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Protected Industry, careening far.
Detects the cause and cures the)
rage of war, . , . -And
sweeps, with forceful' arm, to
their last, graves
Kings from the earth and pirates
. from the naves.
, ' Joel Barlow,
he grand march -of . the can dl
dates is on. Fifty-five, count
'em, are on parade. Fifty-five,
think of them, are clamoring
Apr Portland jobs. i
Fifty-five, dream of them, bonding
their lightning rods aloft. Fifty-five
patriots, all in a row, exploiting their
platforms, giving off glittering
promises and asking for votes. ;
Nobody knows all of these candi
dates, v Thousands in Portland do
ljot personally know a single one of
tjiem. Tens of thousands will go
rj the polls and vote blindly with
out knowing the merits or demerits
olf most of. those supported.
It places the" voter at an awful
disadvantage. In such a Btampede
dr offices and candidates, be has
hardly a chance In the world to
make intelligent selections. What
possibility Is there for him to make
select. from an army of 55,: most of
whom he never, heard of before, and
many of whom he win never near
of : again?' "'' '' ; ':,: y.-v-w
It Isn't the fault - Of thedirect
primary,; but 'the fault of a, govern
mental system that calls for so many
elective off ics, We-have run wild
on the idea of electing every official
from dog-pelter up. In our de
lirium; we have lost eight of the
great fundamental that human lib
erty; is not in the keeping of tho
nniinrlmnRtoi' : hnr tit e-nvprnrtra ' Iait-
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islators and those who exercise real
powerr- - In consequence we have
made electidhs a wild stampedeof
a motley,; galloping, belter, skelter
mob of unknowns. . ' J "
Too often, unhappily, It Is a pa
rade of unfits, ; Too many times it
is mostljr the grand march of the
incompetents. In e v e r y election
there is a grand promenade of.un
desirables. . V:, V j' .v""
It is the first step in bad govern
ment. ; The confusion when the bal
lot is made a dumping ground of
the unknowns gives the unfit hla
chance of election. It opens the
door of opportunity to the unde
sirables. . It clears the way for In
efficiency and incompetency in pub
lic positions. It is government by
random,, It is government by ac
cident It is government by "stu
pidity. . - v". A ' -'"
. We ought to change this thing.
Te ought to apply at least, a little
common sense to government. i'We
owe it to the principle of the" direct
primary not to abuse It We ought
x stop this insane performance of
naving so many elective offices that
each election lays us under siege by
iiio office hungry, in regiments and
lirlffflrtpn Wo nwa it In hnraalvoa
to end a regime that no man in the
world would apply in his private
business. ' '
The cure is the short ballot, : and
the pending commission charter pro
vides for the short ballot. Indeed,
the short ballot is a fundamental in
tommisslott government, and one of
thfl factors In thA wtdo mrcrona nt
commission government in all citieB
ia which It has been applied.
In the first . election under the
rommission Charter, there would be
hut-six offices to fill, and after that,
there would never be more than
rour. It would end the parade of
J he unfits. It would give every
voter, a chance to know all about
every candidate on the ballot. U
would, abolish election by random.
If 1 1 1 t rarlnna .-Tit.A r n ' maw
IvlnK' an V . ... .. n , l
vu.ju,j, auu uiwa vuo nay ml me m-
competenta and undesirables,
i It would be government by jntel
Jl pence.
UNIVERSITY SOLDIERS
SECRETARY OF WAR GARRI
SON and Major General Wood
have certainly struck on a new
i , way of securing short term sol
diers, and possible future officers,
for tho United States army where
excellent- results will follow small
expenditure.
In the leading universities there
w ill be f o u h d abundant material
which will gladly-filffcthe Gettys
burg camp of 2000 for the eastern
Utates and 500 at the Presidio for
the western states for eight weeks
of heir coming vacation in ncadier
Ing under competent officers,
r The' suggested cost of . railroad
fare to and from the camps, about
11.75 a . week". for subsistence, and
7.66 for a service uniform, will
not be a very heavy drain on the
Bfudents' 'pockets for eight weeks'
iairod action to a soldier s me.
J These young men will be apt pu
pils. Their eight weeks will be no
play time, and their camp life and
t Hinp duties, their . drill s , and
n'mh, tliflr rifle pracUce,' andin
I "iK ( ii-t ia entrenching nnd fortl-
J t XFIT GOVERNMENT
fying, will crowd a Ions period of
national guard service into t h i s
short time.
