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rOKTLAMt. MMIIV, Dlf. 4. 11.
A NEW IWIC IX BRITAIN.
Worn "reactionary" Tories In Brit
ala seek the referendum and stake
tnrlr all upuii that Issue: and when
' ro(rriuiir" Liberals denounce the
reftrcadum a failure there Is-queer
conjuncture of political circumstances
and queer shifting of radlcabt and
"onsertative.
n-t rvuttvea have taken a stand
for referrn-liim. as a logical and lul
ural srqucrc- to their contention that
the 1-or.is of Parliament shall have
poarr to v to acts of the Commons
and require submission of such acu to
the rlecto-i;r In new parliamentary
tWtl"na. . I the contrary attitude of
Ihe Litxr...- i.. In line with the atti
tude of ll;j party that the Lords
hall not hae veto power In Import
tut question such aa thoe of Home
Itul for Ireland and of revenue.
This make a nice queatlon In the
bsihinte f li-ui-n politic. Unionists.
led by Balfour, are using adroit and
clever tactics to make the referendum
question the bl- issue In Ihe elections
that 64vr now braun. Nothing Tat
ters Voters ao much aa for politicians
to tell them that they and not office
holders should determine policies
anj make laws.
The Unionist have been groping
fr an issue herewith to meet Ihelr
Liberal opponent: they have tried
tariff reform, ahl.h In our country
means revlslon'of tariff duties, with
poor success. Now they think the
referendum question will rarry thera
back to mastery In Parliament.
On the other side, the Premier,
leader of the Liberals. I fighting this
new turn of the Conservatives, lis
declares referendum "a most unsat
isfactory and disappointing method of
ascertaining public opinion." lie de
nounces the referendum as destructive
f parliamentary and representative
Institutions.
Hitherto, the Liberals have held the
sympathy of people of the frilled
States in their flRht upon the heredi
tary Lords. Hut now the contest
takes a new ancle. The so-called
fonservutlve forces of the empire are
dvocatlnc a procedure of popular
sanction that has always been l'.lghly
prized in the I nlteu Mates; they "re
defendrnt the) two-chamber trM'" 1
of parliament w hlch la alo ;
the prized political institutto:!
America. The Liberals are em:ct. -Ins;
to make the lower houe of par- ,
liament the Comraoiu supreme In
the empire, without restraint from the
Lords and without referendum, except
in election of the members of the one
chamber legislature. The Balfour
party striving; to put the natter be
fore the country In such a way that
the supreme Issue shall not be reform
of the Lords and abolition of heredi
tary prerogative since they are will
ing to concede Inrge modification in
the make-up of the Lords of parlia
ment but the question whether the
leople shall rule through referendum.
In Oregon, the result of such a con
test would be certain beforehand. But
the British are people closely knit to
oid customs. Hesldes. the customs
that suit the American people might
not suit the British the same way. al
though in many respects the two na
tionalities are similar.
This new turn in British politics
mar change the positions of Ihe two
Turtles. In America no party could
refuse tit grant the referendum. The
.nitintire. be It remembered. Is a
wholly different political instrument.
In very littie use as jet In the t'nlted
States, except In affairs of municipal
government and not at all employed
in National legislation.
On such Issue as this, it is quite
possible for conservative and radical
parties to shift places. Tet so many
other questions are Involved that this
mr not be Ihe turning point of the
British elections. Political analogies
and comparisons drawn from one
eountry. seldom fit in another: and
;hoe drawn from the t'nlted States
mav not fit the present Juncture in
Frltain.
who by their very numbers steeped
to the lips in Ignorance and supersti
tion, oppose these to us. forerunners
of civilization and the introduction of
anything; new In their rode of mor
als. In their government, their re
ligion and in the practices that-rule
their daily life; and who are more un
willing than Unable to shake the
mold of centuries from their feet.
We think now we of the great
Western world that we understand
he needs of these people better than
they do. It Is possible. hovever.that
s make the very common mistake of
sitting, or attempting to set, the
gauge or their needs by our own.
I'pon one thing all are agreed: We
must cater to what these people con
ceive to be their needs, before we can
reach them through any channel of
trade or education or religion.
"Ori'KIAL- ELECTION FIGURES.
From the office of the Secretary of
State at Salem comes a series of elec
tion tables marked "official." purport
ing to be' the results by counties of
the rotes on all candidates and all In
itiative and referendum measures
passed on by the people November I.
These tables have been printed in
Portlnnd upon the supposed author
ity of the Secretary of State. If that
Is so. a re-canvas should be ordered
at once, for the so-called "official"
tables are marred by blunders, blem
ishes, defects, inaccuracies and false
totals that give the public utterly In
correct Information as to what hap
pened In Oregon November S. In sev
eral Instances the errors reach
votes.
to the authority that marks it as an
"orflcla!" count.
