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OPINIO or THE MAiMSAC HI SETTS
.OTE.
Eastern newspaper opinion of the
result of the Massachusetts Prclden
tial primary varies according to the
proclivities of the Individual news
paper. The Koo.-evelt papers hail
the result aa a moral victory for
the Colonel, the Taft papers a a
decisive victory for the President,
though discounted by the muddle
which gave Roosevelt the eight
delegatea-at-large. There is general
agreement among all except the
extreme adherents of both candidate
In condemning the direct primary law
which renders such a muddle possi
ble. Several papers comment on the
fact that Taft felt It necessary to lower
the dignity of his office by engaging In
duel of recrimination with his pre
decessor. The Springfield Republican says:
Th Republican party of thla common
wealth hna rejected r. Rooeevelt aa a ran
dllata for a third term, under conditions
which were not unfavorable to his triumph,
and the supremo significance of the fart
would be loet tf It were not pointed out a!o
trta: hie nomination would almost surely
place Maaaachueelte nest November In tha
column of Iinocretle etatea.
It as that before the Illinois and
Pennsylvania primaries Taft could
have carried Massachusetts by two to
one. but that those victories had a de
moralizing effect and added to Roose
velt's prestige aa a winner. It attrib
utes Taffa victory to his slashing at
tack on Roosevelt, and says It demon
strated that "the third-term candi
dacy would be ruinous to the Repub
lican prospects of victory" In Novem
ber, adding:
There Is an element In the Republican op
position to Mr. Roosevelt that has become
Irreconcilable. It a III now fight his third
term ambition to tha death.
It pronounces the character of
Roosevelt'a campaign such as to shat
ter his party, compares his attacks on
Taft to Bryan's attacks on Cleveland
In and says they are .sure to
spilt his party. It attributes to him
a purpose to regain power by uniting
the radical wings of the Republican
and Democratic parties under his
leadership, but says there Is another
great radical leader. Brjan, who will
never support Rooeve!t.
A moral victory for Taft. but a
practical victory for Roosevelt is the
Boston Transcript's summing up of
the result. It attributes this divided
outcome to the crudity of the primary
law, to confusion In many minds as to
the effect of a preference vote, and to
Seiberlich's "butting" In as a ninth
candidate for Taft delegate. It cites
figures from some towns to sustain
the opinion that but for the muddle
caused by Seiberllch Taft would have
won the eight delegates-at-large. It
says that the primary has had an
exactly opposite effect to that Intended
getting at the will of the people di
rectly and that Seiberllch may have
unconsciously done a service In show
ing the weak points of the law. It
finds the operation of the direct pri
mary rot broadly representative.
The New York Journal of Commerce
commends the purpose of the direct
primary, but condemns Its effect as
bringing the representative principle
to confusion. The Journal says:
tt Is an attempt to apply tha direct vote
r-f tha people. In a way to divide parties Into
hostile factions, and make united action at
tha final election difficult If not Impossible.
It la a practical nullification of tha repre
sentattvs princlplo where It la most needed
to alve harmony and strensth to party or
ganisation and produce order In political
,aciu n.
A hope is expressed by the Lowell
Courier-Citizen "never again to see
to little dignity manifested in a cam
paign touching the Presidency of the
United States." It deplores the spec
tacle of the "President and ex-President
denouncing one another In only
thinly veiled phrae as asserting what
each knows must be untrue."
The Indianapolis News say the vic
tory Is plainly with the President, and
regrets that he did not begin his cam
paign In Illinois and Pennsylvania,
saying that his speeches "would have
been more effective had the people
had more time to consider the strong
case which the President presented."
The News denies Roosevelt credit
for generosity In renouncing claim to
the eight Massachusetts dclegates-at-large.
saying that forty or fifty of the
Illinois delegates favor Taft and that.
If Roosevelt had maintained his claim
to the eight Massachusetts delegates
he would have thereby released these
Illinois delegates from their obligation
to vote for him.
Tha Indianapolis Star, on the other
hand, regards Roosevelt'a waiving of
his claim to the eight delegates as an
"honorable and gentlemanly thing."
and calls "petty and contemptible"
those who ascribe crooked motives to
him.
The New York Evening Sun rejoices
over the failure "of the third-term
candidate to Incite, browbeat or fright,
en the American people Into a mad
stampede." It denounces as "utter an
vicious folly" the nomination of a
President "by such a loose and mis
leading method" aa the direct pri
mary. "However pretty In theory. It
fails utterly In practice." the Sun says.
"A moral victory In a drawn bat
tle" 1 what the Brooklyn Eagle calls
the result for Roosevelt. It dwells on
the massed opposition of the state
delegation In Congress, on the Incon
gruity of the ballot, and says Roosevelt
profited largely from the mtxup. The
Kagte regrets that the issue Is mor
ally In the Colonel's favor and says
Taft did not Improve his chances by
going on the stump. It concludes:
Tha sp?tt la Republicanism was already
bad enough before tha Masearhusetis pri
mary. It la worse now. No Republican who
ho de parly la abova tha personality of any
randldate can view tha situation otherwise
thao with a feeling of disgust and despair.
