PRESIDENT ROOSEVELFS VIEIVS
Oil HII-SUFFRAGE
Believeslin it, But is Not
Enthusiastic Advocate
IS NOT IMPORTANT
h nks the Proper Place lor
Woman is at Her
Homo
DR. ABBOTT MAKES ADDRESS
Pmldent' Attitude it Dlcloel at
lining Under th Ample of th
National League ol Civic Improve
ment of Woman.
work in the household, in tht hom,
ber work in bearing and rearing the
I children, which i more thin any
niani work, and it i that work which
should be normally the woman'
ipecial work, jut a normally the
man' work thould be that of the
breadwinner, the itipporter of the
home and, W necesry, the oldier
who will fight for the home. There
arc exception a regard both man
and woman; but the Cult and perfect
life, the life of higheit happine and
of highest uufulnei to the ttate i
the life of the man and woman who
are hutband and wife, who live in
the partnerihip of love and duty, the
one earning enough to keep th home,
the other managing the home and
children. Sincerely your,
"THEODORE ROOSEVELT."
Dr. Abbott, who wu .the princi
pal (pcaker at the meeting, argued
against whit he held would be the
nfliction of new and unnatural re
sponsibilities and duty upon women
by forcing upon them the obligation
of public life. The title of hi address
wi "The Assault on Womanhood."
IU0I1UTS
COSTLY GIFTS
THE LATE EMPRESS DOWAGER
PRESENTS MRS. LONOWORTH
WITH JEWELED BRACELETS
NEW YORK, Dec. 4-Tfa attitude
ol Preiident Rooievclt and Secretary
of State Eiibu Root on tht tubject of
woman tuffrtge waa dicloed today
at t meeting under tht auspice of the
National League of Civic Education
of Women.
, The Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott, in the
court of an addrea In oppoiition to
ranting th right to vote to women,
read the following letter from Roosevlt
which he ald he read with tht
Preiident' permission, although 'I
11 not written for publication nor
for thl occaiion.
"Practically I believe in woman
auffrage," aay Mr. Rooevelt at the
outlet of the letter, which ia dated
November 10, 1908. "but I am not an
enthuilaitic advocate of it, becauie I
don't regard It a a very Important
itiattcr. I am unable to et that
there ha been any pecla1 Improve
ment in the poltion of women in
those itatet in the Weit that havt
adopted woman luffrage, aa compar
ed with thoie itatei adjoining them
that have not adopted it. I do not
think that giving the women luffrage
will oroduce any marked improve
ment in the condition of women. I
do not believe that It will produce any
of the evil feared, and I am very
certain that when women, a a whole,
take any ipecial interest in the mat
, ter they will have the luffrage if they
"desire it. But at preient I think moit
of them are lukewarm; I find lome ac
tlvely for it and lome actively against
it. I am for the reaioni given above
rather what you would regard ai luke
warm or tepid In my mpport of it.
because, while I believe In It, I do
jno regard It at of very much import
ance, I believe that men and women
should tand on an equality of right,
tout I do not believe that equality of
-right mean identity of function; and
1 am more and more convinced that
the great usefulness of women it aa
4he mother of the family. It I her
TEDDY GETS CHINESE BOOKS
Stveralflundred Beautifully Bound
Volume Are Sent to Preiident To
gether With Gift For Alice end
Mr. Roosevelt
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.-Mr
Nichols Longworth, daughter of the
Preiident, wal presented with a beau
tiful pair of jeweled bracelets, gifti
of the late Emprea Dowager of
China to whom (he paid a visit aome
year ago.
Alio iome present! for Mr. Rooie
vclt, while the preiident wa given
everal hundred volume of Chinese
literature printed in the Chinese lan
guage handsomely bound.
MURDERED BY THUGS.
WALLACE, Idaho, Dec 4. -Two
fearful gaihe in the head, hi face
beaten to a jelly, and hi neck broken
man known a "Billy a team
ster bv occupation, wai found on
the track on the Idaho Northern,
about 15 mile from Enaville today,
Evidently the victim wai killed by a
gang of murderou thug who in
feted the railroad construction
camp in thi ectlon, and who have
committed many murder and lesser
crime. The motive war robbery.
There ii no clue.
MADE LUCKY STRIKE.
Miner And Hi Son Get Rich In An
Alaika Mine.
SEATTLE, Dec. 4. Two yean
ago u h James of Fairbanks, Alas
ka, purchased a claim for wo on
Gold Stream, which wa pasted over
by thousand of miner who followed
the road to what were termed the
rich creeks. James had the utmost
confidence In the grounds but he used
up all his money looking for a pay
streak. Then he sold other property
and got in debt.