For example, these "official" tables.
as printed In Portland, show thst the
Orchard founty measure received a
no" vote of 6-.I1J. This column cor
rectly added gives C0.TI2. a discrep
ancy of 000. The Oregonlan's totals'
gathered from the various counties,
and printed November -1. ge.re the
total ss tl.Ti;. which was doubtless
correct.
The so-ca!led "official" figures state
that the Clackamas County annexa
tion act got a "no" vote of (0,002. Cor
rectly ad:led. the official" figures to
tal i.00- The -010110" table, how
ever, credits this measure In Lane
County with only 1009 votes, when
similar measures received In excess of
5000 in that county. The total dis
crepancy between the "official" figures
and The Orrgonian's figures on tht
one measure Is 937. The Oregohlan's
figures were approximately correct.
In the legislative district amend
ment there Is a mistake of 10,000 In
he "official" total of the "yes" col
umn. The Oregonlan s figures were
pproxlmstely correct.
There are numerous other errors.
less glaring, but equally Inexcusable.
The tables are all wrong. The public,
which looks to the Secretary of State
for care, accuracy and thoroughness
In every public or official statement.
an place no dependence on a slugle
figure or return or total In the table
as printed In Portland. If the Secre
tary of State Is not responsible, he
hould at once repudiate these extraor
dinary election tables.
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4AWES) 1EK.MO.1i.
The American Bible Society has be
gun preparations to make a great
t-vrnt of the celebration of the tercen
tenary of the King James version of
the Bible.
This transaction, which was pub
lished In KM. was one of the most
Important enterprises ever undertaken
whether we look at it from the re
ligious or the literary side. As an
event In the history of religion it gave
the English people the scriptures In
their vernacular and thus made the
Protestant reformation Impregnable.
Other translations of the Bible were
current In England In James' time.
They had existed since the days of
Wlckllffe. but they were imperfect,
both in scholarship and style. The
new version gave the sacred books to
the people In a form whose scholar
ship was at least respectable while Its
prose style was of Incomparable excel
lence. J
The power which the King James
great doctrine of the inqfflcacy of
works and Justification by faith.
Prrsbj terinnlsm seems to have been
the natural form which the Protestant
revolt took in France and Greece. In
those churches John Calvin studied it.
He threw its principles Into systematic
form In his immortal "Institutes of
Theology." From the time of its ma
turity the Presbyterian Church has
been the nurse of civil liberty. No
other denomination has ever fought so
many battles against temporal tyrants
or wan so many victories. There Is an
Inappeasable hostility between the
doctrines of Calvin and the divine right
of kings. Presbyterlanism came to
England by way of the King James
version. The English colonists
brought it to New England and the
light they kindled there has Illumi
nated the whole continent.
lesson we deduce Is vastly more Im
portant. Fiist, since the day has evil
enough of Its own. It Is folly to borrow
from the days to come. And, second,
no matter how much we borrow from
them In- advance, they will still bear
their full freight when they arrive.
Coming levll cannot be lessened by en
during It beforehand. How praetlcal,
then, was the Savior's wisdom when
he told us to take no thought for the
morrow, since things will be as they
will, no matter how much we worry
over them.
10.000 ! bounty.
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THE WORKINGMAN'S TARIFF BOl'XTT.
Many years the notion has, persisted
that a high protective tariff Is needed
for the purpose of maintaining high
wages for American worklngmen. But
the "captains" of Industry never have
been willing that the tariff bonus. In
tended as they say for the workers,
should be flald directly to the workers
by the Government. The captains.
namely, the trust magnate lo not be
lieve in such protection i.iat; In
stead they wish the bounty to go into
their "pork barrel" and by themselves
to be doled out.
One of the great American fallacies
Is this notion that the country can
make Itself rich by a system of tariff
To be sure, riches are gar-
hands. Loud uproar goes up in all
the land against concentration of
wealth and clamor Is heard for "equal
ization of opportunity"; and the So
cialist cry is sounded amid the din,
declaring that toiling hantis are enti
tled to all the fruits of their toil. Yet
esch. by some mystic charm. Is con
vinced that It gains something out of
the protective tariff, at the expense of
some one rise.
tight here Is the strength and the
force of protective tariff: Each Inter
est favored thinks protective tariff will
enable It to mike u "graft" for Itself;
)et all clamor at the other fellow's
duty. Hence the demand for "re
vision" in the Democratic party, when
Democrats are in power, and In the
Republican party when Kepublicans
have control.
The worklngman will not get his
"share" unltjs he obtains It from the
Government direct, and that is Impos
sible. Experience In this niHtter
should be his teacher. Carnegie's em
ployes can tell him thst.
A TEXT EXI'LAINKM.
A citizen of Portland, whom we as
sume to be' a diligent student or The
Oregonian, has asked for an elucida
tion of the celebrated text "Sufficient
unto the day Is the evil thereof." He
says he never has been able "to under
stand It clearly." und asks The Or. go
nlan to explain it and "give an illus
trative example of the same."
