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Newspaper Page TextTHE SUNDAY ORECOXIAN, PORTLAND, NOVEMBER 3, 191G. W$ (Bwgomnn PORTLAND. OREGON. Entered at Portland (Oregon) Postoffice as nerond-class mail matter.. Subscription rales Invariably in advance. (By Mall.) Tally, Sunday included one year ...... .$3.00 larly. Sunday included, six months ..... 4.25 Daily. Sunday Included, three months ... 2.'V JDally, Sunday included, one month ..... .75 laily, without Sunday, one year ........ 6.00 .Daily, witnout Sunday, six months ..... U.25 laily. without Sunday, three months ... 1.75 Ially. without Sunday, one month J .10 "Weekly, one year 1.50 Sunday, one vear 2.5 Sunday and Weekly 3.50 By carrier.) Xaiiy. Sunday included, one year . . . . . 9.00 lat!y. Sunday Included, one month 75 Jluw to Remit Send poatoffice money order, exprei-4 order or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at sender's risk, ruve postofflce address In full, including county and state. Postajr Katew 12 to 16 pafres. 1 cent: 18 to u2 pages. 2 cents; a-t to 4S pages, 3 cents; io to tiO pages. 4 cents; 2 to 76 pages, 5 cents; 7s to 82 pages, 6 cents. Foreign postage, double rates. KaMern Buuiess Office Verree & Conk Iln, iirunswick building, New York; Verree A- Conklin. Stegcr building, Chlongo. San KranciHCO representative, Jt. J. .Bidwell, 742 Market street. I'ORTLAND, . SCXBAY. NOV. 5, 1916. FORECASTS OF THK BISECTION. Such great confidence In the re-election of President "Wilson Is professed by his supporters that it is high time to examine the records with a view of discovering what basis of fact or probability there is for this confidence. A forecast of the result has been made by W. Y. Morgan, Western director of publicity for the Republican Na tional Committee, who might be ex pected to give his own party the bene fit of every doubt. Yet he only claims as sure for Hughes 248 electoral votes from states which have not wavered in their allegiance to the Republican party since 1892, except in 1912, when the party was split. Illinois and Wis consin should be placed in the same category, but he classes them as only "probably Republican." Illinois, alone, added to the sure votes, would give Hughes 277, or eleven more than a bare majority. Ohio. West Virginia and Connecticut should go in that list, but he calls them only "likely for Hughes," along with Nevada, New Mexico and Montana. These "probably" and "likely" Re publican states would swell the total for Hughes to 333. Mr. Morgan also lists seven states with forty-nine votes as doubtful. Mr. Hughes need -only capture eigh teen out of the 157 votes classed as probably or likely Republican or doubtful, in addition to carrying all the states that are considered sure, in order to win the election. He still has a wide margin to make good any de fections among the regular Republican states. How reasonable is Mr. Morgan's forecast may be judged from calcula tions made by The Oregonian after the Maine election in September. The aggregate vote of each state for Rep resentatives, or in a few cases for Sen ator, of each party in 1914 was taken as a basis. The percentage of gain by the Maine candidates for Senator over that total was oalculated. The same percentages were then added to the Republican and Democratic votes of 1914 in each other state to form an estimate of the result in 1916. The resulting electoral vote is given in the following table and compared with Mr. Morgan's forecast: On basis Maino vote. Forecast of "W.TVM organ STATE. Alabama Arizona ....... Arkansas ...... California . Colorado ...... Connecticut Delaware . . . . Florida Georgia ....... Idaho ......... Illinois Indiana ....... Iowa . . . , Kansas . i. . . . . , Kentucky ...... Louisiana "Maine Maryland Massachusetts . Mi-rhlgan Minnesota. . . . . . Ml.ssiHf ippl M issoria ....... Montana ...... Ncbraaka Nevada Xew Hampshire New Jersey . .. . Xew Mexico New York North Carolina . North TJakota . . Ohio Oklahoma ..... Oregon Pennsylvania . . Rhode Island South Carolina . South Dakota .. Tennessee . . . . . Texas ... Utah .. Vermont ....... Virginia "Washington . .. "West Virginia . , "Wisconsin ...... Wyoming 4 29 15 10 i. 12 .110 12 Totals 6;;248 91.;66:126 Total electoral votes. Necessary to elect . . . .268 This comparison proves the Morgan estimate to be decidedly conservative. It warrants the conclusion that only a landslide can re-elect Mr. Wilson. There are no indications of a landslide in the political situation. The Repub lican party is united, aggressive and enthusiastic. Whatever individual de fections have occurred are largely if not fully offset by corresponding de fections from the Democracy. The new issues which have arisen since 1912, and especially since 1914. are the only source of doubt. They could only bring about Republican defeat by causing wholesale desertion of the Republican party without equal change in the other direction. At the worst, they are not likely to do more than make the result close. The political condition is such as to make it more than ever the duty of every adherent of Republican prin ciples to vote, but it gives every ground for confidence that, if that be done, victory for Hughes and Fairbanks will be recorded on Tuesday. . Efforts