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3 . the Oregon sunday journal... Portland,,. Sunday .morning,. November .3 1912. I THE JOURNAL Hr:WDKPKNDENT KKW8PAPER. !. S.- JACKSON. . , PobUabar t-ublUned rwnrj malng (axcept Sunday 1 and tierr Sunday morning at Tn Journal Build Id. Tib and TaoiblU ate., Portland Or. Entd at tha peatotHc at Portland. Or., for tranimlsaloa ibroagn -the mall- second la Matter. ' TELEPHONES . Mala TI7S; Homa, A-051. All drpartmcnts reached by theae numbers. tru ma operator whit department yoa to FUHKIGN ADVERTISING BEPBESKNTATI VK. If..., I cr A 1. I .. 1, T) 1 1 1 1 H 1 tl S25 Fifth ayafrue, Htw Yorfci i 1218 People a uaa . auuiiinn, Bobacrlptlon Terma bj mall or to any addreas u ua united etatea or ttexioo. , . ' ' 7 DA1LT. Ona jrta.;,..,..$6.00 One month .80 1 'v, ..V SUNDAY. Ona year........ $2.80 ) One month I .25 DAILY ASD 8DNDAT. On year.. .-,,.,,.$7.60 Ona month .. .65 than : that an old man should have nothing to show that he has .'.'lived long. except his years. Btneca. -iroamtr and suffrage.' l 3 MAN Buperlor and woman in- ; the answer of law, made by man . through Beveral thousand : years of history is in the affirma tive. " r - 7T-,- Until thirty years ago, a widow had no right to burial In the family lot In Massachusetts. It, was the tlaw that ij forty, days in the husband's residence after his death without paying Tent. She may . have earned the money which bought the house, but she " had to jgo, or pay rent . It Is only within a generation in many of the states that a married woman gained the right to own her own clothes. ""Bef ore that her cloth ln g was her husband's property. ; ' In the United StateB, except in a (few western states, the child of the , 'married woman belongs to the hus band. As late as 1888 there were several states in which women could not control their own property,. and -there are 'a few states In which that practice still obtains. f The"common "law" of England ' Is the Jaundatlon. of . American iurlar. pfudence,' and Blackstone says wo man is a perpetual minor, that hus- . band and wife ire ner and that one ;is the husband. In some eastern states thirty years ago, this was un- , modified, and married women had no more rights than, wives in Eng- land. A husband was permitted by "Iawto punish the, woman with a stick, and the had.no redress. She .. could not rent a .house .her earnings belonged ttfi": her husband,' ahd he owoa 111 ner reai estate. .1 In -.France the ; discrimination against woman by man-made laws is still greater. The alleged infer lorlty of woman ia made ajpparent In many statutes. -A child born tn wedlock belongs to and is under con trol of the father until Of age. Any child born out of wedlock, is father less, Xit may sue its mother for maintenance; but -must not seek Its father- because of the scandals that would be provoked. No promise of marriage, even In writing, not even a written avowal of paternity is legal evidence to 'compel a father to support Buch a .chUdJhatJt! - legitimate-child, but the-mother-is author of the Illegitimate child, a . Jaw. showing the terrible discrimina tion against woman. "Under the French code, for vlo "latiomof theTnarriagevows, a hus band is granted a divorce, but the wife, if convicted may be imprisoned .for three months to two years. She husband keeps a mistress in the house tinder her eyes. The penalty for him Is $20 to $500 fine, and "no -Imprisonment. - - - At one time a woman In France could not become a milliner unless married,-or nnless a -man sold her . the privilege to use his name. r.;:';;'v ' : Under the Victorian rule, woman gained more rights In England than iln- 800 years before. Until 1836 a l. -woman could not apply for a di vorce in England. A married wo ' man could not open a bank account, " could not sue in her own name,' and could not collect her own earnings ' after marriage, not even if she had been deserted by her husband, and was ; wholly supporting herself. A married woman was injured in a railroad accident, and brought suit for damages under her husband's yxame from whom she was separated. The court's award of damages went Jo the husband and not a penny of it reached the wife and the children whom Bhe was supporting. - , As late a3 1871, drunken and In ' dolent husbands could collect the .TwIfeT8wages and spend the money as they . saw fit, even though the wifej and children were starving. 7 Complete' property emancipation for ' . woman did not come until 1S83. - -Until 1839 the father was sole parent, under the law. The mother had no legal right over the children during the husband's lifetime. At death he often handed the children over to a guardian and debarred tde mother, from seeing them,, Even today, a father's responsibility for the support of a child is only 50 . cents a week up to the time the child U 13. Until .1878 married women in England were merely servants to their husbands. Even today, to pro cure a divorce, a wo'man niust prove cruelty and infidelity, while the husband has but to charge infidelity. Woman's position of "inferiority undor the law and customs,' Blnks still lower in the loss civilized coun tries, and tbe passngrxback through the centuries to