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THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL. PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING. t 11 1.1, ivl 1 THE- JOURNAL A- IM EPENTKNT XEWSPATKR. . S, J AOKSOS '. . . I uhliihr It;M,.hf:1 imj. wnlr.i ("fpt Sandal) a! If K h YanrM'l atw. rwnw, Sr'rJ I tire- wtoff1r t Portland. Or.. J f8tnB!!w!t.B thrvuib tbe Bialla K"" S li t-THONRS Wain TITS; Horn , All ftfirtumni' wrtri l b semlr. Toll th onrtnr irkul rtpnarteWn wo JOHKHiN APVERT1SIN0 B KPH KSKNT AT I E. Tn"n1 A KfntWT Co.. Bronlr PnlMinr lfh K Tort; 121 rp) 8-ihacrlr.rton Tnw by mail " ilkM ' In tlie loit4 State er Mexleo. 1 DAIl I'M mr IS .no t On nootfc... ? . , SCNPAT. nt year....... .12 50 !'On iwwitji... TUII.V AND Rt'NPAT. One r ..T.B0 I Ona month... ...$ .30 ...$ .25 ...I B8 What is -pomp, rule, reign, but , earth and dust? And, live we how we can, yet die , we must. Shakespeare. THE PUBLICS OW$ FACT HERE is a constant cry that we do ndt have good government. Whose Is the far.lt? Who electa the officials andf clothes them with power? -.; There Is disrespect for the law and constant complaint that It is not f nforced. Whose Is the fault? Who electa the men who make the laws? tVhc chooses and entrusts with au thority the men who are supposed to enforce the law? there is perennial lament about Jjigh taxes, and with reason. Whose Is the fault? Whj elects the men who make the taxes and eat the faxes? There is an unceasing criticism and censure of legislation. Who la to blame for bad legislation? Who elects the men wh6 do the legislat ing? We have been ascribing Ml these miscarriages of governmen; to the bid convention system, ' We cannot do.it any longer. We have the pri rnnry law. We have the corrupt practices act.; We have the Initiative and referendum. We have direct election of senators. " We have re moved the senatorial riots and sen atorial bedlam from the legislative sessions. We have put almost, evarythlng Into the hands of the people. Wei have restored to them full power to! regulate and control government ! TVe have abolished the convention; system. If all this does not bring about good government, whose Is the fault? Who is to. blame for future Official follies, but the people them selves? Vm : v. The people cannot escape the. re sponsibility. They are on trial, and the government ia Oregon, In Port end and In jcyeri Ojgon..eounty or; municipality is to be exactly what the people make it. ' The electors have the power. They have the au thority; They have the ballot. They have the means of 'ascertaining! the fitness of candidates. With all these tools in their hands if they do not bring about good government they must shoul der the blame.- They must not try to shift the -responsibility. They bust confess the fault as their own. You cannot pick peaches from a jersImmon tree. '. Pure water does Sot Issue from a contaminated foun tain. Good government Is not yield ed by incompetent or- unfit officials. J'he whole question of good govern ment turns on the character and ca pacity df the official. ) The character and capacity of the official . is not determined by the campaign platforms of the candi date. - They all have good platforms. They all make promises. --It Is the plan's record ihat must be looked to H a guide as to" what character of official he will be. . If the candidate Is able with a glittering platform to bamboozle the public and -get Into office, it is the public's own fault. byxmcaTlism" HIS la a new word of French origin and introduction. Its inr ventors were those workers who were dissatisfied with the low pace of organized trades - unton - ism, in both redressng evils in work Jng conditions under which they con sidered the working classes were suf fering, fnd In raising rates of wages and other returnsjrom labor. Ab a principle of economic life it Involves an abandonment, and an equipment and enlistment. The abandonment is that of the trades-union as known today. j . x," The. equipment. . thatthe Syndi-! calist uses for the work of destruc tion, is, for the large undertaking, the general strike. If the general strike Is unattainable lie., will get as near to it as he can, by organizing or creating sympathetic' strikes as half way houses to the aim he strikes at. ' i - Another phrase that the Syndical ist has. adopted is "direct action." This also Is from the French. It in tends the forced stoppage of labor by '8abolage,"or destruction cf the implements and equipment of fac tory or productive life. The doctrine of the Syndicalist is tbliC Let labor confine itself to Its own weapons, the strike, the boycott, tne traae union lapei, "sabotage ' an clearing tne way ror the final coup me genCTai siriKe, the paraly sis of organized labor and organized supply. : Let It take the position of clear enmity to law.. This Is the new revolution of pas-tof limitations' applies and it is too tire resistance, supported it is bothjlate to dig t6 the bottom. The co- anegea ana denied, u