THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, DECEMBER 24, 1916. SENATOR STANDS BY JAPANESE WOMEN Oregon. Man Says "Picture Brides" Should Be Encour aged to Come Here. HISTORY OF LABOR IS TOLD SOLDIER HERO BIDS FAREWELL TO HIS SICK CHILD. Harry Lane Objects to Having Tar get Made of American Folk So . Takes Issue With California . Solons in Senate. - OHEGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, Dec. 21. Senator Harry Lane objects to legislation -which will bar Japanese "picture brides" from the United States.. On the contrary, he maintains that, this Government should encourage the " coming of Japanese women to the United States so long as they come with the intention of marry lns Japanese already here. The continuance of this practice, to which the California Senators violently object, in the Judgment of Senator Lane, will tend to prevent the Japanese from preying upon American women, and for that reason he objects to the restriction. Th. Oregon Senator voiced his views In the Senate, while the im migration bill was pending, in part - saying: .'Do not the Japanese, or the people of any other nation where there are large numbers of .males only, in an American community debauch our own women? Do they not prey upon us in that way, and is not that an evil? Is It wise to refuse them the right to bring their own wives? Is It a proposi tion that in the long run is wise? ' Japanese Entitled to Wives. Tf a man will marry a woman on s picture of her, he ought to be allowed to have her.. We ought to punish him by making him marry her and live with her. At any rate.' laying that view of It aside, would it not in the long run be for the betterment of the general condition of the country that they have their own women to marry and to raise children by rather than to let them loose upon this country to prey upon our women? 'JThe Japanese were brought into Ha waii because they furnished cheap la bor. They were imported there. We . sought them. They did not come until we did seek them. We had hard work to get them. We sent agent after agent to Japan to get them In order that some of us might grind the face of Caucasian labor and beat down the price of it. We put them on our rail roads for the same purpose; we did it also with the Chinese, and the Japa nese are there yet in the section gangs. You In California put them out in your orchards, your vineyards, and your hopfields. so that you might get the cheapest Of labor, cheaper than the white man could afford to rrnsr a., you have them there now, and we have mem in uregon, andwe are both re sponsible for it They like our country. We put them into Hawaii for the same reason, ana they like that,- and there uioy are, ana they will not stand brush ing aside. You cannot e-o ud rn jr. and boss him around or tell him to get out of your way. He will spit in your eye, and you will have to take it or zignt. -iney do not stand for .-nv : such talk. Yd have got to treat them "I realize that If the hordes of that country and the immense hordes of China are allowed to come in freely iney win push our people out. But we are responsible for it to a certain extent: and in the case of those that we have brought in here we ought, in making a basis for future action, at least give them a fair, square deal and adopt those means which will be least harmful in our efforts to stop further iiiiimgraLion. ' Legitimate Hnahanda Best. IIT . was just wondering whether It fvuia not oe Detter for this country, in ma larger aspect of the case, in view of the situation that exists, to Jet them bring their women here, and marry them, and be their legitimate husbands? That might make their chil- uren loyal to this country and their loyally to tne eountrv thev lov I. un surpassed by the loyalty of any other people in the world. Would not that be better than to leave them loose upon our women, if you please? Is not that our outy as the people who imported them? - 1 "The Caucasian hunted down and made a slave of the African, and lived on his labor, in order to get labor at a cheaper price than the white man would work for. . The white man brought the - Japanese to the Pacific Coast because he would work cheaper than the white man. I have seen it done all my life, and I have not much patience with the theories or methods which overlook the rights of the white men of the country. "They are getting possession of the land now. They are becoming the lease holders of the land. They are digging into "big buslness".uow, and for that reason they have become obnoxious. Just as long as they worked here for less wages than the white man, and lay . low, and kept dark, and would stand for the orders that were given to them, whether they were Just or unjust, there was ho question regard ing them raised in the Senate. We of the poorer class of the Pacific Coast ' resented it when they came In on our backs, and when certain other gentle , men put them there and said they were superior to me wmte man for the rea' son tnat .they would work for less money atid get along on a smaller amount of fooa. Now they are galling ine witners 01 tnese people, and dig glng into the -ribs of the gentlemen that .brought them here, and they are . very much interested in It now and I . am,- too, looking at it broadly, to pro tect tne wnite. women and I am not v sure, you will accomplish your object Dy excluding me Japanese women. "There. Is no better mother in the world than the little Japanese woman. . There is no woman kinder to her baby, no better wife than the little Japanese girl makes to her husband. We have .them there, the Senator says, to the extent of 97,000 In Hawaii and 45,000 in California, and in Oregon we have our share, necessarily preying upon , " our white girls. Give an eye and a --thought to them. 