remoter- ages. . in the marriage ceremony among the hill tribes. of India, the brldo stoops forward while her husband puts his right and then his left foot on her head. rln some - parts dI astern Russia the father gives "the bride. a few cuts with a whip as a warning of what to expect If Bhe disobeys her husband. Among the Maoris of New Zea land when the bride la given away' the near relatives say to the groom Take- her, eot her,- leather, kill her. do as you like with her In I early Rome and Greece a woman was without hope, or immortality. She was exalted In heaven only do far as she honored her husband. The hatred and disappointment awakened by the birth of , a female child"" waiTcneof too early charie" terlstlcs, and a tremendous Indica tion xt the telief -In-voman'B lnfer- iority. The mother was often beaten when a female infant was "born. If a Mohammedan father is . sked how many children he has he will answer that he has iwo, even though he has -Romafc-law forbad - father from; killing, the first daughter born, but made no mention as to female infants that came later. In China a blind daughter is turned adrift at the age of 12. 4L,'i...iL- tn Corea husbands have absolute power over their wives and concu bines, and among the wealthy, wives aro Jcept veiled until the end of their1 days. ""The burning of widows wapract-in-Jn4ianUl- wnen it waB fcrbidd't. by -he Brit ish. In outlying districts It was practiced until 1877. In the same country childless widows are re garded as tho blackest criminals. Among the .Harhmans her head is shaved every two weeks and she Is allowed only one meat a-day and one dress of the coarsest material. When her husband dies she Is com pelled to follow the funeral proces sion afar off, while a woman pre cedes her warning people to flee from the accursed being. In a cen sus taken a few years ago, there were 40,000 widows under ten years of age. in one province alone. The Athenian wives remained in secluded apartments and were al lowed to appear on the streets only on festival occasions, and only then when veiled, face and all, with a sheet-like garment. The first transportation service the world ever knew was woman. The burdens borne on her back and head are today over a large part of the earth the only, transportation service. Most of the water for household use is. carried on her head in far eastern lands today. The Holland milkmaid carries one pall on her head and two others on a yoke across her (shoulders. The Borneo woman spends the whole day In the fields and carries home at night a heavy load of veg etables and firewood, often a dis tance of several miles. She pounds rice with a heavy wooden stamp which violently strains every part of her body. . She begins to labor at 10 and never ceases until the sun of life is ready to set. ' - When the Arabs are moving the husbands mount the camels and the women look efter the hords, take down the tents and do all else that Is to be done. In a village In fho Himalayas women and girls, from i ne fliBcrifnUfiHons possible Tn an early morn until late at night, trudge ia88eBSor'8 off,co mako K a vltal up hill underloads or lumber ."brick ! fofce in our government, a govern stone and earth that they are carry-; ment inBtituted for human welfare ing to structures under erection. The daily t age is five cents for a girl and eight forTnronranr The German peasant women carrr packs on their back that outweigh the knapsacks of many soldiers com bined. Indeed, the story of man is not one of what wgmcn has done, but what she has not done, for the . ' race. -y-et-wman-'B raward for several thousand years of unflinching effort ; treive candidate for sheriff, andjn , ... , . . .. s Us eagerness to defeat Mr. Fitngerald her recognition for ages of toil, self-; u lmgp rcsorted to the most Invidious denial, Btruggle and providing, is comparisons, has not stopped at char that, with a few exceptions, she Is acter assassination; and, whereas. by everywhere held as an inferior. In the early ages when the chief occu pation of man was fighting, hia ex istence rested on woman's back, head and arms, for the warriors drew their support from the cease less toil of women, from the looms In the kitchen and the early and late work of women In the fields. It Is woman everywhere that makes man's progress possible, by lifting from him the multitudinous burdens of living and leaving him free to follow his one calling. Curious!, enough the higher we advance in civilization the more 11b- eral man becomes In intending priv ileges to woman. We are trending;' mnro and mnro tnvsH o imf rJOUmai U itv bfn th HO Dn before the law, an equality at the ballot, an equality that . through many centurleB of devotion, sisters, daughters, wives and mothers have richly earned. CAPITAL rUNlSILMENT. M ORE murders are committed in capital punishment states than are committed per capita! in states that have abolished the death penalty. The percentage of increase of homicides in capital punishment states is larger per capi a than in states in which the death penalty has been abolished Maine; Rhode Island,. Michigan and Wisconsin aboliehed capital punishment more than ten years be- capTCaTunMmeht states lnTT899 is shown by the federal census to have been two and onerhalMlmes aa great as In t,he jqon-capital punishment states.'' " .y For the years- f908, 1909 and Vr.