now on foot in Philadelphia to introduce a system of therapeutics based on the curative power of music are especially interesting because they propose to take into account the dif ference between major and minor in tne treatment of disease. Major music is to be employed on the assumption that it stimulates a feeling of joy and happiness; minftr music is supposed -to have a depressant effect on emotions, with which conclusion all who ever have lived in proximity to a country town barber shop will agree heartily. Major music, it would seem, acts as i strychnine or digitalis of the musical system, while the minor falls Natur ally into the bromine class. The new idea has not been tried in cases enough to warrant a report of results, but it has been advocated on the plat form of the University Extension So ciety. Music is especially recom mended as a "preserver of the facul ties" and as a remedy in nerve dis turbances, but due allowance must be made, of course, for the skill of the performer and other factors. ECHO OF A CAMPAIGN' FAKE. Would Hughes, if elected, carry out his tnreat to wipe all the constructive legisla tion of this Administration off the statute books? From an interview by Senator Chamberlain. What threat? Is it possible that Senator Chamberlain is willing to lend his name and influence to support of a despicable campaign lie? Has he no better material for his campaign for his candidate than to echo a shameless falsehood about Mr. Hughes persistently circulated by the Evening Journal? Will Senator Chamberlain come forth and, in view of all the evidence to the contrary, say, on his honor as a Senator and a citizen, he believes that Mr. Hughes made at Milwaukee, or anywhere, a declaration of purpose to repeal all the legislative accom plishments of President Wilson? We think not. The original incorrect and blunder ing report of Mr. Hughes" Milwaukee speech was printed in .the Chicago Tribune. It was carried by no other 'Western paper, so far as we know. It was carried by no press association, not even the Journal's. It was promptly repudiated by the Tribune, and now again the Tribune notifies The Oregonian that it was an error. Yet the Portland Journal insists that Mr. Hughes said it, solely be cause the Chicago Tribune, through a reporter's mistake, said he said it. Is such a paper worthy of the slightest modicum of confidence or respect? ASSESSOR REED'S SERVICE. A street circular, published over the signature of a candidate against Henry E. Reed for the County As sessorship, is singularly bold and reck less in its misstatements about Mr. Reed's-methods in the conduct of his office. The charges are, in brief, that As sessor Reed has favored a certain re ligious denomination in various exemp tions from taxation, and several cita tions are given. Mr. Reed showed yesterday, through an interview in The Oregonian, that the accusations emanated, first, from an employe summarily discharged for cause, and, second, that they were without ex ception false. The law makes certain rules for the exemption of the property of re ligious and charitable organizations from taxation. Mr. Reed has fol lowed in all cases the exact re quirements of law and has made no discrimination whatever between churches, or clubs, or any others. Moreover, in nearly every instance cited for criticism, he had not altered the classification of his predecessor. The assault upon Mr. Reed is par ticularly vicious and unwarranted. He has made a most capable and intelli gent officer. He has mastered the many intricate -problems of taxation, and he has systematized the work of assessment so that all are treated in exact accordance with the uniform rule prescribed by law. His defeat would be a misfortune, on any ground. Hi3 defeat as a conse quence of the attack made on him would be a shame. BACK TO THK BREAD LINE. Our prosperity, says President Wil son, is not due to the war. Our prosperity, says the cuckoo press, is due to the superior construct ive wisdom of President Wilson, and is not due to the war. One per cent of our total trade, avers President Wilson, is to be cred ited to manufacture of munitions for export. But a Democratic statistician raises the Presidential estimate 100 per cent, and says it is only 2 per cent. Yet our exports of war materials are more than five times what they were in 1914 five times! Let anyone who thinks our foreign trade has had a normal and legitimate increase, not due to the war, read the following official figures: EXPORTS. 1014 1016. $l,04.-,,:t:i.o22 wi.nn::.4i l War materials.. 244.75S.025 Foodstuffs 1!"',1!!.2.2 All munitions 4.)6.!5'.277 2,:tl."..02fl.4:i:t Other exports... 1,802. 