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THE SUNDAY OREGOSa'Ay. FOKTXAJTP. yPTEHBER 1, 19QS. , (DrrjDPttian rORILANH. OREOOW. Entered at Portland. Oregon. Poetofflc. a. Fti uDl-Clio Mailer. kubrrllloa K.le Inw.ri.bJr la Advanc (Fy Hall I'sily furrdey Included, cm r' J-jl' t i:Hiv lnciv:deL Pit tnontha. . . . Duly. Min-lav IncluJ-t. t!ir m"n:hs.. -- y.n.lay li.elu.:-4. ""-- la.:v. nh-t Sunoaj. ote -r " I i.nlv, wlti.out Sunday. -i months. 4 Uiii. .l-.ho.it Sunday. Mire. ra-.nth.. - W:y. without Sunday, oca monlh -w WevK.y. nna year -e- 2 t-ur.Jar. one jeir... - tunjr and V.ekly. one year lily Carrier l'nt'.y. Sunday Incluied. on. year...... fj' U-i.-y s-,Mar included, on. month llm to Result -l poatoHlc. oney or.l-r. exprr-a. urd-r or pernnal cheok on r lo.il bank Stamjja. com or rurremy nrr .n the -uder-a rie. Glv. p-atoBiee .d at. u in full. Including county and slat. loat.ce Kate 10 to 14 page 1 cent; IS t. a cent.; Sl'tto tt- c',n-! ,fi to C, pacea. . certta. Foreign po.tag. double rates. KiMt. Boalun. OfTVe Th. 8 C. Rerk w.tii .-fecial IWT--Nt.. York, roomi 4- Tiil jne builulaa Ohlco. room, -lo-oii Tri-n.ne biilldlna PORTLAND. Bl-XDAT. SOT. 1. MO. A SPECIAL IteSI'E FOB THE PACIFIC STATES. Mr. Bry&n's platform demands aban donment of the Philippine Islands. Let. us see exactly: We faror an Imroedtat. declaration ot th. Natron-. pui-soa. to reeogTiln. th. ln Uaipendonr. ot th. PhJlippin. lalanda a. oon aa a stable (tovernment can b. es tablished, auch Indepemjeno. to b. guar anteed by ua a. we guaranBe. th. Ind pendenc. of Cuba, until th. -neutralization ot th. Isl&nds can b. ..cured by treaty wltii other power Democratic platform. Thai Is not a. minor Issue of the campaign; certainly not a minor Issue for our Pacific states. Are we to quit the Philippine Islands T What -would that mean for our Pacific porta and our Pacific commerce? But It Is said -we are to guarantee their Independence, aa we have guar anteed that of Cuba. This la another deoeptlon. We" -withdrew our forces from Cuba and soon had to send them bade Our forces are In Cuba today. These people are not fit for Indepen dent fitill less fit are those of the Philippine Islands. The Republican platform has a spe cific statement about the Philippines, to wit: la th. Fhrttpplne. Jnmirreotlon baa been am.ipra.aai1. law eatabUehed, and lire and property mad. aettur. Education and prac tical axperlanc ar. there adranclng th. capaelty of tb. pjpl. for sor.rnm.nt, and th. poUcla. ot McKlnley and Hooaavelt ar. - landing th. Inhabitant, step by atep to aa .rr-lneream4- ma.ur of horn, rura. But there is no promise of "Inde pendence" to the Philippine Islands, because It Is not best either for them or for ourselves. Simple truth Is we can't quit the Islands, nor ought we. Under our direction the condition of the people Is being steadily Improved. We are Introducing our laws and lan guage, and the humanities, among them. For the first time since the beginning of history tranquillity reigns in the islands. Schools under Ameri can teachers have been widely estab lished. Our language, the language of government and law and order, language of enlightenment and hu manity, too. is making rapid progress among them. Our flag in the Philip pines is the emblem of civilization, of progress, of hope for the people and of good for mankind. Hut in the islands there Is a turbu lent class. Inflammatory material, with which ambitious politicians and rob bers and outlaws of all sorts are asso ciated. To suppress these gangs has ost much blood. Election of Brynn would set them all aflame again. Should Bryan be elected, on this plat form for Independence of the Philip pines, agitation and Insurrection In the islands will begin again, at once. What then will follow? We shall be compelled either to suppress the insurrection or to abandon the Islands, embarking all our people who may still survive for the United States. Is either course a thing to be sought? Wouldn't It be better to go on with the work, and In the way we have been pursuing these ten years? The problem now is practically solved unless we quit the field. So much for the humanitarian as pects. The case presents to our Paci fic states the additional aspect of our Interest In Pacific commerce. Aban donment -would be a blow to us In this direction. We ought not to think of permitting it. If our votes can put a check upon It; and to this end we should see to it that we maintain right .representation and influence at Wash ington. But in those matters every thing depends on the rejection of the Bryan party. To quit the Philippines la almost the same thing as abandon ment of the hope of pushing our com merce in and upon the Pacific ocean. To the Pacific states it Is no minor Issue of the present political campaign, but Indeed a leading one. A PREY KXT ABLE ETSEASH. For reasons economic. If for no other, strenuous means ahould be ta ken to guard against typhoid Infec tion. . Dr. R. C. Yenney read a paper before the Slate Board of Health at a meeting In Roseburg recently. In which the cause and prevention of typhoid fever, and Its cost In Individ ual cases and In aggregate, without considering the fatal cases, were set out In detail. Typhoid, as is well 1 understood. Is a preventable disease. Its germs are water-borne, or perhaps tt should be said liquid-borne, since milk Is one of Its leas common car riers. By far the greater number of cases result from drinking water that has been contaminated by human waste. A number of cases In Oregon City within recent weeks were traced to the water of a spring which to all appearances waa pure, yet which upon examination was foun-d to be Infected, though the source of the infection was not traced. Our