-tVtviHt'itwIf'W "mh--mtr- l-kt'-tV'Qt' 'Wt' .'i ii . ii ' 1910 the ratio of homicides in 'the four non-capital-punishment states, was 66.1 per million Of population. The ratio for the capital punishment-states Twas-145.2 per. million. , : Homicides are swiftly increasing in the United States, but the ratio of increase , in capital , punishment states is more than three and: one half times as, great as in states that have abandoned the death penalty. Thus the percentage of increase for the four . non-capltal-punlshment states for the three rears of 1908. 1909 and "1910 over the three years of 1901, 1902 and. 1903 was 90 per cent. During the same years the in crease in the reporting capital pun ishment states was 312 per cent. Every one of the states which : has abolished tapltal - punishment-shows a lower, rate of increase than the atates-whlch-have-retalned it. The states of Wisconsin and Cali fornia are almost equal in popula tion, ."California with capital punish ment has six times as many, homi cides s Wisconsin, without capital punishment. J. ,.,,..,...!i:J,,T.,. - A killing by the state psychologi cally causes the individual, especially the degenerate, to hold killing lightly. Rev. J. Roberts of Bristol says of 180 condemned murderers ho visited, 164 had attended a pub lic hanging. At the hanging they learned the lesson of killing. Experience, reason and morals all advise the abolishment of hangings. -X)BUGAT1QXS JfffljQWEa. T l HE JOURNALuppoftrTffr. Wagnon with full and accurate knowledge of all the facts. J It knows Mr. Wagnon. It knows Mr. Reed. It has no hesitancy In insisting that Mr. Wagnon's election is preferable. If elected. Mr. Wagnon will give an efficient administration of the office. It will be an administration by law. The Journal will undertake to see that Mr. Wagnon gives thlB people an administration by law in stead of an administration by favor itism. Such an administration is the only interest The Journal has in the assessor's office. We are undermining,, society by creating, tax. perjurers. . Wa are de? stroylng respect for the law by dodg ing the law in tax matters. We are making ourselves a generation of law evaders, and law destroyers by our lax and inefficient processes of assessment. We have no right to contlnuo present abuses. We owe it to so cletyto follow the laws and be con trolled by the laws or .abolish the laws-- We have no right to apply the law to one man and not to an other. Our officials have no right to go outside the law or be above the law in the performance of their duties. The Journal seriously insists that Mr. Wagnon. has a keen appreciation of this phase of our social life, and official obligations, and that Is why it advocates his election. It la con vinced that he will be no tool of special interests. It is convinced that no strings will be pulled oh him by powerful men who are wont to evade taxes. If there should be, The Journal will be first to condemn him and first to lead a fight for his recall, . ' No office In Multnomah county so intimately -concern-- many-people and not to afford a living for offi cial parasites NOTHING TO RETRACT. T Tittt following resolution ba been formally Journal: served on The .... ...... ' v. - rntlB -Rl HX - w, -mw.w .4H.vuu member of organized labor, namely. Mr. W. II. Fii7,gPraldJBCU&iL(aaJjaU, Its uniruiniui unrunucrj iTtiHi h.hihi'- slons upon thousands of honorable worklngmen and women of our county and city; be It therefore resolved, by tlie Central Labor council of Portland and vicinity, that an immediate retrac tion Is demanded of the slanderous In sinuations that organized labor is working hand in hand Hh the ele ment of vice to eloct Fitzgerald sheriff of Multnomah county. On the contrary. the Central .Labor council recommends Mr. Fitzgerald to the voters as a clean! honest, fearless man wno win give .id people a square deal and the co-opera tion of all self respecting citizens is solicited in electing W. H. Fitzgerald sheriff of Multnomah county. (Signed) R. O. RECTOR, President. E. J. STACK, Secretary. 1. The gentlemen who issue this command to The Journal say "The as attacked a:i honored iand respected member of organized slanderous article published broad cast In Mr. Fitzgerald's behalf, and called upon him to repudiate It which he should do. 2. The gentlemen say The Jour nal "cast aspersions upon thousands of honorable worklngmen and wo- 1 men of o'ur county and cltv." It has done nothing of the kind. It wag the grand parade of the North End In support of Mr. Fitzgerald on which Tbe Journal cast aspersions, and the Central Labor council knows j it. In every Journal article there i was a distinct statement that there ' was a clean, element suDportine Mr. Fitzgerald. 3. The gentlemen say The Jour- nal made "slanderous Insinuations that organized labor was working vice to elect Fitzgerald sheriff." The Journal' did nothing of the kind. It never mentioned organized labor. It :u.ido no reference Jo or ganized labor. 