.To go into camp, at Gettysburg,
to pass these summer weeks on the
scene of the greatest battle in the
nation's history, to follow under
competent guidance the stages of
that fierce and bloody conflict will
be to these young men a continuous
lesson in patriotism. ' -
'v. - WHY?
A T ELGIN, Illinois a sixteen-year-old
boy of feeble mind
6bot and killed a mother and
then slew her two small chil
dren with an ax. His confession of
the details-gives a vivid view of the
tragedy. - '"V'--;-
What is the Btatus of things when
feeble minded persons of murderous
bent are always at large?
. Why , does so-called : civilized so
clety permit a homicidal school boy
of feeble mind to g9 about armed
with a loaded revolver?
LAST YEAR'S IMMIGRANTS
HE annual report of the Immi
gration Commissioner General
for the year ; ending June 30,
1912, supplies some suggestive
figures. -
Total of all immigrants fell off
live per cent in that year, the num
ber being 838,172. "There were re
jected, and not allowed to land, 16,-
067, being 28 per cent less than in
1911. If the new Immigration act
had been in force during the year in;
question 177,284 more would have
been una'ble to pass the literacy test
and would have been excluded.
Italian immigrants .numbered.
157,134.;. Of these; 56,981 were il
literate, j There wer.el8,839 from
Russia and other Slavic lands. Of
these 87,480 were illiterate, besides
15,135 Jews. That is, more than
60 per cent of Illiterates spoke one
or other of those three languages.
'rui" "" "T.',:!
came o.vsi. x-roiu dwuuiu,i
27,554. From Germany 27,778;
from other North European coun
tries 22,922.
.The; above figures describe 19
Der cent of the Immigration. But
570,130, or 68 per cent, came from
Spain. Fortugal. Italy, and the Sla
vonlc countries of eastern and south
ern ' Europe.
The figures of Immigration be
tween the tnlted States and Canada
will cause, many to revise the fig
ures which they had previously in
mind. . From Canada to the United
States there came 107.943. Of these
38,317 were United States citizens
returning, Canadian 1 citizens emi
grating were 42,649, and all other
aliens 26,977., The emigration from
the United States to Canada totaled
143,251. Of these 20,086 were Can
adian t citizens returning h o"m e,
United States ; citizens 97,951, . and
all other aliens 25.2H.
Thus the number 'going to settle
In Canada last year from this coun
try exceeded by 35",308 persons the
number coming from there here.
Canadian citizens crossing the hor
de' to come to us were so closely
examined by the immigration in
spectors that of the 42,647 Canadi
ans over 5 per cent were excluded,
or over 4 per cent more than the
general average" at 'Ellis Island and
other eastern ports. "Which seems
to Indicate that 35,000 immigrant
werejet in at Ellis Island and else
wherewbo should have been kept
out by existing laws.
It seems also that previous esti
mates of the number of Americans
going to Canada to settle must bo j
largely discounted, for 35,308 is no
large number In view of the special
attractions of the Canadian North
west and the new railroads. And
this Is probably only a temporary
loss. ; . . .
IRISH FARMERS
T
HE Chicago Farmers' Confer
ence on marketing and farm
ers' credits having now passed
into hiBtory it may be well to
mention a few facts about Irish
farmers that bear on these 4ssueB,
Sir Horace Plunkett, the father of
cooperation among Irish farmers,
being the authority.
The first cooperative farmers' as
sociation was formed In 1889. At
the present date there are 955 so
cieties, with a membership of 97
000 The. turnover of the societies
in 191 1" amounted to 112,7 99.11R.
The business done by the societies
since their beginning amounts to
1134,400,000
The Irish formula, said Sir Horace
Plunkett, was "better housing, bet
ter business, and better living." But,
he added, it was necessary to begin
with better business. LThe coopera
tive was the only method of combi
nation that gave full play to the as
sociative qualities that distinguished
the Irish farmer from his English
neighbor. -
It was objected that the Instinct
of the English farmer was to what
the speaker called "Joint stockism,"
which meant the formation of com
panies with capital, directors, man
agers, and the rest of company ma
chinery, and where the extent of the
TmwerndtiitlirenceTxntrTbulor
depended on the amount of stock he
took and the money he put in.