statistics, says Dr. Yenney, srro-w S60 cases of typhoid fever as the prob able total for the present year. Reck oning the loss of time to each patient at two months, and nursing car, med ical attendance) and medicine at tt a day. It la found that the cost to each for the unwelcome, distressing and un necessary visitation of this wasting en teric fever will aggregate t460. Sim ple multiplication of this average cost to each by the number of patients places the cost, exclusive of special expenses In fatal cases of typhoid In the state for the year, at 1 100,000. This Is Indeed, as Dr. Yenney ob serves, a large sum to pay for the scourge of a preventable disease, and the more especially so since the cost falls In detail very largely upon those who can least afford, from an eco nomic standpoint, to bear It. Medical science has camped persist ently upon the trail of typhoid fever for years. It has found that in all cases the disease arises from a rre-existing case, and that the infection from the pre-exLstlng case comes from human excreta. Disgusting, even revolting. is this statement, and yet sufficient care ts not taken to prevent its veri fication In something Irss than 4 00 or 500 cases a year In this state. When a case of typhnid feveraris.s. says rr. Yer.ney. it may be said with out fear of contradiction that in pric tically every instance the afflicted per son had been drinking wat?r contam inated by a previous patient. This is plain and to the point and yet the old well at the farmhouse, the spring on the hillside above or below the vil lage, and the creek or mi'lrace that is at best but an open server, continue to furnish drinking water for the thoughtless, regardless of the fact that a patient is slowly recovering from typhoid, or perhaps a victim has died from it In the vk-tnlty of the water suoplv. ! As an economic question the pre I ventlon of typhoid fever commands the attention or tne tnruiy. as a nu mane question it asks the considera tion of the humanitarian; as a medi cal and sanitary question It is being persistently pursued by bacteriologists and sanitarians. Yet all of these forces combined have been unable to arrest the Individual carelessness that makes It possible to pass this scourge on through a family or a neighborhood. KdCRt n iUR the marplot. The Rockefeller incident bears the plain earmarks of a calculated plan to embarrass Mr. Taft and discredit and ruin his candidacy. It will fall, of course; yet It Is carefully timed at five days before election when there la barely opportunity to make effective denial of a harmful story- It is in stantly seized by Democratic orators and Democratic papers everywhere as their one chance, perhaps their one opportunity, to turn the tide obviously running so strongly against them. It is Just as If they had been told in ad vance what to expect, and then to unite In one great onslaught follow ing a pre-arranged plan. It looks that way. It ought not to be regarded as of much Importance whom Rockefeller will support; but if It Is to be deemed important tt should be remembered that never before In his long and un worthy career has Mr. Rockefeller de clared publicly what he wants. Why Is the secrecy and mystery that uni versally have marked the course and policies of Standard Oil now to be abandoned, and why should it, or Its head, now openly declare Its prefer ence for any candidate for President? Mr. Rockefeller la either a great ass or a great villain, and no one has ever till now accused hint of stupidity. If he Is genuinely for Taft, then he Is not aware of the odious position ha and his monopoly occupy In the public mind, for he ought to know that his favor la likely to do Taft the greatest possible harm. But he does know. If he la not genuinely for Taft he could do nothing more effective in achieving his defeat than by fastening the taint and odor of Standard Oil on him. All this Is perfectly obvious to the public, which knows that Rockefeller Is no fool and has added reason now for showing that he Is a great mar plot. IS IT CLASS LEGISLATION? The Indiana Supreme Court has laid down a rule of law which over turns all precedent upon the subject In that state and which would reverse similar precedents in all other states If the Indiana view' should be gen erally adopted. The decision rendered by the court was that a legislative act Which prescribes certain procedure In "counties of more than 25.000 inhabi tants',' is a local and special law and not a general law within the meaning of the Constitution prohibiting certain legislation of a special nature. It has been the universally accepted view that acts of this kind are-general, for thfy apply to all cities that come within the class thus established. Here in Oregon it has been the prac tice to enact special legislation for Portland and for Multnomah County by making the act apply only to coun ties of 50.000 Inhabitants and such laws have been held to be general be cause whenever any other city reaches a population of 60,000 it will be gov erned by the act. Though this method of classifying cities Is subject to abuse, and quite likely has been resorted to for the purpose of evading the Con stitution, yet it Is difficult to con ceive how cities and counties could be classified otherwise than according to population. And it is necessary that they shou.d be classified, for what Is suited to a large city or county is not suited to a small one. The Indiana court is right In say ing that there is no reason why a city of 25.000 should be governed by one law and a city of 24,900 by a different regulation. But classifica tions seem to be necessary, and if they are made at all there must be a defi nite dividing line between the classes. There