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, PA1LX AND 8UNDAX -Or
nit, IT.60 I Ona month. t
It Is easy tn the world to live
after the 'world's 'opinion, It la
easy in solitude to live ajter our
own. J3"t the great ma Is he
who, In tho midst of the crowd,
-keeps .with perfect s.woetuess the
lndepoudeucs of solitude. Em- ,
rson.
WALL STREET'S BAGE
ALL street lfl In a rage at the
president-elect -ever the Chi
cago speech.
It ought not to be. -,i fair
er, wilder, gentler appeal could -not
have been nmdoA It was jaot a'threat,
but a petition to the , captains of
finance and Industry to ijoin with the
i-cat of. the country jCpr economic
freedom. Hero is a paragraph from
the address: " '
- I m a trustee for the prosperity of
"the United State Jn council. The eoun
nil that does not Jncludo you, If imper
fect council, Is council that will mis-it-ad.
-..Won't you , come lu? Have you
not cotne Jn? J t not your purpose to
. jietahllah economic -freedom in the
lnttd. States? Aren't we all fo the
ltame boat? Can't I enlist you tonight
, Jn the common .enterprise? There is.no
iirigbt prospect .otherwise. .
No kindlier JnvJtatlon was ever
'inade to the heads of big business;
m dertaWngs. ; No appeal wore'
brotherly was ver made" to them -to
take a stand for economic freedom
for the -pake Of a common humanity
and the welfare of jtbeir country.
But -they are -enraged. They do
not comprehend, th'election returns
They do not realize that the .country
has voted for economic freedom.
They -do -not realiae tbat- Woodrow
Wilson was .appealing to them, ot ,as
a demagogue, but as a patriot, not as
a coraprowlsoa president, put as a
free president representing the
whole American people. '
Nothing Is so stupid in matters
outside tOf Aash 'registers and .dollar
business. Their vision is a pano
rama of bank vaults and calfh boxes.
Their horizon "bounded by the
stately .towers And office buildings,
W.
of Wall' and William streets. They
look jout (Over he United States and
see Only a world of bonds, stock,
v coupons and capital. ' .
" ' Oxer the .fog nd 4ust f -nationay
industry, their chief pepspective s
one of BteeplerAnd minarets of tlo
tations, inflation and dividends from
watered.. etocky jThelr .geography is
a map st xailxoad iines, .corporations
wiLbia cerporationa and gigantic syn-
djcBtes, Jill .centering jn the city of
Kew'York. Their view of life of the
couatrjeand -t national 4e&tlny la
ItarirTraf ffirMKlBSe
' men's agreements, ppols, charters,
rebates, control of markets, division
.. of territory und price fixing.
Their conception of free institu
tions la reflected in the margins, the
bulla ac4 be'are, the long and short
galea, OJid"he other processes of the
stock exchange and Wall street gav-
'bling. '--Their eens-itBtion is tie stock
ticker and their cajittol buUding,
Morgan' ank. Their world con
blots iof. forty or "flfty blocka 4i thi
New TWk financial district, and If
ebut Within it by aa inipaK&ble wail
lpj'OPd which ( Uey cpjoJd , nqt pss,
they would soon starve to death, and
the yest of the country, relieved of
tteduty of contributing to their am
H tions and xtortlon8, would . soon
he: a wonderland of newly found
, prosperity and abundance.
THE MOVING PKRVBJ& TRUST
AT the hearing in New York of
. the suit of the government to
dissolve the nwviag picture
- ' trust remarkable evidence was
given."
. The General Film company was or
ganised May 15, 1910, A year and a
half AJerwards It controlled eighty
three per cent cf the moving picture
business of the cquntry. The gov
- eminent submitted 1dence to this
fact':- This Company was the out
growth or development from the
.Motion Picture Patents; company.
Mr. Henry M. Marvin, president
.of - J.he -briginal . company, testi
fied that, when 'he and his as
: sociates organized the" General Film
company they estimated the value
of v'the ! various : film exchanges
they took over at "about $3,000,-000."-
Apparently Mr. J. P. Mor
gan's example In capitalizing the va
. ildus properties from which the Steel
corporation emered fell on prolific
.soil' The Idea seems to be the-Bame,
even If the acale on which It was put
itito effect in the film trust Is
smaller. . - -
It appears further that the inter
locklng.'of officers and directors was
found serviceable In dealing arith the
fllraa. .Another witnets was William
Pelzer,: secretary of the Motion pic
ture Patent tompany. aad now tre:
urer ot the ( General Film company.