7ol.74S 1.900.371,341 Totals . $2,329, 6S4.025 4,284,397,774 Prior to the war the country was going, through the soup-kitchen era of President Wilson's Administration. Who docs not remember it? Who does not hope against its return? But now we are wringing the last dollar from the over-wrought and bleeding nations of Europe to fatten our purses. Who dares to say what will happen in America after the war? What has President Wilson done, or what will he do, to prevent a return of the breadline throughout the Na tion? GOVERNOR WTLSOX AND CHILD LABOR. Has anybody seen any reference to labor legislation adopted in New Jer sey when Woodrow Wilson was Gover nor of that state? There has been a good deal said about that accom plished by Governor Hughes' adminis tration in New York, but what of New Jersey ? In 1910 the first New Jersey Legis lature under the Wilson administra tion amended the child-labor laws so as to prohibit employment of minors under 15 years .of age at night, but it permitted employment of minors between 16 and 16 at night for a year longer. At that time Oregon had had for five years a law prohibiting night employment of minors under 16 years of age. Lagging New Jersey did not even attain Oregon's record under Governor Wilson. In 1911 Oregon prohibited employ ment of children under 14 years of age in any capacity during the entire school term, and in certain employ ments, including mercantile, at any time. . Mark the word "term." In the same year the Wilson administration in New Jersey adopted a law pro hibiting employment of minors in mercantile establishments only during school hours. Mark the word "hours." Whereas, the Oregon law prohibited employment in any capacity of chil dren under 16 after 6 P. M., New Jer sey prohibited employment of chil dren under 16 in mercantile establish ments after 7 P. M., except on one day a week, when they might be employed until 9 P. M-, and except between December 15- and December 25, when they might be employed until 10 P. M. New Jersey in the same year pro hibited employment of children in night messenger service. Oregon in that year prohibited employment of children under 16 in messenger service day or night and also prohibited at any time the employment of children under 14 in any workshop, mercantile establishment, store, business office. restaurant, bakery, hotel or apartment-house. Governor Wilson's child-labor legis lation seems to have wavered between a sense of duty toward the little folk and a sympathy for employers, who were coining money out of parental neglect. WHO GETS THE CREAM? The" neglected 80 per cent of rail road employes in their petition to President and Congress looking to more pay hit the nail exactly on the head in this paragraph: "When tins law becomes effective on January 1, 1917 the chances for betterment of the condition of the 80 per cent will be diminished by reason of the great tax upon, the revenues of the railroads in paying this 25 per cent increase to the train and yard service employes." The chances of the 80 per cent numbering about 1,600.000 railroad workers for easier hours and more wages are not enhanced by the Adam son act.. They are injured. The brotherhoods are to be favored by a 25 per cent increase if the Adamson act means anything whatever hap pens to the revenues of any railroad; but what about the neglected and ignored 1,600,000 workers? Will the brotherhoods look after them next? Not on your life. The average wage of the four classes of trainmen affected by the Adamson law is, or will be, $5 per day. The average for the others is about $2.31 per day, as shown by the Interstate Commerce Commission reports. They are: Oeneral office clerks f2.50 Station agents 2.20 Other station men l.M Machinists 3.21 Carpenters 2.55 Other shopmen 2.24 Section foremen 2:00 Other trackmen (section hands) 1.5o Switch tenders, crossing tenders, -watchmen 1.70 Telegraph operators anil dispatchers. . . 2.47 All other employes and laborers ....... 2.10 The President has promised to aid the railroads to get more revenue to "meet the expenses resulting from the change" made by the Adamson act. But what provision has been made, and what is there to show that any will be made, for the 80 per cent? They are merely supposed to stand in and see that the brotherhoods skim the railroad wage cream, which is just what they are doing, and will continue to do. if they can. GREAT BRITArN'S FRIEND. Strange, but true, it is that our own suave and highly adaptable George, in his oratorical excursions over the field of President Wilson's accom plishments, has failed to cite the re peal of free Panama Canal tolls. We wonder if Senator Chamberlain thinks the deed not worth mentioning? But his constituents ought not to for get it not they. Nor should they fail to recall the fact that Senator Cham berlain was at the time (1914) greatly excited about the proposed repeal and opposed it. He was not content with silence or passive antagonismj but he roundly denounced the Administration programme. Repeal, said the Sen ator in a letter of flaring indignation to a constituent repeal is "un-American doctrine." He went on, did Sen ator Chamberlain: But there Is the great question of yield ing t. a demand which Great Britain now makes because sho feels that the United States is in a critical international sltua tion. If we yield to her demands now on the question of tolls, where are we to atop? She may Just as well insist that we shall not fortify the Canal: that our vessels of war shall not pass through it. or If they do they can only be accorded the same rights that the vessels of Japan and Great Britain enjoy, and In fact the United States would practically yield its sovereignty over a great enterprise that she has constructed at an expense of $400,000,000. and Intends to main tain at an outlay of