need be, by actual violence. - So shall societybe brought to rum; so shall the "con ft SeViUou'" be able to assume . con trol of all industry, so shall this "confederation" rule in all coun tries. . - : , TKia, cf course, Is the latest ad ' . . - vanced form of destructive Social ism. It fs promoted by the I. W. W. and under the new name. Is the ani mating spirit of the general strike In European nations. Its emissaries have been striving to assume con trol of the British coal strike. But. though the younger generation of trades unionists In Britain are bet ter educated In economic subjects than their older co-memberB, "though their methods and deniands may be more ambitious and more Tlolent, jet there is a great gulf between the trades unionist and the Syndicalist, In both, aims and acta. Tom' Mann, the exponent of vio lence and the advocate of mutiny, has found himself in Jail, sad-under prosecution that may land him In penal servitude. It is well to recognize the origin and appreciate the obvious end "of these new doctrines which are "being promulgated on both continents by those who have all to gain and noth ing to lose by violent revolution. - rERHAPS ' '"' ' T HE fact that stands out in the Astoria handicap is that It costs a Walla Walla grower four and a half cents more per hundred to ship his wheat to Astoria than to Tacoraa. Though It la down hill to Astoria and up hill . to Ta- coma, the . cost of shipment to As toria Is 90 cents a ton more than to tacoma. It Is a denial of the law of gravity, It is a reversal of the transportation maxim that the cost of service fixes the rate.. .';. ': - ' Jt Is a rejection of natural law. It Is a repudiation of economic law. Is there one reason that anybody can point to for the discrimination? Is there anybody that can flame one law of nature or one rule of trans portation in defense of the Astoria handicap? . . i - Vv Does anybody defend It on the ground that Astoria is hot a sea port? Perhaps. Perhaps Puget sound is the only seaport In the known world. t; s r THE CORPORATION T HE machine which has operated all the recent raids and spolia tions, the loots and grafts, in Wall street and outside It is the American corporation. , This machine was a growth rather than an invention. . Without It the factory, the rail road, the steamship line, the mine, the bank and the trust could not have been evolved. To it the mil lionaire owes his fortune, the cap tains of industry their rower over the bodies and souls of ififen,' as well as over the markets ana exchang of the world. The ..special, advantage, of the cor poration was that the contributor to it, " although a partner In' the enter prise by (Sharing in its profits, es caped liability for its conduct beyond the amount oil his stock subscription. Next came the evolution of the office of the directors, who wielded, between them, the powerB of owner ship derived from the capital Joint ly subscribed. This payer was a Joint endow ment, to'jpe exercised, not for the benefit of the Individual director, but fotythe good and profit of the corporation as a whole. It follows that any director who assumed to contrive and engineer the doings and dealings of the cor poration for his own -good is either a looter or a grafter since no in dividual profit can be his in law or common. fairness, except as it Is at tached to his percentage of stock contribution to the enterprise. . and shared with his associates in the corporation, one and all. Yet read the terse recital of the doings of H. 0. Havetneyer with the sugar trust, told In the Saturday Evening Post of Saturday last. No tice how In 1887 he expanded six million dollars the capital of sev- enten reflnerlee into fifty mIlIIonlspnerei and that a year of prepara. dollars of trust stock. Of this en- lareement Haveme&r and his as- 1 soclates were generously satisfied with twenty millions. So on, In three following enormous purchases and conversions, this man, the pres ident of the directorate' of the trust board, absorbed over eleven and a half million dollars through the use of the funds and organization of the corporation through the board over which he presided. Remember the revelations of the Equitable Insurance - company's op erations in the transactions exposed by Justice Hughes. How .many of the millions gained took root in the pockets of the directors who en gineered the deals? Follow down the dark history! of the greatest coup of all -the steel corporation. Outside the master schemer himself, who avoided the responsibility of personal office in the corporations that he contrived, hardly one of the diggers in that gold mine but wore the livery and wielded the powers of the corpora tions Interested. : And so on, time and space fall to add to the recital. ; Corporation gain la throughout dl- - 1 mlnished by personal advantage se cured by wielding corporate power. As fast as ' the details of all such moneymaking are uncovered ; the public cpnffvent and resentment is ratified witTlaJHB plea