After . be had dented knowledge of
intention to icquire, the property of ,
vM comrtUra-he' Was asked to pro
diice certalu " minutes.. These were
1 fTheTjrocpe(tl'B
v hi b the government alleges a fund
v.na appropriated -for the -purchase of
, :l the rvutat'-excbangeB to th conn-
THE
try.." Mr; Pelzer said that "no min
utes were kept.", Mr. Pelzer also
MMM-to have Btxidied in- theC5ary
. Aryoung corporation, that in a life
of a; year, and a. bait ,haa' absorbed
etRhty-three per cent of the moving
picture, business of the country is a
pretty histy Infant. If the court shall
judgn the Jntenttona of the directors
and otflcert from their deeds, even
the absence or destruction of minutes
of their meetings will, not suffice to
obscurt their purpose not only o
restrict, hut' to manopollzej the bul
ness. ';'''... j!"' . -
As4n steel', in oil, in sugar, and in
many other industries, the cream of
the profits In. moving pintures la cor
nered and .gdes to a small group of
men.
THE HLJiJCTKOCTTIOX BILL
"
I
T ISN'T because the job is done
with rope that there is objec
tion in Oregon, to the death pen
ally. A rose by any other name
would smell as swet.
it is not the manner of killing,
but jthe killing, that ia opposed. If
there is reason not to kill with a
gallows, there is reason, not to kill
with an electric chair. VThe fact that
the victim is bound hand and. foot
and horribly Shocked to death with
sizzling, xrackling, consuming- bolts
of electricity does nof in whit lea
sen the fact that a human life is be
ing taken by the state.
It la even doubtful whether elee-
tcocujiioa' is more humane or less
humane than hanging. There have
boon frequent discussions as. to
whether or not the executed were In
stantaneously killed, and assertions
by some .authorities that their strug
gle was in cases long drawn out. In
Philadelphia two (ears ago,, there
was bitter controversy over the
issue, with strong weight of author
ity and much newspaper publicity on"
both aides.
Those who have looked in on the
horrors. f an electrocution cham
bar with the white light focused bril
liantly over the terrible death chair
and all the rest of the room weird
with hadowg, pronounce it one of
the most horrible scenes-
The' preparations for -the electro
cution are. even more grewsonie. A
part of the hair is shaved off the
back of the neck to aid the contact,
and -this with the other preparations,
and the chances of a horrible slip
are, to many minas, more terrible
than the simple matter of adjusting
the noose and touching the button.
These remarks are not urged as
an' .objection lo the electrocution
bill at saieru. bt "as an'obreOTgHTS
killing people, either by a cbalr or
a gallows.
Tjhejbill is harmless, but valueless.
A legislature cannot humanize a
death. A statute won't veneer a
-killing.
Death is death. Butchery is butch
ery. Killing Is killing, whether the
victim be choked or roasted.
COMMISSION BULK GAIN'S
I
N the National Municipal Review
for January the progress in the
nation of conipjlision government
is noted In detail for the past
year.
In a Hst of cities, great and s ni al 1 ,
follow ing
appear: bt. Paul, Minn.; Salem,
Mass.; Atlantic City, N. J.; Lincoln,
Neb.; New Orleans, La., and Duluth,
Minn.
many cities -nave taKen, or are
takfcig advantage of constitutional
amendments allowing municipal
borne rule without special legisla
tion. . The convention process far
amendment of a city charter without
complete, revision has been affirmed
iy various state supreme courts.
JnOiio a bili is shortly to 1 eub-
.mlUed permitting any city to adopt
any one of three forme of govern
ment, namely, the commission, the
mayor .and council, or the city man
ager plan.
In-two towns, Staunton, Va., and
Norwood, Masa., both of nearly 10,
000 population, the town manager
plan has been adopted. In the lat
ter case the manager will be town en
gineer, superintendent :of public
works, director of the water supply
and the lighting system. ' Similar
methods are under consideration in
other towns.
The results of the submission to
the people of Portland on November
I of the commission charter are giv
en by the National Municipal Review
in considerable detail. Th) sum
mary of the comment on the ghort
charter is this, "For brevity, the
, short charter is a gem. Once nact
! ed into law, it would give rise to end
less litigation."
COMING VOTE ON SUFFRAGE
L'
INES are so drawn in Parlia
ment that a vote is expected on
Friday, next, on the addition of
the woman suffrage amendment
to the government enfranchisement
measure.
Mr. Asquith has announced that
every member can follow his own
sweet will in voting, and that the
government will be bound by the re
suit. If a majority votes aye for
the amendment then it . becomes a
government measure, If no, then all's
over for this parliament, and the
suffragists must take a fresh ;etart
. Dispatches of yesterday say. that
one section of the suffragists are tak
ing to prayer to help their cause.
Pending this new anneal to hieher
poer, the suffragettes propose to
hock ud their hammers. -with their
add bottles and explosives and brick-
bats and await the result.