practically $16,000,000 per annum. There are others who think that President Wilson's great specialty in international affairs is his subserv ience to the demands of Great Britain. Senator Chamberlain was among the first to discover his weakness in the presence of John Bull. But the incensed Senator said more more in the line of hot stuff, and it seems to have great pertinence just now. He declared: The one unpopular feature of the present Administration has been its abandonment of the declaration of the masses of the people in favor of a Canal which is to be used for our coastwise vessels as any other domes tic waterway is used, granting to for eign nations, which have contributed not a dollar of brain or brawn to its accomplishment, equal rights with the United States to its use, although they did not and do not intend to contribute very much to its maintenance and support. All these brave utterances of our bold non-partisan Senator are of date March, 1914, when he (Chamberlain) was a candidate f,or re-election. One hundred per cent non-partisanship and oracular independence were at high tide in the Chamberlain programme. But now somebody else is a candi date for re-election Woodrow Wil son. Panama tolls are to be forgotten. But can Oregon afford to forget the well-nigh incalculable injury done its interests by the extraordinary per sonal Wilson project of free tolls re peal for a reason never explained but said by Senator Chamberlain to be the demand of Great Britain? A STATE OF WAR EXISTS. The Democratic party says: "Wilson kept us out of war." The Judge-Advo cate-General of the United States Army says: "A state of war exists so far as concerns the operations of the United States troops in Mexico." The latter official. General Enoch H. Crowder, is, by virtue of his position as an Army officer, acting in the in terest of no party; he is the legal adviser of the Army and has merely given his legal opinion as such. There is no lawful way for the Administra tion to go back on his opinion. In its proceedings for the punishment of sol diers who have been guilty of crime, it must assume that a state of war ex ists, though its members and its spell binders vociferously deny that we are at war. The War Department found neces sary a decision whether soldiers guilty of crimes in Mexico should .be pun ished under the military law of the United States. The only alternative was punishment under the law of Mex ico. It therefore was driven to seek an opinion from General Crowder. Despite strenuous efforts, in accord ance with the Wilson policy of "piti less publicity," to keep the opinion secret, it has become public. General Crowder said: Under the law there need be no formal declaration of war, but a state of war ex ists, o far as concerns the operations of the United states troops In Mexico. The statutes, which are. operative only during a period of war, have been Inter preted as relating to a condition and not a theory. I am. therefore, of the opinion that while war is not recognized as existing between "the United States and Mexico, the actual conditions under which the field opera tions in Mexico are being conducted are those of actual war; that within the field operations of the expeditionary force in Mexico It is "time of war" within the meaning of the 5St h article of war, .since it could not have been Intended that under such conditions United States soldiers would be turned over to the authorities of Mexiuo for trial. As was said by a far greater Demo crat than Wilson, "A condition, not a theory, confronts us." This is a condition in which the armed forces of the United States are on Mexican soil against the will of the recognized government of Mexico. That is a state of war. It matters not that President Wilson has not proclaimed war on Mexico, nor that General Carranza has not proclaimed war .. on the United States. It matters not that General Pershing's army is practically interned in Mexico, forbidden by Carranza to move in anv direction fxcrnt that of tilities is in the nature of a truce, and does not alter the fact that a state of war exists. O. HENRY'S PAST. Deep sympathy will temper curiosity in reading the revelation that O. Henry, America's first short-story writer, had a tragic secret in his life; that he served a term in a Federal prison on a charge of embezzling the funds of a bank; that there was, in deed, a long-hidden chapte'r of the kind we refer to as a "past." It will not detract from the merit of his work nor take from the high esteem in which he is held by those who read his kindly nature in the lines of the books he left, to know the story; nor will there, we think, be much com mendation for the merciless biograph er whose passion for "facts" has led him to tell the tale of those three years and three m6nths behind bars at Columbus, Ohio. It is true the biography was "authorized"; that is to say, members of the writer's family consented provisionally to its publi cation in belief that if the story must be told it would be best told truth fully by an understanding friend. Yet the bearer of an ill tale finds few friends. There will be general agree ment that Professor Alphonso C. Smith, who has written the story, might better have omitted the sorrow ful