is no good reason why a man should be refused the right to vote a day before he reaches the age of 21 and be permitted to vote when he reaches that age, except that it is nec essary to prescribe an age qualification and the limit must be fixed arbitrarily. When the effect of its decision has been fully realized, the Indiana Su preme Court will see the error In Its reasoning. NEW RECORD FOB PORTLAND. Portland wheat shipments for the month ended yesterday have broken all records for the port for any corre sponding month. The actual clear ances for foreign ports for the month reached a total of 1,818,400 bushels. The California shipments for the month are not yet available, but are expected to Increase the amount shipped to more than 2.200,000 bush els. During the month there were also dispatched 340,946 bushels of barley, making a total of more than 2,600,000 bushels of grain cleared In the month of October. In September, which was also a record-breaker for the month, there were shipped foreign and coast wise from Portland 2.162.647 bushels of wheat and 299. 9S8 bushels of bar ley, or a total for tha two months of 6.000.000 bushels of grain. The shipments from Tacoma for the month of September were 1,335,724 bushels, and for October are about S30.000 bushels. In October. 1907, the shipments from Portland were 1,243.939 bushels, and from Puget Sound ports 1,105.163 bushels. For the season to November 1. last year, the Portland and Puget Sound exports were practically the same. This year the Portland shipments are nearly 1.500,000 bushels in excess of those from all Puget Sound cities. The showing Is all the more favorable for Portland when it is considered that the crop ot the Pacific Northwest is this year more than loDOO.OOO bushels smaller tha In 1907. Portland in a single season has re gained all of the prestige lost by the shipping differential, which was not removed until last season. This ex- 1 cellent showing has been made wlth ! out the opening of any new territory. or the efforts of any new transporta tion lines, and it is a reminder of what we may expect next season, when the North Bank Railroad opens up to this city a territory from which Portland wheatbuyers have in uhe past been ex cluded. This city already stands close to the head of the list of big American wheat ports, and by the end of the year may reach first place. M R. . AIU-KBOLD'S STYLE. There is one trait of the famous Archbold letters which Mr. Hearst has been using in the campaign that seems to have received less notice than it deserves. It is their wonderful amen ity. Henry James once- said of "The Vicar of Wakefield" that as a novel It did not amount to much, but its ex treme amenity had saved K from ob livion. A similar happy fate may await the Archbold contributions to the literature of the Twentieth cen tury. When Foraker and Haskell and the Pennsylvania Judges in whose wel fare he took such a kindly interest are all dead and forgotten Mr. Arch bold may still be celebrated as Gold smith is for a perennial' delicacy and charm of style. Recall, If you please, the pleasing mildness of Mr. Arch bold's suggestion to the Governor of Pennsylvania about appointing the Judges. He would not obtrude for the world. He would not think of inter fering with the gubernatorial Judg ment, and especially did he shun any appearance of violating the guberna torial conscience; but If the- Judges could be appointed consistently with the highest fidelity to right and duty, why Mr. Archbold would ba so much obliged. Not that he expected the slightest advantage to himself or his octopus from their promotions to the Supreme bench. Perish the thought. But these candidates were well known to be great experts in gas and oil, sub jects la which Mr. Archbold's interest was purely Impersonal and patriotic, and he felt In his heart that if they were appointed they could beoome the instruments of boundless beneficence to the Buffering poor. So he urged their names upon the Governor's at tention. Or, rather, he reminded the Governor of them allusively, as it were. "Urged" Is too violent a term to de note such a finely artistic feat. All of Mr. Archbold's letters savor of urbanity and philanthropic serenity of soul. AH his mandates to the Sen ators, Representatives, Governors and Judges whom he had under his sway were given with marvelous gentleness and a suave condescension . which marks not merely the master of ad ministration but the literary genius as well. Mr. Archbold's power may some day take wings and fly away, but his pen has made his fame immortal. TIIE MVINE EVENT. It would be hard to Imagine two men who were more unlike than the poet Tennyson and the philosopher Nietzsche. The latter, though he has been called "the sledge-hammer phi losopher," was a man of slender physique, who wrote almost always in feeble health and finally died prema turely with his mind clouded. Tenny son, on the other hand, lived the ro bust life of an English country gen tleman, pensively passing the peace ful and healthy years at his estate on the Isle of Wight and only bidding farewell to earth when age made his fnrthar atnr a rtenanee These two ! great men impressed themselves pow erfully on their time, but it would be folly to compare the Influence of Ten nyson with that of Nietzsche. The latter'a concept of the "Superman" took the mind of young Europe by storm and has transformed the thought of the world, permeating phi losophy, economics, literature and art; while Tennyson's serenely lyrical ex positions of evolution have done noth ing more than to adorn and humanize a victory already won by the thought of Darwin and Spencer with their compeere. The deeper kinship which underlies the differences between