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THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 2, 1908.
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PROHIBITION, FROM A
CANDIDATE'S VIEWPOINT
The following Interview with Mr. Watklns ou the subject "When
Will the Prohibition Party Elect a Proaldent of the United StatesT
has been secured exclusively for The Journal:
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Astoria Cliambcr of Com
merce Completes Labors
on Harbor Bill.
(Special Dtepttcb to Tbt Jouronl.)
Aitorla. Or.. Auif. 1 The committee
appointed by the Chamber ot Commerce
aome months ago to prepare'a propoaed
Initiative meaaure creatlngr the Port of
Aatorla, tins completed Its labor and
drafted a proposed bill, to be the eub-
Ject of dlcijfilon nt a apeclal meeting;
of the chamber to b held on next
Monday evening. After being approved
by the Chamber of Commerce the bill
will be. euhmltted to the voir.- at the
city election next Incumber.
While the measure us prepared pro
vides for a (rent many things, the Kreat
majority of which will probably never
be tided, ttfl real object Is to create a
body which can deal directly with the
government In urging the Improvement
of the harbor and the channel from As
toria to me sea and prevent. If possible,
t.ie ruination of the channel. The pro
posed measure as drawn consists of
19 sections and Its more salient features
are as follows:
Section 5 provides that the ctty shall
have power to acquire a site and erect
drydocK. or sufficient tz to accom
modate vessels 400 feet In length.
Section 7 provides that for the pur
pose of constructing a drydock, main
taining and operating dredges, etc., the
city shall have power to Issue 6 pur
cent bonds to an amount not exceed
ing $500,000.
Section 8 authorizes the levying of an
annual tax to pay principal and Interest
on bonds.
Section 10 provides for the levy of a
tax not exceeding one half of 1 per
cent for the payment of general ex
penses.
Section 1Z provides that wnon neces
sary the city can anticipate Its tax levy
and borrow money on Interest-bearing
warrants or bonds.
Section 13 provides that all work not
done by the regular city employes shall
be let by contract to the lowest re- I
sponsible, bidder. I
Section 14 provides for the creation
of a part commission of Astoria con
sisting of nine members, whose names
have not been selected.
Section 1? provides that In order to
be eligible for membership on the com.
mission n man must have paid to the
itv within on? year a tax or nol less
than J25.
FRENCH W0F.1EH
lA RIGHTS
Spurred by Warfare of Eng
lish Suffragettes, They
Urge Equality.
Asa A. Watklns, Prohibition Candidate for the Vice-Presidency.
Ada, Ohio, July 24. I am aslred the
question. "When Will the Prohibition
Tarty Klect a President of the United
States?" From one viewpoint this Is a
comparatively easy question, but from
another. It Is, of course, beyond the
wisdom of man to solve. Founding our
answer upon the principles of the case
and not upon unknown facts of the
future, I would say, first, that the Pro
hibition party will succeed at the na
tional election when a majority of the
people of our nation learn to give politi
cal questions their proper Importance
and to cca.-.e exalting rinnnclal, local
and secondary Interests above the inter
ests which form the basis of all govern
ment. Trie prohibition of the liquor
traffic Is by far the greatest political
question of the prosent century. It is
the greatest In the money Involved. The
most conservative estimate or the ex
penditure for liquor has placed it for
years at not less than $1,000,000,000.
Add to this the cost of prosecutions
for crime, the loss of power of produc
tion by the drunkenness of laborers,
waste of property through accident, ex
plosions, collisions and Incendiary fires,
traceable directly to this evil, and the
financial loss to our nation Is almost In
calculable. When the American people
recognize the Important financial part
of this ' question, they will certainly bo
true to their own financial Interests, and
en rch out the best method of throttling
this great evil and stop this great waste.
Adopt Method.
They will adopt for this purpose, th3
method which has been used with suc
cess In the settlement of all other ques
tions. Kvery question that has been
settled for over a century In American
politics has been settled largely. If not
entirely, by the party method. This was
true of the tariff question, money ques
tion, the question of centralization of
government, and of the many minor
questions that-have appeared from time
to time, and we believe will be the ulti
mata settlement of this, the only ques
tion now before the American people.