From the language of this request
we should guess that our Inquiring
friend is a school teacher: Those use
ful members of society are more eager
for "illustrative examples" than any
body else we know of. If he should
turn out to be a teacher, we hasten
with all the more satisfaction to
preach the sermonette he begs of us,
because In banishing darkness from a
teacher's brain we cause the light to
shine on a tha .kful multitude of the
young.
In considering the text which this
kind friend hps selected for us we note
Mrst that it asserts the reality of evil,
and, second, that each day has enough
of it. ' The obvious lesson to be de
duced we shall call attention to by and
by. If there were no such thing as
evil In existence, of course it could
not be "sufficient unto the day," or
unto the night either. It follows.
therefore, that the Scriptures take the
opposite view of this subject to some
recent religious teachers who try' to
convince us that evil does not truly
exist, being a chimera of the Imagina
tion, or, as some say. - "a disease of
mortal mind." Naturally we adopt
the orthodox scriptural view, but can
dor compels us to admit that the ques
tion is one which has been variously
A PARCEI S POST ' PERHAPS.
IX Mr. Hltchcook carries out his re
ported purpose of recommending a
parcels post for rural mail routes, it
will be a step In the right direction.
His further purpose to delay the be
ginning of the parcels post until after
the postal savings banks are fully es
tablished has less in Its favor. The
two measures are in no way depend
ent on one another and Mr. Hitchcock
need not fear that both together would
startle the country as a revolutionary
Innovation. . The people understand
fully that both are badly needed. They
know, too, that postal banks and the
parcels post have been working for a
long time In other countries, so that
there is nothing experimental about
them. '. ...
It is not too much to say that the
people of the United States are sick
and tired of being denied conveniences
which - they surely need, which they
are willing to pay for and which other
nations have enjoyed for years, merely
because some greedy trust stands In
remedy the evil flowing from the mis
take, the Supreme Court wreaks the
last possible consequence of it on
Lunz wretched head.. There is Jus
tice for you.
NEW 1.IGHT ON THE SPIRITS.
The excessive credulity of recent
books on spiritism by men of the
school of Mr. Stead and Sir Oliver
Lodge has been succeeded by a skep
ticism in other writers which may
seem to many equally unwarrantable.
A book on "Spiritism" by Dr. Amy E.
Tanner illustrates our point. It re
counts and discusses same investiga
tions which were made by President
G. Stanley Hall into Mrs. Piper's me
dlumshtp with Dr. Tanner's assistance.
Their conclusions appear to be flatly
negative. Many Interesting phenome
na were observed but no trace of
sp'lts. Mrs. Piper enjoys the credit
of buing the only medium. who has
rever been caught cheating. When
poor Eusapia Palladino was proved to
be a fit-lid the believers in spiritualism
cou.d s ill point to Mrs. Piper's stain
less record, and challenge skeptics to
explain the wonders she performed.
Until Dr. Hall undertook the busi
ness nobody felt quite sure that he
could account for Mrs. Piper's won
ders by the ordinary natural laws.
It seemed unavoidable to Invoke the
spirits. The late Professor William
James confessed that he knew of no
other way to resolve the difficulties
she presented. President Hall and
Dr. Tanner went about sthe inquiry
with strong anti-splrltistic predilec
tions, we mav assume. Neither of
est. Wer Chicago and Philadelphia
depopulated by a pestilence it would
rc people both of them and have more
than 1.000,000 to spare. Those three
cities belong with the ten greatest in
the whole world. New York, in fact.
Is second only to London. It is. larger
than Paris or Tokio and jmuch larger
than Berlin, which hardly surpasses
Chicago. Time was when the rapid"
growth of our cities was matter for
universal pride and joy, but now-a-days
there are people who peruse the
census returns with misgivings, espe
cially when they consider the slow
gains of the rural districts. The in-:
crease of the cities far exceeds that
of the entire country. Some farming
communities, as we have noticed, have
actually deetlned.
Since the farms feed the cities w
have here in plain sight one reason
for the high cost of living, though
there are many others. When we re
call all that has been said and done to
encourage country life lately it seems
as If the rural districts ought to hold
their own, but they do not, at least,
not always, while In almost every case
their gain Is slow. Our prolific immi
grants cluster In the cities , while
among the farmers of old American
ARB AVE A WHOLLY FREE PEOPLE
Lawa Piled ou La it a Aim More at In
nocent Than Real offender.
New York World.
At the .Isthmus President Taft as
sured the Inhabitants of Panama that
the United States would guarantee
their liberties. He spoke for the Ameri
can people as well as for their Govern
ment. - While we are thus guaranteeing
freedom to others, how is it with our
selves? Are we as free today as we
were 50 years ago? -
So far as legislation is concerned,
negro slavery, the greatest of modern
wrongs, was abolished by a three-line
addition to the Constitution. Like the
white people, the blacks were freer
when that amendment was adopted in.
1865 than they have ever been alnce
Excessive lawmaking, especially ex
cessive lawmaking at Washington,
where centralized power is always
eager for new conquests and nearly
always reckless of personal rights, can
not fail to encroach upon true liberty.