that.Hbe statute conspirators are either silenced with a share, of the spoils or belong to other circle Of the same game First , or last the public Is the loser by, every capital-creating or watering' scheme. Public utilities are loaded down with interest or div idends to be earned. - In private en- terprlses enhanced prices have to pay all such profits. One simple remedy Is worth try ing. If every director were de clared by clear cut legislation a trustee, as well as ari active officer, for and of the corporation in which he holds office. Illegitimate profits resulting directly or indirectly from his office-holding would be not his, but would enure to the corporation itself which he served. To this result the courts would see. ' AX EXTKAORDIXAKY RECORD T OMORROW The Journal will republish, by request, the rec ord of Goverribr Woodrow Wil son in Carrying out his cam paign promises. The record Is so Impressive that its republication has been requested both by men., who have read it and by others who have only heard of it. : Campaign platforms are usually something to get In on. After elec tion, officials frequently tear them up. After election, political parties often ignore them. Woodrow Wilson is different He has made his pledge as good as his bond, in New Jersey. Campaign I promises that he makes in that state are,' by reason of his record, current! in every county at par. j He made five distinct pledges to the people of New Jersey when he was a candidate. He redeemed every one of them after election carrying with him a senate that was Republi can by twelve to , nine, and added seteral reform laws aa good meas ure. It is doubtful if there has ever been in public life a man who has so completely performed all and more than he promised That It was Governor Wilson alone who was the living force that compelled the new order in New Jersey, Is admit ted by friend and foe alike. It was only his commanding mentality, his great knowledge' of men and his ability as a leader that made It pos sible, at one legislative session, to transform New Jersey from a boss ridden, trusteed annex of Wall street, into a progressive and splen didly governed commonwealth, v The story that The Journal, will print tomorrow on Its editorial page reads like a new chapter In Ameri can public life. It is so unusual as to seem unreal, yet it has the record and the truth behind it. Wall street doesn't want Wood row Wilson for president. . But mil lions of his countrymen do. The record of Governor Wilson's public life in New Jersey explains the op position of. the one and the desires of the otheY. PRACTICAL GERMANS I N America we are satisfied to pro vide professors and Instructors in household economy for our girls, and all the equipment for a working kitchen, a hygienic bed room, an appropriate dining room, and an effective workroom, In full faith in the good sense of the girls and oftheir mothers to make use of these appliances for a successful modern home. The people can. be trusted as Colonel Roosevelt would say. . ' . ,. -. There is a German women's con' gress which has Just begun Its aes- sionB in Berlin. At the very open ing it was proposed that laws be passed compelling the German bride to produce evidence that she had passed at least one year In house hold studies and In active work in the house. Without this proof, no wedding. One of the speakers discussed a project recently suggested for com pelling German young women to put in a yea In some form of military service;; Just as the young men are so prepared for the dutleB of na tlonal defence, which they may,, be called on to perform. But response was made that home and mother hood were woman's most. Imnort&nt tlon should be required, failing which no girl should have a legal right to marry. - A later speaker proposed a law by which a wife should have the right legally to demand a fixed sum for the household, and for her own ex penses, commensurate In a reason able and settled proportion with the husband's Income. - . , Such a proposal probably showed the presence of a "new woman" -a feminine Saul among the prophets. TOWN AND COUNTRY MICE s OME say that the tide from the land to the city has turned, In response to efforts made to give more . Interests and more profit to the farmer iln return for the products of hisj ork. Not yet Is this the case If appearances are to be .trusted." ;:':!: -it:i ,; "' !A' The , truth is that: to "succeed In the city 'a man ,rrlu8t be a business man; active, alert, Industrious, and giving to his business the best that Is in him. As not! all men are built onthese lines there are failures In the city. " All that the nation, and the Btate, and the commercial clubs, and the bankers, and the railroads are doing Is to try to carry to the country the very 6ame atmosphere that tells of success In the city.'We are all try ing to make the country man" active, alert interested, sjangulne, indus trious. And . we are; trying to work this change in the country dwellers, all at