5 It did not even as sume that Mr, Fitzgerald had tbe solid support ' of organized labor, and" does not now understand that he "has. u'r i i ; . . Meanwhile, ; no retraction ; will be made of anything.,' Every word The Journal has printed on the subject stands. . U.K-' i' ' ' Thla newspaper v refuses to. .be coerced by the Cettral Labor coun-i cil. It refuses to be coerced by gen tlemen, , organized or. unorganized. It refuses to-be coerced by organ Ized capital. It refuses to beoerced by anybody or anything. :i Jj If that be treason the utterance of Patrick Henry is fit Make the most of it - THE DRIFT OF THE CHURCH. IWQajJie(L.and,opposltienr dencles are noticeable in the churches of today. The one is me aeveiopmeni pi ine DusinesB and institutional side of. its activi ties. The fyemand for efficiency has Invaded the : sacred precincts.' The pastor must be a man of business the manager of a great enterprise. ire must control his church Officers and assistants, keep the pilot's hand on the wheel of all church societies, have a watchful eye on the temporal- Itles of the" church, and be ready at t all times , to make excursions into the charities and economics of the city. Hia time, and that of his as sistants is never their own they know no , work hours, for their activities are never ended. The suc cess of that variety, of pastor is measured by the work got out of the great machine. - 1 The activities of such a pastor are reflected in the membership of the church. There is work found for every one In the family. The con dition sought is one , of perpetual motion tending, it la true, towards good at every point of contact be tween the , church and the world,' to use an almost absolute term. The ancient description of the Christian as a pilgrim and a sojourner can hardly be applied today, and the vision of the heavenly city is apt to bo indistinguishable in the glare and glitter that, surrounds us. It is true enough that such a pastor and such a people constitute a very - living force for. good in the community, but may tbey not sacrifice thereby some great portion of their individ ual spiritual life? This danger flndj expression from both laymen and ministers. Among laymen it takec the. form of a reso lute organization of forces to relieve the minister from eveVy form of business or material responsibility. Carried to excess it becomes a pro test against what is. call' d politics in the pulpit. As if there were not occasions when the pulpit must do vital work in upholding the stand ard of moral right in the affairs of state and city. After all" the primary' office of the church is to foster the individual religion of its members, from which good works shall spring, as good fruit from a good tree. Unless the tree be full of life root trunk, branches, leaves, no good fruit can be gathered. The minister who preaches today the Christ of the Bible as the source and Inspiration of spiritual life, who has a simple message to deliver, whose life is a testimony to his fidelity to the truths he preaches, he jit-iajgJuaejcJiujch . , la . f llled byl ThatrxhuTch s the city set on a hill, Vhich cannot bo hid. Letters From tke People '(Comnjuoh-atluna ant ia Tti Journal fur publication in tbia department abonld ha written on or.l ona alda of tna paper, bould not airavd S00 word) In lanctb and mnat be uremmmum oirntmr"tid-"iai)rai -uf-ttra trader. If tba writer doaa not deilra to bar tbe name pubuabad, ba abiuld ao aute. Discusses Senator Bourne. Portland, . iIflv2.To-..thft..Edltor-. of The Journal I maKe an appear to all who-favor an attack on that -formof special privilege known as protection to vote for Dr. Lane and especially against Senator Bourne for the follow ing reasons; .One of the defects of our system of government is that we make a platform, elect a president on that platform and then oppose him with a sen ate or lower house which is absolutely opposed to him and the plntform on which he was elected. In other words, we declare against monopoly-breeding protection and elect Vilson. Then -we elect Mr. Bourne tofe help oppose Mr. Wilson in the senate.' Of course, all the other senatorial candidate except I)r. Lane are also protectionists and these remarks apply to .ttoem as well. But 1 have eelected Mr. Bourne because he is claiming that having been in the senate he will be peculiarly valuable to Oregon.-- He was an Aldrich - protection ist In the senate and so voted j uni formly. For that reason he is the last man for anti-protectionists to return to that body. If Governor Marshall Is president of the senate, Mr. Bourne's pork barrel Influence will not bo so s t ron g as that of a Democrat. I personally have Tnoer objection! to Senator Bourne. He has attained great celebrity as the champion of the Oregon system, but the first time the Oregon system Is not to his wish he destroys it. No man can enter a direct primary and then refuse to abide by the decision, without destroying It All the sophistry in the world will not alter the fact Let the petitioners petition all they please, the man who has sub mitted himself to the direct primary has no right to make it a farce by shout ing for It If he wins and running again if he loses. Is Mr. Bourne or the di rect primary more dear to OregonlansT If the direct primary