The liquor question is the greatest ques
tion In this connection with other ques
tions, In its power to complicate those
questions and hinder their solution. Tho
question of Immigration which has been
so widely discussed is a question only
In cities, wards and neighborhoods
where the saloon is dominant, and the
foreigner is not a disturbing element In
dry territory. H4 only becomes such
through the influence of liquor. There
fore, when the American people recog
nlze that underlying the Immigration
prqblem Is the saloon problem, they will
liave one more reason for accomplishing
lis ovortnrow.
Miigoverament.
The question of mlsgovernment of
cities will also be recognized as one
of the questions which will be extreme
ly dlftlcult, If not absolutely Impossible
of solution without the solution of tho
liquor question. The ward boss can
only deal with voters who have been
prepared to. his hand, and the school
which furnishes corrupt voters Is the
saloon. If the cities of our land had
no liquor problem they would have no
mlsgovernment on a colossal scale such
as now exists The American people
will also recognize In the near future
that the most serious obstacle to the
harmonious relation between capital and
labor Is the presence of the saloon to
absorb the earnings, corrupt the char
acter and waste the productiveness of
the mass of American labor. Whenever
strikes ha ve ' occurred liquor has pre
vented a successful termination of the
strike for the laboring man, by inciting
few at least of the laboring men to
violence and unwise methods, and by
this means tney lost tne sympathy and
on
of pur
sentiment, and the
surDort
strike became a railure.
"It has already been recognized by
the people of one large section of our
land that their greatest and most press
ing political question, the race problem
la impossible or solution so long a
multitudes of negroes are corrupted by
the paloon. When the American people
are tnorougniy aroused to an tnese prot
Irais and to the share which liquor has
In the difficulty of their solution, they
will certainly see in an intensely ear
nest way for the best and most per
manent solution of this great question.
rrohlbltlon-ii Side.
In the second place, the American
topIe will place the Prohibition party
in power whenever they recognize that
ntire national prohlbtion enforced by
Its real friends, rather than by its pre
tended or lukewarm friends or even Its
avowed enemies. Is a successful method
of dealing with the liquor traffic and
the only method that can be soorrssful.
It Is often stated that prohibition does
not prohibit. It could be said with equal
fores that laws against larceny will not
B enforced If thieve ars entrusted
With Its enforcement. The principle of
prohibition has never ben thoroughly
and since rely tried an v where fey the
American pop- Even where states or
communities nav. as we stated, voted
dry. the national government has stood
In the sras- ft the enforcement ef their
laws by a system of Internal revenue
and Interstate commerce which makes It
possible to issue federal licenses and to
Import liquor into its territory which
the local authorities are striving to
free from It. As it was said of old, "a
house divided against itself cannot
stand." So the national government, to
some extent, at least, counteracts the
well meant efforts of tho etatoa and
partially nullifies the effect of the state
laws. So long as this Is true, there is
no real prohibition territory in all our
land and there cannot be until the na
tional government dissolves Us partner
ship with tho liquor business.
Organization.
In the third place, the Prohibition
party will succeed when the people rec
ognize the necessity for a permanent,
thoroughly organized, easily located or-
f anlzation for the enforcement of the j
aws that may exist. All Other organl- ,
zatlons for this purpose, outside or tho i
Prohibition party, have been certain as
to tneir practical unity, wnicn is some
times alleged to be tho individual and
sometimes other local organizations.
They have also been temporary If not
In tholr organization, at least in their
effective activity. Men are asked to
forsake for the time being their polit
ical affiliation. When a supposed dry
victory is achieved they at once return
to their old party affiliations and no
organization exists after the election
for the enforcement of the law for
which men of all parties fought side
by side. The Prohibition party, being
a permanent organization, does not
cease Its activity with the passage of
the statute, cut continues in the person
of the officials which it elects and
which t holds responsible for the en
forcement of the laws which are them
selves in harmony with the Dolltical
platform of the party.
Personal Principle.
When the porsonal principle and the
party loyalty of any oflciai come In
conflict It is easy to predict, except in
cases of unusual heroic principles, what
will be the outcome of this combat.
