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. MOMENTARY MORALITY.
.- There is something ludicrous in the
effect of a court term on the public
moral sense of a community; of the
deference we all pay to the alleged
immoral conditions that beset the
city or town, when the judge, the
grand and. petit juries, and the offi
cers of law, and all it's machinery, are
in active operation; of our anxiety to
close them, to mitigate them, to re
duce and qualify and minimize them;
how zealous all hands get in acquir- j
ing the necessary degree of ignorance
concerning ', them; and the general
adstemiousness of our little local
sporting worlds as just such "seasons.
And when term time is -over, and
the legal forces have ceased to re
volve about us with their threatening
coils and people, how quickly we as
sume our old indifference and how
promptly the bars relax and fall and
disappear. The story is as old as
human society, but it is still one of
the stock farces and peurile pretenses
of the day, all the same, and probably
always will be.
MR. TAFT'S FREEDOM.
William H. Taft, Republican nomi
nee fo the Presidency, enjoys a wide
degree of freedom in his candidacy
that falls to but few men posing for
the national, vote of this country, in
his perfect immunity from any touch
of questionable or reproachful record
in his own career.
He stands unmarked of the scandal
monger and beyond the reach of the
slanderer; he has no past to hide, nor
slur over, nor account for to the ex
acting and fault-finding; what he is
and who he is and all he stands for,
are elemental items of the widest
public knowledge in America, else he
would not have the outspoken en
dorsement of the man whose shoes
he is to fill.
At home in' Ohio; at the nation's
headquarters in Washington; abroad,
in all lands, the man is known most
honorably and weir, and the first
thought of the ordinary good citizen
of ' the country, today, when passing
upon his perfect fitness for the great I earners.
post, is that of security; the assur-i
exercise the faculty with regard to
Governor Haskell, at a very critical
moment, and he is probably deploring
his facile and unguarded overflow of
word and statement with grievous re
gret, which is equaly logical with
the blunder.
Next to Mr. Taft, Governor Hughes
is the' best type of the quiet, silent,
master of the mouth-art we know of.
And we venture to commend his
rigid command of the cult to the
great Ncbraskan. If Mr. Bryan had
cultivated the real, essential art, al.l
during his public career, he would
have been President eight years ago.
When he goes back to private life
and the seclusion that .innures from a
three-fold defeat in his class of politi
cal venture, he may have attained to
the conviction that his mouth is
still, and preponderantly, responsible
for the immolation, final and com
plete as it shall be.
A detachable parachute might be to
an aeroplane what a lifeboat is to a
ship. ; ;.; . ' . ; ;
A little later on Colonel Bryan will
claim to ; be the inventor of the
aeroplane.
The gambling fraternity could not
defeat the renomination of Governor
Hughes, but they can profit by bet
ting on his re-election.
The saddest hour Bryan has experi
enced this year was when he discov
ered that Hearst had finally rejected
the offer of fusion.
It is remarked that Gov. Hughes
has ho friends in politics except the
people. This is enough to constitute
an easy winner.
The aeroplane men, like other mor
tals, are learning the truth of the old
proverb that the road to the stars is
through adversity.
Secretary Root makes first-class
Republican speeches. The presiden
tial bee would have buzzed loudly in
his vicinity if he had been willing.
Uncle Joe's remarks on the import
ance of protection are vote-gettfng
every time. The issue is paramount
with millions of American wage
England will hardly accept the in
vitation to send a big fleet to Aus
tralia. The comparison would be
odious if the welcome were merely a
formal affair.
ance that with Taft at the head of
affairs, the people will have a man
who knows the least and largest de
tail of governmental life and its pro
cesses, wrought by deep experiences
in place and touch with a great na
tion's methods and men, and, him- Mr. Bryan asks what the Republi
self, an administrative adviser of ac- can party has done for the farmers,
ceptability and renown. ?It has given them a chance to help
There is nothing in all the mans .knock out the fallacies of Bryan, and
life, public or private,, that Calls for
a word of explanation or that raises
a. scintilla of doubt or distrust, and
. with this immunity he goes before
the people as one of them, clean, high
principled and equipped profoundly
for the tasks and achievements of
popular government.