The De-wee racy haa tha opportunity of
ip, it remains to be seen a net her It
shall be Improved or thrown aaay at Bal
timore. Always strongly pro-Roosevelt, the
New Turk Mail hails the result as a
pronounced victory for the Colonel. It
says the Roosevelt delegates-at-large
ought to regard the preference for
Taft as binding.
A pleasant surprise to the "progres
sives" and a bitter disappointment to
Taft Is the New York Globe's summing
up. Though friendly to Roosevelt, It
admits that, in culling Taft an oli
garch he "grossly and unscrupulously
misused Mr. Taft's words." but main
tains that all the arguments against
the direct primary betray "a sincere
conviction th.it an appeal to the peo
ple Is a deplorable thing."
The Baltimore Evening Sun says the
result must be accounted a victory for
Roosevelt, for "to split even under the
circumstances. In Its effect upon the
country will be equivalent to a vic
tory." The President, it says, used all
his reserve forces, but couldn't stop
Roosevelt. It attributes Roosevelt's
surrender of the delegates-at-large to
an enlightened self-interest, and says
those who accuse him of making a
"grandstand play" only make votes
for him.
CHANCE FOR A DARK HORSE?
If Colonel Roosevelt should be nom
inated as tho Republican candidate
for President, a large element of the
conservative or regular or reactionary
wing of the party would be alienated
and would ge to the Democratic nom
inee. If the nominee suited them.
If Mr. Taft should be nominated as
the Republican candidate for Presi
dent a large element of the radical
or Insurgent or progressive wing of
the party would be alienated and
would go to the Democratic nominee
If the nominee suited them.
If Wilson should be nominated by
the Democrats, a large element of
the conservative or regular or reac
tionary wing of the party would be
alienated and would go to the Re
publican nominee If the nominee
suite,) them.
If Harmon should be nominated as
the candidate of the Democrats, a
large element of the progressive or
rudical or insurgent wing of the party
would go to the Republican nominee
if the nominee suited them.
If Clark should be nominated, the
Democracy would be fairly united, but
not enthusiastic as against any Re
publican. If Bryan should be nominated, the
Democratic losses would be consider
able, though the gain would also be
considerable as against Taft and per
haps as against Roosevelt.
If Taft shall win. the Roosevelt fol
lowing will not bolt to Harmon or
Clark or to Underwood.
If Roosevelt shall be nominated the
Taft following will not bolt to Bryan
or Clark or Wilson.
But the Roosevelt faction will not
be unfriendly to Wilson or Bryan, If
Taft shall be nominated; while the
Taft faction will not find It hard to
reconcile Itself to a victory by Harmon
or Underwood or even Clark, If
Roosevelt shall be nominated. .
The Republican National convention
meets one week prior to the Demo
cratic convention. The nomination of
Roosevelt by the Republicans will
vastly benefit the candidacy of Clark
or Harmon or Underwood by the
Democrats. The nomination of Taft
by the Republicans will vastly benefit
the candidacy of Wilson or Bryan be
fore the Democrats.
If the Republicans shall name a
dark horse, look out for a Democratic
dark horse. If two dark horses shall
be the opposing nominees and It is
not Improbable the result In Novem
ber will be much more uncertain than
it appears, at present to be.
THE SENSITIVE BOl'RNE.
The sensitive honor of Jonathan
Bourne. Jr., has been hurt. The Ore
gonian had a dispatch from Salem on
May : to the effect that the Senator
had expended In his Oregon campaign
the sum of 11938. The suggestion
was added In a headline that the
money had been squandered. A hap
pier term might indeed have been
chosen. But we assume that, in view
of results, the most enthusiastic
friend of the Senator will hardly sug
gest that it was well Invested.
But the money was not spent by
the Senator. The outlay was by the
Senator's campaign committee a dis
tinction that. In the Senator's delicate
mln,d. is vital. The corrupt practices
act allows a Senator to spend only
$11X5 In a prlmao campaign. The
Oregonian had mistakenly said he had
spent J 1996. The Oregonian had
charged him with crime.
Horrors! After a long, honorable,
virtuous, upright. Irreproachable, un
tainted record in Oregon, and else
where, during which time no sugges
tion or Intimation or charge of Im
propriety or Irregularity or miscon
duct or gross corruption had ever been
made against Bourne by any one rfor
fear, no doubt, of Instant resentment
and retaliation It has come to this,
that a fearful stain should be placed
upon his name! For the dreadful Im
plication was possible, from The Ore
gonian's news dispatch, that the Sen
ator had not been as careful as he
might have been to observe the strict
letter of the corrupt practices act.
Therefore- the District Attorney Is
railed upon to indict The Oregonian.