Tennyson and Nietzsche consists in their both being poets. It Is an old tradition among mathematicians that the idiosyncratic Sylvester, who was one of the early scientific glories of Johns Hopkins University, delighted in writing son nets. Liks Richelieu, he is said to have valued his poetic muse far above his other gifts. Writing once to the German mathematician Klein, Syl vester bewailed the fact that his son nets provoked ridicule rather than ad miration, and declared that a mathe matician was necessarily a poet whether anybody believed it or not. Klein in his reply agreed with the British savant. "Ja, wir Bind Dich ter," he wrote. "Indeed we are poets." Opinions will differ as to the truth of this oracular dictum, but whatever the fact may be about mathematicians there is no disputing that all really great philosophers have possessed a decided vein of poetry. Everybody knows how much the- undying attractiveness of Plato de pends upon the music of his language and the vital sweetness of his imagina tion. The Phaedo is a triumphant re ligious hymn which vibrates with the passion of faith. All through the dia logues there are strewn significant myths full of poetic charm. Nietzsche boldly claimed the poetic crown. In one of his strange letters he ventures to doubt whether the world' will ever again behold such lofty hymns as he had written. Certainly it is not likely to see any more hymns quite like them, for all that Nietzsche' wrote is unique in form and substance. ' His pages fall Into brief apothegms some what as Emerson's do, but the New England sage composed In a mild serenity of soul which Nietzsche never knew and which he would have de spised If he had known. Many great philosophers have loved the apothegm and thrown their choicest thoughts Into that charming form. Bacon, among others, used It. Tennyson's In Memoriam Is little more than a series of apothegms scarcely connected except by the very vital thread of rational religion. For Tennyson the only faith which was worth while must grow out of the solid earth, fer tilized and tilled by reason. In the light of rational faith Ten nyson, in one of his surpassingly beau tiful verses, predicts a "far-off divine event toward which the whole crea tion moves." What this event was to be he did not venture to guess. At its nature he did not even hint. All he could say was that it would be something glorious beyond the power of Imagination to conceive. "Eye hath not seen, neither hath' ear heard;" and yet he believed profoundly in its reality. Still, because to Tennyson's mind the hope of the world remained formless, indefinite, vague, naturally he could lay down no rules for- at taining it. We may be never so sure we are going somewhere, yet if we have no idea where we can not map the route. Nietzsche says this has - nn!,,.r.a1 falltrtO- Wltrt OUT arir itual guides. They were going some where, but they never knew where. "Noch hat die Menschhelt keln Zlel," he says In one of his marvelous chap ters, or cantos. "Heretofore Man has hail nn cron 1 anrl ao lonar as the goal is lacking, doth not Man fall short of i himself? T In vain to rlrenm of the far-off. divine event. We must set our minds to work to think out -what it Is to be and direct our footsteps toward it. Tf ie ih p-iorv of Nietzsche and the cause of his power over the new gen eration that he discerned tne goai. n has made it possible for all the lso wavrlnrii who are fighting the good fight to coalesce Into a united band. Like a pioneer nrst nnaing a way through dark forests and over untrodden mountains, he has blazed a trail, he has mapped tne passes, ne voo aen a vision of the green and golden vales beyond. Overpowered with the splendor of the promised land his intellect veiled its iace nite Moses on Sinai, but the highway has been surveyed once for all. It remains for us to build it. What is this goal toward which all eVtiitfttf effort milAt tend? It is to produce a race of men through the laws of evolution and heredity who shall be adequate to solve their prob lems. Hitherto most oi our rem preu lems have baffled us. We stand be fore them helpless and say or pov tv trir-o war. th social evil. "Thus they have always been and thus they must forever be." Nietzsche's New Individualism says: "Thus tney ai wova hnvA rtaen hut thus they shall be no more." Produce the Super man by rational ureeaing ana selec tion and you will have a being so Ann,nlat.lv nrlertnar A to bis World that he can no longer be vicious, poor or quarrelsome, we may estannsn tne VlnerAnm rtt TTuDVPTl llV making OUT children strong and wise, but as for ourselves we shall never enter re uur wanderings In the wilderness and our framiAnt rebellions: aeainst common sense have made us unworthy of the land of milk and honey. A GREAT OPPORTTJNITY. It Is the good fortune of The Ore gonlan today to print a remarkable letter from Mr. Harry Yankwich. Unless we are mistaken his letter will mark an epoch in history. It will probably introduce a new era, for one may confidently anticipate that It will be the means of opening up communi cation with the world beyond the grave. Perhaps before some of us now living have passed over, a route of commercial travel will have been es tablished between the two spheres of existence and trade will flow back and In o nenneful and DrOSDerOUS stream. We feel perfectly safe In mak ing these predictions, Decause mi. Yankwich has promised o produce a person who can "really and truly in the open light of day without conceal ment, subterfuge or evasion bring word from the other world;" and he promises that this shall be done be fore a committee of 25 persons to be selected by The Oregonlan "under any and all scientific tests" which are