Sir Horace Plunkett answered
that the joint stock plan nearly al
ways broke down, for the reason
that the preponderating manage
ment and profit fell to the1 largest
BuT)BcrIuers, wheriarthl'nrmn'tTffg; to be a pheasant "tiiid iirofttirrjtei
had 'really; a far more vital interest
in the undertaking than the large
man. The cooperative plan was the
successful one. . JThe profits of each
man were governed completely by
the quantity and quality of the farm
products that ho put into tho , co
operation. . 1
,ln those words of wisdom tho
cause of comparative success and
failure of the two. methods may be
seen. '. 1
LOMBARD'S MARE'S NEST
1'
R. LOMBARD is still , in .
panic over what he styles
"the czar-llke powers" of the
mayor under the commission
charter. Only he and Mrs. Duniway
are affrighted by 'Visions of a des
potism and a tyrant in Portland.
The present powers of the mayor
are far greater than under the com
mission plan. Now the mayor has
in administration the appointment of
every board and commission. . It is
an army of officials apdfunction
aries. It Is a big personal machine.
It is a retinue of lieutenants, sword
bearers and light holders to , enor
mously Increase the mayor s ruler
ship at the city hall. '
It is not so under the commission
plan. Under that system, the mayor
appoints nohody. The people elect
four commissioners' and the, mayor
assigns them to their, departments.
That is all he can do, but even at
that Mr. Lombard professes to be
terrorized. ;
It is a power the mayor ought to
Ira ve, but one that he couldn't for
his life abuse. " If he sought ' to
transfer a commissioner for wrong
reasons, the people would know It.
The public would resent it. The
other commissioners would condemn
it. It could easily, end in a mayor's
recall..
; In any event, the other commis
sioners could block the ' mayor's
game. Any three of them woufd
constitute a majority; and would
hold the purse strings. Their power
to hold up appropriations ' would
force the mayor to abandon his un
worthy enterprise.
In legislation, the mayor now has
the veto." It requires ten council
men to pass a measure oyer his
veto. That is to say, the mayor un
der the present system has" the pow
er of ten councilmen out of the fif
teen. '::'. , : ,, S.:..,
Under the commission plan, he
has no veto. He hasone vote, and
nothing more. He has the power of
one, man 1 out of "the , five men that
constitute the commission. That Is.
to say, he has under the commission
plan, one fifth of the legislative
power, while under the present plan,
he has two thirds of the legislative
power. w -;-;, ;i ..l.. .
- When Mr. ; Lombard talks about
"czar-like" powers, he is absurd, and
the more be raises the point.then
more he" makes his campaign ridlcn
lous.
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UT in Washington county, the
bpnes of a dead, man have
been found. There is a bul
let hole through the right tem
ple, and near by was a rusty revol
ver with three chambers empty. , i
. They are supposed to be the
bones of J. C. Jaquith, who left his
home to bathe in a near-by stream
July 18, 1911, and was never more
heard of. It was generally sup
posed that he had drowned while
bathing, but this theory was never
accepted by the father. '
The finding of the bones renews
Interest in the mystery, and raises
the "issue of whether the disappear
ance was a suicide or a murder.
The theory of suicide is scouted by
those best acquainted with the
missing man and his affairs.
What If the manufacturer's num
ber of the rusty revolver were of
record and now, available to the
public authorities, as is required in
all revolver sales by the new state
law? , It would be the missing link
, . v0, . s .
in a chain of information in which
a number of people are now very
deeply concerned.
MORE INEFFICTENCr
EARLY all Portland crossed
the Broadway bridge yester
day, and on both sides of the
river clouds of dust were en
countered. The dust tone on the
east side extends several blocks
from the end of the bridge, due to
the fact that the streets are not
properly paved.
. The failure to have all approach
es ready for the bridge opening is
sign of the inefficiency of govern
ment. A private establishment
spending $1,600,000 " on a bridge
would have seen to it that all ave
nues of approach would be in readi-
hRf for full tionaflr tn
- Bwa w w vw MXsVJ. itv a vsua
the heavy outlay in the bridge In
vestment
Possibly the circuitous and devi
ous routine- by which any publla
work Is started under the present
complicated system of Portland's
government Is largely responsible
for the fact that, though the great
bridge is open, the approaches .to It
are not fit.
v Helen Keller may cross the pcean
to help the unfortunate sprig . of
Spanish royalty, Don Jaime, who at
four years of age is deaf and dumb.