We tremble. ,
But let us see about that amazing
corrupt practices act, which catches
newspapers, candidates and all alike
when they are not looking for
'.trouble. There Is Section J30S which
prohibits a "holder of a public posi
tion or office other than an office filled
by the voters" (I. e. U. S. Senators
and the like "from paying or con
tributing to aid or promote the nomi
nation or election of any other person
to public office." That Is a most in
teresting and pertinent section. In view
of the Senator's contribution to the
support of Democrats in opposition to
the assembly candidates a year ago.
and his publication over his own
name of a campaign circular designed
to help out that cause involving an
acknowledged expenditure of several
hundred dollars. (See Records at
Salem.)
Section 3509 would seem to have
some relevance to the Senator's known
recent activities. It says:
No person shall demand, solicit, ask. or
Invito any pavment or contribution for any
religious, political, charitable, or other causa
or orsanlxatton auppoecd to bo primarily or
principally for tha public good from a per
son mho seeks to be or has been nominated
or elected to any oflfce; and no such candi
date or elected person shsll make any such
psvment or contribution If It shsll be de
manded or asked during tha time he la a
candidate for nomination or election to or
an Incumbent of any office.
The noble and highly disinterested
act of the Senator in sending to Mr.
URen $500 to ferret out offenders of
this same sweeping corrupt practices
act, snd to enforce Its provisions.
would appear to come strictly within
the purview of this provision.
Clearly the District Attorney and
the Grand Jury have a painful duty
to perform. "
"THOU HH ALT NOT BELL, CORN."
The great Rankin farms of Mis
souri, now embracing somewhat over
38,000 acres, produce about one mil
lion bushels of corn per annum, all
of which Is fed to stock on the farms
i and as much as can be bought from
the neighbors ts also fed on tno
Rankin place. In 1850 David Rankin
gavo the last live dollars he had in
the world to the preacher who mar
ried him. At that time it took the
value of four bushels of wheat to pay
the postage on a letter from New York
to Missouri, wheat then selling at six
cents per bushel and tho letter postage
for that distance being twenty-five
cents.
Mr. Rankin from the first acre he
farmed was a "book farmer," a scien
tific agriculturist. He practiced rota
tion of crops before the agricultural
schools began to preach the doctrine.
He fed all hin product and bought all
he could besides. Thus his land grew
better and more productive every
year. His motto from the very be-
! ginning was "Thou shalt not sell
corn," and corn was practically his
sole crop.
Think of one farm feeding at one
time 25,000 hogs and 10.000 steers.
Yet the Rankin farms often havo
that much stock on the place. At one
time the Rankin farms shipped in 240
carloads of bteers. the freight bill
amounting to $14,000. Of late years
they buy in smaller lots, from ten to
twenty carloads, on the Kansas City,
Omaha or Chicago markets. As to
the care exercised In keeping down
noxious weeds it Is reported by the
owners that during the month of
August In each year all hands turn
out and go over every foot of the
place and destroy every cocklebur.
buttonweed or other crop destroyer to
be found. Never are more than four
crops of corn taken in rotation from
any of the Rankin land. It is then
seeded to clover, timothy or blue grass
and pastured a couple of years.
Mr. Rankin's first purchase of an
agricultural implement was made
some three years before he was mar
ried, in 1847, and consisted of an iron
point for a wooden plow-share. This
cost him six dollars, an Immense sum
compared with the prices of Imple
ments today, for that was the value
of nearly one hundred bushels of
corn. Now the same amount of corn
will buy an up-to-date gang plow.
The great lesson of the Rankin
farms, however, is the creed of the
owner "Thou shalt not sell corn." If
the farmers of Oregon would only ap
ply this to their own cases we would
see them far more successful than
they are as a rule. Thou shall not
sell wheat, thou shall not sell alfalfa
thou shall not sell clover, timothy or
wild hay feed all that you produce
thus enriching your land and taking
the profit of the feeder along with
the profit of the grower. Therein lies
success for the farmer.
THE JEW On THE FARM.
Among the complex social phenom
ena of our time not the least signifi
cant Is the landward movement of the
Jews. People of this race are com
monly supposed to have no taste for
agriculture. They flock to the cities
as soon as they reach the United
States and there they remain. The
Jewish population of New York ex
ceeds that of Jerusalem by a large
figure. In fact. New York, aa the
reader knows very well. Is the largest
Jewish city in the world. The inhab
itants of that race occupy themselves
in various species of petty trade. They
sell clothing, run workshops, conduct
little banks and practice all the so
called learned professions. These are
merely specimens of their occupations
which are as multifarious as the ne
cessities of mankind. We are speaking
only of the poorer class of Jews. It
is not necessary to remind anybody
that some of the great financial pow
ers of New York also belong to that
race. Facts of this nature have set
up the very reasonable belief that the
Jews are by nature a city-dwelling
people without any taste for agricul
ture, but after all history does not
sustain that view.