A man whose further political success
depends on forsaking the Interests of
the peoplo will often fatl to measure
up to his own preelection pledges and
to his solemn oath of office. It will be
recognized that although men cannot
be made moral by law, and that the
Prohibition party will not change the
individual characters of men at once;
nevertheless they will establish a set
of political conditions such that the
personal Interest, the moral principles
and the political aspirations of the In
dividual will entirely coincide. There
win tnen oo no requirement ror a
heroic self-sacrifice in order to meet
official responsibility. In short, the
Prohibition party will succeed when the
American people recognize the liquor
question as the greatest question, and
when they discover that other methods
are woefully deficient in meeting the
emergency and when they discover that
it is an unwise method to attack an
evil with a divided force. At least
60 per cent of each of the old parties
are temperance men, but neither party
dares to risk the loss of the other 40
per cent by radical antagonism to the
saloon. If the margin of plurality In
any case Is not more than 5 per cent.
It Is simply political suicide to risk
the alienation of the 40 per cent of
liquor sympathizers or any great share
of that per cent.
People Realise.
The American people will recognize
this year that neither the Republican
nor the Democratic party has dared
to oppose the liquor traffic, although
they well know that we are livins- in
an age of tremendous advance In tem
perance sentiment. Although they rec- 1
ognlze that ihe overwhelming majority .
of the American people desire the ab-
er.ee of the saloon, they have delib- i
erately and apparently with perfect un- 1
derstanfling of each others Intentions
and methods left out all reference to
the liquor question, except by remote
allusion which can most naturally be
Interpreted as In favor of liquor rather i
man in opposition to it. The
American people will soon learn that
It is useless to expect these parties to
do what is In the nature of the case,
Impossible. Thy cannot Imperil their
existence as parties, and however much
ef sentiment may arise, so long as both
the liquor vote and the temperance vote
are so hopelessly divided between the
parties, there Is no possible hope of any
relief from existing conditions from
these parties. Believing as we do that
all of these facts are rapidly coming
to be recognlxed. we feel that the time
Is not far distant when the Amertcsn
people will unite In the only posoible
politlcsl union that of a political partv.
for the suprr 1cn of this gigantic
evil. WVnevfr this shall occur a Pro
hibition president will receive the oath
of office ard the true era of ttnur. i
ance reform will have begun In earnest, i
Ask a Policeman.
From the Waltham Free Press-Trlbifne,
The Boston Globe tells of a dog shot
In Lynn that was "chased by a police
man, supposedly mad " Hut what right
has a policeman to get mad, anyhow?
(Brant Xcwa tr Longest Lraaed Wire.)
Paris, Aug. 1, Spurred on by the
energetic warfaro waged by the suf
fragettes of England the French are
now beginning to demand tljo right of
suffrage and there is Indeed already a
constant Interchange of views between
the women of the two countries.
Olio of the strongest arguments put
forward bv French suffragists Is the
statement that they are only claiming
a right which their sex exercised in tho
pnst end which their training and ca
pacity fit them to exercise in tho future.
In France as a matter of fact women
have not onl;- had the vote hut have
stood for election as candidates and In
some cases huvc had seats In legislative
assemblies. , , ,
At tho last municipal elections In
Paris, a woman candidate, Mile. '?e'
obtained several hundred votes. She
was not the first to stand up for the
rights of her sex In this way. Mme.
I.eomle Rongadu offered herself as a
candidate at the municipal elections In
18K1, but received but 60 votes.
Tho French suffrngUts point out with
some effect that under the I.ol Ileau-n-vnt
of 1182 women were allowed to
take part In deliberations on municipal
affairs. In 1362 when the first Ktnts
Oeneraux met, women holding fiefs
were duly represented by nobles and
ecclesiastics. Two centuries Inter there
were actual women delegates and depu
ties and no less than 32 widows hold
feats In the provincial assembly of
Franrhe Corrrte.
The capacity of women to hold th
most responsible administrative posts
is held to be proved by tho fact that In
1 1)0 thirteenth and fourteenth centuries
female ludses sat In the courts of law
and It Is Mate! that their decisions
were ftillv equal to those of the bent
male magistrates. I
Women have served with distinction I
even as ambassadresses and general.