This wonderful American girl -deaf,
dumb and blind declares that- the
Spanish princeling can be taught
with love. And love he will get In
generous measure, for In loving and
helping others. Miss- Keller find
happiness in her own affliction. .
Charles F, Baker, San Francisco's
bad banker, gets ten years In San
Quentln. Bad banking Is fast ceas-
pastime.
There are no wall flowers at San
Franciscd balls "tsince the world has
taken to the rhythmic gliding oT the
new dances," according to ; one ol
its society editors. Gro;;s o
rather, refined exaggeration. As
well say that there are no Jews in
Jerusalem, no', flies In fly time, no
beans in a beanery. And how could
the budding debutante t r 1 u m p h
without a withered wall-flower with
which to contrast her youthful
charm?
It has grown to be a ' very nice
and amiable menagerie lion, and
there is no " longer excitement in
twisting its tail. It may snarl a few
snarls, but will end in letting us run
our little old canal in our own way.
Bipod Is thicker than -water even
canal water.
New York's latest census gives
5,332.000 population. How like a
very, small potato a very big man
must feel in New York.
Letters From the People
(Commnolcatlona tent to The Jonraal for
publication In toll department ebould be writ
ten oa only one aide of the paper, ahould nrt
exceed 8(K word la leuctb and muit be o
eompaoled br the nam and "addresa of th
ender. , If th wrttn doe not dealr to na
th nam pabUhd, be ebould ao Stat.)
: Thinks Reasons Inadequate
Portland, Or., April 22. To the Editor
of Tha Journal A few days ago there
appeared in your paper", the reasons that
Judge Gatens gives for asking the resig
nation of Mr. Baker, tha superintendent
of the Krazler Detention Home." -
1 have investigated the conditions as
stated by the Judge and for the benefit
of all concerned wish to make a few
statements concerning them.
Judge Gatens' first chargej which I
would call attention to -Is the tiumber
of runaways. Wherever there ia a plact
of detention thers are runaways. In
our state reform school where every
precaution is taken to guard against
any getting away, several escape every
month and occasionally we even hear
of prisoners in the state penitentiary
scaling- walls, eluding armed guards and
making good their escape:-- Bo,- toos there
have been children run away from the
Frazler Home. Since the first of the
year 103 have been registered. Nine
have left without permission; four have
returned voluntarily; four have been re
turned by either officers or parents and
only one is at present unaccounted for.
Compare this record with that of any
other of its kind in the state.
The children are offered every op
portunity to, get away and if It was
not .Tor a very strong Influence, ex
ercised by Mr. Baker, the number tak
ing advantage would be greater. They
play on the grounds without any guard.
After having been In the home a few
weeks many are allowed to go home
for a visit and return unguarded. There
are no bolts or locks any more than
could be seen in a private home. At
present there are two boys-who have
run away from several similar Institu
tions and who their guardians say can
toe kept no place. "They have made no
effort to leave. --r-r-.T-r-t-
In regard to the grand Jury reports,
I would like to call attention to the fact
that the last two grand Juries have re
ported very favorably on conditions as
they found them and the last one es
pecially commended Mr. Baker's effici
ent management.
The Judge will have to give better
reasons than those above before he can
make any one who Investigates for him
self believe , that this change Is made
for the good of the children and the
home. WOMAN TAXPAYER. ;
v Why (Women Do Not. Vote.
Portland, Or., April 21, Te the Editor
of The Journal In an editorial in The
Journal of: April 14 you comment on
the sklttlshness of women about telling
their exact ages, as preventing many of
them from registering which is no
doubt true. ; It seems unjust that this
should be a necessary requirement, so
long as they .have reached the legal
voting age. But It seems that there is
another course that is probably keeping I
more women from registering than the
one you mention. ' Thousands of women
of the state are wives and daughters of
men who voted against the suffrage
amendment at the last election. Many
of these men hold to that old time worn
theory, that women would be Insulted
at the voting places, and will no doubt
use their Influence In keeping their
wires - at home' on election -day.