By their origin the Jews were a
race of herdsmen. The fathers of the
nation are always spoken of in the
Bible as feeders of flocks. Abraham
was a shepherd. So were Isaac and
Jacob. After the migration to Egypt
the Jews became at first small
farmers, like the other inhabitants of
that exceedingly fertile land. Later
on, when a Pharaoh who knew not
Joseph came to tho throne, they were
enslaved, but' still they remained agri
cultural slaves and for forty years
after escaping Egypt they followed
the life of wandering stockbreeders In
the Arabian wilderness. The young
men were shepherds and cowboys.
Their elders were sages and prophets.
The conquest of Palestine converted
them again Into a people of small
farmers and the institutions ascribed
to Moses, which are no doubt very
ancient, contributed in every prac
ticable way to perpetuate this habit
of life. Once every seventy years
there was a redistribution of the land.
Debtors were restored to solvency at
reasonable Intervals. Slavery was per
mitted, though no Jew might be made
a bondsman and all were set free from
time to time.
Since the destruction of Jerusalem
and the dispersal of the chosen peo
ple they have been obliged by many
causes to forego their agricultural
tastes until they seem to be almost
forgotten. Cruel laws have forbidden
the Jews to own or till land. They
have been cooped up In restricted
quarters of the European cities as If
they were pest stricken. The schools
have been closed to them. Nothing
was left for the Jews but to enter
trade and finance and in consequence
of this necessity they have made them
selves the money monarch" of the
world. Fortunately the abominable
laws which tyrannized over them
could not dull their Intelligence and
the Jews have been In all Christian
ages among the leaders of the world's
science and art as well as Its shewd
est traders. The progress of civiliza
tion and enlightened religion Is at
last removing the obstacles which
turned the Jews away from their
natural pursuit of agriculture. In the
United States and to some extent In
the more humane countries of Europe
they are going back to the land. In
this country their keen Intelligence
has Immediately attacked one of those
economic problems which perplex tho
farmer on every side. When the Jews
undertake an enterprise they bring
their wits to bear upon Its difficulties.
Their leaders have not encouraged
them to try to cultivate large farms.
They are settled on small tracts and,
like all other small agriculturists, they
find it difficult to obtain the credit
which they need In their business.
Lack of credit probably doubles the
hardships of the American farmer of
limited means and little land. Our
native farmers never have seen their
way to cope with this problem. The
Jews have already solved it.
They have solved It by applying to
agriculture the principle of co-operative
credit.- This Is readily explained.
The farmers of a given community
pool their resources. None of them
may own a great deal of property but
collectively they naturally own a con
siderable amount which can te used
as collateral to obtain funds from the
large city banks. These funds are
taken care of by the officers of the
co-operative enterprise and loaned to
the subscribers as their needs arise.
Tho entire collective property stands
for security to the large lender In the
city. The petty means of each sub
scriber furnish security for his indi
vidual borrowings. Of course his
standing in the community is also an
Important factor In the transaction. It
may count heavily among his neigh
bors when It would have no value at
all In the city. All this Is clear
enough. The Jews are the first to ap
ply this enormously helpful principle
In the United States, but it Is no new
thing In Europe. The Irish have long
had the benefit of It under the en
lightened legislation which Gladstone
stood sponsor for. In Germany com
munal banks are encouraged by the
government, which misses no chance
to build 'up agriculture. In France
rural industry is fostered by the fa
mous credit fonder, which is a gov
ernment Institution. Here, If we ever
have anything of the sort It must
probably come by way of private en
terprise, and we owe a heavy debt of
gratitude to the Jews for making a
beginning. Facilities for rural loans
are needed In this country as badly as
anywhere in the world.
FAINT-HEARTED FRIENDS.
"Not a man In Oregon in the recent
primary election voted Intelligently
when he undertook to mark his bal
lot," is the startling Impeachment of
Lawgiver ITRen. father of the Oregon
System, and sponsor of the direct pri
mary. The law factory at Oregon City
has therefore turned out a proposal
for an entirely new constitution and
for abandonment of the party primary
and abolishment of the State House
of Representatives.
"The Initiative and referendum are
over-used," cries another faint-hearted
and apologetic professional champion
of the Oregon System. "But why are
they over-used? Because the people
have loet confidence in the Legisla
ture. ... So many incompetents
and nincompoops are sent to Salem
along with good men to make laws,"
etc.
Why are incompetents and nincom
poops sent to Salem? Why? Who
sends them? Under what system?
Who has insisted that the most per
fect scheme of choosing public, officers
the world has known has been de
vised in Oregon, and yet who is the
first and quickest to whine and roar
and fuss about the results of the sys
tem and the first and quickest to pro
test and complain at any proposed re
vision of the system that promises
better candidates and more satisfac
tory results? Who?