MOUTH-ART.
Perhaps the greatest exponent of
the mouth-art (that peculiarly Ameri
can accomplishment) where the minds
of men are momentarily swayed and
swung out of the plumb set by nor
mal hard sense, is W. J. Bryan. Mr.
Bryan has cultivated this gift of gab
until his acquired art is the one, and
sole,' triumph of his public career; one
hears of him only while he is talk
ing;: or of what he just uttered; or
what he intends to speak upon; but
always, and ever, of his speeches,
lectures, letters, pronouncements, and
ceaseless utterances.
In perfect, and logical, line with
this wonderful adaptability for the
use of the tongue, there arises the
time and condition when to have said
tocj much is glaringly apparent, and
the; "peerless one" may not escape
the. mortal certainty of such a hap
pening. It has happened more than
once; but it remained for him to over-
has made a clean score of it so far.? '
A man in West Virginia was fined
$5 and costs for putting his arms
around Mr. Bryan's neck and kissing
him. It seems, after all, that there
is a place to draw the line in the
quadrennial Bryan hysterics.
One of the features of the cam
paign in Maine is not referred to by
the Democraic papers. The Demo-
craic candidate for ' governor never
mentioned Bryan's name in any of
his speeches. , .
How to Avoid Appendicitis.
Most victims of appendicitis are
those who are habitually constipated,
Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup cures
chronic constipation by stimulating
the liver and bowels, and restores the
natural action of the bowels. Orino
Laxative Fruit Syrup does not nau
seate or gripe and is mild and pleas
ant to take. Refuse sugstitutes. T. F.
Laurin, Owl Drug Store.
What We Buy.
We buy fresh fish for our Portland
ships. We buy dressed veal and pork
and all kinds of poultry. We buy
hides and pelts. Frank L. Smith
Meat Co., Twelfth street between
Commercial and Bond. 9-26-tf
which the congress was thert legisla
ting, or at that time proposing to leg
islate and that the employment was
ended long before the company was
made the subject of any special atten
tion iu congress and longer still be
fore jt was attacked in the federal
court. or proceeded against, in any
way by the federal courts or proceed
ed against in any way by' the federal
government; and further that the em
ployment was not to defend the com
pany against the charges of violation
of the laws of Ohio or of the United
States of the orders of any of the
courts, but only to assist in executing
the orders of the courts, and so re
organizing as to conform to all laws,
tate and national, and to fully com
ply with all the orders of the court
that had been made against it.
"If my statements in this behalf are
true they make a complete defense
against Mr. Hearst's charges and all
deductions therefrom of improper
conduct, unless the ethics involved
have been radically changed from
what they have always heretofore
been supposed to be. From the be
ginning of our government senators
and congressmen who were lawyers
have been regarded as free to contin
ue the practice of their profession if
they so desired during their terms of
office in so far as they might be able
to do so without interfering with their
public duties and in such practice free
to take any kind of employment that
was offered which did not in any way
conflict with their duties as members
of congress. Xobody has ever be
fore been criticised on such account.
The only question has been as to the
character of the business a senator or
member of congress was at liberty to
uke and uniformly and universally it
has been considered that there was
no prohibition of any class of busi
ness outside of those named in the
tatutes and ' such buincss as might
conflict with public dutie .
"When I accepted the employment
of the Standard Oil Company in 1899
it was not foreseen by me and probab
ly not by anybody else, that it would
become the object of federal legisla-
or of federal prosecution or action of
any kind and that employment when
the company decided to reorganize
under the law of New Jersey which
was before anything of that nature
occurred.
"That I wa- not in- the employment
of the company after the service I
have mentioned were renderd and that
such mployment did not afterward in
fluence me to favor the company in
legislation, is shown by the part I
took in the enactment of the Elkins
Law, approved February 19, 1903.
Under this statute the attorney gen
eral has brought and caused to be
brought all the prosecutions against
the Standard Oil Company of which
we have read so much, including the
one in which Judge Landis imposed
the fine of $29,240,000. .