The tangle of the situation is ob-
securing a straight vote from the
British! electoral on this issue,--;
Neither of the two great "parties
OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 21,
, 1 1 1 1 1 'I -JJUULL-. j.j u. i n i ' ", " iMam . I,... i. iiiiuii n i H..I ii i .
dure declare itself pro- or con If it tion of "which Jlr.. SelllaVcoinplaiaia.'
did an Indefinite, proportion of lta It the-( railroads', will not give- Port
i'dllowera1 would 'secede at once. The I land and' Astoria Justice, the Colrim
ministry la dividefd,, aa ; every one J bia r'iter " can. be used' to grva Port-.
knows, but the front opposition, land and, Astoria Justice. The Co-
bench, la
In
Identically the . same
plight. ,
' A general election, succeeding ' a
dlssoLution of Parliament, is the only
way to ascertain the voice of the
British people. No past election baa
given an expression respecting suf
frage. Not one member owes his
seat, and no one has failed of elec
tion, by reason of hla woman suf
frage opinion.
SIftce the general election of De-
comber, 1910, various bye-elections
to fill vacancies have boon hold. . As
the suffragettes invariably fought
the Liberal candidates, and as those
candidatea-generallyiostrthey-told-
Iy claimed the result as theirs. '
If a poll could' be held in England
like that on a constitutional amend
ment In Oregon the result would be
seen- of all men. But the English
vote will only tell the Individual
opinions of 670 men.
THE REVOLVER BILL
A
BILL at Salem is leveled at
the indiscriminate. Bale and
carrying of the revolver and
other concealed weapons.
It provides a way for a dependable
citizen who needs it to obtain a
weapon. That Beems as much as any
cltlztm can ask. '
It provides that a dealer must have
a license to sell such weapons, and
must keep a complete record of the
sale for future identification. A r
port of the sale must be made 'to
the authorities,
It is a sane and prudent regulation
of an implement that tempts men to
more killings, and that la the means
of accomplishing more killings than
all other agencies combined. It is
the same precaution we apply to poi
sons, tnougn poisons are almost a
nothing in comparison with revol
vers in carrying on criminal enter
prises. If we regulate poisons and
keep their use under surveillance,
why should we not do the same jvith
pistols?
If we regulate the ale of poisons,
we should regulate the sale of re-.
volvers. If wo are not to regulatf
tne saie ana carrying or revolvers.,
we should, to be consistent, repent
ail laws regulating sale of poison
Most poisons have value for me
dicinal "purp'oees. The revolver bis
no healing agency. Its solo miss'sun
is slaughter. It is not made to
staunch the flow of blood, butj to
mijl ; ;
In a day of primitive condi'fions,
possibly It had its place in -th'-gen
eral scheme of things. Six-Toed Pete
bad use for it, and go did OnjEyed
Riley. Cowboy Jim, on fhe plains,
found it a defense agatnst. hostile
Indians, and Rattlesnake Ike pro
tected himself with it at "the miner's
gambling tabic.
But there Is a changed order. The
pistol is now the working tool of
the thug, of the burglary the yegg-
man, the crook, the rBghwayman,
and the assassin who Iieii in wait for
his victim, it is the finafc thought of
the jealous, the intoxicated and the
lunatic with a murdero rns bent.
The orphaned chiklren of this
couEtrxAvould like to sao the Porkina
bill become the law 0$ Oregon, and
of every other state..
MR, SELLING'S STATEMENT
I
R. SELLING spp-s Portland Is
too big lor t'.te rest of the
state. He adda that the trade
of 1912 was mt better than in
previous years. He tjjinks it will not.
be better in 1913. Jie says in. Sun
day 'js Journal:
One tot the prime causas for this con
dition is the Investment by thousands
of wase earners in fsitf uirban jirnpi rty at
full .prices on which, it ia iiiipowiblo to
realise at present. , Ten dollars each
month, or $120 a yenr, taken from the
average wage earner absorbs a large
part pf . the money :'j;liat in uMjly x
penjlei with th,e rajrcnaiits in 'the city.
It Is a status thstt'the Journal ias
all along insitil wou.l appear.
Portland cannot .enrich herself by
merely swapping, town lots. If we
all turn 8peeulatar8;iniland, who will
produce? If we continue to merely
mark up property and sell it to a
neighbor, where; will the sustaining
wealth come frofm?
We have got to do something be
sides inflate pwporty values.
TherAi
la n limit to ttklrh fh (t.n-ni pn an '
in paying bcKirn rentale The mar- j
gins 01 tne leiuanis are Douna 10 eui-
fer, and so ere the wages of l is
workers.
As Mr. Selljng says, Portland is too
big for the M'st of the state.
Port-
land has oneftbird of the population,
and two persons in the country must
support one Jn the city. It must have
other territary with which to trade.
It must annex new markets..
There most be steamship lines to
Alaska anrX ' trade with that rich em-
pire. Theoe niUBt be an -expanding,
instead of, a shriveling, commerce
with the 4 Orient There must be
South American trade. There must
be a traijn-Panama commerce with
ports on ijjie Atlantic seaboard. There
must be something else besides in
swapping; in Portland. '
Nor must there be forgetf ulnesa of
the demand for removal of the Co
lumbia river handicap. There is a
freight t charge on Columbia basin
products, of ninety cents a ton more
to Astoria than to Puget Sound,
though, it ia a downhill haul to As
toria Hid an ever-mountain haul to
Puget Sound. The down-river freight
rates tm Portland are artificially and
unjuetfy fixed by the over-Cascades
haul Puget Bound,' notwithstand
ing tb3 inexorable transportation law
TRanijfef "ir liaTaTTflTrru hdamehlfl lintiiuiiTrv ailja "cut to'aTTd.' UTanaTT malwetliln J""ofrax-lIcaTrarrllInf-tbain'el y
f iiinr f the rate.