Then there Is another class of these
Intelligent gentlemen who think that a
woman's place Is at home, and that she
is Incapable of voting. Such men would
be likely to make home life very dis
agreeable If their wives should take an
interest in political affairs. Only a
few days ago a man, apparently of or-
dinary intelligence, boastingly remarked
,w ,.--. . tnt woman suffraee.
and that voting was one thing that he
would not let his wife do. Such re
marks make one fee",.:as. though the
cruel slavery days had i not entirely
passed away. Most of us think that
slavery was abolished during the Civil
war. But after 60 years from -that
great struggle we find that traces of
it still linger. As long as so many of,
the women of Oregon are dominated by
these narrow minded relics of the dark
ages, we will always" have a shortage
in women voters. C..E. PEARCB.
Non-Resident Favors New Charter.
Cove. Or., April 21, 1913. To the Ed
itor of The Journal It Is not residents
only, of Portland who are interested in
that city's welfare. Every dweller In
the northwest Is directly Interested in
the growth and prosperity of every great
city of the northwest, and especially of
those cities in which he owns property.
The writer,-like hundreds Of otrurnon
residents, owns real estate in and near
Portland, and is naturally anxious to
have the XJity managed In a way to In
sure good order, good health, low taxes,
and all other things desirable In a city.
The commission form of government is
no longer In , Its experimental stage.
Larger cities than Portland have found
it preferable 1 ro ' the prevailing form,
and, as a majority of Portlanders wish
to adopt it, they should see to it that its
opposers be not allowed to defeat or de
la wt)U desired change. V
To an outsider, like the writer, the
opposition to the proposed charter seems
to come mostly from those interested In
retaining , the, present form on personal
grounds rather than from a. deslrs to
nromots the fteneral welfare.
It is to be hoped that the proposed
charter tnay be given, a trial, and if it
shows up some defects It will doubtess
be easier to remedy them than to secure
good government under the present sys
tem. C. M. RAMSDELL, M, D. ;
Why Girls Shun Domestic Service
Annie Wlnsor Allen, in the Atlantic.
Already, today, many .Bteady, refined,
sensible girls appreciate the advantage
of working In other people's homes, but
they make four definite objections to the
occupation as It is now arranged. These
liour are: (1) Difficulty in securing a
pleasant, quiet place in which to enjoy
leisure and to receive their callers; that
inr H eUsssmfarts . (1) nKflrntfy.ini
finding out beforehand how the mistress
of any particular house Is going to treat
you; that Is, Its uncertainty. (S) Diffi
culty in being sure of pleasant fellow
workers; that is., its Intimacy. (4); A
dlslik of helping without sharing in a
private home life; that is. Its aloofneHs.
Of courssf-also, th Social "stigma'', lsi
PERTINENT COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF
SMALL CHANGE
, Did you
April?
ever sea a more Aprllly
Protections baron-robber .wall Is
crumbling at last. I ,
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W'hutever else may fall, or pass on
and out, or become obsolete1 in politics,
there always is and ever will be the
tariff.
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A man has been fined for plagiarism.
Hevings! If this is to beeome the rule,
nearly everybody who writes anything
will be fined.
. , ' .
Though physlcallv a little Ant of a
country, Japan has a right to feel rather
oig, out sne seems chronically inclined
to swell up overmuch.
Boys and silrlsl It la worth more tn
you than you can realise to have a per
sonal Interest in some of the spring's
"green things growing."
Now the world can heroin av ami
unafraid again: the D. A. H. elerflnn
agony is over, and not a drop of blood
was snea, noining put tears ana lan
guage.
Woman sues for divorce because her
husband threw a snoonful of hot. miiHh
in her eye. She should win: a man who
doesn'' Know that mush ' belonea in a
woman's mtfuth not her eye, should be
condemned to single cussedness.
and mighty with many minimis,' "should
oe an impressive lesson to men temptea
to do likewise. The time seems to have
come, or to be near, when multimillion
aires will begin to respect and obey the
law. ..
NEW YORK
, By Herbert Corey.
Thickset little Italians are digging a
hole On the site of what was once the
Hotel Albany then known as' ths
Chorus Girls' Snug' Harbor. Passers
by admire their energy. Contractors
visit the place and watch them with
unbelief and horror. Then they tele
phone 'for the family doctor,
"Listen,. Doc," they plead. "Hop Into
a taxi and coma and get me, see? I
got a rattle in the bean." f
The Italians do not pause to wipe
the perspiration from their foreheads.