once. . - ;, ! Why, la , there .not .rapid,, and,. ap-i parent success? For one reason the farmers live much more in each oth er's sight than do the townsmen. If one make's an onward step, tries a new crop, invests in new slock, branches out in a new farm Indus- j try, all Lis neighbors know It. and are on the watch. Mayhap that ad-: vancer has gone a bit too fast, has tried out an experiment before he had quite learned his lesson. The trial has not made good. Every one around knows it, and plumes him self on his caution In waiting. It will be some time before an other gains courage to try. Another obstacle In the new way Is the shyness of the average farmer and his fear of ridicule. The ex perimenter is a marked man. and, though he would ndt adrgit It, dreads a nickname, for getting out of the ruck. :.,',.. -.'.... . . A third trouble is the want of courage to let go of the old "ways, In which the farmer la sure of him self, and sure also of the medium and safe returns on which the fam ily living rests. Against all this what is to be put? The vigorous lift of the new educa tion, the Influence of the college, of the papers, of the shows and fairs; of the grange, of the railroad, and of the experimental farm. This last, backed by the resident or traveling Instructor must never be forgotten.! And., not least, the pervasive Influ ence of the neighboring, enterpris ing and progressive farmer, who, knowing he Is right fears not to go ahead. , ' ' . V - ' s . So we may as well all Join the pro cession as be left behind, ran over In the old rut ' NEWS FROM JERUSALEM . 0! NLY a few years ago the past and the present in Jerusalem were connected without a, vis ible break. There was noth ing in the appearance of the -narrow streets, rough and unpaved, dirty and unlighted, In the dark shops and ancient- buildings, to suggest the nineteenth, much less the twentieth century. The water supply of the city was as In the days of the Cru saders. The government and polic ing of the city was no better than la the ordinary Turkish town.' By some strange 'Impulse from the changes at Constantinople, from the inspiration of progress from the Young Turks, very recent travelers notice a general awakening in the city. 1 The last arrival Is large Ameri can motor road rolrer. .A new and efficient tramway service Is being In stalled. Tenders are now invited for lighting the city by electricity. The water supply is taken in hand. Large reservoirs are to be construct ed twelve and eighteen mlleB In the upper valley of the Brook Cherlth, north of the city. The paving of the streets Is being undertaken. A telephone service has been already installed, . Lastly, the Turkish no llce are being equipped with bicycles. Can the force of progress any farther go. A Turkish bicycle policeman in Jerusalem ! What next? CHURCH UNION I N Australia the union of the Church of England that is the Protestant Episcopal church, as it Is known here with the Pres byterian church has been long under consideration. Commissions or com mlttees on union which have been meeting for many months for dis cussion of the points of faith' and practice which have kept ' the two bodies apart have now come to a con elusion,, which is to be submitted ai a basis of cooperation and nnion. It is proposed that union shall be "effected and consummated by a Joint solemn act under the sanction and authority of both churches, in which each church shall confer upon the presbyters of the other all the rights and privileges necessary for the exercise of their office In the united church, so that from the mo ment of such union ail the presby ters of each church shall have equal status in the United church." The creeds of these two great branches of the Christian church ap pear to have been left untouched In these deliberations, each retaining Its own formula of faith. Between the creeds tftere is no real variance. But it is hard to imagine a United church of which one part should trace its origin, according to Its con victions, back to the days of the Apostles, and Its ministry to the three orders of bishops, priests and deacons. And the other part should carry on the usages and submit to the governance of elders and synods after the Presbyterian mode, while the "pulpits" Of each division ' sh&uld be open to the ministers of the other on terms of absolute equity. !: : : Thought It Was the Climate. . From Cincinnati Times-Star. A Scotchman landed 'in Canada not long ago. The very first morning he Walked abroad he met a coal black ne gro. It happened that the negro had been born in the highland district of Scotland?and had spent the greater part of his life there. Naturally, he had a burr on his tongue. "Hey, mmle," said the pink Scotch man, "can ye ho tall me wheer I'll find the kirk?" '..;:.