Now ITRen offers to abolish the di
rect primary because, we suppose, he
thinks the system his own child a
failure. The other energetic fault
finder and panic-stricken critic would
achieve Utopia by doing away with
the Legislature and taking over to the
people who elect Legislatures the
original function of legislation by the
people.
But The" Oregonian would do
neither. It would not abandon either
the Oregon System because It has dis
appointed in some features, nor the
Legislature, because it has failed in
other features.
If the people are able to make laws,
they are able to select intelligently
representatives In the Legislature to
make laws. The remedy is perfectly
simple and easy. It may be found in
creating numerous Legislative dis
tricts, so that the people in each dis
trict will vote for one or two Legisla
tors and no more. Then they would
select discriminatingly and knowingly.
Why Impeach the intelligence of the
people by charging that they are in
competent to select good men for pub
lic office? , The direct primary can
be made a practicable vehicle for
sending good men to Salem. Why not
send them, and relieve the people of
a burden of miscellaneous legislation
and harmful agitation that should not
be imposed on them?
MOTHERS' DAY.
In her favorite poem, "An Order
for a Picture," Alice Cary. the sweet
singer of the West, during the middle
years of the Nineteenth Century, has
left this picture of her mother:
A woman, tha loveliest ever the sun looked
down upon, you must paint for me:
Oh. if I could only make, you see the clear
blue eyes, the tender smile.
Tho sovereign sweetness, the gentle grace.
The woman'a soul and the angel's face.
That are beaming on ma all tho while
I need not speak these foolish words;
Tet one word tells you all I would say
She Is my mother: you wilt agree that all
tha rest may be thrown away.
Writing of this mother In prose not
less tender than the lines quoted, this
devoted daughter said:
My mother was a woman of superior In
tellect and of good, well ordered life. In
my memory she stands apart from all others,
wiser, purer, doing more and living better
than any other woman.
Phebe Cary, another daughter of
this mother of many children (nine all
told, born between 1814 and 1831, a
period of seventeen years) says of her:
She was the wonder of my childhood.
She Is no less a wonder to me as I recall
her now. How she did so much work and
yet did It well: how she reared carefully
and governed wisely so largo a family of
children and yet found time to develop by
thought and reading a mind of unusual
strength and clearness Is still a mystery to
me. An exemplary housewife, a wise and
kind mother, she left no duty unfulfilled,
yet she found time often at night after
every other member of the household was
asleep by reading to keep herself Informed
upon all the Issues of tho day. political, so
cial and religious.
Cowper's tribute to the memory of
his mother, who died when he was
but six years old, is one of the touch
ing gems of his poetry. Horace Gree
ley's tribute to his mother, in his
"Recollections of a Busy Life," re
flect the tenderest phase of a nature
strong and true to duty. The love of
President Garfield for his mother and
his appreciation of what she was. to
him in his fatherless boyhood are
matters closely Interwoven with his
life history. The late H. W. Scott, of
this city, one of a family of twelve
children, the mother of whom died on
the great plains In the primitive era
of crossing the continent, and was
burled by the roadside in the beauti
ful wilderness of Wyoming before she
had reached her 41st birthday, said:
I can scarcely think of my mother In
these Ister.vears without tears. How she
ever did so much and uncomplainingly en
dured so much, never thinking of herself,
but constantly alert for the comfort snd
pleasure of others, is to me, even at this
rildsnre (then more than half a century
a wonder that I have never been able to
fathom.
These and similar tributes to moth
erhood from women and men who
have given love and reverent consid
eration to the weightier problems of
life, may well be recalled upon what
has come to be known , and observed
among us as "Mothers' Day." They
are but a reflex of the feelings ana
experiences of tens of thousands of
men and women who have passed the
thoughtless stage of life and come to
realize its obligations and responsibil
ities. To those of us who are walking
serenely down the sunset slope of life,
all of the days of its morning years
were mother's days. Tenderly, gra
ciously, these days which were woven
into care free, happy years come back
to us in all their soft beauty and
sweet significance as the chimes ring
out for "Mothers' Day." So let us
wear today the white carnation in
sacred memory of the mother risen or
the red in tender love and apprecia
tion for the mother still with us, by
this visible token honoring one to
whom all honor Is due.
A NEW THEORY TO BE APPLIED TO
' rNIAXITT.
Massachusetts will exemplify in the
opening of a new hospital in Brookline
in June a new theory in the treatment
of the Insane. The underlying Idea is
not unlike that which has been worked
out in the last two decades in regard
to the treatment of tuberculosis, viz.:
Catch the patient early in the fray and
by careful diagnosis and environment
prevent what is often Impossible to
cure after the malady has become
fully established. The point for which
contention Is made Is that insanity
may by this means be arrested and
the individual restored to his place In
the community.
According to the old view, when
reason was once lost it was lost for
ever; to the still older view the mad
man was a dangerous animal to be
chained in wretched durance for the
balance of his natural life. This newer
view has resulted in the humane treat
ment and attempt to cure the insane
with kindness, pleasant environment
and strict attention to hygiene: the yet
newer view is as above outlined in
the building of the new Psychopathic
Hospital that will be opened to receive
patients in Brookline next month.