When the last pot of beam in the
cabin were on the table Mr. James
held a conference with hit son and
admitted that he wa discouraged
James, his son said they felt that if
they worked a few dayi more they
would hit the pay. That wai in April.
They worked a few daya long er and
then itruck the richeit kind of pay
ground. Ai a result of his ilulcing
Mr. Jame cleaned up a triflle leu
than SJ0O,0OO and expect to have
nearly three quarter of a million
dollar a result of thi Winter
and the coming Summer' work. He
gave hi ion Bennett a check for $20,-
000 and declared him hit partner for
life in all deali he ventured in.
Mr. Jamei wai famoua aa base
ball manager In the early dayi of
San Francisco.
WIS TO OUST
S. D. REED
Mrs Goode Seeks His Re
moval as Administrator
WHAT HAPPENED TO A GIRL.
Widow of Portland's Late Trac
tion Magnate Files Petition
With Judge Webster
SOME SENSATIONAL CHARGES
AUTO ACCIDENT.
Aaron Schublnger of Seattle Injured
it San Franciaco.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 4
Aaron Schutzinger, said to be a
wealthv fur buyer of Seattle, wa
perhaps fatally injured tonight fall
ing or jumping from a rapidly mov-
ing automobile returning from
Colma where he had been spending
the evening. Hi chauffeur declared
Scbulxinger had been drinking. It
wa stated at the hospital that
Schulzinger will recover.
What happened to seventeen-yeai
old Lucy Green last winter when she
arrived in New 'York seeking work,
without friends or money, ii the real
story of a real girl, told by the girl
herself in a late Woman'i Home
Companion. t
The first day she wai directed to
the Margaret Louisa Home, conduc
ted by the Young Women'i Christian
Auociation. After many waits and
delays she was passed on to the
chaplain of the institution. Thi is
what took place with the chaplain;
"A gently a possible she broke
I the newi that the Margaret Louisa
Home was not the boarding place
NEGLIGENCE CHARGED ifor whieh f seekin The ratM
were I'M J Jgn ullc a in
who was already well fixed in busi
ness. A single room would cost me
sixty cents a day, breakfast and lun
cheon twenty-five cents each and din
ner thirty-five cents. I was probably
j looking for a working-girls' home. I
apologized for my mistake, saying
that I heard much of the Margaret
Louisa Home and supposed it wa a
home for working girls. And then as
gently as before she explained that
it wa a transient hotel for self-supporting
women, not for-er-working
girls. I saw the distinction.
"She then gave me the addresses
of real homes for working girls M re.
Huntington' at 140 East 16th Street
and "The Co-operato 444 Weit 23d
Street
"Can you tuggest where I had best
look for work? I inquired hastily.
'Work? Well, this is a very bad
time of the year to get into the
store. They are letting girl out
Governesses, too, Tiave all been en
gaged!. .
"By this time she was standing up.
She hoped I would enroll with the
association. It cost only one dollar a
aw a 1 a I ?1 -
year, and I would enjoy wie iiumry.
The Tuesday night lecture for mem
bers was especially interesting. She
said goob-bye, without offering to
shake hands and my relation with
the Young Women' Christian Asso
ciation were closed.
"Apparently the New York branch
of the Y. W. C. A. is for women who
have proven their ability to be self
supporting. It offers nothing to the
irirls starting on the road to self-
support. The Margaret Louisa Home
is not a 'home.' It is an admirably
conducted, reasonably priced tran
sient hotel for women -who do not
care to patronize hotels where men
are admitted."
Will HDD 111 Sill
ADO!
HIP
LOADED WITH ARMS.
NEW YORK, Dec. 3 Loaded
with arm and ammunition supposed
ly for the use of the revolutionists in
Hayti, the iwift schooner Alice has
left her moorings in a Long Island
harbor and is now well on her way.
According to rumor along the water
front, the schooner was formerly
known as the Gloucester, having her
name changed for her dangerous
journey. Just when the schooner got
under way is not known, but mid
night Tuesday is supposed to have
been about the hour. The vessel is in
Three Citi
Reported
are Aire
Captured
dill
SO SAY THE REPORTS
charge of Capt Jas.
fearless Scotchman.
McPherson, a
Mrs. Edith Goode'a Instrument Con
tains Several Serious Charges
Against Reed Which Will Probable
be Made Public Later.
YANKEE IS FLOATED.
NEWPORT, R. I., Dec. 4.-The
cruiser Yankee which has been
agrrund on-the shoals of Buzzard'
Bay for ten weeks has been floated
and has started for New Bedford in
tow.
HENRY GUSHAW WAS
A VICTIM OF THUGS
UNFORTUNATE MAN - WHO
WAS FOUND UNCONSCIOUS
ON PORTLAND STREET.