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PRIVATE) GEORGE MAGEE AND HIS CHILD. Many are the pathetic and heart-rending scenes in connection with the soldiers' departure for the battle lines. Probably no more soul-stirring event has ever been chronicled than the scene depicted in the accom panying photograph. In it Private George Magee, a member of a famous Irish regiment, is seen taking a tearful farewell of his infant son. who, for nine months, has been a patient in the East London Hospital for Children at BhadwelL Magee has seen 19 months of active service at the front, having participated in numerous Important engagements. "LEAK" IS ADMITTED Thomas Lawson Says He Won on Advance Information. BIGGER UPSET PREDICTED Financier Declares Beneficiaries Know of Xows to Come From Washington This Week Which Will Upset the Market. BOSTON, Mass.. Dec. 23. (Special.) .Thomas "W. Lawson, financier, sports man and author, who with Bernard M. Baruch, of New York, cleaned up mil lions of dollars in the stock market collapse which followed immediately on the forwarding of the Wilson peace note, acknwlodged today that official Washington was directly responsible for the information on which the cleanup was realized. The statement by the author of "Frenzied Finance" and "Friday the Thirteenth" followed by Only a few hours a statement from Secretary Lan sing, in which the latter said that his department would welcome any inves tigation into the alleged leak that placed the advance information in the hands of the two big operators and their associates. The Btate Department el the same time tried to shift the re sponsiljiliy onto the shoulders of the newspaper men, saying that a number of them had received information about the peace note even before Wall Street knew about it. Lawson'a statement came out on his famous "Flimsy" this afternoon, and said in part: "Between now and there will be something specific and particular happen that will make last week's leak appear as nothing by comparison. Paste this up for future reference, or put it in your pipe and smoke it. "There were not only leaks last week. but similar leaks in almost all lmpor tant Washington doings, particularly Supreme Court doings, during the last 20 years, and beneficiaries of the leakings were those public guardians who howl loudest for leak investlga tions. What are you going to do about It? . "This week's leaks netted Blank and Blank and Blank and Dash millions and netted the public raw hell; but what are you going to do about it? "To assist you in doing something. call your attention to the coming next week's leak, which should make prices so low that those of last week will appear Woolworth top tower lanterns by comparison. "P. S. Did you know, Messrs. Wash ington leak tracers, that the leak beneficiaries are thumtting their noses at you? well, you ought to. culding cooks, stenogrphers, waiters and telephone girls, shared In the distribution. A bonus of 10 per cent of the year's salary will be paid to the 10 employes of the Portland branch of the H. W. Johns-Manville Company. Two hundred and fifty employes on the Pacific Coast will share in this distribution. Automobile Row had two Christmas tree parties for children yesterday afternoon. The Northwest Auto Com pany and the Overland Pacifio .Com pany gave trees" that made many a youthful heart glad. Sam Hill, chief owner of the Home Telephone Company, and former presi dent, offers a Christmas present of six months' free telephone service to the first thousand people who subscribe to the service of the company between now and January 15. The condition, is that the Home telephone shall be used in the home exclusively. BONUS LIST IS GROWING BALLOII &. WRIGHT DISTRIBUTE S40OO TO EMPLOYES. -Prayer, He Says, Cured Him. PITTSBURG, Pa., Dec 19. James D. Fry, aged 47, for three years crippled by paralysis, shouted "I'm a well man," as he ran - downstairs in his home at t29 May street, McKeesport, the other day. It is said that he danced about the room. Fry's recovery came while he- was on his knees in prayer, it is alleged. He said he felt a twitching sensation in his left leg. which had been paralyzed since April. 1913. He found that he could control the leg. and. rising to his feet, he flung away the cane with which he had been com pelled to walk for three years and hur ried to tell histwife and children of . his recovery. Chamber of Commerce Divides $1000 Among 35 Workers Home Phone Free for Six Months. Portland business houses, casting up accounts at the close of a prosperous year, have acted more generously than ever before In sharing the year's sur plus in many ways with their employes. The list of gifts and bonuses is steadily growing. Many gifts to employes are not made known at all, because of the desire to escape publicity. The automobile accessory firm of Ballou & Wright, with headquarters in Portland and a branch in Seattle, yesterday announced a profit sharing system for employes and presented checks ranging in size from $35 to $125, in proportion to yearly salaries About $4000 was distributed in this way. A banquet to