not Inhumane. This proposal Is very attractive both in tho pnmmprrlnl and the scientific sides. On the one hand it promises the most interesting revelations since mo visit of Mohammed to the seventh heaven. On the other, as we have suggested, nobody knows what profit able lines of trade it may open up between the carnate and the discar nate Inhabitants of the universe. W cannot, of course, expect to sell to the discarnate such things as bonnets, shawlstand shoes, for they seem to be able to produce those articles at will out of nothing; but Judging from what has been heard of their conversation in numerous seances one might well suppose that there would be a lively demand for primers, spelling books and elementary school books of all sorts on the evergreen shore. As to selecting a committee of 25 it would be a fearsome task, but if Mr. Yankwich is In earnest some half dozen intelligent inquirers can be found who will seriously Investigate his medium and honestly report what happens. A ONE-SIDED ESTIMATE. General Corbin, in commenting upon the notorious Halns case, now engaging the attention of the civil authorities of New York, says that most of the trouble that occurs In garrison life Is due to the "fool wom en" who are the wives of officers. Growing reminiscent, after the man ner of old men when descanting upon present-day evils, he adds: "Such things as are described as occurring at Fort Hamilton were never known in my time In the Army" a statement which he immediately refutes by say ing: "There were several such cases in my time, and we had to get rid of the women." The truth is that in the Army, as elsewhere, idleness la the mother of mischief. This Is especially tru when it is accompanied by plenty of money that comes by merely signing a check. "Fool women" are en element In such mischief, anU In conjunction with men who, In addition to living lives of Idleness are high livers and iwine blbbers, they occasionally violate all the rules of social decency, domestic obligations and marital honor. "We can control the officers and men," General Oar bin further re marked, speaking In the capacity of a military commandant, "but we cannot control the women." The question that naturally arises is: Why, then, are not the officers and men con trolled ? Does any one, does even Gen eral Corbin, undertake to say, in view of the disclosures in the Hains case, that Captain Peter C. Halns was under the control of common decency? And do not the Army records, gingerly as they deal with the. social sins of bibu lous and otherwise dissipated officers, still contain many reports of court martial for sins cautiously described as "conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman," for the findings of which no penalty is inflicted? The disposition to screen men at the ex pense of women in the Halns and sim ilar cases Is nowhere more marked than in the Army. There are "fool women" in garrison life, no doubt, as there are in every walk of life where Idleness and luxury make for self indulgence and false views of life and its duties. If this were not so mili tary "heroes" of the Hains and Tucker stripe would go wifeless to their graves, as would also the degenerate Goulds and Thaws, who play at hon orable marriage only to disgrace it The truth is that now, as in the sim pler times that yet live in nursery rhymes, there never was a Jack with out a Jill a -silly goose without a pompous gander. There are "fool women" in Army life, "fool women" in social and domestic life in exact proportion to the idleness In which they pass their days and to the "fool men" who support them therein upon -kot t lofr after the financial obli gations of their own moral delinquen cies are met upon the unearned incre ment of a position that carries with it no obligation of labor. This is a plain statement of a well-known fact, over which it Is useless to waste hon est indignation, and unjust to cast the blame upon one party or the other in the mutual compact or social u-b-radation or marital dishonor. The world still contains too many hqnor oHia orirl riecent men. too many vir tuous and womanly women, to Justify- even the extreme moralist to say nnihin of n fi-rimled veteran and all- around man of the world like General Corbin to grow cynical because tne Halnses. and the Goulds, and the Thaws, male and female, disgorged from the overloaded maw of Idleness. unearned luxury and social corruption. hArnnA for n time a stench in the nostrils of decency. The proportion of these to the nonesi wives uuu u cently beloved husbands, even of their own blood. Is so small that the moral pessimist should not lose hope of the race, nor the cynio regard as proven the question he has raised of the de generacy of mankind. In regard to tne nains case iuo w already sufficient proof that Annls, who was shot to death by Halns' last August, died as the fool dleth; that Halns. his wife and his brother, lived as fools live, and possibly will pay the penalty in a felon's death. Mrs. Halns was probably the weakest of Jhe quar tet that played this game, and she should receive only her Just and equi table share of the censure that is due to all who engaged In playing it THE PETITION NUISANCE. For several weeks prior to the pri mary election, every two years, the voters of Oregon are annoyed by per sons who circulate petitions in be half of various candidates who wish their names placed upon the primary ballot. Every candidate for a nomi nation for a state, district, county or precinct office must have his petition circulated in order to secure the re quired number of names. As a mat ter of convenience candidates have formed the practice of employing men to circulate petitions for them, and lr. nearly