Francolse de Cazclly, during her hus
band's absence, mndo such fine defense
of a fortified place Intrusted to her care
that Henry IV appointed her governess
of the city, l'unng the lTencn revolu
tion soveral women served In the ranks
and tnok part In several campaigns with
marked bravery.
Such are the answers of tho French
suffragists to thorn who deny the ca
pacity of women to participate in the
affairs of state. They call on the great
nations not to lag behind the smaller
countries, and point to the fact that
women in Norway have hnd the voto
for five years. In IHC'9, when tha next
general election takes place for the
storthing. 300,000 Norwegian women
will have the right to vote
Lastly It Is maintained that women
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have earned the .franchise by virtue of
their general proxies and political ed
ucation during recent years. In 18N9
the doors of iho unlvuialtlea were
thrown open to women. Twelve years
later they worn given access to nil the
rublle offices including the law courts,
n U01 the iifclit to vote at municipal
elections was conceded and It Is be
cuuae this right has been well exercised
that the full Muht of stiff ruge Is be
ing asked for.
Tho city of Paris has decided to tear
down the annex of the Hotel F.urope,
the oldest hospital In the city, but tho
wise city fathers are airald to tackle
the Job because eminent medical author
ities suy that If the building Is lorn
clown In the ordinary way millions of
baccllll capable of killing off the wholu
population of the c tv would be liber
ated, j
The safest way would evidently be to
burn down the building, as the walla,
celling and other parts of the hospltil
are con ta ruinated with microbes repre
senting every illness and disease known
to mankind. A fire, however, would
be attended with grave danger, because
It would bo impossible to burn down the
building completely without the firs
spreading to the mirroumlitig building'
A special coinniision has therefor
been appointed to find a way out of
this unique dilemma.
Two yeurs exile In Portuguese Fast
Africa has not quelled tho spirit which
caused the cret.s of two Portuguese
warships to mutiny and It is through no
fiilt of their own that they return to
tnelr native country alive.
The mutlneis were Included In the
amnesty proclaimed at the accession of
King Manuel and the government sent
the steamship Portugal to bring them
home. Soon ufter leaving Beuru a gam
bling dispute broke out and led to a
general fight In which knives and pis
tols were used and a large number of
men wero wounded.
The captain and officers of the
Portugal descended among the fighting
men and drove them below decks with
their revolvers, but not until one ina'i
was dead and several others mortal
ly wounded. Now they will bo cntnt
martlullnd and probably be sent back
Into exile.
Old BnrlxT Chairs.
The dealer In harbors' furniture when
he refits nn old shop and puts In tho
new. modern pedestal revolving barber
chairs In place of the old stylo chairs
that stood on legs, will take tho
old chairs at a price In exchange, says
the New York Sun. Amftwhnt hecrm.-s
of the old-fashioned chairs thus taken?
If this briroer didn t want them, who
will? Hut there Is a sale for them, oh
th-ire Is for anything and everything
second-hand.
Some of them may be sold In the city,
but not many. The barber who opened
a new shop here. In whatever part of
the town the shop might be, would be
likely to buv the modern pedestal chairs
which ho could do even If he didn't
have the caah in hand, for he can buy a
shop outfit and pnv for It In Install
ments NYi. not nviny of the second
hand barber cb'ilrs are sold in the city,
the bulk of them going back some
where. Some sre sold for use In small sum
mer resort places, where tho partonage
Is limited and a city outfit is not ex
pected. And some of the old-fashioned
second-hand chairs go to the country
barber shops.
mW'& iwr
Here Are Some of the Figures In the
Hazel Drew Murder Which Is Pux
illng the Authorities In the North
ern Part of Kew York State. At
tho Top Is Shown a Picture of
Will Taylor's Home Near Teal's
Pond, Standing With a Rake on
His Shoulder Is Coon Teal, Owner
Playing Safe.
From the Chicago News.
"Are you going to send Oraftlelgh
back to congress? asked the reporter.
"That's what replied the rural poli
tician. "We realize that It will be
safer for us to have him there than at
home."
A Familiar Sign.
From the Pittsburg Post.
'Ton't sell that man another drink,
ordered the boss.
"He's all right,' 'argued the barkeep.
"Ho ain't full."
"No; but he's beginning to tell what A
nice family he comes of."
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