A3 is well known, cures in the ad
vanced stages of insanity are extreme
ly rare, but it is the opinion of alien
ists that a large number of these cases
could have been cured If taken In time.
In providing for this. Massachusetts fa
a pioneer among the states and the
experiment will doubtless, within the
next decade or two, produce satisfac
tory if not wonderful results. The
chief difficulty encountered in pro
ceeding upon this theory will mani
festly be in securing patients at the
preventable stage. The new hospital
will be primarily In the nature of a
clearing-house for those who are sus
pected of suffering from, or are on
the border line, of mental derange
ment. The malady is one that in a
comparatively short time becomes
fixed upon the sufferer. It is argued
that if it can be taken in hand in the
modern, scientific way at its inception
or as soon thereafter as the symptoms
are discernible, the sufferer given
wholesome, nourishing food In proper
quantities and at stated intervals, in
duced to take reasonable exercise, be
separated from those cares, worries
or Indulgences that are pushing him
toward the point where reason lapses',
great results will follow.
It is said that the most hopeful road
to a cure-now known is in what is
termed the hydrotherapy treatment.
Frequent, and, in some cases, contin
uous baths have been found to have a
certain calming and tonic effect on
the nerves. This new treatment, which
has many subtle variations, all looking
to the same general plan of preven
tion, has a tendency to make insanity
seem far less hopeless that in the past.
When fully established it will not nec
essarily be regarded as a serious
thing when some member of the
family begins to act "queer." The
cause will at once be sought and the
"stitch In time" principle will be ap
plied. If one of the most distressing
of human ills can by such means be
averted something entirely new under
the sun will, contrary to tradition,'
have been developed, and in duo time
it will seem strange that the ounce of
prevention that has long been accred
ited as worth the pound of cure had
so long been withheld from the treat
ment of insanity.
WILLIAM T. STEAD.
There are thousands of people who
will agree that the most valuable life
lost In the Titanic wreck was William
T. Stead's. His activities for many
years had been so multifarious and
so positively on the side of what is
excellent that his death leaves a va
cancy in the ranks of benevolent ef
fort which may not be filled for a
long time. It is only now and then
that a man appears who is interested
in as many different kinds of human
itarian work as Mr. Stead and so
skillful In laying diversified plans.
Nobody would say that he was a man
of genius. He was not a great public
speaker, nor was there anything par
ticularly remarkable In his literary
style. His supreme merit lay in the
power of initiative courses of action
and pursuing them with inflexible zeal
through good report and evil to the
predestined end. The trip to America
which he was making on the Ill-fated
Titanic was nothing new In his career.
He had been here several times and
usually managed to signalize his pres
ence by some spectacular perform
ance. Perhaps his most interesting experi
ence In the United States was at the
time of the Columbian Exposition in
Chicago. He reached the city too late
to see the great show, but he quickly
contrived one pn his own account
which made up for the loss. Having,
after a fashion of his, made a tour of
the Chicago slums and Investigated its
politics a little, he assembled a con
ference of ministers and told them
what he thought of their city. Mr.
Stead was always noted for plain
speaking, and In this Instance he lived
up to his reputation fully. To clinch
the impression he wished to make he
collected the speeches delivered at this
conference and some discourses occa
sioned during a second visit, and pub
lished them with the title, "If Christ
Came to Chicago." The collection
made a book which may have been ed
ifying and was startling enough to sat
isfy even Mr. Stead, who was an insa
tiable lover of the sensational and a
past master of the art of providing it
He Invented the species of Journalism
which is exemplified by the American
Review of Reviews. The model for
this publication was the London Re
view of Reviews, which Mr. Stead
founded after resigning the editorship
of the Pall Mall Gazette.
He was a born journalist. Nobody
knew better how to exploit a piece of
news for the delectation of the public,
and none knew half so well as Mr.
Stead how to extort news from reluc
tant notables. In tho course of his
early career he interviewed most of
the European celebrities, not except
ing the Czar, for whom he cherished
a very high opinion. According to Mr.
Stead, Nicholas is a misunderstood
man, whose impulses are all good and
whose reign is miserable, not through
any fault of his own, but by the per
verse decree of destiny. He is far
from concurring in the common opin
ion that Nicholas is a feeble-minded
bigot, wholly under the domination of
his fanatical priests. It would be
curious to hear Mr. Stead explain the
massacre of the Jews, which Nicholas
has personally authorized on the hy
pothesis of his angelic Innocence, but
now this pleasure will be denied to
the world forever, unless his spirit
undertakes to communicate with
somebody among the living.