PORTLAND. Dec. 4.-Charging
negligence, unfaithfulness, improvi
dence and even more serious derelic
tions against S. G. Reed, administra
tor of the estate of the late Henry W.
Goode and Frederick V. Homan, hia
attorney, in the management of the
estate, Mr. Edith Goode, widow of
Portland's late traction magnate and
president of the Lewis and Clark
Centennial Exposition today filed a
petition with County Judge Webster
seeking the removal of Reed and the
appointment of herself as administra
tor. The petition contains numerous
sensational charges against Reed, who
was treasurer of the Portland Railway
Light & Power Company of which
Goode was president, and against
Homan who was and still is general
counsel for the same company. Goode
left an estate which is free from
debt, was worth at the time of his
death approximately $200,000. Goode
died at Atlantic City, New Jersey,
on March 31, 1907.
ARBITRATION IS
CONGRESS KEYNOTE
leading Theme of American Miner's Meeting at
Pittsburg Many Addresses are Made
PITTSBURG. Dec. 4,-Arbltration I
was tho thine at tonight'a session of
the American Mining Congress. .Pres
ident T. L. Lewis of the United Mine
Worker of America, made the open
ing address, tuking the stand of arbi
tration in which a third party or out
sider had to be utilized was unsatis
factory and failed to bring about
permanent settlement, but that the
arbitration in which the employer and
i employe got together and between
themselves adjusted the differences
had done more for the betterment of
the mining industry than any other
agency. The congress today adopted
a resolution offered by II. H. Greg,
of Missouri, opposing free import
tion of zinc ores into this country and
urging a duty sufficiently high to
protect the American producers.
G. W. Traer, of Chicago, whose ob
servation of English speaking miners
were more often desired than the
foreign miners.
HAD $400 WHEN HE ARRIVED
Post Mortem of GusHaVa Body De
velop! Unquestionable Facta Waa
a Wholesale Fih Dealer of For
tune, Cat
PORTLAND, Dec. 4. -A post
mortem of the body of Henry Gu
shaw, a wholesale fish dealer of For
tuna, Cal., who died last night, de
veloped the fact that he was a victim
of thugs and was beaten with
slungshot until a bloodclot settled on
the brain. He was picked up on the
street on Thanksgivihg day uncon
sclous. v .
He had $400 when he arrived
Portland. ,
NTERESTillG FIGURES
BYHARRIMH
MINERAL PRODUCTION OF U.
S, $525,000,000 DURING
PAST YEAR.
Same Foreign Newspapers Ex
press Belief That .Castro Has
Deserted Venezuela
TROOPS GGSKS TO CATTAHO
! Hague Correspondent Saya a Dis
patch Waa Received Stating That
Four American Battleship Are Ex
pected at Curacao in January.
in
LITTLE CHRISTMAS SERMON,
We are the edge of a new Christ
mas festival-the anniversary of the
most significant event in the history
of the world. Jesus came with the
greatest message ever spoken in the
hearing of the human race. It was
all a summons to a new, heroic life
to a new principle of personal con
duct and a new principle of social ef
fort. It was the purpose of Jesus to
awake the God in man, and to estab
lish a new social order with the Gol
den Rule as its working principle.
Here and there we fin d men and
women who tive and labor -in the
light of this lofty ideal. They are the
conscripts of the dream. A wise Seer
has described them in beautiful words
beautiful, heart-warm, inspiring
words: '
"Their main characteristics are,
that they serve for the goo dof oth
ers; that they are in the persistent ef
fort to keep down the will of self, to
live beyond themselves. They are
careful to produce rather, than to
consume; to save for humane purpos
es rather than to waste; to avoid
contention; to promote good will and
charity; to walk carefully; to stand
for the defense of the injured and the
oppressed. Again, they seek -to alle
viate sufferings; to strew the path
of life with gentle courtesies; to
avoid flattering titles; to shun the
meretricious and ostentatious socie
ty; to esteem the ties oif human fra
ternity as above the ligatures of her
edity, creed, or nationality. It is theirs
to hate the impure in all things; to
criticize with a keen eye their own
evils, but to abstain from a prying
introspection into the conduct of
others; to despise the habit of scan
dal; to hold themselves as dignified
yet lowly; to abominate self-right
eousness; to reject with loathing the
way of the spy and tale-bearer. Such
will seek to embody a divine chasti
ty to the most extreme of senses;
never to obtrude by an unwelcome
person reepiaencsor rj akuakua
personal presence or unneeded opin
ion; to sanctify the temple of worship
with in their own heart; never to
glorify themselves, but always, by
the sweetness and light of life, to
glorify their Father in heaven."