part. There was so much else that might have been said. Publica tion of the facts in question was at least untimely; it came a good many years too soon, if it had to come at all. Not all readers of biography are ghouls. The near-extinction of the old-time, .sensatlon-mongering yellow press incidentally attests that fact. O. Henry was in everyday life Will iam Sydney Porter, as most of his ad mirers know. His biographer was a boyhood friend, who writes not un sympathetically and does not accept the fact of O. Henry's conviction as proof of guilt. In fact, he points out that at the time the writer was em ployed in the bank at Austin, Tex., the financial details of the institution we.re at loose ends. Porter's prede cessor was driven to retirement and his successor attempted suicide. There was the deplorable lack of system once not altogether uncommon in com munity banks. At any rate, some time after Porter had left the bank's em ploy, and when he was engaged, in writing for a Houston paper, he was summoned to Austin to answer to the charge against him. He did actually start for Austin. He made what his friends believe was the mistake of his life when unaccountably he changed his mind, left the train at a junction point and went to New Orleans in stead. Then he took passage on a fruit steamer for Honduras. It is supposed that he was overpowered by a sense of helplessness in the lack of records to prove his innocence; it is known that at his subsequent trial, after he had surrendered himself, his flight weighed heavily against him. He himself maintained his innocence always, and his friends believed him. Yet the world is richer because the wheel of fate turned precisely as it did. It was in prison that ho met the man who gave him the material for his character of Jimmie Valentine. It was in Central America that he met Al Jennings, now prominent in public life but then a fugitive from the law, and it was on a voyage circling the entire coast of South America that he laid the foundation for his stories of life in tropical, . revolution-torn re publics. Some of his best tales be long -to the prison period. Among these were "An Afternoon Miracle," "Money Maze." "A Fog in Santone," "A Black Jack Bargainer," "The En chanted Kiss," "Rouge et Noir," "The Duplicity of Ilargraves," "No Story" and "The Marionettes." The pages of history abound in sto ries of . literary men who were im prisoned and who were inspired to better efforts by their Imprisonment. There was conspicuously among them, for example, John Bunyan, some twelve years of whose life were spent behind bars, curiously enough, it will now seem, on the charge, as it was written in the indictment, that he "hath devilishly and perniciously ab stained from coming to church to hear divine services and is a common up holder of unlawful meetings and con venticles." It was here that Bunyan wrote the beginnings of "Pilgrim's Progress." Richard Brinsley Sheridan, who was a happy-go-lucky spend thrift sort of man, was imprisoned for debt. Ben Jonson served some time in a dungeon on the false charge that he had written certain verses in ap proval of the assassination of the Duke of Buckingham and at another time was imprisoned and narrowly escaped the gallows for killing an actor in a duel. Smollett wrote his "Adventures of Launcclot Greaves" in prison, and Defoe his "Review." Thomas Cooper wrote the "Purgatory of Suicides" and "Wise Saws and Modern Instances" in Stafford Gaol; Richard Lovelace composed several poems of high merit while in prison for presenting to the Long Parliament a petition in behalf of Charles II; Sir Walter Raleigh wrote a "History of the World" (down to B. C. 120) and other books in the Tower of London: Voltaire composed two cantos of "Henrtade" In the Bas tile; and Roger Bacon, while impris oned in France, produced, among oth er works, "The Means of Avoiding the Infirmities of Old Age." Spain's greatest romancer. Cervan tes, was inspired by the harrowing ex perience he underwent as the slave of the viceroy of Algiers, a considerable part of the time behind stone walls, to write "Don Quixote," which some of his biographers believe would never have been written else. Henry Field ing was a prisoner for debt, as were a good many others in his time. Sir Thomas Gray (who antedates the dis tinguished author of the "Elegy" by some four centuries) wrote "Scalacro nica" in a cell in Edinburgh Castle. An intensely human document shedding light on the life of Robert Burns is a letter he wrote pleading for a loan of ten pounds to satisfy the impor tunities of a creditor who threatened him with imprisonment. His death soon afterward saved the great Scotch bard from this humiliation Most of William O'Brien's "When We Were Boys" was written while he was in Jail on the charge of inciting rebellion. There are many other illustrious names on the long list. O. Henry's biographer seems to have been moved primarily in making the disclosure he has made by the desire to leave- no Vgaps" in a work of his tory. Those who have tried to study the date books called histories that are inflicted upon some students will have met this type of man before. He came upon a period that was unac counted for. "History" demanded an explanation and