- The darkey took him by the arm and led hlra to the corner. "Go rlcht up to you wee hoose and turn to ye'rs rlcht, and gang up the hill," said he. The fresh Importation from Scotland lfcoked up at him in horror. "And arre yVfrom Scotland, mon?" he asked. R-relcht ye arre," said the darkey, "Aberdeen's ma hame." . "And boo lang have ye been here?" "Aboot two year," said the darkey. "Lord save us and keep us!" said the new arrival. "Whaur can I get the, boat for Edlnbur?" ; Obred Instructions. . . 'U Prisoner I didn't steal the horse. I only took him from the fellow what stole him. ' S i ,'' Sheriff I phoned that to the vigi lance committee, but H'snn go. They phoned me to hang up the receiver... Letters From tlie People I C'mtrnnl-ttor frnt to Tb J.Mirnl for piiN t li"itm la tb ia department heu!4 rmt wd R'M worda In lprgtb and tnuM b an-oBpeuled j tba name aod addrraa ( tb eeuder.) Welcome to Portland. Tortland, Or.. Jfarch 29. To the Edit or of The Journal The "hero of Se attle" lias beeri engaged by some pat riotic land owners of Portland to come to Oregon and wipe up the earth with the single taxere. He Is to get $3000 for trie Job. Cheap at half the money! His name Is Charles IL Shields, and he proposes to stand In the front and bare Ms hreast to the storms end rego of the single tax while he "shields" the people of Oregon from an awful fate. . . . ; We "have heard much of "paid advo cates,of the single tsx," Now comes a paid advocate of tx dodging, fresh from the slaughter of Seattle, and pro poses great things, Meanwhile.. In Seattle, th single tax era do not know they have ben slaugh tered. . They think that with a three week's campaign, a few , hundred dol lars and a handful of speakers, to get 12,000 votes for one tax measure and 8000 for anoOier Is pretty good work. They propose to carry on a year'a. cam paign and to establish a state campaign for better forms of taxation In Wash ington. - The 5000 empty house in Seattle are not filling up. The single tax In Seat tle Mid not empty them. . Every day a ! man comes bark from British Columbia, 1 or sends back, and family bundles Its trunks on a steamer and hikes from Seattle to a section of the world where Improvements ar taxed nothing, for local purposes and next year .will be taxed nothing for state purposes. Shields says that they have no single tax In British Columbia, . Very well then, -Charlie. There Is no proposal to have the single tax In Portland, either. We want what they have In British Col umbia and just a little more. That lit tle more la what they are already pre paring for" tn British Columbia In ad dition to what they have now. They call It "horse sense" in British Colum bia, In Seattle Shields said it was "eonflscatlonl" There will be seven months in Oregon to nail the lies that Shields wtlj tell. There was only three or four days for some of them in Se attle. The people thera have found out several. They wlU find out more. Anyway, ' welcome to Charles H. Shields, the great antt-single taxer. Portland needs him. Our tax dodgers need him. Our big land spec a la tors who wont to see 100,000 people come to Portland to buy homes and real estate need him. Seattle la a shining example! Five thousand empty houses In Seattle where Shields has saved the city from confiscation! Thousands building more homes In Vancouver and Victoria where "confiscation'' has created a land boom. ALFRED D. CRIDOE. Will the Voters MQet Wise." Astoria, Or.. March 29. To the Edit or of The Journal. A friend of mine in eastern Oregon writes that he believes that I ought to be sent as a delegate to the Democratic national convention. not only because I am the homeliest but also one of the liveliest candidates for delegate on the Democratic ticket The only danger, he says. Is the fact that my name begins with a W, and since the candidates upon the primary ballot wilt be printed In alphabetical order, it may be, says he, that the aver age voter may In the hurry of marking his ballot, vote for the first name he finds. ' ... ."' Now, personally, I think my ; good brother is mistaken, because have al ways found that Democrats are very cautious and that they will get "wise' before they finish voting. However, since everybody writes to the newspapers asking all sorts of questions from matrimony to scarlet fever, I take- the liberty of submitting the following: Would it be proper for me to ehange my name to H. Wise Anderson or Her man Wise Allen so as to be among the A's right on top? Do you think that it would conflict with the primary law, the corrupt prac tices act and the Declaration of Inde pendence? And If not contrary to the rules of the same should I apply to the secre tary of state or to the attorney general? Or, It may be best after all to leave the whole matter to the voters; I'm sure they will do what Is right whether my nam is on top, In the middle, or last HERMAN WISE. - Contrasted Social Solutions. Talent, Or., March 18. To the Editor of The Journal I am told by certain writers, that the teaching; of socialism Is, that "everyone Is entitled to what be produces, by his own labor." A hard working man would produce more than a physically wetijk individual. After earning It, he may build