose distinguishing features were prominent joints, a shock of tow hair and a plentitude of freckles. The boys, the smooth, college cut-ups, used to say of him that his feet didn't' "track." They made considerable game of him, and smiled condescendingly when he was mencioned. "Billy" Quale wore "jeans." the gray variety which seem . to have now disappeared. His "pants" were of the "high-water" variety, and the girls were disposed to laugh at htm. All of which seemed to trouble him not at all. He went on sawing wood and milking cows and turning his big. red, chapped hands to what ever there was to io that might make it possible for him to learn things. In the times between he studied his books hard and burned his smoky kerosene lamp far into the night. The next day he was always strictly "on the Job" at recitations and made the .fancy lads feel fooliah when it came to a "quiz." He had, withal, a delightful sense of humor, the world seemed a good sort of place to him, and his philosophy was of the smiling sort. Even in these days he developed an ability to get up on his legs and talk effectively in the debating societies. So he chose the ministry and shaped his course toward the time when he should be ordained to preach the Methodist faith, with a leaning toward a religion of happy optimism rather than a preponderance of "hell fire." - They "tried him on the dog" fre quently, sending him to the nearby country neighborhoods to deliver ser mons in schoolhouses and at cross-road churches. A few who - heard him understood the rare quality of his mind and -soul. He was over the heads of many of them who expected the regu lar thing in rural exhortation line. Gradually he attracted the attention of those who appreciated the better part and "Billy" Quale, with his gentle humor, his practical good sense, his knowledge of the best books which came from long hours of well-directed reading, and his downright manliness came to be noticed ana Olscussed by those who knew the kidney of a big man. When he graduated he was given an obscure pastorate and reformed his little church. He preached them a gospel free from sulphur fumes and throat of parboiling. He made them to laugh and cry. He taught them that sympathy and charity and brotherly love was ' the true religion. He di vorced them from their allegiance to the ancient bogy-God who seemed al ways terrible in wrath. The young man. big physically and mentally: big in his sympathies and in his faith, led his people nearer the Nazarene and the God that is good. The work he did as a country preacher bore fruit and many were made better thereby. He was not long relegated to crying in the wilderness, however. The church leaders heard of him and lie was called to the ' presidency of his alma mater. There his usefulness wrought greater works. Ilo wrote boots, traveled abroad and lectured on pertinent things where a few thoughtful were gathered together. The largest church In Kansas City called him trora the college, and he was there tho strongest man among tne pulpiteers, as he had been in his smaller capaci ties. The world needs such men and goes out in search of them, so in due time he was drafted by the chief Methodist Church of Chicago. In the larger city he bas been a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night. His im press is stamped on Chicago's affairs so undeniably that Dr. Quale Is no small institution in the big lake city. And now "Billy" Quale is going to be a bishop of the greatest American church before he is well past forty. He is by long odds the hisgest man the Methodists have summoned to the seats of the mighty in recent years. And I, as a boy, remember him when he sawed wood and "done chores" to make his way through a freshwater college, while the other boys and girls "lived on dad'' and made fun of his clothes and his awkwardness. Yet they Buy there's no etiance for a poor boy or girl in this country, and that the Iron heel of nlutocracy is upon us. They said it when "BIJIy" Quale was at Baker tiiivM-sity , jupt as they do now. and yot "Billy" Quale's a bishop and one of America s really great men.