Democracy and imperialism will not
mix.
One of the surest tests of wise law
making is its effectiveness. Judged by
this standard we accomplish little. By
one legislative act. probably uncalled
for in the first place,-we -make neces
sary many other acts, and finally whole
the way. It Is perfectly- understood them has much faith in explanations
that we might have had a parcels post I based on miracles. If it was possible
twenty years ago but for the utterly- to account for Mrs. Piper's marvels
selfish and unpatriotic opposition of t without occult aid they were deter-
the express companies. The policy of
subordinating the public good to the
profit of extortionate monopolies must
be abandoned sooner or later. Mr.
Hitchcock shows his wisdom by be
ginning now. .
version gained immediately and has
wielded ever since over the Intelll- discussed by the saints and doctors of
the church.
-THE AW tKKMMi OF HIXA."
We hear much In these later years
of the "Awakening of China." Now the
story Is toM from the standpoint of the
missionary, who pins his faith to t
substitution f Christ for Confucli
In the Chinese conception of a r
1 gious leader: now from that of tl
commercial traveler -who seeks dii
ient:y in the markets of the Emplr
f r airnues throuch which trade may
enter, anl an exchange" of commodi
ty may be effected: now a great
vlatnor is heard in transportation cir
cles and the introduction of the Iron
hote lntt the ancient and long-deca-tlrnt
Empire Is heralded as conclu
sive etdence that China is arousing
from her ages-old torpor. Further
more. It is stated on the authority of
the acting Inspector-Genrral of Chl
nee Customs now In England, that
progress Is shoon In the fact that the
iIJ. unpaved mephltic thoroughfares
' the Empire are giving way to mac
adamized road, lighted by electricity;
that an adequate and pure water sup
ply on Western engineering lines has
replaced noisome surface wells; that
foot and horse couriers penetrate Into
extreme Western China a distance of
:?00 miles: that postal lines are flung
out as far as Tibet; that there is a
money-order system all over China,
an express delivery system In every
large- city and that there are now
11.000 native postoffices In the Em
pire. This testimony is encouraging alike
to missionary, commercial traveler and
to the natives of the world that knock
at the portals of China demanding an
cpen door. It Is encouraging so far as
It goes, but It stops far short of an
"awakening among the dense masses.
gence of the English-speaking world
must be attributed largely to Its per
fect use of the vernacular. In this
particular Luther's German version of
the Bible Is the only one that Is worthy
to be mentioned beside our own, and
scholars seem to agree that even his
Is far Inferior.
Among the nine themes which the
Bible Society suggests for treatment
In sermons and orations -next Spring
during the week of proposed celebra
tion, some are of singular interest. The
ninth. one, "The English Bible and
Civil Liberty," seems, most happily
chosen. Machiavelli advised his
"Prince" to patronize religion because,
as he said, it made the people docile
and submissive. If truly religious they
would endure .almost any wrongs In
this world since the Lord would be ex
pected to make things right In the
world to come.
When the holy Augus
tine, "author of the edifying "Confes
sions" and many other profitably
works, belonged to the heretical sect
of the Manichaeans, as he did In his
younger days, he held firmly to the
opinion that evil Is an entity which
exists as really as good. He was a
fhorough-golng dualist. It is well
known that the Manichaeans taught,
following their great prophet Zoroas
ter, that evil and good are Immanent
In two hostile deities. Ormazd, the
principle of light, corresponded rough
ly to our "divine Providence." while
evil flowed from Ahrlmnn or Satan.
These two deities were constantly
at war. Still. Augustine believed that
this would not always be so. ,A time
would come when the g;od would J
definitely triumph and his foe would .
be Imprisoned forever in hell. The
author of the Apocalypse, who was
The maxim of the great Italian poll- I badly tainted with Zoroastrlan he
tlclan may have Its true side, but It ' aP. expresses this same thoua-ht hv
tiust be conceded that the religion
hich the English and Scotch learned
saying that the devil and all his an
gels shall be cast Into the bottomless
om the vernacular Bible mnde them j pit, where the lake of fire and brim
nythlng but docile and submissive.
he precepts of non-resistance which
re so pronounced In the New Testa
ment were overlooked. The mind of
! the nation fixed upon the prophetic
denunciations of tyranny. The Eng
lish people appealed from the feudal
prerogatives of the Stuart Kings to
the sovereign majesty of Jehovah, and
stone continually bolls. But when
Augustine became a Christian he for
sook the Manlchaean doctrine of evil
and taught thencefortlvthat It had no
reality. Any person may read for
himself what this great father of the
chin-ch hes to sny upon the subject In
his "Confessions." The lnnguage al
most startllngly resembles sentences-
Cromwell's embattled yeomen sung j Df Mrs. Eddy's. Still. Augustine's
the songs or y.wn wnne tney shed
their blood for liberty.