Redress of this grievance Is a pew
erfuU 1 means of removing the xondl-
lumbia river can be : made a more
powerful regulator of freight " rates
than all the interstate commlewtons
and all the railroad commissions la
the world.
- Thesa larger enterprises aw the
activities t which Potland'a atten
tion should he directed1. The are a
part of. the program that muei. be In
voked ta sustain' property valaiea. and
prevent unemployment, "business
stagnation and general community
loss, ;.:';'!';r.;,V.'','':;' '," .'j ... .-';."';
It la a better way, a Salter way, a
surer way,, and. a more djjpendabla
war than lot-swapplnc
j It- lr a program1 that ftoutd""have
the, enthusiastic suppora. of every
real estate agent, of everj retail mer
chant, of every property owner, or
every banking house, of every em
ployer of labor, of every manufactur
ing establishment, of dwjr wholesale
house, of every pabttc official, o,
every newspaper and-otf every worker
in Portland. . . '
Letters Front trie People
(ConimunleitJotn MUt to Th Joarni! tar
publication la till departaoiit nboold ba writ,
tea- on oily eu id of rba ppo, ibouM not
!: SOU or1 la tetb. ana IK t
compsultd by rh unit ad addrra of tb
wodar. If vha writer taaa aot eaaira t bara
U nam poulwd. bt tumM ao Malt. I
"ReplySng to 'Batiiquo'a Ghost. H.
Portlaratli Or., Jam; 29. To the Editor
of The JJournal In yeeterday's Journal
is a communication under the above
heading'. My fair critic doea not say
"annweians," but "replying." An an
Bwer la a reply, bait replying- i not al
ruyn amswerlng. She may note that I
did not charge the author of "The Re
stricted District'" and tha woman juror,
whom ' ahe eo warmly commended, with
being; "misinformed extremlata," but
that "she Ik, or appears to' he, misin
formed upon the mibject Like the ul-
tTR-fcix-lallHts, Prohibitionists and ex
tremiHta on many other subjects, ahe
appears to Imaglae that every evil can
ba curod by law," etc. She aaya, "Pro
h'oltionists came within the catalogue
t-K .those arraigned." .My . reference to
Vhem was not in the nature ef an ar
raignment, or Intended a such, but
only to illustrate my point, which was
that extremists seldom or never are
practical. In practice it has been dem
onstrated that law- cannot cure Immor
ality, any more than it can cure lep
rosy. But my fair critic says, "It can,"
and fails to remember that a bald state
ment Is not proof, glio says: "If the
law am keep boys away from a re
atrlrted district until they artt-Il, it
can keep men awpy." Even so. But
suppose the law does both (1 challenge
anyone, to ahow proof that either has
ever mien aunt anywrrcro: 1 hat'6
known the "restricted district" to go
to the boys, and to the hien also, when
there was no restricted district de facto,
but when vice was unrestricted, as at
present. If my fair critic doea not be
lieve this let her Investigate for her
self the next tlmo, a revenue cutter is
at the wharf for repairs. She will Bee
the. unrestricted district resorting thith
erward with alacrity. '
Since the abolishment of the restrict
ed district that-element has become
quite a portable, mobile and diffusible
affair, betaking itself, on short notice,
to any or all parts of the city or en
virons. day or night. In fact, It la. as it .
always has been. Ilka -Banqtw a
Ghost" it will not down.
But Idealists 1
and extremists in virtue seem prone to
think that vice is a thing of the past
in our midst, because the restricted dis
trict, has been abolished. Abolishing
the restricted district is likened to icut
ttn g away- th pro rn.ltng portions- of a
cancer and leaving all the roots still in
tho flesh. Straightway the eonditloa
of the body is worse than ever.
It la plain to me that the 10 or 11
Jury women who were face to face with
conditions as they exist, were right in
their conclusion, and that the one was
mistaken. The closing quotation tn
"Banquo a Ghost" la worthy of re
production here: "It is a eonditloa and
not a theory that confronts us."
My i;rltlc misquotes the. quotation T
pave in regard to when the ."trailing
nf a child should begin," and represents
the quotatioa aa fraying "A child should
be Vr.rrei-ted' 100 years before it is
burn," etc , Did she deliberately garhle
thlaV or doesn't she know the difference
between "training" and "correcting"?
BY AUTHOR OP "BANQUO'8 GHOST."
To Urge Auditorium Commission.
Portland, Jan. 17. To the Kdltor of
Tho Journal A well attended and spir
ited meetlpg of tha west side Improve
ment clubs, held at the hall of the
South Portland Boosters' club, corner
Third and Sherman streets, the audi
torium question was well thrashed nt.