it has been given. O. Henry's daughter, who deplores sensational methods of advertising which she charges have been adopted by the publishers of the new biog raphy, has revealed the fact that the author had not permitted himself to think of the subject, because of fear that his sense of injustice would "em bitter his whole viewpoint and rob him of the sweetness, the kindliness, the charity and understanding that permeate everything he has written." That he did successfully master every lurking sense of bitterness is manifest; and this is a tribute to O. Henry as a man. TO CONTRIBUTORS. A large number of communications on political issties reached The Ore gonian Saturday. It is impossible for The Ot-egonian to set them and give them space and still do justice to the news of the day. Letters for publica tion received later than Friday can not be published. And it may also be said that the accumulation of this kind of material is now more than can be found room.for on Monday and Tuesday. The Oregonian regrets its limita tions in this matter, as many of the letters are interesting, pointed and Informative. There has also been a large offer ing of campaign poetry which must necessarily be held out because of other demands upon space. Likewise, The Oregonian has re ceived from many sources clippings from other publications which have seemed to the senders to be particu larly pertinent to campaign issues. The Oregonian appreciates the cour teous interest of its readers in sub mitting these several kinds of mate rial and regrets that all of it cannot be published. Attention is directed to two pages of communications printed in section 4. DEATH OF A FOREMOST ARTIST. The death In New York a few days ago of William Merritt Chase was a loss to American art, to which he had sought in all the years since his return from a period of study in Europe in 1878 to give special character and dis tinction. He was, like other accom plished artists, a. student of the great masters; in common with his com rades in art, he went to the centers of the Old World to perfect his technique and to derive inspiration; yet it is said of him that, like Velasquez, he early realized that the greatness of the old masters lay in the fact that each precisely fitted into his own time and place. In his student days he copied u.s diligently as any; but on his return to his native land he set out to make for himself such forms and arrangements and methods as would be in keeping with the spirit, not of another day and age, but of America in the nineteenth century Mr. Chase was born fifteen years later than Whistler and seven years earlier than Sargent, two artists with whom he is most frequently compared, but, unlike them, he passed practically all of his life as a creative artist in the United States. His claim to Amer icanism Is emphasized, it would seem, by the fact of his birth in Indiana, home of poets and authors. His father was a merchant, a dealer in shoes. His early work was done in St. Louis, where he obtained the means neces sary for furtherance of his artistic education abroad.. He studied some years in Munich Academy under Karl von Piloty, in what one savage art critic has called the "school of deep shadows, bitumen and heavy brush work," . yet in his own work he was distinguished by an almost marvelous lightness of touch. He devoted much time to painstaking reproduction of the works of artists of the older school. whereby he attained to a high quality of craftsmanship, without, it seems, being over-Influenced by the traditions of a dim and distant past. It was a bit of his Americanism, perhaps, that led him to say once that when he went to Europe he set himself to "learn my trade." He was not ashamed of the phrase. He said that ho had made up his mind that if he ever ac complished anything it would not be until after he had mastered the me dium. And so. with the diligence of a mechanic,' In fact, "learning a trade." and with the enthusiasm of the in spired artist that he was from the be ginning, he first mastered, as he has said, the difficult task of learning how to begin a picture. For those who are in haste to acquire, first of all, what is called "finish," he did not have much patience. At any rate. It was not his way. It was necessaryTWirst, he has been quoted as saying, that they should ground their work in the "truth which must inform and uphold the entire structure." The patter of critics does not do justice to the master mind, or to the initiative, of the American artist, who, imbued with faith in the atmosphere of his own country, sets himself about the task of perfecting and upholding. If not indeed creating, the standard of a school. Mr. Chase chose Amer icans and American scenes for his subjects. Piloty's prophecy that the next art school would arise in America seems to have been his guiding star, and the early warning of a friend, "Don't try to make pictures look as if they had been done by the old mas ters." was never forgotten. Modern conditions, it was is belief, require modern art for expression. His "Ready for a Ride," one of his earlier works, was distinguished because it could not have beeYi mistaken anywhere for any thing else than American. Someone has illustrated the thought that