The doctrine that resistance to ty
rants Is obedience to God took wonder
fully string root n Scotland. There
was never In the world anything more
heroic Ihsn the struggle of the Scotch
covenanters for liberty or conscience.
They brought their undying love of re
ligious freedom to America. It needed
only the slightest transformation to
become love of political freedom and
the example which the fathers had aejt
In resistance to King Charles on the
mountains of Scotland was followed by
the children on the fields of the Amer
ican Revolution.
The vernacular English Bible in the
days of its primitive power produced
views did r.ot prevail In the church.
The monks, who grew more and more
powerful from the time of St. Benedict
in the fifth and sixth centuries on
ward, were consistent Manichaeans.
though they modified the Zoroastrlan
doctrine a little. Following Aristotle
they embodied the principle of evil In
matter, but they held rigorously to its
reality. In fact, they made it the rul
ing principle of the world. Every
thing on earth was evil, or sinful,
which amounted to the same. AH the
ordinary activities of life, all enjoy
ments, all possessions, and particular
ly women. In theory at least the
monks looked upon women as creat
ures to be abhorred and avoided.
Their practice, as we learn from
the Baptist and Presbyterian forms of I Dante, was sometimes a little different
faith which differed only superficial
ly in creed and not at all In spirit. Per
haps It would be better to say that ac
cess to the vernacular Scriptures pre
pared the popular mind to receive
these cults, for both of them originated,
on the Continent. The Baptists ap
peared in Germany almost Immediate
ly after Luther began . to preach his
from their theory. - -
Thus the heresy of the reality of
evil Insinuated Itself Into the faith and
finally became the orthodox, or pre
dominant, view. So It stands to this
day. The second proposition of our
text, that each day has sufficient evil
for Itself, does not seem to need much
discussion. It la fairly clear. The
THE WONDF.RS OF THE f'OI RTS.
The essence of the case of Starkey
vs. Lunz can be put Into words easily
enough. It amounts to a declaration
by the 'Supreme Court of Oregon
that It will allow helpless liti
gants to suffer for the blunders of
court omciais. The case concerns
160 acres of land . in Douglas
County which John Brown formerly
owned. Brown owed a man named
Lawrence a sum of money which he
neglected to pay. Lawrence sued
Brown for the debt In Judge Hamil
ton's court and attached the land with
the usual ritualistic incantations.
There was a writ of attachment Is
sued and filed in the : proper office.
Since Brown did "nol live in Oregon
the law conveniently imagined that
filing the writ and . publishing sum
mons gave him ail necessary infor
mation about what was going on. The
cause was decided for Lawrence. He
bought In the attached land at Sher
iffs sale and afterward conveyed It
to the wretched Lunz. The reader
will understand In a minute why we
call Lunz "wretched."
Lawrence received his money for
the land' from Lunz and dropped out
of the story. He made a happy es
cape, considering what followed.'. The
tragedy begins with Starkey's appear
ance on the scene. Brown owed
Starkey a debt. too. or It was alleged
that he did. Perhaps the debt was a
little fishy, but on the strength of It
Starkey sued Brown and attached the
same quarter section swhich Lawrence
had attached, bought at Sheriff's sale
and conveyed to Lunz. How could he
do It? His conduct looks like impu
dent defiance of the law, but it was
nothing of the sort. In the United
States nothing that the law ever does
Is settled and done for. Everything
Is liable to be begun all over again
at any moment. Starkey founded his
suit on a blunder which the clerk of
the court had made in' Issuing Law
rence g writ of attachment. The
blunder was not Lawrence's fault.
Certainly It -was not poor Lunz' fault.
He was an. Innocent purchaser of the
land, having built his confidence on
the shifting sands of court Justice,
but he had to suffer for it. The blun
der was not as bad as It might have
been, but It sufficed to rob Lunz of
his farm. The clerk of Judge Hamil
ton's court -forgot to paste his seal
upon Lawrence's writ.' This, according
to the Supreme Court, made the writ
of no account. Judge Hamilton ruled
that the absence of the seal made no
difference so far as Lunz was con
cerned, but the Supreme Court In its
unfathomable wisdom overrule him.
The Oregon statutes provide for Just
such lapses as the clerk of the court
made when he left the seal off Law
rence's writ.' They say" that "the
court may at any time befdre trial. In
furtherance of Justice, allow any
pleading or proceeding to be amended
by adding the name of a party,
. . . or by correcting a mistake In
the name of a party, or a mistake in
eny other respect." Clearly by this
language the statute means to elim
inate all mere technicalities and
mRglc ceremonies from lawsuits and
make Justice the sole consideration.
Judge Moore construed the purpose
of the statute to be that "the word
proceeding ... Is not' compre
hensive enough to embrace process."
A writ of attachment is a "process,"
but It Is not parf of the "proceedings"
of the suit. Jn reading such substi
tutes one Is moved to ask what per
verted imp of false reasoning hnd In
vaded the mind of the Judge. Etymo-lock-ally,
process and proceeding are
the same word. One is a noun and
the other a participle from the slme
Latin primitive. If either is the
"more comprehensive" of the two it
Is "proceeding," which no doubt cov
ers far more ground than "process."