him a fine mansion, furnish It to suit him, and have all the luxuries of life. From his labor the weaker brother can build only a small cabin and his furniture la poor; hence under socialism you SEVEN FAMOUS TRAITORS Benedict When Benedict Arnold lay dying in a rude garret In London, an aged min ister stood "beside his couch. He was keeping a death watch within the shat tered walls. "Would you die a Chris tian T he asked, as he knelt on the damp floor. "Christian r he aid. "Will that faith give me back ray honor. Look ye, priest, this faded coat Is spotted with my piooa. This coai i wore wnen I first heard the news of Lexington; when I planted the banner of the stars on - Ticoftderoga; that, bullet hole was pierced in the? fight at Quebec; and now I am a let me wnisper in your ear a traitor!" ' The aged minister unrolled the .faded flag. He examined the dying man's parchment It was a colonel's commis sion in the Continental army addressed to Benedict Arnold. And there In that hide hut, unwept, unknown, In all the bitterness of desolation, lay the corpse of the patriot and traitor. Thus died Benedict Arnold, once the pride of the American army, but am bition had made him so far forget him self as to try to betray the trust that had been placed in him. He. had at tempted to betray the strong post of West Point and its dependencies Into the hands of the enemy. As a soldier and a leader he was the bravest of the brave. Washington admired his genius, but he was distrustful of his patriot ism. Nor was he alone suspicious. ''Money Is this men's god, and to set enough of it he would sacrifice his countrv." said colonel Brown in a-nand bill almost four years before Arnold's aerecuun. Prom the hour when temptation lured him at Montreal and St. Johns, till the termination of his command in Fhila delDhia, he was guilty of peculations, fraudulent and unworthy sets wh'U dimmed the luster of his military fame. ' In consequence of a bad wound re cetved in his leg while fighting at Bar Stuga, Ai neld " wee ne4M fit f or" nethrs service when tne British evacuated Pnll adelphla In-1778. Washington, desirous of keeping him employed, appointed him military governor of Philadelphia.. Fond of show, Jfirnold 'adopted a sty!eof liv ing Incompatible with his resources. He enter a city ni you find the ra-laee sM by side with U.e rnr rouse. The superiority of the teaching of Chrl.t Is. he teaches ue to leave our fellow men as ourselves, and If we have any good, to share It with our brother. Read Acta 2: 44-15; also 4: 34-35 and I John J: 18-1. "Hereby perceive we the lov of Ood. because he laid down his life for us; so we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. But whoso hath this world's goods and seeth his brother have need, and ehut teth up his bowels of compassion from htm, how dwelleth the lives of God la htmr LTJMAN NORTON. JTJDD. Benefits of Single Tax. To the Editor of The Journal "The single tax would exempt money, notes and accounts,' says the Oregoniaa, which opposes single tax. Under the present law most of the money, notes and accounts is exempt contrary to law, because .the owners of such property don't tell the truth about It In 1910 the .assessor Benton county didn't find a dollar of money, notes and accounts In the county. The total amount of such property found In the state wss 120,480.441. No producer of wealth Is benefited by the taxation of money, notes and ac counts. ' Industry Is not benefited by taxation df such property. The tax on money does not fall on the owner of the money unless the owner Is using the money for his business or household: ex penses. Tbe money lender either dodges the tax or charges It In interest to the borrower. The higher rate of Interest Injure the borrower and helps no one except the money lender, who often, charges more Interest on account of the tax and then dodgs the tax. Who is benefited by a tax on notes and accounts? No one, unless ths holder of the note falls to put It into his as sessment and then charges higher In terest on account of the tsx. ' Business cannot be conducted Without credits. A tax on money, notes"nd ac counts Js a tax on credits; sovit Is s tax on business, on Industry. Credit are a part of the machinery of business and Industry. Ws want more business and more Industry. Why tax a neces sary part of the machinery of Industry and business? ' . If the exemption of money, notes and aocounts from taxation Is Injurious to the community, perhaps the Oregonlan can .show how the taxation of such property helps the community. Why doesn't (t show? . W. O. EGOLESTON. Lebanon, Or., March S8. To the Edi tor of The Journal if Theodore I Is elected and crowned on March 4. 