The concensus of opinion was that the
delay In the acting )f the commission
in the cnnntruc'tkyi of the building Was
unwarrantable.
A coihinitu-e of six, by resolution, was
appointed: G. B. Thomas' chairman;
C. H. lJigB0tt, B. C. Jonea, John Perry.
John HI on lag and Jacob Schinard. The
duty oX the committee is to secure a
lrt of ca?U Tint ayer
meeting, jr to use any other appropri- j,
ate means to induce tne Auditorium
commission to act, and act at once,
so the people of Portland can have
some of the benefit therefrom during
their lifetime. To that end the com
mittee requests good, citizens to offer
up silent treatment (or the commission
composed of the following gentlemen: T.
H. Wilcox, Phil JUetHchan Jr., H. Hume.
W. D. Fenton .and Dr. Wetherbee. The
committee hopes to attain its end a
building on the market block, the only
logical place in Portland with the money
availablewithout having to say or do
anything uncharitable relating to the
commisslon, whom we believe are con
acientious men and hare no other desire
tha to carry ott$ the trust reposed in
them by their, executive head. Mayor
Rushlight After the adjournment of
the clubs a unanimous vote of thanks
was tendered to Mayor Rushlight ' for !
bis able, economical and., conscientious
administration rt (the affairs of otir
crty, and more especially to South
Portland, which for more than a ' gen
eralion had been almost wholly neg
lected by farmer administrations.
C. H. PIGOOTT, AflsiataVit Secretary.
The Mired Man atvi His Bom. '
Klickitat, Wash., Jan. 16, 1913. To
le Editor of The Jouraal Under tha
heading, "Farmers Scarce; None to Be
Had, ' m The Journal .of January IS, I
read that Oliver C. Cornwell of Walla
Walla makes -that statement; Now, as
farming is such a healthy, pleasant and
luciatlve business, why should this be
so? Havine snent -one season In the
tlie Tuiiowing observations; and venture
these few -words In explanafton: T be
gin with, the average successful farmer
in Uie Walla .Walla country sieves t the
COMMENT AND
SMALL CHANGE,
Tit moat tniia ahnut the futtmit ,nf.
xice in state printer.
In all ltrlHlatures there are Some
penny-wise and pound-foullah members,
Th method of fettlng rood roada is
Important, Hux not 00 important aa food
Ifow can those lmocratic tariff re-
rormers be ao tm-.i-cilesa as to "ruin"
the steel and sugar trusts? , ,
Likely the city will be just as well
off this year with the present number
of policemen with more,
In deallmr with the Turk, the Kuro-J
pean itowera are as inerrevtual. aa that
many proverbial old sraniUea. . ', .
a a
' Kobody nor nothing- can prevent some!
come a good deal nearer, doing so thafl
some othera. ,'
v a , , . ,
Tha Washington lerlslature hkvina
started out playing- politics. It may be
expected that It will HDend tts 60 days'
session to little good purpoae.
; " , ,a ,
Good for Governor Lister of Wash
ington : he says that aa ah executive
he will be atrlctly non-partisan, and
that legislators not ao would better no
home." . .:. . , , :
A beautiful young- woman has made
us a professional visit Lady - Lly
Lna-try.De Bathe. Another wonderful
young woman artist will be here soon
Madame Barah Bernhardt.
T
A few legislators always "fiBht" a
governor lifrerlng from them in poli
tics, though they would strenuously sup
port a governor of their own party who
did exactly the same things.
Governor Blease of South Carolina
wants It made a crime for a newspaper
correspondent .or reporter to misquote a
public official. Thla in fact in rarely
if ever dose, thougti public men often
allegn misquotation As to Blease, it j
would be better for hia reputation If
he were always misquoted or, better,
not quoted at all. I
THE PHILIPPINE QUESTION
In view of President's Taft's dec
laration against the Democratic plan of
irlvlnir self-government to the llliplnoa.
the following personal letter, written ,by
an American resident of the island and
published in the Springfield, Maes., Re
publican, is of interest:
Dear air: Many Democratic congress
men and Mr. Wilson himself are bound
to b Influenced by the enormous vol
urn of avidence testifying to, the dis
qualifications of the Filipino for self
government Every high official in the.
Killpino service, every white clvitlait
employe, every military officer, every
newspaper printed in Kngliah, 95 per
cent of every whiio merchant or trader
and, worse than all. every vlsitinK
statesman (?) will treat with scorn and
ridicule the slightest intimation that
now, or at any time, these people will
ever be equipped for autonomous gov
ernment. ThiB ia an everwhalmJug army and
It U no discredit to th sanity, wisdom
or patriotism of any congressman, sena
tor or president to say, "Why these arc
the peatile who know, Tha panplfi wh 1
ive or have lived amongst them for
years. They are a unit on this matte.'.
Who am I that from i smattering of
newspaper items pit my belief against
auch a cloud of witnesses?"