every county there are men vho make a business of this kind of work, prior to a primary election. To secure 600 signatures duly certified costs the candidate about t50, leaves the petition circulator a good profit on his industry, and causes the gen eral public a great deal of annoyance. Circulating the petition accomplishes no good whatever, for any man who is willing to pay the expenses can get signatures to his petition. As a means of relief from the petition nuisance it has been proposed that the primary law be amended so that petitions will be unnecessary, but requiring each candidate to pay a filing fee which would in part pay the expense of the election without placing upon the can didate a greater expense than he now bears. In view of this suggestion it is worth while to note that the Su preme Court of North Dakota has declared invalid a law which incorpor ated In its provisions a requirement that certain fees be collected from candidates. The court held that "If a man whom the people were seeking to place in office was either unwilling or unable to pay the fee, the only way to render him eligible would be for the voters to make the payment, which would constitute a condition to their right to vote not contemplated by the Constitution." In theory the North Dakota court Is right, but In actual practice the payment of a fee would be far less an additional qual ification than Is this regulation which requires the circulation of a petition. It is all a question of a small expendi ture of money in either case. The petition serves no useful purpose whatever while payment of a fee about equal to the expense of circulating a petition would help cover the cost of the primary election. THE POTATO A JOY FOREVER. Beauty Is only skin deep, and the beauty of the humble potato is under the skin this year, as always. The potato, like other roots, being bred In the soil's darkness, it is not an ecstatic thing to look upon in the day light world. Only when boiled in a pot or fried In a skillet and then con signed to the unseen place where it does the most good do we perceive the full beauty of the farinaceous tuber. However, when the crop is short and prices promise to soar ere the next planting, the "spud" has an additional fairness under its skin the kind that turns to glittering gold. Faith in the potato never falls to bring Its promised reward In the Oregon Eden. The starchy thing always grows, In dry and wet, and though sometimes a rainless Summer makes it small and scant, still it comes in bravely at the finish, Just as now. What a blessed rule that when crops are small, prices are big, and vice versa. Wheat and milk and apples - may come and go, but the potato brings the fullest measure of Joy to the stomach and the members, and boosts along the family that scorns race sui cide. Were we painters, musicians or sculptors, we should be blind, but, as moat of us are hewers of wood and drawers of water, we eee the fair virtues of the tuber that has Its home under the ground and whose eyes and skin and tan were not made for sun shine's gaze. Many more potatoes will be planted next year than this, and prices may go low. But if so, there will be profit still. The thrifty planter will not sell all he has this Winter, even for high prices. He will keep a goodly store for seed. Pharaoh and Ceasar lived In vain, compared with the, modern day's man with the hoe, since the American home of the potato was discovered after their time. That may be the reason they left so many of the world s tasks undone. The passion for planting roses in Portland is unabated. Thousands of rose plants will be placed in the vari ous suburbs this Fall and next Spring, and each one that is properly Bet and cared for will be a thing of beauty in time. It must be understood by those who plant roses, however, that the planting is only the initial step in rose growing. Of course, in this favored climate and soil rose bushes will grow and bloom even if neglected, but to get the best, or even good re sults, they must be fertilized, pruned sprayed and cultivated industriously and Intelligently. The woman who while waiting for a car pulls off, me chanlcal'ly as It were, the faded rose petals and seed pods from her neigh bor's rose bush, is one who may be depended upon to look after her own rose bushes and get the best ou"t of them. Strictly speaking, it Is not worth while to plant rose bushes un less one is sufficiently interested in them to take good care of them in season, mulch them out of season and keep a careful eye on them at all seasons. No otner piant rcspt-uus more gratefully to intelligent care -and none shows neglect more plainly than does the rose bush. Plant them, therefore, if you intend to care for them, but save your time and money and the rose lover's feelings if you Imagine that planting is all, and stop at that. woman in five has abandoned the domestic life and has become wnere-eArner." we are told by a writer who thinks the home is dis appearing. But this proportion is not so appalling. What would we ao ior schoolteachers, dressmakers, milli ners, waitresses, etc., if aoout one woman in five did not abandon, or re fnQ riomftstin Ufa in order to work for wages? Then, too, perhaps a small per cent of the wage-earning women are not fitted for domestic life any way, and a large per cent of them have merely postponed ana not aoan doned domestic life entirely. It is certain that not, one woman in five dies an old maid. It is easy to man ipulate figures. But the fact that a vt-v lnro-e number of women work for- wages is no indictment of exist ing social conditions. There is no reason why women should be idlers. Society is at fault only when it per mits women to work too