we have acquired a distinctive National personality, despite our composite an cestry, by pointing out that in Picca dilly, or on the Champs Elysees, for example, one can "spot Americans as If they wore flags." Even with the blood of the countries or Gainsborough and Rembrandt and Titian in his veins. the American seems still to have broken away and. said the artist. Just as his looks are different, his art must bo different. Many of the paintings Mr. Chase has left are representative of scenes in the parks of New York and Brooklyn, along the waterfront. and in the dells of the nearby country. He did not find It necessary to go abroad for "color" or "atmosphere"; he found it at home. The fashion used to be the historical and the allegorical In painttng, and It was in that school that Mr. Chase studied at first, yet his originality Is shown by his - painting places and things that he knew almost without exception. Ho excelled in portraiture, but high praise has been given his still life, which he seems to have secretly preferred. One of his noteworthy pro ductions was a portrait of Whistler, so well executed that a critic has said of it: "We like it better than Boldini's portrait, though it is not so brilliantly diabolic; but it is truer. The cat-like, treacherous James. James the super cilious, the vain Jimmie, and Jim the dandy, are indicated in unerring strokes. The forefinger flexed at the top of the cane, that deadly glare from the eye behind the monocle, the coy, cheeky advanced foot, the slender waist and wasp-like expression did Chase understand the character of his dear friend, the sinister and magnifi cent James McNeill Whistler?" It probably is not saying too much to assert that Chase was the foremost American artist at the time of his death. He himself had mentioned oth ers as those to whom Americans must look for the composite likeness of American art Sargent. Wier and Wiles, and Winslow Homer among them. But all his fellow-artists have united in honoring him, testifying to the esteem in which he was univer sally held. His work as a teacher and as a lecturer especially was a note worthy influence the importance of which- it would be difficult to overestimate. Another of our cherished ideas has been shown to be false. The wild man of Borneo is not a wild man at all. according to the United States Consul at Sandakan. He Is only primitive, whfch is a far different thing. He is a head hunter, but the Consul ex plains that it is not the head he is after, but only proof that he is not a coward, which he can submit to his sweetheart's father when he asks for the loved one's hand. Otherwise he is gentle as can be, as witness the fact that the animals of the Jungle almost eat out of his hand, knowing that he will not disturb them and that he has little or no inclination for the savage pleasures of the chase. He Is hospitable, too, and so long as his sup ply of food lasts he is quite willing to share It with another. His vindica tion upon the charge of wildness rests with especial force upon the fact that he does not behead his victims for the. lust of It. but only for the joy of doing a thins: well. Under Mr. Wilson's Administration we are now engaged upon our second war with Mexico. Both are shameful wars. After winning victory in the first at the cost of the lives of nine teen gallant Americans, we ignomlni ously retreated without having at tained the pretended object for which we went to war. In the second war our troops have twice been attacked at Parral and Carrizal and have bravely defended themselves, but our troops have been forbidden by the President to pursue hostilities against Carranza, whose troops attacked them. They have been forbidden by Car ranza to conduct- hostilities against Villa and by order of the President they have been compelled meekly to obey. In this instance also we have not attained the object for which we went to war. The blood of our sol diers has been shed fruitlessly. If the prohibition a mend men trasses It will be unlawful to import intoxi cating liquors for "beverage pur poses" but not unlawful to import it for any other purpose. Some persons apparently admire a red nose. What is to prevent their importing liquor for ornamental purposes? It is a fact hard to account for that despite the sensational epidemic of infantile paralysis in New York this year, there have been about 1000 fewer deaths of children than in the corresponding nine months of 1915. That German doctor who was mal treated by bandits until they discov ered his true nationality had his luck with him. If he had happened to be an American citizen, no doubt they would have cut off his ears. Anybody who made the trips by stage from Winnemucca to The Dalles will recall A. H. Boomer, who died yesterday. Mr. Boomer was a stage man who gave the traffic the best he had. With the Socialists claiming Okla homa and Hanly predicting he will get a million votes, maybe the big fel lows would do well to pause before giving out the final forecast of the result. Those Villa . bandits seem deter mined to show the Carranza peace commissioners they were wrong when they said that Mexico had been paci- There is a phrase about "kidding oneself along" that seems to be par ticularly applicable