The Morning Astorian contains all
the local and Associated Press report.
ALL TESTIMONY FOR
THIRD T
TRANSPORTATION IS BETTER
Claim That Farmer Received Kin
Per Cent Return on Their Invest
ments While Railroad Only Earn
Only 4 Per Cent .
PITTSBURG, Dec. 4.-In his let
ter to the mining congress Harriman
said during the past year the mineral
production of the United States was
$325,000,000 tons value over two bd
lion dollars. . Harriman said the rail
roads are doing their utmost to pro-
de faster and better transportation
and that inequalities in the matter of
freight rates are being eliminated as
fast as the situation in each case is
realized, and that while the country is
developed and the railroads develop
ing the freight rates have been dun
inishing. That in 1907 the farmers re
ceived nine per cent return on their
investments; manufacturer 19.4,
while the roads earnel scarcely four
per cent .
PROSECUTION RESTS POLITI
CAL BOSS'S CASE LATE
YESTERDAY.
WILL CONTINUE KONDAY
Attorneys For the Defense Will Make
Known Their Plan of Action Mon
dayTook Ten Weeks ;o Get Jury
Together. ,
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 4.-With
all the testimony for the state before
the jury the1 prosecuted rested the
case late this afternoon the third trial
of Ruef the former political boss of
San Francisco charged with having
offered a bribe to former supervisor,
John J. Furey to vote for the trolley
franchise for the United Railroads in
1906. Adjournment was had until
Monday when the attorneys for the
defense will make known their plan
of action in th case, which has been
ton trial 14 weeks, 10 weeks of which
was consumed in getting the jury.
POPE IS, WELL.
x ROME, Dec. 4. A correspondent
of Romano, a Vatican organ, assert
that contrary to reports, Pope Tius
has practically recovered from his
recent indisposition and today visited
his official quarters.
SEAMEN STRIKE.
MANILA, Dec. 3.-The Coastwise
Seameai's Union declared a strike to
day as a result of which six large
coasting steamers are tied up at their
berths here unable to go to sea as
their crew have quit The men de
mand a 100 per cent increase of pay
for all overtime work and that Sun
day work be paid over on the over
time schedule. They also demand
horter working hours. Thus far the
shipowners have refused to accede to
the -demands of the union. It
expected that the crews of many of
the coasting steamers due to arrive
here in the next few days will quit
as soon as their vessels reach port
MANAGUA, Dec 4 The , revolu
tion has begun in Salvador under the ,
leadership of former Vice-President
Prudencio Alfaro. Three cities are
reported captured by revolutionist.
VIENNA, Dec 4. Two steamer
with troops aboard left Fiume today
under sailed . orders. Two other
steamers follow tomorrow. The sup
posed destination is Cattaro, seaport
of Austria on Adriatic, contiguous to
Montenegro territory. War rumcr
continue, though there is an optimis
tic feeling in official circles. ,
LONDON, Dec. 4.The Daily Tel
egraph' correspondent for the Hague
says a dispatch received from there
are that four American warships are
expected at Curacao in January and
says it is certain that the United
States will staunchly support Holland
as against Venezuela.
PARIS, Dec. 4.--A special dispatch
from Vienna says a message from
Cattaro branch of the Hungarian
bank states that Cattaro was bom
barded today. "A dispatch adds that
at the ministry of war it was said no
information on the subject could be
obtained but "It wa impossible to
deny the news."
; PARIS, Dec 5. Some of the news
papers express the belief that Castro
has deserted Venezuela forever. They
say for years he has been sending
money to England and France where
they estimate he has sixty million
dollar deposited.
SAN SALVADOR, Dec. 4. In no
single instance have the revolution
ists a semblance of success. The re
bellion was immediately and com
pletely put down. The country i
generally quiet, business was not in
terrupted on the gathering of the
coffee crop, is proceeding.
GRAND JURY BUSY
WITH CHICAGOANS
Some Extraordinary Frauds Unearthed of Last
Primaries in Illinois City
CHICAGO, Dec. 4,-Ballots of the
men of long residents in other cities,
temporary absentees of the insane
and even of the dead, were kept in
the primary election late last August
in Chicago. "Repeaters" voted in the
platoons with the connivance of wil
fully unseeing judges and clerks of
election, and fraud, rampant and hith
erto unknown in a city never famous
for purity in its political atmosphere
were scntional allegations made today
in a report of the special grand jury.
Indictments to the number of 81
were returned against two score or
more of the politicians and others.
The investigation, owing to physical
limitations, merely scratched the sur
face of the situation, according to the
report. Voting machines are advocat
ed as a step in the remedial direction
and a wider application of civil serv
ice is recommended.