many hours a day or at work that is injurious to health or under conditions otherwise detrimental to the race. An apple of a variety called the ra Tt.antv" wpli-hlnc thlrty- a .,T,nAM la In r-olrl aroraee at Yak- i i .i , V,a Vattonat Artnla Show una Bknttiviiis mo ...... ' ' to be held in Spokane in December. As to size tnis appie kiwi v- nn thl. aeore it will Ulgiuua ft"" probably win for its producer the prize of tlOOO offered for the biggest apple shown at that time. Possibly, how ever, like the giant rutaDaga, tne yno on tna mammoth potato. -' ' - the two-pnund and three-ounce apple is usetui cnieiiy ior jjuivwca v. bition and as an advertisement of what the soil and climate of a certain inoiKt, fan ha made to Droduce. Even bo, however, the big apple is useful. and as to the rest mere is - annlaa thflt arA fi-OOd tO look at, fine to keep and Juicy to eat. 3o give the newcomer room im If it wins it. The editor of the McMlnnville Reg ister undoubtedly Is one of the holiest, r tha moat iitterlv holiest, of men. He "hasn't anything to say against Taft as a man;" but Taft is "not a wn.,., in tha doctrine of the Holy Trinity," and "a Christian Nation must expect the disapproval oi umi ii such a man is exalted to the Presi dency." The pains that Democratic editor must experience to witness suui ungodliness in the world! He ought to have lived when he could have burned heretics. No doubt Tom Tag gart, Tammany Murphy and other Democratic politicians feel the same way about it. Their distress about the peril that threatens the Holy Trinity must be as intense as that in the office of the Bourbon Democratic Journal at McMlnnville C-Jitlir an.alelns- thft C0niD8Jll011- ship of the man who can be induced or enticed by his disapproving rela tives to abandon his young wife is not v, b1,itid- for However, the wife in such a case Is entitled to support according to the family means out oi her recreant husband's estate, and for such other consideration as the court may consider her Just due. Upon this basis a husband who leaves his wife onrl a-oaa hack to "mother" may be appraised as worth t200,000 without exaggerating his financial uuty m mo premises, though for all estimates of honorable manhood he may not be worth a farthing. Nothing so silly as talk of coercion of electors by employers. It is im nnhi. TJVi emnlover attempts It. r.nh man la in nosttion to do exactly as he pleases, and both he and his employer knows It. It an aepenas on Judgment on both sides. Even though the employer may reel mat tne mtui nrhA nrnrio for him miiv be inclined or determined to cast his vote in a way that will be Injurious, ne win not try to interfere. Men must work out these propositions in their own minas, fnlnnal OoAthnlfL WhOSS MOOTd- breaking work on the Panama Canal has won high praise from all parts of the world, has been declared innocent nt oil r-harc-aa of favoritism In con tracts at the canal. This will be good news to his many Faclnc coast inenos and also to all others who have wit na.aari tha remarkable spectacle of an Army officer securing as good results from an industrial undertaking as, could be secured by a civilian. Of course Rockefeller is for Bryan, to beat Taft. It is his method of re venge on Roosevelt. His expedient of revenge is the statement that he is for Taft honine that he might thus throw votes to Bryan. But it's mighty thin. Has Standard uu Deen lavorea. by the Roosevelt administration t It's mighty lucky for the Portland h.nv avrackers that the District At torney who will prosecute them is elected by the people, not appointed by President Roosevelt. The cigar store vote appears to be all right for Bryan; but strangely enough the Democratic campaign management refuses to pou tne sa loons. All things tend to show that the Oregon man who has potatoes will get pretty near his price berore spring. The man with hay may De wun mm The alternative to Hughes In New York is Chanler and Fingy Conners for Senator! Yet New York has some how borne up under Piatt and Depew. The hens are not lazy; it's the per sons WnO enouia utile can) UJ. tne uriia. All thlnes considered. Oregon hens are doing mighty well. Rockefeller saw that it was neces sary to do something quick to beat the Roosevelt administration's plan of punishing him. Senator Dolliver, of Iowa, says: "This Is the last time a man will run for the Presidency on his windpipe alone." . Judging from the vital statistics, there are some things not held pend ing "subject to the election of Bryan." Mr. Rockefeller appears to be un able to understand that his political support, like his money, is tainted. . Abruzzi and the Elkins girl should remember that a long engagement means bad luck. ProfrsBor Y.nckwlrh Will Produce the Rpal Thlnx Mediums. pnp-PT.ivn nrt. 30. (To the Edi tor l In laat Sa llirdjl VS iSSUe Of ThS Oresonlan there appeared an editorial entitled. "True Mediums. commennna upon the action taken by the convention of the National Spiritualists' Associa tion of the United States of America, held recently at Indianapolis, Inc.. In waging war apainst fraudulent mediums. You allege In that article that Pro fessor James found only two or three trustworthy mediums In the world. There rertainlv must be more that! that number of trustworthy mediums on this globe. Rtinnose that It should be a fact that during the course of your life you em ployed only two lawyers to attend to your legal affairs. Your biographer, after making your eulogy, could then point out to his many readers that yeu employed only two lawyers to attend to your legal affairs during your life time. Shall the readers then presume that there could have been no other trust worthy lawyers during your lifetime ex cept the ones employed