This Is quite likely to happen, since
Mr. Stead was a great believer in com
munication between the inhabitants
of earth and heaven. Ho was in the
constant habit of receiving messages
from his son, Willie, who had passed
over. He also had other correspond
ents in that bourne from which Ham
let mistakenly fancied no traveler ever
returns. His books and articles in
support of the spiritualist theories are
entertaining reading and possibly not
without some foundation of fact.
Dearly as Mr. Stead loved sensa
tionalism, he was not capable of out
right falsehood. When he thought he
was listening to the conversation of
spirits we are bound to believe that
he heard something, tho.ugh, of course,
he may have been mistaken as to what
it really was. All the occult fads and
fancies of our day attracted him.
Telepathy was one of his favorite pur
suits. He had a number of telepathic
correspondents in different parts of
the world with whom he interchanged
messages without pen, ink or other
material means. .All he had to do was
to sit down and think out his letter.
The correspondent answered from the
other hemisphere in the same way.
The economy of this process must ap
peal to everybody; but, unhappily, Mr.
Stead never . reduced his method to
commercial practice.
It must be said for Mr. Stead that
he invariably employed his sensational
devices for good ends. No worthy
cause ever eluded his helpful interest.
The warfare against white slavery was
undertaken by him long before it be
came fashionable. In his sole person
Mr. Stead constituted the first anti
vice commission ever seen in the world
and suffered the persecution which is
the invariable lot of the pioneer in
good work. White slavery in London
and the vices which are related to It
had become so abhorrent that Mr.
Stead could not forbear exposing it
in his paper. To prove to the stolid
British intelligence that young girls
might by ruined by day or night with
out interference by the police, he
actually went through the forms of
leading a young person astray, though,
of course, he took the proper precau
tions for protecting innocence, and
then related the whole affair in his
newspaper. Vice revenged Itself by
sending Mr. Stead to jail. It controlled
the police machinery in London at
that time as completely as it does in
some American cities now. Mr. Stead
gladly suffered imprisonment for con
science' sake, and when he came out
the nonconforming congregations of
London gave him a monster reception
to show their appreciation of what he
had done.
Another interesting chapter of Mr.
Stead's life concerns his efforts for
international peace. Upon the whole,
he was one of the most active and
useful men of the period.
The Taft administration proposes to
carry its campaign for economy and
efficiency into the making of paper
currency and coins. It proposes to
reduce the size of notes from 3.04 by
7.28 inches to 2 by 6 inches. By
enabling the Government to make five
notes with the same labor by which it
now makes four, a saving of 25 per
cent would be effected. By adopting a
uniform design for National bank
notes, the number of engraved plates
In use can be reduced from over 12,000
to about 200. The necessity of special
engraving for each bank would be
avoided, as the name and charter num
ber of the banks could be printed in
blanks left in the engraving. An issue
of notes could then be obtained in a
day or two, while from twenty-five to
forty days now elapse between the fil
ing of the order and tho issue of the
notes.
California traveling men have de
cided to boycott all hotels, shops and
places where tipping flourishes. To
make their campaign complete the
drummers would need walk from town
to town for it is on dining-car and
sleeper that this subtle form of brig
andage reaches Its highest plane.
When it is taken into account that
he will be loved for his money, be
friended for his money and sought af
ter because of his money, what healthy.
able-bodied young man with his own
way to make would really care to
trade places with Vincent Astor?
When we read the Colonel's mod
est remarks about himself we are re
minded of Kiping's BIml, of whom
the German adventurer remarked,
"He haf too much ego in his cosmos."
How can Orozco hope to win a single
point in the big battle about Torreon?
The federal commander is maintaining
a direct wire connection with the cor
respondents at El Paso.
Vale's bad man has put another
notch on his gun. This time it's the
town marshal. Every now and then
the writers of lurid Western fiction are
vindicated.
Despite the political stir, Mexican
revolution, floods and industrial activ
ities, the really vital questions are:
What's the score? and How are they
biting?
The Archbald case Is beginning to
take on the aspects of a real investiga
tion in high , finance. Distinguished
witnesses are pleading defective mem
ories. The Pullman car people appreciate
Oregon fir by ordering 8,000,000 feet
from Polk County to enhance the
beauty and durability of their cars.
Gomez, too, heard the call and re
sponded only to find it was a false
alarm. Gomez Is likely to have com
pany in his misery after June 18.
Scraps and Jingles
Leone Cass Baer.
Lecturer refers cuttingly to "people
I who can write and won't," Much worse
are those who can t write and win.
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"Hope springs eternal In the lover's
breast," that before the show is over
she'll get dressed.
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The best fluid disinfectant Is the
milk of human kindness.
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That quip "the race is always to the swift."
Has undergone a modern change at last.
And because of. strenuous ways of doing
things.
We read "the race is always to tho fast."
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She may be "most lovely whom we
love the most," but she is also, I've
noticed, the one to whom it Is talked of
least.
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A counter charge, "Send this C. O.
Love may be fed on pastry hut af
finity requires a thick, juicy steak oc
casionally. a V
"Women are used as models for angels.