As a matter of fact Judge Moore had
to reverse the dictionary before he
could reverse Judge Hamilton.
But there is -more to be thought of.
The Oregon code lays It down that the
Supreme Court shall not reverse de
cisions of the lower courts unless an .
error has been committed which de
prives a litigant of his substantial
rights.. Who lost any substantial
right by the neglect of the clefk to
paste on"the bit of red paper he calls
I. is seal? Certainly Brown the debtor
lid not, for he owed the money , to
Lawrence beyond all controversy, and
the. seal would have told him nothing
that he did not know- already. If
anybody was wronged by the "lerk's
biimtter it was Lawrence and Lunz
through him. But Instead of using
Its power to correct that wrong,
which was committed by an officer of
the law and which Lawrence could
not prevent, the Supreme Court makes
It' a reason to deprive Lunz of his
property. A mistake was made to
Lunz' detriment by the' clerk of the
rourt. Instead of exerting Itself to
mined to do so. They improved on
the older methods of Investigating
mediums by employing a more com
petent psychology and by resorting to
some of those wiles which are so use
ful against deception in other fields.
Dr. Hall finds in the first place that
there Is a close relation between the
trance into which the medium lapses
and common hysteria. The hyperes
thesia of hysteria. Its incredible men
tal acuteness and so on, are all preS'
ent. Besides that he found that even
In her most profound trances Mrs
Piper had -not lost hold of her nor
mal life. She remembered ordinary
events and, when properly led on, she
betrayed a pretty fair power of put
ting two and two together. The con
elusion seemed clear that her "con
trols" were nothing more than disas
sociated fragments of her own per
sonality. Dr. Hall found no difficulty
In putting her under "controls" who
were purely Imaginary. Bogus spirits
were suggested to her and she re
reived communications from them a
truly as from any others. The natural
inference is that if Imaginary spirits
can do all that real ones can both are
more or less surperfluous.
The only problem that remains un
solved in connection with Mrs. Piper
is that she exhibits knowledge of facts
which she could not have obtained
through ordinary channels. This has
been tested so often by competent
persons that it may be looked upon
as demonstrated. Telepathy has been
adduced to account for her seemingly
occult" revelations and no doubt it is
sufficient In many cases. But there
are others which telepa.thy fails to
explain. For example, the correct an
swer to a .question could- not be given
by telepathy unless somebody knew
it and thus communicated it. We un
derstand that Mrs. Piper has answered
blind questions of this sort and sub
sequent Investigation found her to be
correct. If this is so it seems to be
the last plank between the ship
wrecked spiritists and the bottomless
ocean. One by one they have been
forced to abandon the articles of
rich and varied crew until there Is
nothing left of it, but Mrs. Piper's
ability to answer blind questions. If
that should finally prove untenable
what will they do? The spectacle of
a cult abandoned because it has be
come incredible Is rare in the world's
history but such a thing has hap
pened and may happen again
fesslonal classes
It is worth noting also that the last
decade has witnessed a great move
ment of retired farmers into towns
for the sake of more enjoyable life in
their declining years. This swells the
numbers of the cities while it makes
a bad showing for the rural districts
and, in particular, swells, the list of
rented farms. The welfare of -the
United States largely depends upon
making country life more attractive.
I-n this work two factors will play the
most Important part. One is organi
zation for commercial and social purposes.-
The other is the parcels post.
It is tragic to think that sordid pri
vate Interests should be permitted to
block the way to this vital Improvement.
GROWTH OF AJEERICAX CITIES.
Portland's gain in population
of
130 per cent for the last ten years is
highly creditable. Still more credita
ble, perhaps, is its gain in architec
tural appearance. Persons who have
not seen the city since the last census
would hardly recognize the business
quarters on the West Side so complete
has been the destruction of tumble
down p'oneer relics and so numerous
are the fine modern structures which
have taken their places. We doubt
whether any city in the country has
kept pace with Portland in archi
tectural Improvement, though some
have gathered population more rapid.
ly. Oklahoma City seems to carry off
the prize for rapid growth. Its rate
of increase for the last ten years has
been 539 per cent.
The new census will show no decline
of the tendency of Americans to pre
fer city to country life. While a num
ber of rural districts must confess to
an actual falling off In population al
most every city in the United States
has gained. We now have about 160
towns whose Inhabitants exceed 25,000
in number and fall short of 100,000.
All but three of these cities have
grown since the last census, some of
them very rapidly. The rate varies
from 10 to 100 per cent.
In the class ranging from 100.000
to 500,000 we now have some fifty
citfes, about nine more than there'
were ten years ago. Richmond, Vir
ginia, is among the happy graduates
into the 100,000 rank. For some rea
son our source of info'rmation, The
World's Work, does not Include Port
land among the distinguished band,
though It certainly belongs there. If
a growth from 90,000 to some 200,000
does not admit to the 100,000 class,
pray what does?