' The evidence is seemingly so conclu
sive that the almost essential feature
its source Is entirely overlooked.
Here is the rub. Without exception this
evidence is biased, and prejudiced end
with the exception of the "visiting
statesman" 1 can clearly show you how
, it cannot be otherwise.
) To first take ip tho case of the "visit-
ling statesman." When Mr. Dickinson
wafJ u was aU paanged that ...
hliM b. ,,-rmitted to meet strictly twj
c- t n,innl twin nthr fin., tha
I very limited but thoroughly pro-Amerl-
can type of native, who more or less the
beneficiary of American patronage,
could be couuted on to decry and be
little his countrymen. The other clans
were. With equal care, culled from' the
most iguorant and brutal of the tao
typa that o cunning and aatuto a man
ager aa Mr. Prank Carpenter could se
lect. Throughout his itinerary, all cut
and dried before his arrival, this pro.
gram was adhered to. If any rank out.
ftider who wan not on the slate Initte.t
in, h was promptly ejected by the of
ficial hustler.
Mr. Dtcklnson waa a quite harmless,
wall uieanio old luau, who, abaeiu
mindedly put his signature to a report
of his visit, made up I was told, Jn
the office of the bureau of insular af
fairs during hia abaeace! The docu
ment he subscribed to stated the exact
truth aa it was duly pre-arranged that
Mr. Dickinson should see it. It was In
effect that tho few enlightened, edu
cated and Intelligent Filipinos were m
a unit opposed to independence. That
the rest were and for generations would
be utterly disqualified to exerclso the
franchise. TlUs is the basic difficulty
with which visiting statesmen or dele
gations have had to contend and muat
continae to-have, for we -have far too
much at stake to permit an Intelligent
man to wander about here unchaperoned
and pick up Information at first hand,
which might bo detrimental to our
ends." The more prominent the man
In public life and the better known,
.the more Impossible for him to escape
our official eleuth.
I would be. tempted. If I was sure ef
considerable reply, to urge upon President-elect
Wilson the selection of some
bright man who knew Spanish and was
willing to acquire a bit of Tagalog, to
travel alone and incog in these Islands
and -mingle with these people for sis
months, and without the customary ac
companiments of banquets, brass ban-Is,
orations and ovations from leading clti
fcens. Under su-h conditions the visi
tor has less inaight' into tha real Fili
pino than, the one who has never put
foot on Ulcus islands.
Under such conditions our high of
ficials always travel. Under such con
ditions Mr. Taft always traveled, and
ho hag traveled thousand of miles In
thla archipelago. That hla Ignorance is
not total 1 due solely to A remarkable
acumen and Insight into character which
has counter poised in a very aroall de
city. He then employs what is known
to the common Janch hands as a "pencil
and paper'Ssor "hot air" farmer as fore
man of the ranch. ' The principal duties
: SiTf-01 ,t0, be t
tuniwa n u.R nvi i nuuui, a u yiui;!! in tne
morning to. get the boys out. and then to
see that supper is not roady much be
fore 9 o'clock in the evening. The few
short 'hours between breakfast and sup
per, the foreman passes by riding or
driving down for the mall or kicking up
some disturbance among , the men and
telephoning In reports to Mr. Ranch
owner. -.. .'.--.
I do not pretend to say where these
foremen get their "practical" knowledge
-of farming, but after listening to the
brilliant lectures ef several Agricultural
college graduates and professors. I must
laay that it aavors strongly of a "college
J farming education," and' I might say
I turthw, tliat the laborers on these
, rani-ban heeomn ma'AinEMHtrft with that
few of them care' to; waste their energy
la becoming educated In such futile at
tempt te become wealthy by tilling the
Bolt for profit. "; , N. a;. TOUWQ. '
1913.
m.M i. i-
NEWS IN BRIEF
OREGON SIDELIGHTS .
'"I 'WifV;.,'.';V:Y"""1 ''."V"' ,J '-;;,; ifiif''U'
Tlin f-nrvalll IiIl-Ii Kclionl Jmnrt ia
bkm organized under the ladwnhlp of
K, K WrUtfit. - The band is. composed of
xu pieces.. rt v '
', Local talent of Ooburg will soon pre
aent a drama in four a tts, -entitled "A
Daughter of .the Desert' a story of life
IH AJIIVIW. ... f , r
- a i- ,
Baker Democrat: Snow la piling up
in Lie mountains and tne rainier is as-
aii red of plenty of water for irrigation
tne coming season.
Albany : Democrat: Albany has had
an excellent band for several years and
an effort la being- made to make it one
01 1 be beat in tne vvinameue vauey.