1913. will he continue as ruler until his death? Or will Prlnoeas Alice be crowned at the close of four years? Will w have to make provision for the other members of the royal family as Is done tn other monarchies? We are willing to be taxed and so hungry that our king may revel in luxury, but we believe that he should sot tax us to go through, the expense of an election every four years. But if he should require It we bow in humble submis sion and sing "Long Lire the King!" . SUBSCRIBER. America's Missing Mackerel. The mackerel was one of the great staple fish foods of the country as far back as colonial days, and the fishery was very actively prosecuted in New England, and. to some extent In the middle , Atlantic states. In 18811, after several years of unprecedented abun dance, the mackerel dropped off sua denly and baa never resumed its former plcnteousness. The fishery ; of last year wss the poorest In the history of the country, as against a catch of about too.ooo barrels of salted fish In 1885, the catch of 1910 was only 2700 barrels. There ara today Invested In the mack erel fishery nearly 82.000,000, but the fishery Is being prosecuted mors in the way of a lottery than anythinr else. Notwithstanding the Ions continued dis appearance of the mackerel, vessels are fitted out every spring in the ex pectation that the, missing fish will come back la as great numbers as in 1885. Sixteen hundred men have been year after year holding on to this fishery with the hope that something will turn up. If the mackerel were to come back their vessels would make tremen dous profits. Salted mackerel are worth 940 -a barrel today, whereas In 1860 they sold for 94 to 85 a barrel. " The diminution In the catch came so suddenly that It Is difficult to ascribe It to active fishing operations. The bureau of fisheries experts have been inclined to believe that there are some physical factors operating on the eggs and the young which prevent the de velopment of the young fish, but they ao not Know positively. , It is hoped that the international in ves titration by the foreign fishery ex perts wui determine whether the mack ere! has recently undergone a decrease in abundance or has sought other grounds and Is likely to return. U. 8. Fisheries Bulletin. Arnold. made the fine mansion of William Pent) his residence, kept horses and carriages, gave splendid banquets and charmed the gayer portion of Philadelphia society with his princely displays. His sta tion captivated Margaret the daughter or Edward Shippen, a leading loyalist, ana they were married. t.': Arnold s extravagance soon brought importunate creditors to his door. The rank weed of treason was already grow ing in his heart for he had been for nine months In secret correspondence wnu.ine enemy in Ktw lork. . Clinton was covetous of West Point. It was the key to the northern country. Arnold knew its value to both parties and he resolved to make its betrayal ths equiv aient ror personal honors and a large sum or money. 4 In August, 1780, he was given com mand Of West Point and its deDenden cies from Stony Point to Flshklll, There upon began his final steps of treason Arnold communicated the details of hti plans to Clinton and proposed that when the assailants approached a larite Brit ish force should proceed up the Hudson in a flotilla under Admiral Rodney, when the traitor should surrender. The plans were completed and they were to be carried out through the aid of Major Andre. . When Andre was try ing to convey message from Arn Jld to the Britif.li he was overtaken by several continental soldiers and tho treasonable object of his, Journey was discovered, . ';-. Arnold Was at breakfast on the morn Ing of September 84 when a messenger arrived, announcing the capture of An dre. The-traitor arose from the table. bade his wifrf good-bye, mounted a hors and was soon within the British lines. Andre was hanged as a spy on Octqber 2, 1780. The traitor Arnold, though 'un successful, received the thousand guln ess from the British treasury and the commission of a brigadier from th kinsr of England. Thereafter the served the even -tils new found friends placed no truetirin the traitor, and after the-war he became an outcast and, died In Lon don in 1801. -. -f i'r . Tomorrow August Von KotMbue, Ths Jail Amy ulian Leavitt in American JUgalr.fl. "'If you will only stop to think of it,' heard' FTofessor John II. 'Wigmore, f the Northwestern University Law chool, tell the American Prison asso- latlon at Washington, in 1910, thre re between three thousand and four thousand men In the country today hold ing official positions whose sole business every day of their lives Is to send peo ple to Jail. I mean the prosecuting at torneys. ' 'And there are two thousand to three thousand men whose sole business is to cooperste in sending men ,, to jail. I mean the criminal Judges. Andy these five thousand or six thousand men are every day sending men to Jail without, for th most part, any conpeptlon of the science of sending men to Jail. They hot enly do not know that science but most of them do not know there Is a scUnce, and when you speak of It to them they do not care. Now Professor WIgmore is not a sensationalist. He Is one of the fore most scademlo Jurlgts of. the country. He Is presldsnt of the American Insti tute of Criminal Law and Criminology, which is the one learned body In this field that America can boast His state ment, though strikingly bold, was care fully considered. It wss addressed to a serioua body of men and women; and it was accepted, promptly and emphat ically, aw a correct statement -of exists Ing- conditions. I feel safe, therefore in building upon It . !