St. Louis is the largest city we have
under the 1,000,000 mark. Very like
ly that ambitious municipality has
definitely given up its hope of out
stripping Chicago. In years past the
competition between the two occa
sionally grew so warm that it led to
Impolite remarks." As Chicago" began
to draw ahead. St. Louis consoled it
self bv inventing a myth to the pur
port that the girls of the rival town
had big feet. Chicago naturally re
torted by proclaiming that all St.
Louis girls, had red hair. Both ac
cusations were scandalously false, but
no doubt they eased the minds of the
competitors somewhat. Next to St.
Louis, under the glorious 1,000,000
mark, come Boston, Cleveland, Balti
more and Pittsburg in order.
We have three cities whose popula
tion exceed 1,000,000. They are New
York. Chicago and Philadelphia.-Of
course. New York is by far tha laro I
stock race suicide ' is decidedly fash- ! sections, interests and classes become
ionable. as it is also among the pro- 1 conscious of interference and perhaps
To create new offenses in morals.
Industry and commerce that are dif
ficult of proof and then by vexatious
and costly eeplonagre to add greatly to
official power and to expense Is a
favorite method with those who would
govern too much. To establish selfish
ly an injustice or an inequality of some
kind, like ttie extortionate tariff, and
then attempt by additional laws to cure
the worst of its corrupt manifestations,
is another. To increase expenditures
so that many new forms of taxation
must be resorted to is still another.
Every tax that Is wasteful abridges
popular rights in more ways than one.
The daring operations of a few great
offenders have brought down upon the
country lar.-s. regulations, epies, in
quisitors, commissions, prosecutors and
tax-devourers that burden the Industry
and restrict the freedom of millions of
honest men. Instead of aiming straight
at guilt, extortion and wrong. Govern
ment in most cases avoids them and
with new laws punishes the innocent
everywhere. The policy has been not
to penalize crime, but to penalize
American freedom, American citizen
ship. American enterprise.
While we are guaranteeing the lib
erty of ather people, why should we
not guarantee our own? In the mat
ter of morals, in the matter of harm
less amusements" and customs. In the
mattery of business and Industry, In the
mattero food and drink. In the matter
of free speech, in the matter of a free
press, in the matter of free labor, in
the matter of human right to enjoy
without vicious restrictions the pro
ceeds of honest toil, and in the matter
of the natural right to be shielded by
society or government from the blight
ing effects of favoritism, combinations,
conspiracies and monopoly, we are not
gaining ground for liberty. We are
loeing it.
When the census was taken, several
months ago, Medford had a population
of 8840. It is probably the fourth city
of Oregon, and Is growing very fast.
Its birth was adventitious. Twenty-five
years ago, when Villard was pushing
the Oregon & California railroad from
Roseburg to the Siskiyou Mountains,
Jacksonville was the prinicpal trading
point of Rogue River Valley. Medford
was not on the map. Ill order to reach
Jacksonville, the railroad, as surveyed,
would have had to make a westerly
detour of three miles. To compensate
for Increased cost of construction, the
O. & C. asked a moderate subsidy. This
the town refused to give, whereupon
the railroad took the short cut south,
leaving the county seat of Jackson
several,, niles out in the cold. From
this blow it never recovered. . If Jack
sonville had subscribed the subsidy it
would probably have maintained its
position of the most important city of
Southern Oregon, and Medford might
not have sprung into existence at all.
Incidentally, it may be remarked that
Medford advanced more rapidly dur
ing the past ten years than any other
town in Oregon.
The lawyers who pretend to admire
our American ways of dealing with
criminals will find gTeat consolation
in Mr. Ruef's new appeal. Everybody
knows that he is guilty-. He has been
convicted in two courts after covering
his judges with abuse. His. first trial
scandalized the world, including as it
did tn attempt to murder his prose
cutor, but it did not feaze his lawyers.
Now after the lapse of years his con
vitcion is affirmed and all that comes
of it is another appeal and more de
lay. For one who admires that sort
of thing there is a great deal here to
admire.
At last we have something definite
about the Broadway bridge. Bids are
to be opened on the substructure De
cember 30, thus closing up the trouble
account in that matter with the. old
year. In time to open a new one for
the new year. This is right. Let
every year and every season, so far
as possible, bear its own burdens, close
its accounts and move on.
Strangely Grant is the only county
in Oregon that shows a falling off in
population. This may be accounted
for on the theory that the census
wasn't taken. It is a sparsely settled
empire and there was too much
ground to cover for the pay that the
Government allows enumerators.
As an Incentive toward total absti
nence, the Laird of sklbo pays his
help a bonus of 10 per cent if they
refrain from red liquor during the
year except under physician's orders.
Doesn't this plan also promote prevar
ication and encourage sickness?
They who think a gain of nearly 63
per cent in Oregon's population is not
enough should reflect that growth from
1900 to 1906 was comparatively slow.