They snap it off sldewise with a jerk or
the head. . They crouch like question
marks over their shovels. At lunch
time ths bosses have to drive them out
Of the hole. They sit on the edge and
.glare at each other. By and by one
makes a nervous motion. Instantly the
whole crew have hurled themselves , at
their picks and are tearing Into the
earth with nervous energy.
Three days ago," said ths corner
copper, "one or them wops rinas a sar
dine box with some gold pieces in it.
H leaves for Italy, takln' the middle
of Broadway and hollering. Two days
ago a guinea finds a gold watch that
musta weighed a pound. Last I seen
of him he was canterin' off, swinging
that kettle around his "head, and being,
pursued by two other guys twt seemed
jealous. Yestlddy one of 'm. prongs
out a old pocketbopk with a coupler
rings hid In it. This mornln he comes
by, smokln a cigarette and swlngln'
a cane, and stands on the edge of the
hole, f llckln' ashes Into it until I makes
him move out of respect for hla life."
'Remarkable, huhr ' -.
'Say." said the corner copper, "If 1
could &M'omeone to back me in ths
conthrack business I cud get rich In a
year." ".''.:,v '
Melva Beatrice Wilson is a strong,
healthy, handsome woman.- She has
real genius as a sculptor. She became
well to do through her own exertions.
A balance in the bank Is no proof of
talent; but It is a satisfying proof that
talent has been recognised. r
Her place among American artists
must be fixed by the future. For the
present It seems secure.. Recently she
completed a wonderful bas relief for
the stations of the cross in the new
Roman Catholic cathedral at St. Louis.
This Is said to be the most ambitious
bit of purely, ecclesiastical art In
America. Artists who have seen the
wonderfully sentient groups say: ,
"Her jmen and women are alive In
marble. "- She worked with the stone as
though it were clay."
. Endowed with superb vigor, the
sculptor actually handled the maul and
chisel herself. s Day after day she
spent upon tha scaffolding, imprisoning
souls, in stone. This work, which ex
hausts the hardiest of men, brought
her physical forces to perfection and
still added to tier femlnlna charm. She
Is rosy, well poised, gracious. Her
chosen friends are among the intellec
tuals of the city. The' line of success
upon her chart of life had reached Its
highest point and yet there was the
certainty ahead that she would go even
higher. ' -
The other day she abandoned all
She gave up the art for which she lived.
She left the world. For the long years
which must remain "to her she will en
gage In the mbst menial tasks In
urged as the chief reason why It is
hard to secure good help in the house
hold, This Is' the reason which many
girls believe they have for not enter
ing domestic service. But a general
sentiment of this kind follows the con
ditions which t create It A feel
ing ' Is always a consequence be
fore it Is a cause. If the con
ditions were altered, the sentiment
would disappear. In the eighteenth cen
tury there was a, social stigma on ar
tists; the social stigma on doctors has
scarcely "yet disappeared In England;
and that on retail trade has been heard
of in this country. Some say there la
still a social stigma on dentists, while
others look upon dentists as high in the
social scale. These are matters of sen
timent. We cannot work to efface sen
timent, but only to efface what causes
the sentiment '. .-.'..j j'-;
The Crime of Henry Love,
From the Toronto Stat
- When a man kills his wife organised
society feels called upon to do nothing
mors in the matter than to. make quite
sure of his guilt' and then hang him.
Would It not be well for Organized
society to do more than thatT Why
not Investigate the cause of a crime
as well as the fact? It is not enough
to discover or attribute a motive for
the deed, for, after all, the - motives
ascribed are seldom sufficient and do
not ' explain by what ' road a man
reached the point where he was pre
pared to do a capital crime.
Sometimes a youth of 20 will com
mit a desparate deed; he will be tried,
convicted, hanged, and forgotten. Why
should not the Province go behind the
factsio past the result, and set com
petent men the task of discovering by
what path this youth reached the
scaffold? What was the matter with
him? What wrong conditions, influenced
him, how general are those' conditions,
and to what extent are they removable?
In the case of Henry Love and In
all such cases it is surely not enough
tn ttnnv that Averv cam- la taken not
to convict a wan without being sure
oflils gutlChls'ftrrTS'-iar-ririianped-on
the 27th of May. Apart from that
altogether, those wiser than the police
should enquire into the case to see
why this cflms occurred and why other
such crimes "occur. In all these mat
ters ths state should bo amassttig in
formation for Its future guidum-.'