-s "Kvery ysv these Judges and prose cuting attorneys Imprison, In care-free rasnion, enough men, women and boys to depopulate a city as great as Bos ton or Pittsburg. They put these crea tures away and promptly forget them. ins rest of us never think of them. And yet it must be plain to every thinking mind that In a society so closely knit as ours Is tods?- you earmot put swsy a half million human beings every year and fora-et them. One need be no sen timentalist to hold that We aro mem bers or.e of soother" In a sense as real and -literal as ever Bt. Paul: meant these words; for, after all, thffe people do not stay In prlsowt fore;vHi : Ail but s handful of Hfers'-Jeb'm. rive thoussnd. more or less sooner or. later find their' wy uacn to us, inetr?pvs touching ours at rnsny points, unpeen and un suspected. If the prison baa broken them It is we who nay the bill in the end.-. . t .... OUT OF POCKET, i From Ideaf. He was a rather overdressed routh and attracted much attention when he enterea tne ear. He occupied the only vacant seat beside a rather elderly gen tleman. When the conductor came for his fare h fumbled for his money and -then suddenly became very pale. . un, i ve been robbed!" he xaaned. "There is nothing but a bit of an old cigar In my pocket." My boy,' said the deep bass voice of the man by his side, "would you mind Uking your hand out of my pocket?" MADE A DIFFERENCE. From Tit-Bits. It was kit Inspection and the different companies of the battalion, were tend ing with their kits on the ground In front of them. The sergeant major was making the examination, when hit eagle eye detected the absence of soap in the kit of Private Fllnn. and he demanded what excuse the man had to give. fiase, sorr. lfs au used. . said Fllnn, "Used!" shouted the sergeant major. "Why. the first cake of soap I had" served me for my. kit lasted me three years, while you are not a year in the ranks yet. How do you, account for tbatr Fllnn's wye had the faintest suspicion of a twinkle, as he replied: "Fiase, sorr, l wash every day." And ths sergeant major walked on while ths whole company grinned. v BHD KNEW. . Ftom McCall's Magaxlns, , "My dear," called a wife to her bus- . band, who was In the next room, "what are you opening that can with?" "why. he said, "with a can opener; what did you suppose X was doing It with?" : - "Well' replied his wife, "I thought from your remarks you were opening It -with prayer." J Pointed Paragraphs " Don't attempt to feed s starving man with advice. Boms candidates look around for an Issue in order to dodge It. ..'. The self made' man has an abundant supply of reverence for his maker. A man realises how foolish he Is when he is sober, but when drunk he forgets 1t Many a man who calls s spade a spade applies other names to a snow shovel. ' . - - . . e It's easier to forget what yon ought to know than to know what you ought to forget . ' - A womart'-flever thinks her husband so unreasonable' as when he expects ber to be reasotble. It Is often difficult to tell' whether a woman's laughter means tears or her tears mean laugnter. i. When a conceited man meets a pretty girl he feels that she Is to be congratu lated because of their meeting.-.-.. ' Mistaken Kindness. ' ' ' From Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph'.. -: The servants were abed and the doe tor answered the bell himself. A col ored man stood on the steps holding a large package.''''- '.'. "Is Mies Matilda, the cook, at heme, sin.hr asked the man,'1' '..' " "Yes, but she has retired," returned the doctor. .:""'.".,,' -V'''.'.;s f "Can I leave dls fo' her, sahr "Certainly," said the doctor. -. He took the bundle, front which flow ers and buds wers protrudrtg, and after bidding the man good night, carefully .carried It Into the kitchen, where he de posited it paper and all, in a pan of water. - .- - The -doctor thought nothing more of the affair until he heard Matilda's angry voice raised in conversation with the maid. ; ... "' . ' "Ef I had de pusson heahV cried the cook, "da t put mah new spring hat in dls yer dtspan I'd scald 'em fo' sho'I" , ,t As Far as He "Knew. From the Washington Herald. '" say, old ' man. Is your wife a blonde?"- "She.-. was when she left for Palm Beach lastmonth, and I haven't seen anything to the contrary In ths society papers." - . , : . ; ... . " BeTIevSng' that tlie' colonist' passenger traffic will Justify Immediate through service, the management of tho N.-C.-O. has announced that, beginning April 7, Lakevlew will be given dally service to and from Reno, with a II hour schedule, one train each way dally. Always iri Gooii Humor