can so easily be kicked to th rubbish Iheap, the next will be Statement No. 1 when it does i not happen -to- Bult some future Mr. Bourne. C. E. S. WOOD. Why Mr. Jones Favors Single, Tax. Medford, Or., OctT 30. To-the Editor of The Journal I want to give my reasons for favoring the single tax measure. Four years ago, 1 owned 113 acres of dry land 20 miles north "of Medlar d-nj-hjch , I wasliyta - ,to - make a living for my family. Tha as seanor came and told me I had 85" acres under cuUiVution, and ha- Would assess it..utJi!l4icr a.creandtha balance, wild land, at .;o per acre, I ex plained" to him we were offering the place for $30 per acre, and would give & per cent to him If i would find a buyer. Yet, he assessed at $40 . per era oar Improved land, which .had cost 130 per acr to grub. I decided at once not to grub another acre, but to sell the place. - Lr.ter, J foupd a man willing- to pay $3U00 ror the 113 acres, providing he could buy the 160 acres of wild land across , the road from us. It belonged to tho Gold Ray Realty company.; We went to see the Gold Ray: people and asked them what they, would take for their HO acres of wild land. They said that. It they put a price on It, It would be prohibitive that It waa not for sale. I saw at once what my grubbing and clearing had done for them, and thatl was, assessed $37.60 an acre beside. Now, this Js true statement if facts. Can anyone blame me for favoring the single tax? aK. ' D. . JONES. Capital Punishment J "? ,-T Dilley, Or., Oct. StTo the Editor of The Journal Surely Jesus fdld not teach or advocate capital punishment lr Ihe-Jewleh-laWr-eapHal- punish tnent was permitted, it ia true; Christ did not come to destroy the law, but rather to ftrffHl-it-He alsa saJd le;would make '.all things new." He made the law new by giving It a better interpretation, and the law "brand Hew."- He said! "Ye have heard that It hath ' been eald, an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: but I say unto you, that ye resist not evil." He also said Love your -enemies.'!.;.;:..:!, ;:::.,,.. ,,., .:frr : The human race was oncle In Us In fancy, arid it was necessary that It should have certain, flgld laws In order to engender far, thus putting a damper upon men's actions. But aa the race veloped and grew'lnto a truer and nob ler conception of the relationship of man, it was no longer necessary to use the "rod," for love, as taught by Christ, became the powerful stimulus whereby' the various races now consider themselves a brotherhood one great family. With-th Is conception of the race, tt becomes evident that 'what hurts one member of theTamllyr hairmi all,-and! this Is becoming; an incentive on- the part of men to -respect one another's rights'. Teach men that wronged and wrongdoer must suffer together, and there will not be so much crime. But it must be taught In love. Vengeance and retaliation cannot remedy or lessen crime. ,. Capital punlshrnen- creates a spirit of animosity and should not be tolerated in a Christian land. ' " At best, it does but little, good for the time being, in the case of some men's lives, but who can estimate the evils which spring, therefrom for the future of society. Man has no right to talco - life, nor has the state, for neither has the power to create life, and God alone, the Creator of Life, has power over life and death. Vote against It Do not let society inflict vengeance upon the wrongdoer, but rather care for him, teach him, cor rect htm. reform him, let htm If possible assert his manhood again, and let him live, for "Vengeance is mine, 1 Will repay, salth the Lord." (REV.) FRED M. WAEHLTE. Single Tax and Small Investors. Portland, Oct. 80. To the Editor of The Journal There Is '.probably no city In America today where tbe people are so heavily obligated for real estate as In Portland. These people earned their money to invest in this real estate just as honestly as anyone could. They bought It under our present system of taxation, and it seems to me that, it Is up to the honorable citizens of Portland to keep good faith with them Just as much as if they had 4nvested : their money in a mortgage, stock of merchan dise goods, a manufacturing plant or in fact any. other class of personal prop erty or business, and if the single taxers want to be falfv explain how the poor man or woman will be affected who is putting in $5, $10 or $50 each month for the purchase of a lot for an Investment, and make It clear to him or her Why It is highly moral for them to adopt a tax plan that will wipe out his or her equity for the benefit of the man who invests In personal property. Lincoln Issued a proclamation to pay the southerners for their slaves. That was an honorable thing to do, but can you Imagine a more dishonorable act than to take away from our small Investors all they have by the scheme of single tax. Most every man gTid- wonian-ln Portland-wns-antttiirtty Tn a lot somewTTere which. Ihey are pur chasing purely for an investment. Please allow the single taxer to explain how these people will be affected, - and do not waste any time on the capitalists and large land owners, and single tax will be easily defeated three to one. If aa me small investors must