employes will be given within a week. - when the new profit sharing plan will be explained in detail. The Chamber of Commerce dls trlbuted approximately $1000 to alt its employes as a Christmas present. Thl plan is followed each year and is in lieu of tips. Thirty-five employes, In LIQUOR ISSUE IN UTAH PROHIBITION CHIEF BtSIXESS CONFRONT LEGISLATURE. flOTE IN FIRST PLAGE Britain Gives Little Heed Other News Features. to ACT DUBBED 'PEACE SNARE' Direct Primary, Civil Service, Purity of Election Law and Public Utilities Commission Also In Spotlight. SALT LAKH CITY, Utah. Dec. 23. State-wide prohibition, public utilities commission, purity of election law, di rect primary, civil service these are leading issues that will attract atten tion at the session of the State Legis lature which convenes here In biennial session in January. The Democratic- Progressive fusionists are in control of both Houses and it is believed that much more legislation of a progressive tendency will come before the body. The main struggle probably will come when the state-wide prohibition bill comes up for debate. Two years o the Legislature forced through a drastic prohibition measure which the retiring Governor, William Spry, vetoed the last hours of the session. The Democratic in their platform pledged that the state shall be perfectly dry by August 1, next. Another bitter debate Is looked for on the bill providing for the regula tion of - public service 'corporations. Virtually the same measure was de feated at the last session two years ago. Few changes have been made in the bill to be introduced in this ses sion, it is said. A worklngmen's compensation act also will be passed If platform pledges are kept. A commission to regulate food prices probably will be a feature of the session. A revision of the taxation system is planned. Several other important measures already have been prepared for introduction. Includ ing several boards and commissions. Press In England Unites In . Saying Wilson Is Already Answered by Premier's Speech, but Polite Reply Will Be Sent. LONDON, Dec 23. The American note to the belligerents still is the dom inating feature of the news In Great Britain today. It even overshadows dispatches from the battle fronts and discussion of the government's pro gramme for organizing the entire coun try ror war purposes. Practically all the newsDaoers con tinue to devote leading articles to the note, while British, French. German and other comment is prominently dis played under such headings as "Lan sing's Verge of War Blunder," "The Snare of Peace" and "Wilson's Mistake." So far a Great Britain is concerned. the press says. President Wilson al ready has been answered by Premier Lloyd George, when he delivered In the House of .Commons on Tuesday his speech in reply to the German propo sals, by the address made on Thursday night by Andrew Bonar Law. the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, and finally by the emphatic declaration of the Cabinet through the Kings speech on pro roguing Parliament. However, it is recoirnlzed in official circles that a formal, polite reply is due President Wilson, and this, it Is said, will be drafted after consultation with Great Britain's allies. Like his uncle, the late Lord Salisbury, Foreign Secre tary Balfour is considered a masterly dispatch writer. NEW RAILROAD CHARTERED Harney Valley Company to Build in Oregon Files Articles. VANCOUVER. Wash.. Dec 23. 2pe clal.) Articles of incorporation of the Harney Valley Railroad Company au thorized to construct a railroad line from Bend, Or., eastward to Burns, Or., and thence to Klamath Falls and San Francisco, were filed here today by H H. Parker, of Portland, and M. M. Con nor, of this city, the incorporators - The trustees to serve until May, 1917, are M. M. Connor, of this city, H. L Corbett, of Portland, W. H. Craven, of Memphis, Tex.; M. M. Matthieson, of Portland, and Isaac D. Hunt, of Portland. The company is organized under the laws of Washington, to have a dura tion of 50 years, and Its capital stock Is given as $25,000. The articles allow the company to build either steam or electric railroads and to. conduct any branch of the railroad business. 2 DANISH STEAMERS SUNK Vessels of 2183 Gross Tons and 1789 Xet Tons Destroyed. LONDON. Dec. 23. The Danish steamers Hroptatyr and Dansborg have been sunk. j The Dansborg, of 21 S3 gross tons was last reported arriving at Aalborg on November 24 from Galveston. She was built in, Blythe. England, in 1904 and owned in Copenhagen.. The Danish steamer Hroptatyr was of 1789 net tons and - was owned In Copenhagen, where it was built in 1913 to the people of their own countries. Officials were gratified to see this view being pointed out in some of the later foreign comment received to day. Recent Statements Considered. The phrase was written. It waa said, after study of the more recent state ments of the belligerents, rather than the statements at the time they entered the war. Then the avowed objects of all the nations were more specific, Italy, for Instance, coming Into the war with an official statement of what she felt necessary for her future. Since then, however, on 11 sides it is felt a constantly increasing vagueness has been growing up which now is ex panding into the roost nebulous terms. General hostility to the note at flrst. both In allied and Teutonic countries, as conveyed in news dispatches, was re garded by officials as one of the