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
Rev. J. T. Cowley has been Appointed
pastor of the Methodist Kiiiscopul
churches at Wolf Ciei k and Merlin.
Frank Smith. 83 years old, of Craw
foi'dsvllle, is believed to be the oliiat
angler in Linn county, lie got his fish
ing license Monday.
Rev.' A. A, Winter of Dallas has been
elected to the pastorate of the Evan-
elical church at Halein. Rev. O. 1.
oven will have charge of the parish
until June.
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In order to promote the development
of stars, the Mask and Dagger club at
the Oregon Agricultural college will pre
sent this year three one-act plays In
stead of one three-act or four-act play.
.
The Port Orford Commercial club is
preparing a pamphlet on Curry county
in general, and Port Orford in particu
lar. The club hag also taken first steps
in preparation for the 1V13 agate car
nival, looking forward to a day, say 20
years hence, when electric power ' re
sources have been developed as they
should be, the Pendleton East Oregonian
predicts that u it . may be the general
practice to plow by night as well as
day, lighting the machines by electrl-
c,ty
Monroe Leader: The heavy blasts at
the big cut a few weeks ago did con
siderable damage to the poultry In
dustry. The shocks ruined large num
bers of eggs that were in process of de
velopment, both under hens and in in
cubators. .The Leader mourns the. loss
of two valuable settings of high class
eggs from that cause.
DAY BY DAY
washing dishes and scrubbing floors
and waiting upon tables. Luxurious in
all her tastes feeling all tha re
pugnance of th delicately reared wo
man and ths fastidious artist for inti
mate personal contact with strangers
she may not even havs a room to her
self, but must sleep In a dormitory
with scores of others. Her Identity la
submerged: She may not remember
friends or klnfolk except in prayer. She
has become a Sister of Charity. Her
life is but death; - .
Leender Richardson is bitten by a
grievance. .
Until lately he was the monarch of
the mimeograph for William A. Brady.
Then he cut Philip Bartholomae out of
the herd and started a brand of his
own. Bartholomae knows,how to write
plays. Rlchsrdson can coax the public
Into pawing about the box office. The
future seemed rose-strewn.
"Then," said Mr. , Richardson, "the
amateur playwright began to alt on my
chest each night, just as I dropped into
my smiling sleep." "
It appears that three amateurs be
lieve themselves to be the authorot
Bartholomae's latest play, The -r fact
that their three scenarios differ as
widely from each other as from ths
play as produced has only served to
convince them that Bartholomae is an
uncommonly clever pilferer. They are
yowling under Richardson's window.
That unfortunate Sftys that the ama
teurs he has met may be divided Into
two classes: th sort who say the man
ager will not read his play and the sort
who say that the manager has stolen it.
"There's Just one , consolation," said
he. "I used to feel' sorry for David
Belasco. Now Mr. Belasco -may feel
sorry for me."
Ripley, the artist, returned from Eu
rope) the other-day. He had a fair time
while abroad. "Rip" Isn't ths sort to
come pining home, complaining tha ths
camels in the Garden of Allah smell
like the animal tent In a circus. He
didn't remark that what Venice , most
needs Is a drainage canal. He was
rather sorry tht he had given his last
penny to ths stewards of the Kron
prinzessln Cecils, because that left him
marooned In Hoboken. And New Tork
only 20 minutes away. He thought of
pawning his overcoat for ferry fare
when the light broke.
"Mister," said the Original Human
Crab, "them doggoned stewards won't
put my trunks on the pier."
Mr. Ripley had other worries. Also,
his aympathles were entirely with the
stewards. But he pricked up his. ears
when ths Human ; Crab mads this
further statement:
"I won't pay no more than 2 for
that Job. And at that I'm getting
stung."
Mr. Ripley ' signed up with the
Human Crab right there. Then he in
vaded the .forecastle and found a
stoker who for one Iron dollar would
have agreed to scuttle the ship. Mr.
Ripley contracted with the stoker, led
him to the trunks and supervised ths
transfer. With the dollar profit ha
began life In New York. There was
only one disagreeable featiire about the
transaction. The stoker found out
about the other dollar.