lose an they have in order that the large inves tor may lose, 1 think It is high time that our schools take up teaching ofnorallty bo the OomTfi"g"e"nerttTIoK"wir have sornTpW"" wa- Idea of the right to live on this earth with Others. . JOHN C. EDRIDGE. Jfot Convinced yiJPR jSMdon.: Portland,-Oct 31, To-tha Editor nf T Journal. Rv PhttrlgK M Hhl. lon, on f-the speakers At the Jiatton al convention of the W. C. T. U., re cently held in Portland, is an ardent advocate of woman suffrage, but his reasons for the faith that Is in him do not impress me very forcibly and I am sure that none but a dyed-ln-the-wool suffragist would be influenced by his array of "arguments " Dr. Sheldon confines his reasons for the necessity and desirability of votes for women to four principles. First, he declares that "women are human beings and there fore entitled to all rights of other hu man beings." What about babes and minors? Aro they not also "human beings," and according to Dr. Sheldon's reasoning, equally "therefore entitled to all rights of other human beings?" "Woman- has an intellect and mental capacity equal to land often superior to man's," is Dr. Bheldon's second reason. Minors In many cases have an Intellect and mental capacity equal "to and su perior to man's. Would Dr. Sheldon have this the basis of ' the vote, arid have the man of 40 disqualified because the exceptional youth of 13 outweighs m,'" 1 i7, WUld Dr" ment rewoven to Include his ideas? "Women are wage earners," declares Dr. Sheldon as . reason number three. Children are sometimes wage earners and" unnaturalized citizens. Would Dr. Sheldon have them admitted to the right of suffrage on the wage earning basis? The fourth reason of Dr. Sheldon is most interesting of all. "The women are the mothers and have the first right as to the care and teaching of the child ren and are Ty 'nature the beat quali fied." True. But since when has the ballot been looked upon as effecting the "care , and teaching" of children, and who ever hinted that the mothers f w,fA rint th heMt fniallflatt tn na..A r th.c .,,., A mix up in pontics, but should attend to their homes and children and leave the soap boxes on the street corners to the male spouters. M, L. Ii. Suffrage an& Woman's1 Nerves. Portland, Or., Oct 81. To the Editor of .The Journal Doctor E. C. Spltzka, international authority on brain anH ifu . diseases, aaysi "Taamoderft activities are doing women no good; their college1 educatloo.la.aj:infipiece of scrap work. Suicide Is gaining among them every -day; statistics speak for themselves. 'Sanitariums are over flowing with nervous wrecks of women." Will the woman in politics help the race:' Will the whirl of the political bee, burning la milady's- bonnet, In crease the fashionable and all too com mon disease -nervous prostration? Will the ballot in the1 hands of woman add to the stability of government, the glory of woman, the honor of the state or the1 good of the childT Conserve woman; save her from herself. The noise of the minority must not be mistaken for the voice of the" majority; The vast ma jority of women do not want to votfc J ,, . ANTI-SUFFRAGIST. Advocates Equal Suffrage." To the Editor I believe in woman suffrage, because no man should have a governmental right not accorded to women When I consider the girls and young women who freely and Intelli gently participated In school and col lege affairs on equal standing with the boys and young men, I cannot under stand that - their right to participate in political affairs equally with me stopped with my minority. Ui ' j- ; wnen consider the nign position whiclrwomen of airstations Itrreliglous and , secular . history have attained throughout, tbe -paet ages, despite the limitations of religion and the thrall- dom of the law, I am Impressed with the potential power of their ipartlclpa- w-Uh men. , JOHN FWAN.., Complains of Gaa Companyr ,' .P6rtland,:..0ctv:,SlTo.:th',.Edi-tor-ot The Journal.Why Is the Portland Gas & Coke company permitted to maintain A nuisance In the business center of our city? Why are small factories . given notice by the fire marshal, If the sparks and cinders from their stacks fall on the Streets or find lodgment en the roofs of adjoining buildings; to place smoke consumers or spark catchers on their chimneys, while the Gas company is al lowed to belch forth Its vile smoke and Cinders to the damage of every build Ing, person and thing within a radius of half a mile? . : ; As a matter of economy, every me chanical engtneet knows, a perfect com bustion would consume the 4rger-por- tion or the fuel that is now wasted by fouling the air and nauseating tbe in habitants in the vicinity of their .plant With a very large saving to tho Gas company in the consumption of fuel oil. , - There Is no owner of a factory in tha city who could or would, waste such a large percentage of energy, simply to annoy and damage surrounding property, and It is a wonder many damage suits have not been brought against this cor poration. Is there any way to abate this nuis ance? If so, we who have to stand for It would like to get next. ENQUIRER. President Taft's Children. Portland, Nov. 1, To the' Editor of The Journal Will you please tell me In The Journal how many children President Taft has, their names and if any are married. With thanks from " . MRS. S. President Taft has three children, Charles, Helen and Robert, all unmar ried. ... News forecast of .tie Week Washington, D. C, Nov.; 2.