by you? What about other people? They might hav. emnlnved lawyers during the same pe riod of time whom they considered trust worthy. Professor James found only two or three genuine mediums. Did not Pro fessor Hlslop find some? Did not Pro fessor Lombroso find some? Did not Sir William Crooks find some? Because one man of science experiments with two or three mediums only during the course of his Investigation. It does not mean that there are no other genuine mediums In the world Desiaes tne ones no i -perlmenting with. , You will agree with me that if there was but one single genuine medium liv ing on this globe, that could put us In communication with what people term ,,j -ni-ua rwhn ara not rlennrted liqiiu ICU DCllUO v"" 1 at all), and to connect us with what is called another world (wnlcn is only a nart of this world, there being but one Linau .nrMi thara would slreadv be a good and solid foundation for new sys tems of religion, education, science aim philosophy. Your editorial terminates as follows: "We can scarcely hope that a single one (meaning medium) will be discov ered In Portland. But if one should be j i . i i ... - ha-, har.. a rjerson who can really' and tru'y. In the open light of day, without concealment. iumcnia or evasion. Bring wore, irom me un.. u 4V.A a ltiKfn Who Will hot felicitate himself upon the great good fortune or the cuyi T-t. a 1. a arnrw, riaal of Wlfldom in thS saying "if you want to be happy, try to make others nappy. Jo wi'"' being present, after due reflection, I de cided to obtain happiness if I can get that luxury at a reasonable price; so then I desire to maae ail wie uiu" and aliens of the city of roses and rose i.i-d honnv T nronose tO Our Citl- Ul ViLia, zens to Investigate with me a Bclentlno truth. This investigation win tc mol esting and instructive. We will let the .ttami to relleious theories and turn their churches Into one-ring circuses in order to get tne crowas. in the light of our present system of busl .... Anootinn -nn science the churches are the only showhouses where farces are still successfully produced and ex ploited. I suggest that you appoint a committee of 26 reliable citizens and designate a. place of meeting. At mm li,ji..lw time, without any expense to you or th i.a t win nroduce before your lJlllllllkLc:, ..... , - committee a person who oan really and trully. In me open ngnt oi uj, n.u,.u. concealment, subterfuge or evasion, bring word from the other (?) world. 1 hereby agree that the medium be sub jected to eny and all scientific tests providing they be commensurate wltb humane treatment. HARRY YANCKWICH. In Oklahoma, Chicago Tribune. Today's Tribune has a report of an Investigation by its special correspon dent of the condition of affairs at ths Oklahoma experiment station. He saya the guaranty system has "not been In operation long enough for any deflnlcs results." There is, however, a manifest tendenoy to multiply small and unsafi banks. 8tart11nr instances era beln related wher. men who are without .lther tha moral or business qualification, commonly and rlgnny cn.ldered to be neoeesary for the manage ment ot buslneis lnatitutlona are securing bank charters, and on the ofenrth ot th. guaranty act are making successful headway In acquiring deposit.. . . The correspondent says further thai the guaranty scheme: Unquestionably eliminates th. valus oi ex perience and of established charaoter a. fac tor. In attracting deposits. Had not voters better wait a year oi more to see whether the Oklahoma ex periment will not come to a dlsastroul end instead of voting for Mr. Bryan because he recommends It? Abraham Lincoln on Labor. Remarks to a Committee of New Yorll Worklngmen; March t4, 1864. The strongest bond of human sympa thy, outside of the family relation, should be one uniting all working peo ple, of all nations, and tongues and kin. dreds. Nor should this lead to a wai on property, or the owners of prop erty. Property is the fruit of labor property is desirable; It is a positive good in the world. That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence Is Just encouragement to Industry and enterprise. Let not him who is houseless pull down th house of another, but let hlra work dili gently and build one for himself, thui by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built. Unrecorded History. Chicago Evening Post. Brutus was haranguing th. citizen XTpon what meat," he cried, "upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed that he is grown so great!" , Pausing for a moment for a reply. h was about to continue, when a man with a loud voice and flushed counte nance arose in the front row and ob served: "He eats Qulnclus & Polonlus' sugai cured hams and bacon, now on sale a1 all first-class markets." This, being a bald advertising scheme was not given any prominence what ever In the reports of the occasion. JVotlce to Bards smd Bardesses. Emporia (Kan.) Gazette. A good many kind-hearted people re cently have been sending original poetrj to the Gazette, evidently under thl Impression that this family newspapei Is primarily an album of song. Poetrj and the fine arts are essentially s!d issues with the Gazette, however, iti highest ambition being to present ai much real news as it can get hold ol every day. And so it will save a lot o) unpleasantness, and perhaps bloodshed tf people will remember this, and send their poetry to the Ladles' Home Jour nal and the Congressional Record. Hetty Green's Husband. PORTLAND, Oct. 28. (To the Edi tor.) Kindly state In the columns ol vour paper when and where Hettj Green's husband died: also whethel she was married -more than once, H. J- M- Hetty Green's husband died in ltOt Mrs. Green did not marry again. f f