"But if that fact is not sufficient,
kthe following correspondence is not
only additional proof, but conclusive
in its character, to the same effect;
"26 Broadway, New York, May 7,
1906.
"My dear Senator: " Inthe possibil
ity of an action being brought against
us in Ohio, are you in a position to
accept a retainer from us in connec
tion with such a matter.
" 'Your early response will oblige,
yours very truly. (Signed) "John. D,
Archbold." ,
'To Hon. J. D. Foraker, 1500 Six
teenth St. N. W. Washington, D.
C To which I answered as follows:
'Washington, D. C, May 19,
1906. " 'John D. Archbold, Esq., No.
26 Broadway, New York.
'My dear Sir: My duties in the
Senate have so multiplied that 1 find
it necessary to retire entirely from the
practice of the law. lhave not tak
en any new employment for more
than two years past.
'On this account as well as be
cause of my relations to the public
service I cannot accept a retainer in
the contingency named as I would be
glad to do if it were other wise.
" 'Assuring you of my proper ap
preciation for the compliment involv
ed in the inquiry you make, I re
main. " 'Very truly yours, J. B. For
aker. "For weeks prior to the date of
these letters, the newspapers were
filled with announcements threatening
the company with very serious liti
gation and with criminal prosecutions
in the courts of Ohio. It was in view
of these threatened proceedings that
the company again sought to-employ
me; surely an idle and unnecessary
performance if already employed and
these letters further show that I de
clined such employment, among oth
er reasons, because I could not ac
cept the same consistently with my
relations to the public service. The
conditions, had greatly chatigcd since
my former employment, largely be
cause of the prosecution against the
company'' under the lilkins Law
which Iliad helped to frame; further
more, the employment proposed was
different in its character from that
which I had previously accepted. That
is to say, instead of being on employ
nicjit, as the former employment wasv
to aid the company in complying with
the orders of the court, and tho stn
tutes of the state, it was to bo an em
ployment to resist suits and prose
cittions instituted by the state, j
submit that these proof should
be sufficient to show to any fair and
t.npre.judiccd mind that 1 was never
employed except; prior to 1901,' and
that my employment then had no re
lation to anything that was in con
flict with my public duties, but had
reference solely to the reorganization
of the company and the Ohio affairs
with which congress had nothing
whatever to do.
"Mr. Hearst to create a different
belief, read at Louisville the following
letter:
," '26 Broadway, New York, Feb.
23, 1902.
" 'To Hon. J. B. Foraker, Wash
ington, D. C.
" 'Dear Senator; Again my dear
Senator, I venture to write you a
word regarding the bill introduced by
Senator Jones, of Arkansas, known
as II. B. 92, intended to amend the
.Act to protect trade and commerce
against unlawful restraints and mon
opolies, introduced by him. It really
seems as though this is very unneces
sarily severe and even vicious. Is it
not much better to test the applica
tion of the Sherman Law instead of
resorting to a measure of this kind?
I hope you will feel so about it any
I will be greatly pleased to have a
word from you on the subject.
" 'With kind regards, Very truly
yours, John D. Archbold.'
I have no recollection of ever re
ceiving any such letter and a most
diligent search fails to disclose any
such letter in my files or any copy
of any answer to any such letter in
my letter book. But waiving all that,
the letter shows that Mr. Archbold
did not pretend to have an right to
address me on any such subject, ex
cept as any citizen might have done.
Such requests are of daily occur
rence in the experience of every sen
ator, if I ever received such a letter
my inability to find it, or to find any
answer, is doubtless due to the fact
that. 1 simply referred it to the ju
diciary committee for consideration
in connection with the bill. .
."I would not deem it necessary to
make an explanation if it were not
that Mr. Hearst, in reading this let
ter, coupled it with the following let
ter: :.: ' .-. - t '
" '26 Broadway, New York, Jan. 27,
1902.' , -'.: .
" 'My' dear Senator: Responding to
your favor of the 25th, it gives me
pleasure to hand you herewith certi
ficate of deposit for $50,000, in accor
dance with bur understanding. Yotr
letter states the conditions correctly
and I trust that the transaction will
be successfully consumated. :-
" 'Yours very truly, John D. Arch
bold.' .