most hopeful signs, as it indicated that the note was neutral. Especially was the hostility in some of the German papers pleasing, as it was thought that when the allies realized that the plan was not so welcome to their enemies they would give to it more earnest and more impartial consideration. The possibility of an early reply is discounted here. The central powers have indicated that they will not risk laying down their peace terms until they have had a reply to their own pro posals from the entente. While the reply now Is nearly finished, it will take a week to distribute it to the vari ous powers. The entente, having both that renlv and the President's note to consider, and consisting of ten different nations, all with dinerent interest, u expected to require considerable time to get Its views into shape for trans mission. The allies' reply to the cen tral powers will not oe maae pumic here. LANSING INVITES PROBE kecheTART SAYS BE KNOWS OP KO OFFICIALS SPECULATING. PEACE TERMS DESIRED (Contlnupd From First Page.) IMtlritl In Connection With His Statements Regarding; Peace Note Would Be Welcome. WASHINGTON, Dec. 23. Secretary Lansing said today the State Depart ment would welcome an Investigation to show whether any Government offi cials profited through stock speculation resulting from his two statements re garding President Wilson's peace note, such as was proposed In the House yesterday in a resolution by Repre sentative Wood, of Indiana. "I don't know much about this reso lution." sId Mr. Lansing, "but If ther ANNOUNCEMENT To the Children of Portland: FREE CANDY! You are invited to visit the Christmas Tree in the lobby of the Hotel on Christmas Day, between the hours of 2 P. M. and 4 P. M. To each child under 10 jrears of age we will give A Bag of Christmas Candy WE WISH YOU ALL A MERRY CHRISTMAS! The Portland Hotel To Our Many Patrons and Friends Merry Christmas and Best Wishes to All COZY DAIRY LUNCH Day and Night Something special 323 Washington Street, Near Sixth. Anything; you can wish for at all times. each day. Sunday Roast Chicken or Chicken Fricassee Christmas Roast Young Turkey or Roast Chicken Is the slightest doubt about the two statements Issued by me I should wel come an investigation to remove iC Personally. I don't know anything about stocks and should not know how to speculate If I wanted to." Lodge Has Same Officers 8 Years.. ALBANY. Or.. Dec 2S. (Special.) The same officers who have held the principal positions in the Adrinlan Council. Royal and Accepted Masons. since its organization eight years ago, were re-elected at the annual meeting Wednesday. They are William R. Bil yeu. thrice 'Illustrious master; George Taylor, thrice illustrious deputy mas ter; It. K. Ohling, illustrious principal conductor of work; 11. N. Bouley, treas urer; Edwin Washburn, recorder; D. P. Mason, master of guard; F. M. Ited fleld, principal conductor of workr-W. R. Bllyeu, steward, and W. E. Baker, sentinfl. n officially declared that the United States stands ready to enter any kind of International agreement that mar seem most desirable to the nations, whether permanent peace is to be se cured by force, if necessary, or by law. This country is not committed to any une pmu ana rresment Wilson is en tirely open to suggestions. It Is the Administration view that the country can be committed to an abandonment of the policy of isolation such as Presi dent M6nroe committed it to in the Monroe Doctrine without Senate action. In the plans so far contemplated, how ever. It Is probatole the nations would be bound by treaty agreements which would necessarily have to be ratified by the Senate, so far as the United States is concerned. A fuller understanding of the em barrassment caused to the Administra tion by the coincidence of its note with the German proposals was given today when It was said that, despite the early umavoraoie eicect wmcn the note was expected to have in the allied countries through that fact, it was decided to risk it in view of the great Interests involved. It is expected it may be some time before the American viewpoint will be accepted abroad, but it Is felt that in the nd it certainly will pre vail. IS'ole ot Rushed Off. It i also said most emphatically that the note was not rushed off Monday to get to Premier Lloyd George before he had Irrevocably committed the al lies against peace in his speech to Parliament Tuesday. That assumption was foreseen, but officials expect It to lose weight and Importance as the first Impressions wear off. The early resentment In London and Paris on the assumption that the President's note declared both belliger ents were fighting for th,e same object Is regarded as unwarranted at the State Department, where it was said today great pains had, been taken to avoid that very inference. Stress was laid on the President's words to show that he had not ex pressed any conviction that both sets of belligerents were fighting for the same object. On the other hand, the language of the note, it was pointed out, specifically said the statesmen of both groups of belligerents had so stated their objects in general terms Buy Diamonds at Aronson's With Your Christmas Money If someone gives you a check, a stack of shin ing "twenties," or a roll of crisp, new bills, buy a diamond! It works two ways it's a level-headed invest ment, and it serves to remind you of the giver. Why investment? 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