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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.