"Mr. Hearst accompanied the read
ing of these two letters together with
comments calculated, if not intended,
to convey the impression that the one i
had reference to the other 'and that i
they constituted evidence that it was j
for money received trying to influence
legislaion in accordance with the
views of Mr. Archbold. Thc dates of
the two letters show that the money
was sent almost a month prior to the
letter about the Jones Bill.
" 'This in itself would ordinarily be
enough to disconnect the two, in the
average mind, but I have already
shown in a former statement that the
certificate of deposit was sent on ac
count of the proposel purchase of the
Ohio state Journal; and that the pro
position to purchase being abandoned,.
it was returned on the fourth day of
February only a week after it was re
ceived." "
Mr. Foraker, here introduces let
ters to verify his 6tatmcnt as to the
newspaper proposal. He continues:
"If Mr. Hearst had read' these ac
companying letters, particularly tha,t
from Mr. Archbold of Jan. 21, and my
letter of Feb. 4, returning the money,
he would have known that the certif- speet to it or any bill pending in tin
icate of deposit had no reference Ohio legislature at that lime or any
whatever to the Jones bill or any oth- other, time since I became n member
er bill, ( y of the senate, March 4, 189.
"Mr. Hearst states in his spech a ."lit no instance since that date have
Columbus that the letters had been I sought to Influence any legislator
furnished to him by n 'gentlemen" , cm any subject except by argument lit
whose name he could not give for
fenr the Standard Oil Company might
persecute him. -
"He represents the gentleman 'did
not find these missing letters. Per-
open.
."While I have occasionally heard
from Mr, Archbold during the period
that lint clup'cd since the termination
of my employment in the early part
haps, if he found them he did not fur- j of 1901, I do not recall receiving any
nish them to Mr. Hearst. In any ' letter from him except the one rela
event, perhaps the omission to read ( ting lo the Jones bill and that had no
them was made because if read they, reference to pending bills or to any--would
have defeated the object to be thing with which I had any offldal
acomplished. However, that may be, 'duty ,to perform,? In any 'event he
this correspondence surely and con- "never' addressed rue on any ..'subject
clusivcly disposes of that matter. , I since my employment, except only
"Until now, I have not mnde any ai any other citron with whom he
statement about the letter Mr. Hearst was acquainted might have done, and
read at Columbus from Mr, Archbold there was never a -suggestion from
to me dated March 9, 100, calling my him, or from .anybody else that I
attention to two bills introduced' in was tinder the slightest obligation to
the Ohio legislature by Mr. Price. I support or oppose any proposed leg-
have delayed saying anything about islalion in behalf of that, company
this letter because, having no recol- nor was there ever a suggestion by
lection on the subject, I have been anybody that 1 should receive any
trying to ascertain if 1 received the compensation r reward of any kind
letter and what 1 did with it or did whatsoever on that account. And,
on account of it. I cannot find any what is true in this respect as to the
trace of such a letter in my files or Standard Oil Company it alto and
of any answer In my letter book. I equallytrue, as to other trust, cor
have not been able to communicate poratkm or person.! ;' ' ' ' '
with Mr. Trice, who introduced the "Notwithsauding that the president
bills mentioned but he has stated In says in his answer to Mr. Bryan of
a public interview "that he abandoned Sept. 23 that I wai a representative
the bill because Gov. Nash told him and defender of corporations in the
that Senator Hanna and I were both senate there is not a word of truth
opposed to the measures, and feared in any uch statement whether made
it might damage President McKin- by him or anybody else, and there it
ley's Interest in the campaign on not a scrap of evidence that can be
which we were then entered, if the produced supporting any such charge
bills should be insisted upon. Mr. that cannot be at fully and satisfac-
Price's statement suggeits to my torily explained as has been explain-
mind that in all probability I referred ed in the letter about the Jonei bill
the letter to Gov. Nash. In any event and the proposed purchase of the
know that I took no action with re- Ohio State Journal.
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