Grass Valicr Joiirnak The membera
..... .... 1 :. . . 1 .4 J , a .
ul (.HQ weiuuuiBi f.jiiAwiiai aiu u,:itijr
ara matiiv elated that tn lnueDteanena
011 the parwonure has been llftadr and
they decided, to celebrate by -turning
the mortaatre." This banny event oc
c-urred at the home of Mrs, J, B, Mor-
' Klamath Falls Northwesternr Chey
enne, Square Deal and White pelican,
the niftiest little trio of ''buckaroo
stackers" that ever feit the tug or a
lialr rote. tiave been shiDDed to lUOfl
Angelos. whore they will do some real
stunts to entertain the visitors at the
Kodeo" next month., ..
Marshf ieldl Record r Proaresslve fruit
growers -at North . Bend and vicinity
hare formed en organisation for tne
purpose of btilldlng a fruit drier which
wm handle loaanoernea. - Tne oromoi
era are making contracts-with farmers
wiio 8 free ta set out a certain acreage;
the factory company-In turn agrees to
buy uie rruit at centa a pouna.
Eugene Guard: J. B. Protsman, aud
itor of the Oreaon ft Boutheaatern rail
way, says the company la surveying for
a spur from Cottage Orove to Latham,
about a mile, and a half distant. Thla
apur will ba used principally to haul
logs from the forest reserve to tho
Chambers sawmill at Latham. The com
pany Is aiwo preparing to extend Its line
to tan some or ine rina timoer me auv
rntiient is advertising for sale.
gree the vicious Influence of travel un
der such conditions. The other classes
are ' more summarily disposed of. W
Americana bold all the offices there ara
wbii-h are worth while ejeept some it
the Judgeships. As long as we con
tinue to want the salaries of those po
sitions so long are we going to be a unit
in declurlng that the Filipinos are dis
qualified to hold them. Nor Is a change
of .politics going to cause any change
of heart. Althoegh a Democrat myself,
I am quite well assured there will be no
lack of Democrats who are patriots for
revenue who. If they succeed to those
.positions now filled by Republicans, will
Just as quickly discover the unfitness
of the native to hold any good salaried
Job.
There ar 187 high-salaried positions
of which about 150 are held by Amer
Icans. We are guilty of a lot of tommy
rot about "training up the natives to
holding theee positions." and we have no
intention of letting them progress fur
ther thsn to be porters or messenger
boys. That a number of .high-salaried
iMnpAos are judges is to our Bhame
not to our credit: ' We could not help
It! Mr. Taft declared that the collec
tive, intelligence, pribity and legal
knowledge of the American bar in Ma
nila, fell short of tho best Judicial stand
ards. He had to appoint Filipinos. A
single instance will illustrate the status
of evefy American office holder In the
Philippine islands. j
1 Iloth the civil and military govern-1
ments are buyers of enormous quantities
of supplies. They now favor American
tradesmen, a patronage which would
naturally revert to Filipino dealers upon
a change of governmental policy. The
dally t American) newspapers are, of
course, the most virulent advocates of
tb "uplift" rot. Given to them the loss
of the government and of their commer
cial advertising and they could not live
a week.
They, newspapers and merchants, are
strenuous and united In urging the
lDKga uf- AmnrlMn capital. F.vcry
dollar of American capital plaated In
their' country cements by a new tie the
continuity of present relations. aTf6
benighted ''savages' ao unfit fir self
government, have the perspicacity of
vision and acumen to grasp this fact and
eppofte it bitterly.- The newspapers use
this as-an argument to show that these
people have not Intelligence enough to
grasp the fact that outside capital
brings prosperity to a-people, ergo, they
have not aensc enough to govern them
selves! The military are no whit behind.
They like, this tour of duty. They are at
less living expense, their travel back and
forth is free and their pay automatically
goes up 10 per cent during their detail
to the Philippines. In short, we about
all of us have an ax to grind. Even
myself am not qolte fit to cast the
first stone. I have resided .here for 11
yaara because I loye the tropica, ARd
my occupation has given tne opportun
ity to explore this great, country from
the Eatanes to the Hulu archipelago,
and I am sometimes inclined to question
if my sense of personal security would
b nuite aa great under a native regime.
At the name time, I- feel I have no
right whatsoever to let my. selfish in
clinations weigh for an instant against
ray country's unquestionable, duty , to
give these p6ple the bread (Independ
ence) and not the atone ("uplift") with
which we attempt to fool them. When
I said above, "my personal security" I
rather meant to Include my countrymen
at large, upon' whom reprisals might
t made for having spoiled the Egyp
tians. As an individual, I am persona
grata to my neighbors, ana Would fed
more secure here, at any time, than on
the streets of Boston. Very, truly,
WILLIAM S. LYON.
Manila, P,. I., November. 5, ,1912,
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Wall Street Ra:
; : , , :From the Hew Yo'rAVorld. .,
Did Wall utret-t tlilulc("oodivw Wil
son was a political t-rookr? Did it thlnle
he was a political lUir? "iitld it think he
waa a political confidence, man engaged
In buncoing th$ American people? fid
It, believe that tie waa seeding the presi
dency under falsa- pretams and : would
sell out as soon as he wa elected? :
.Tho protest that, hav;tollowed Gov
ernor Wilson's speeujj. at -Chicago, admit
of no. other construction, i ' '. .' ..