- What has been the most eventful political cam paign the United States has seen In years will terminate Tuesday, when the vote of the people win decide whether the Republican administration of Wil liam H. Taft 13 to have a renewal of its least of power, or:whether-;thrDem ocrats, under Woodrow Wilson, or ths new third party, under Theodore Roose velt, will assume the reins of office. On tli same day the representatives who will sit in the Sixty-third congress will be elected, also state legislatures that will have the selection of many United States senators. Twenty-nine states will elect governors, and the most of the others will choose minor state officers. Wisconsin, Michigan. Kansas. Oregon and Arizona 111 vote on proposed con stitutional amendments granting the right of suffrage to women, Numerous other states will vote on ' proposed amendments or laws of less general in terest and importance, A proposal for state-wide prohibition is included in the ?iLpr mora measuresXqba :B&9sedjii&n uy xtia voter .or Colorado. In Oklahoma the fight between Guthrie and Oklahoma City for the state capital will be de termined by the voters. Judge Staples of Roanoke, who is to complete the trial of the men connected with the shooting up of the Carroll county courthouse, and the kilting of six persons at Hilisvllle last March will call the cases of Sidney Allen and Wes ley Edwards, the two remaining outlaws. In Wythevillo, Va., next Thursday. Wes- wui come me neanng or the case against Sidney Allen, who is -egarded as the leader of the band of outlaws. What promises to be another noted criminal a le-te-eeme- up-tntha IJttlt' ed States court at Chicago Wednesday, omico muii ai wiuungu vveanesaay, I eref the federal sub-treasury in hie-- go, win be maced on trial on" a -charge of embezzling $173,000. This amount disappeared from the Chicago sub-treas ury more than five years ago, and never has been accounted for. Saturday will see the annual celebra tion of Lord Mayor's day in London, when Sir David Burnett, the lord mayor- eleot, will be Installed in office with all the pageantry and quaint ceremonial that has attended similar occasions in the British metropolis for several cen turies. , The week will -be observed in New York City as "Suffrage week," Each dav and evening public meeffngs in the cause of equal suffrage will be held, and the celebration will wind up with a great parade on Saturday. It is expect ed that more men and women converts to the cause will be in line than ever marohed before in the interests of wom an's suffrage. Several large conventions are sched uled for the week. Those of most im portance will be the national farm con gress in New Orleans, the annual meet Ing of the American Prison association in Baltimore, and the annual confer ence of the association of American uni versities in Philadelphia, GREAT AMERICAN LEGENDS The Legend of By Cell K. Huslk. . There is a lake' In the state of Min nesota called Leech lake of whose origin the Indians tell a legendary tale.- It was during the fighting between 1 the soldiers pt the United States army and tbe Indians of tha Chippewa tribe of Minnesota that -this story was first heard by white men. , , , v, , Many years ago, when tbe world was still In its infancy, there lived an In dian woman with her only, daughter. They lived all alone,, and no man or woman lived near them; the beasts of the forest, the birds of the air and the fishes of the waters were the only livr ing things about them. One day tho BiU-dJappeaMdapdas,howhWeQjbf fouud. Vhe spirit of evil stole her from tier mother andcarrled her away to his stone wigwam. . For many a day she dwelt there and had - everything that a human being could wish. One . fine morning, while the evil spirit was cut bunting, a knock was heard at ths door of tba wigwam. Tlree M en v From the New. York World. -Other things, being equal, a man wh6 has had to earn his own living is likely , to be a-far more trustworthy leader of the American people than one' who. .has . never . felt that pressing re sponsibility. : .'; " ; That is one great advantage" that Woodrow Wilson has over Theodore Roosevelt of William H. Taft Us more oompletely a product of American Institutions than either of his opponents We say this without disparagement Of Mr. -Roosevelt or Mr.-Taft, and tn spirit ; utterly antagonistic to derno- agogy of any form or description. Governor Wilson has lived tha Ufa of an American citizen thrown wholly upon his own resources. He Worked his way slowly up from an lnstrtictorshlp to a professorship, and then to . the presi- -dencyof a great -unlrerrttyr- Ntrinf 1 u ence or' family prestige won him any of ; his positions.- Every advancement was g-alned by; bis own eHt!