to Manager Vance McCormlck at this stage of the game. In his campaign talks Senator Lane is near predicting war with Japan. In that event. Wilson, with Mexican ex perience, is not the man. Wireless telegraphy is speedy, but an invention is said to increase the rate 400 per cent, which ought to send it ahead of the crackling. The only alarm Republicans are spreading Is in the Wilson ranks, whose leaders see the finger of fato pointing to defeat. Belligerents desiring a supply of war horses will please apply to the United States any time after next Tuesday. Democratic opposition to equal suf frage Is bused on knowledge that women know how to vote and vote right. , No longer is there need of worry over the deficiency In rainfall. It will be overcome, or the signs read wrong. Mr. Hughes' idea that we need less punctuation and more target practice hits a bullseye by Itself. It was kind of the forefathers to put off Thanksgiving until after election day. Souphouses and breadlines are things not easily to be forgotten. A union of scrub ladies will be able to wring a hleher waEre rate. The campaign closes with Repub licans confident and Joyous. Get a sample ballot and practice marking. It Is all over but a little late mud si Inglng. Gleams Through the Mit ' By Deaa Colllaa. PHK-ELECTIOX. We have followed the lamps of doubt fill leading-. We have bandaged our eyes with words that are vain. We have shed our blood and denied th bleeding. We have suffered and strove to deny the pain. We have followed a chief who has lost our prizes. Has broken our swords and stilled our drums Who stands by the flag as again It rises. For honor and right when the new chief comes? We have been patient too long, for sooth! Our eyes are opened unto the truth; We have seen our banner despised and torn. Our crest bowed down and our honor shorn. And this is the cry We lift on high. As our weakling chiefs from our camps are thrust "Give to us leaders wflom wo can trust!" Did they think to deceive us forever and ever. Who have known the truth from our sires of" old? The web of their wiles our strong hands sever. For the. blood of our fathers has not grown cold. The wastrel chiefs from our camps we're weeding; The banner, the baton, the sword of might We wrench from the hands of doubtful leading And give to the chiefs who will lead aright. We have known honor too well, indeed. To cringe like) the tribes of lesser breed ; We have seen our banners flung up too proud To see. them shamed and to stand as cowed; So this is the cry We lift on high. As our weakling chiefs from our camps are thrust "Give to us leaders whom wo can trust!" Our far. full trumpets are calling, thrilling Through buzzing city and secret glen. The old call again the land is filling; "Rally and rise, who still are men." We shake off the spell that blinded and tamed us. And rise acain in our ancient miht To cast down the chiefs that deceived and shamed us And call forth the chiefs who will lead aright. For we have seen truth with too open eyes To be snared for aye with a web of lies: We have seen promises kept too well To see them broke as an empty shell; So this is the cry We lift on hijth. As our weakling chiefs from our camps are thrust "Give to us leaders whom we can trust!" Out of our shameful duet and ashes We rise once more and we stand as men; Warm in our hearts the old pride flashes: We never shall be misled again. We have followed chieftains who lot our prizes. Who shattered our swords and stilled our drums But we Ptand by our flag as the new dawn rises. For honor and right and a new chief comes. We have known words too well these days i To be dazzled or dumbed by a well turned phrase: We step no more from this path aside America, honor and right and pride; And this Is the cry We lift on hiKh. As our weakling chiefs from our camps are thrust "Give to ua leaders whom we can trust!" K AM KS IS NAMES. As a popular steersman you know We are finding our Wilson no go. For the popular mind Is beginning to find That they ne'er could tell where he Woodrow. However, they rise and enthuse. And Joy their whole system Imbues O'er the next candidate. For in mct ev'ry state They do like the straight line that he Hughes. WIIAZZATf "I care not for the stars that shine" Wrote the song writer several years, asro. But for the stars, good sir. that song of thine Upon the boards would ne'er have been a go. "I care tint for the stars that shine." Wrote the song writer, but a better far Remarked, discussing the theatric line: "Indeed. I care not for the shines that star!" THK ORKGOXUVS ADVICE TO VOTERS. Sincle Item Veto 300 Yes; 301 No. Vote 3O0 TKS. Ship Tax Exemption 302 Yes: 303 No. Vote 303 YES. Negro and Mulatto Suffrage 304 Yes; 30 i No. Vote SO I TKS. Full Rental Value Land Tax tSinnle Tax) 306 Yes; 307 No. Vote SOT M). Pendleton Normal School 308 Yes: 309 No. Vote SOS YKS. Anti-Compulsory Vaccination 310 Yes: 311 No.. Vote 311 o. Bill Repealing Sunday-Closing Law 312 Yew; 313 No. Vote 312 YKS. Fermitlinsr Manufacturer of Beer 314 Yes: 315 No. Vote 313 NO. Prohibition Amendment (Bone rry) SIS Yes; 317 No. Vote 31T "0. Rural Credits Amendment f$18. 000.000 Bonds) 318 Yes; 319 No. Vote 319 NO. State-Wide Tax Limitation 310 Yes; 31 No. Vote 3SO TKS.