Told by painting, sculpture or pen.
But when it comes to fashioning devils.
You'll notice always the likeness of men.
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Marriage is like discarding your
flannels in Spring, any sudden change
courts danger.
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I cannot cmlle, dear Lawrence.
Tho I know It makes you sad,
Tho your dear eyes mutely question
And fades your own smile glad.
I guess your heart's deep unrest.
And it pains me all the while
To whisper to you, dear one.
That, alas, I cannot smile.
I feel your deep, sweet Interest,
Tho' you question not, nor chide.
And so I'm going to tell you.
Come sit close by my side.
The reason for my lack of mirth.
Oh. deem it not a sin.
I've had my face enameled.
If 1 smile, I'll crack my skin.
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Note where they've found money In
fruit jars in house of old hermit. S'pose
they were hermit-ieally sealed jars.
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Platonic affection
Is like a good cigar;
The longer It burns,
Tho less its ashes are.
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Woman sued by hairdresser is ac
cused of having dyed hair and offers
to let jurors examine it; probably to
let them see how utterly false it all is.
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Why do they call tiio sea a waste of
water, when it's obviously so useful?
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If man Is Jealous, then woman
Cries out at his tyranny cruel;
If he isn't Jealous she's crazy mad
And says lie'a indifferently cool.
Those who wed for appearances gen
erally make it in the divorce courts.
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Ho. bny In blue, at door of mine.
To welcome you quickly I race.
What's this: a great pocket so fine
All done up in tissue-like lace.
Filled with flowers I have no doubt
'Rosea and violets peeping out.
Who has sent It. I cannot guess.
To try sets my heart to beating.
Won't it look gorgeous on my desk?
I must find the card of greeting;
Quickly again I rack my brain.
For the sender, but all lu vain.
To tip the boy! I can't do less.
In Jubilant mental measure.
Now I'll find the enclosed address
Do it at my own sweet leisure.
Oh. why didn't I look before,
They're for that horrid girl next door!
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Miss Calamity Step-and-Fetch-It, tha
clever and talented, etc, lady poet of
Kansas, is busy on a whole book. She
calls it "Ancient Coffers and Modern
Sneezers." She says she read the other
day of a man who Invariably Jots down
his ideas on paper whenever they oc
cur to him. As a good result of this
practice she cites that the plot of his
most successful novel came to him
while he was washing his hands. Ca
lamity says that this has fired her to
make arrangements for a complctn
bath. She says anyway she writes most
of her poems on her feet. So we may
look for a large contribution.
WHAT HE MISSED
By Dean Collins.
Out of the clays near Kllensburg.
Where he has lain for ages past.
With scientific joy. they've dup
A low-browed fossil man at last;
And, Incidental to the find,
I am impelled to moralize.
As all men do, on ancient things
That lived 'neath prehistoric skies.
The sting of civ'lization's lash
Ne'er on his savage shoulders fcl.
He never woke at dawn to curse
A tin alarm clock's fretful bell.
He never had to hasten forth
Out of his dim primeval thicket
And reach the station but to find
He'd misplaced his commuter's ticket.
On politics and Presidents
He never exercised his hean.
Nor marked a 12-foot ballot Bheet,
Back in the misty Miocene;
He never had to rail at "trusts,"
Nor talk of treaties or of war.
But peaceful lived, and peaceful died.
A brother to the dinosaur.
He never crawled on hands and knees
'Neath where some flinty ledge out
cropped, Framing large curses, as he sought
A collar button he had dropped;
He never had to grind his teeth.
Hearing the central's voice divine:
"Line's busy." In the Miocene
They neither had nor wished a line.
Oh, happy must have been his lot
Amid the ferns and rocks. But stayt
Shall I sit round and envy him
His worrlless existence? Nay!
For though full many woes he missed
While living in those ages far
He never saw a baseball game.
And never smoked a good cigar.
Portland, May 11.
DREAMS.
As the evening shadows lengthen
Round my little cabin door.
And the flight of time rolls backward
To those good old days of yore,
I behold a group of youngsters
Frollicking with hearts so gay
On the green banks of the river
Just as If 'twas yesterday.
In their midst I see a maiden
Fairest of them all Is she
And turn young again and boyish
For her eyes have beckened me.
From the happy throng we wander
To the old, mysterious dell.
And the night Is filled with glory
In that land where fairies dwell.
There I tell the old, sweet story
And I hear her murmur "yes;"
But a cold cloud drops about us.
Chilling our most fond caress.
And 1 follow in the shadows
As it drags my love away.
To the land of the departed
Leaving me deformed and gray.
Ah! I wake the night is chilly
Where are they, my friends of yorel
Have they fled across the river.
To return again no more?
Tes, they're gone aye, gone forever.
Leaving but a memory.
But I smile, for high In heaven
There's a girl awaiting me.
G. Norbrey Pleasants.
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