-!w?rr -; His political career is , Identical with . his private career, He was nominated for; governor of Hew Jersey because the Demoorats of that state were look- ing for a candidate who could measure up to the situation." He was nominated for president ; by the : power ;Ml public j opinion in the face of the united opposi- -tlon of pemocratlQ bosses and Demo cratic plutocrats. Ha Is , alone among tbe three candidates ; for president In being the iota architect of bis career. , , Mr. RooBevelt, never had to earn bis own living., He' never "had to support himself. He has always had an Inde pendent Income. He has never had to give serious consideration even td the salary of the office he sought. His prl. ' vate fortune has enabled him to play government as a . game a game which , he has often played most brilliantly - 8ndAUdacIqu.slyJJ?ut nevertheless.:, a . game. He has done much for himself. but other people did more for him. Quay's friendship mads him assistant , secretary of the navy. McKinley made, htm assistant colonel of the Rough Rid- . is. Piatt made him governor. Piatt and Quay made him vice president Csolgoss made him president and this opened to him a career that ha could not otherwise have achieved. It must be said, for Mr. Roosev toosvt I to vlew I Ipolnt of Ak that he has earnestly attempted public questions from the standpoint ths man who earns his bread .In the sweat of his face, and often with extra ordinary success; but this success is th product of Imagination rather, than ex perience. If Mr. Roosevelt had worked with his own hands or his own brain to support himself and family, he would, be far less eager to take up such poli cies as the legalisation of monopoly. II would be a leas ardent champion of centralized government and a Prussian bureaucracy. But having always be longed to what th Germans call "tha governing classes," Mr. Roosevelt falls to appreciate What' It would mean to the average man If this republic were no longer opportunity. There are limitations even to his ex traordinary imagination. He cannot place himself in the position of tha man who has to carve out his career while his best energies are devoted to the prosaic business of earning a living for himself and family. Mr. Roose velt is keenly anxious to remedy the condition of the worklngmen, but ha is hopelessly blind to the withering results of a governmental policy that Would condemn the worklngman to re main a worklngman because- the govern ment had shut ths door of opportunity In his face. . As for Mr. Taft ba has known little about real independence and less about real responsibility. He too has been a son. of fortune, with a very rich brother and many powerful friends. They pitch forked.' him Into one office after an other, until Mr. Roosevelt finally made him president. A good man and an hon est man, Mr. Taft never really made his own way In the world or carried his share of the burden. " " Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Taft are not peculiarly American products.. They could have obtained place and power in England or Germany or Austria as well as In the United States, because they were born to conditions that make for place and pc wer.in monarchies atilLmori than 4a-republlcs. lBut Wood row- Wll- -son Is a characteristic nrndnut of Amer- , lean institutions. It Is only fn tha United States that men climb to tha.' highest places entirely by their own f-forts. Pointed Paragraph? But a homely man doesn't look It CTittfte'r'you'gerTnniorTCTi' '"" " - The man with a subscription paper -., ... also loves a cheerful giver. ' -.-f Z lt you always '.think twica befora youTIZ Inub (,- , ,,, , word. Warning to tne Voters of. Oregon The proposed amendment to tha arat constitution which will appear on the official ballot in November as "Nos, 808-9," if it carries will take away from the people the right to govern them selves in taxation matters and return to thexlegislatlve and predatory' and private interests the power to "regulate" and "arrange" taxation, measures, : tha inference being that the people are not intellectually competent to pass upon" such things at the polls.' Every voter who believes the people should rule arid who believes "unequal' taxation is rob berT and who further believes that ths people at the ballot box should have tha right to pass upon taxation measures before they become effective, should vote No. 809 "No," and. thus prevent tha amendment from becoming the "law of Oregon." - & S. JACKSON." Portland, Sept 10, 1912. Leech Lake. "Who is itr asked the girl, much surprised and bewildered, for no ona had ever coma to this sequestered re gion. , "I am tha spirit of good and have come here, at the bidding of the god Hiawatha," answered a voice froftj with out. "Please let me enter that I may give you a stone wherewith you may free yourself from the clutches f ths evil one," '. , ; ., ,; -r. Then the girl obeyed, opened the door, ' and received the stone from th good spirit. With this stone sha was told to strike a certain spot ,io the walla of tha' Wigwam. .When she did that. Jo and belrold, Waters began to e-uah f,h (lie wigwam waa situated was soon allN f covered over. , This bdy of water is ' now called Leech lake. As for the evil spirit he was caught In his own trap. There in the stony wigwam at the bot-' torn of the. lake,. he jives imprisoned, and there he may be heard moaning on windy days to this very day. at f U T