By far the greater part of the increase
came after the Lewis and Clark Fair.
Those advanced women at Spokane
who propose to make domestic cooks
out of mere men overlook one little
preliminary step. They must first
change human nature.
There has "been hearty response in
Portland to the appeal for early
Christmas shopping. One more week
of it and the heaviest burdens will be
out of the way.
Evidently Berlin is determined to
become the largest city in Continental
Europe. It may be expected that
Paris, also, will take up wholesale an
nexation. "
Merely as a guess, It may be set
own that the high school principal
at Stockton, Cal., who issued an edict
against false hair is a bachelor.
; One more reminder. Make an ap
propriation out of your Christmas
money for Red Cross stamps. Price
ot advanced: one cent apiece.
Every Christmas package leaving
Portland should' have a Red Cross
stamp. Proceeds are devoted to the
fighting of tuberculosis.
The United States Senate is not go
ng to be so dull a place this Winter
as you'd think. Tillman has recovered
his health.
Lost somewhere between Portland
and Washington, D. C, a postoffice
site. - -
It will take more than six figures
to write Oregon's population in 1920.
SO BRAGGING OF MEX KILLED
Soldier's Conscience Makes .Him Reti
cent aa to Enemies Killed In Battle.
London Mail.
In reference to the charge of the
Light Brigade at Balaklava, in which
he took part. Lord Tredegar has raised
the question of the soldier's conscience.
Speaking at an anniversary gathering
on Saturday he said: "I give myself
the benefit of the doubt that I have no
murder on my conscience." He was
not certain; he said, whether, he killed
a' man in that charee or not.. ?
Every, one knows that even. If he had
killed k man in action he would not be
guilty of murder. The conscience of
the British soldier has apparently the
effect of making him extremely reti
cent on the subject. Hardly ever will
an old soldier declare that he has
killed a man, except in cases where the
feeling of avenging humanity was add
ed to the' sense of duty in battle.
When the Canadian Rifles were in
England a few weeks ago they had
with them a veteran of the Ninety
third Regiment whom the young rifle
men sought to "draw" on his fighting
exploits. The furthest he ever went
was to say:-"I'm no conscious that I
ever killed a Russian, and I was in
malst o' the fights, but I wish I had a
sovereign for. every one I bayoneted In
the mutiny. There we aye thocht o'
Cawnpore." Chelsea pensioners and
other old soldiers preserved the same
attitude when questioned in connec
tion with Lord Tredegar's remark. The
Crimean veterans would not go beyond
saying: "I suppose I must have killed
men." .
An ex-dragoon who went through
both the Crimean and the Mutiny cam
paigns practically repeated the re
marks of the Ninety-third veteran.. 'I
cannot sav that I ever killed any one
in the Crimea. But the Mutiny was
different. There we were going to
avenge the murder of women and lit
tle children. I was at Secunderabad.
when we used nothing but the bayonet.
We got them against a wall and Killed
till we had to get coolies to pull away
the dead so that we could get at tha
living As we left I passed a man
lying dead, as I thought, on the grass.
I heard a noise, and. looking back, saw
that he was sitting up and covering
me with his gun. I drove my bayonet
r .n ma mr fnnt fin
so hard tnat i i ----
him to pull it out. I am an oU man
and I believe it is wicked, but I still
feel a thrill when I think of the way
we avenged our countrywomen. Nor
do I feel that I have a murder on my
conscience."
SEC. WILSOX KNOWS CHEESE.
Dairy Lunch Rooms- Hie rracmni
When Traveling Over Country.
Chicago Record-Herald.
Secretary Wilson, of the Department
of Agriculture, . is an authority on
cheese. Every place h goes he orders
that tempting dainty and no waiter or
hotel man can fool him as to the real
. thing For he can maice cneeoo um-
seir. .
Of his many accomplishments there is
none which the Secretary seems to rate
more highly than this. He learned it
back in Iowa, when, as head of the ag
ricultural station at Ames, he succeed
ed Jn having established a factory
where, under the charge of a skilled
old Scotchman, every student in the
school man or woman learned to
make cheese. And the Secretary learned,
t0Sr pan tell without calculating how
many holes to the square inch there
should be in the genuine Swiss, or
what is the per cent of the green goods
in the Roquefort, and nothing spurious
can pass his critical eye.
To his interest in cheese and dairy
products is largely due the fact that
Iowa now ranks second in the Union
as a dairy state, for it was through the
Secretary's work that butter and cheese
became a passion with Iowa farmer
bovs and n-irls.
Every hotel which Mr. Wilson fre
quents knows his partiality in this re
spect and while he chooses his abiding
place to suit his dignity, yet he is often
known to steal away at meal times and
hunt up some little dairy lunchroom
where the cheese tastes like that he
used to make.
With a $10 Bill.
Kansas City Journal.
He lit his cigar with a ten-dollar bill,
Was his pocket depleted?
Not through losing -this bill, fdr its
value was nil .
It was stiH unreceipted,