In thla speech Governor . Wilson said
nothing that he bad Jiot ,aid before he
was nominated for 'president. He said
nothing that he had ,not, said after he '
waa - nominated for ' pre gldent. Every
word wni in harmony, wflth tbo prlnoi-.
pies and) policies ,tO which he has ad
hered . throughout his -; public ' career.
Every word waa In liar piony wltn the
program to which he is definitely and
Irrevocably committed by solomn
pledges and promises. - '. i
Vet the great .financial -Interest of
the country, have chowta to make eui '
issue of (this speech., J"he (spokesmen
of big, business are1' overwhelming the
governor with protest a-' d rebuke.
The Journal of Commtlrce tells us that ;"
"banker who ' were imliervlewed by ;a f:
representative of the Journal of Oom
merce . atated that theb were dlsap- .'
pointed and disgusted with the speech,".
and that "tome of them i indulged In ex "
ceptionally' strong langvaife when aaked Jr
for an expression of onlWoa," A mem
ber of tlie firm of J. 'PUJrjont lVlorganj &t
CO. is quo-tea aa saying, n become mor
and more dlsappolnteil, - with Wilsoi
every time be speaks.", An officer or
one of the largest and most influential
t)anks" describes the BB'jech ''rotten."
Anotner banker tninas rwnson is mak-.
lng a great mistake." fcd Henry Clewa
hopes hla next speech eviJl ba more en. :
couraglng and accepta We to . business
Interests.' And thu trie atory runB. '
Governor Wilson said moth lng at Chl-
rago at wblch any honest business -need
take alarm. There wan no menace of 4 ;
reign of terror no thrtlat agalfist legit-i
lmate industry or lei Jtlmate finance. '
The speech In the main was an appeal -
to the business men of the country to
Join forces with the administration lu .
eradicating abuses cone fming which the "
public mind la fully mania up. It wa a
plea for honest counsel! and honest to- ;
operation. It revealed a chief executive
trying to Judge With trie mind of a Just
and upright Judge. T-l8 ia the apoeeh
and thla the appeal "Wall street 'de
nounces. 1 ''' '-.'
mere can oe om ve inicrpraxauou I
of this criticism. Either Wall street J
thought Woodrow Wikam was a coward f
ho could be scared, or a demagogue I
who eould be dealt wfiLt, orVsnob. who
could be flattered, 017 a corruptloniat
WnO WOUltl iriUUC 1W HID HIVI Uk M6
business, or a traitor -to the principles
of government which;' he advocate
throughout the campaign. . c .
The Woodrow Wilson who spoke at
Chicago is the same" Woodrow WUson
who wa nominated at Baltimore, He ia
advocating the same policies in the
same language and li the same way.
Wall street's rage is not the raga 01
lmiunt buuiiua thpeatrnoa with cniaau
slon or confiscation. 11 la tlie rage of
baffled privilege whlcfc finds itself face
to face with an honefiS anj fearless, and
intelligent leader of tUe American peo
ple. ; -
Always in Good Kumbr
A TRIFLE INACCURATE.
From the Chattaoiooga .Times.
Nothing was savedi except the front
wheels, the engine being badly cracked
by the heat. Mr, Sdiajeidcr lost a Pan
ama hat, his gloves, inner casings and
other extras. Yakiusa. (Waal).) Repub
lic. Interesting but a trifle Inaccurate.'
One's inner casing ahuuld not be claa
slfied as extras. Tlairy belong to our
regular edition.
THK DECLINE (jR? CHIVALRY.
From the Washington Stan 1
You never thanlTa 'man' rd"r"fIvTll
you a seat in a streirt ear."
"Not any .more," "replied Misa Cay
enne. "I used to until I noticed that
almost Invariably hen waa going to' get
out at the next corrter- anyhow."
ENVIOVS.
From the MilWitukee Sentinel.'
Johnnie I wish 'X, could be Tommy
Jones.
Mother Why? Ifflii are stronger than
he la, you have a ? better hornet mora
toys and more poclfcet money.
Johnnie Yes, I : know, but he can
wiggle hi cars. ',
Pointed IWagrapn
Men who marry fpr looks Seldom get
good cooks. ''" '
4 a ' '
A fool boy mat get over If, but -a
fool man ia hopeldtfa. ,1
The average man In willing to con
fess & fault he hadt got - ,- -t
, .......
It is your frtcnii) wlu pick yoi to
pieces; other peori are lndifforttab, v 1
Holidays are mtivet pleaapt'' in coi
templatipn than In tact to moat men.
!' ' . ' ' ...
Some people glvbi according- to' their
means and -torn .-accordifig to their
mcannsa. ' ' r. -r--
When , you meet a , sad leoktag nwn
it's easy to acquire) full details of hia
troubles. ;
It is nearly alwriv-a better to be bald
back In your own coin than never to
he paid back .at, aCi. . , ' ,
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.,to-iluy.taJbgaa4vartage,--
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