"But shucks,' said Mr. Rfpley. "It's
almost rldioulously easy to outrun a
stoker." "
The President's Cabinet. "
Shedds, Or., April 19, 1913, To the
Editor of The Journal Kindly name In
The Dally Journal the officers that com
pose the president's cabinet, and give
their names. J. A, C.
Jefferson, Or., April 19. 1913. To tht
editor of Ths Journal Please tell me
what officers compose the president's
cabinet. A SUBSCRIBER.1-
Secretary of state, William J. Bryan
of Nebraska; secretary of ths treasury,
William F. McAdoo of New Tork; secre
tary of war, Llndley M. Garrison of New
Jersey? attorney general.- James C Mo
Reynolds of Tennessee; postmaster gen
eral Albert S. Burleson of Texas; secre
tary of the navy, Josephus Daniels of
North Carolina; secretary of the Interior,
Franklin K. Un of California; secre
tary of agriculture, David F. Houston of
Missouri; secretary of commerce, Will
iam G Redfleld of New Tork; secretary
of labor, William B. Wilson of Penn.
sylvanla.l
Wants the Eight Hour Day. .
Portland, Or., April 20,, 1913. To the
Editor of The Journal. Now that the
eight-hour day has been established in
some of the department stores, It -behooves
the greatest corporation of Port
land, the P, R., L. & P. Co., to follow
suit' and to grant ths eight-hour day to
all HS employes by the 1st of May, that
we men may not feel ashamed of falling
behind the women In this advanced age.
, ONE OF THE LEAST PAID.
Name of Steamer "Varajo.
- PartlanuV April 2L To the Editor of
The Journal Will you kindly state
through your paper which is the right
pronunciation of the jiame of the steam
er Navajo, running to this port? Is. it
as it is spelled, or Is It "Navaho." as a
good many pronounce it? C. PIHL.
fit -is pronounced with "j" sounded as
"h" "Navaho."
AYUern. A re JThoac., J okcrs Z.
- Portland,-April 21v To ths Editor of
Ths Journal Will someone opposed to
ths new commission form Of govern
ment tell us directly, by section number,
where wc may . find the "Jokers" which
will bring dire dlmister should the new
charter be adopted? 0.11.11 1
TARIFF MONSTROSITIES
From the New York Evening Post.
In the process of threshing out the
new tariff bill, the Democratic caucus
reached yesterday si.-hedulo K, and by
a vote of 190 to 42 decided to put wool
on the free list. This 1ms many signifi
cant sspects. Two years aro the Demo,
crats in the house could not screw their
courage up to advocating freewool. In
deed, in the original form of the present
bill a small duty was TetaJned. Mr. Un
derwood has frankly stated this, and
has also explained that President Wil
son took the responsibility for removing
the tax entirely. That this was a step
in which the party is now ready to fol
low him, was shown by the overwhelm
ing majority n the caucus. But the
vpte for free wool is only one of manv
signs that impatience and disgust with
the old' system of tariff taxation are
growing on all sides. The greatest
pressure now put upon the Democratic
leaders In congress Is, not to make the
rates higher than the bill proposes, but
to make them lower. The free list has
been much extended, but It is plain, from
all that comes out that It could be made
even larger to the satisfaction of the
rank and file of the party.. , , ' .
The country is still, unfortunately, in
the midst of the tariff Jungle. We have
to begin by cutting a few openings.: The
whole noxious growth of a century can
not be cleared away in one year, it
took English statesmen 60 years to get
rid of all their tariff monstrosities, and
we shall have to be long- at the Job. For
a beginning, the Underwood bill is prob.
ably the best that can now be had., ; But
no man who approaches its study from
the standpoint of scientific taxation, or
takes it up purely as a project of law,
can fall to see that it staggers under a
dead weight of inherited and Inveterate
evils. : If we knew nothing of Its antece
dents, nothing of the enormous diffi
culties now in the way of drafting a
customs law that shall be at ones clear,
Just, and productive of revenue, we
should say, on simple inspection, that
the bill now before congress was an ob
ject of amazement and even horror. .
Take ths brut mass of It. In the
hands of every member of the house
wera placed two" bulky documents.- Onr
was the bill itself 21 S printed psges.
With it want a tariff handbook, contain
ing no less than (18 pages of texts, com
parisons, statistics, indexes. And all
this Wilderness of detail In order tit
raise some $230,000,000 of revenue for
carrying on the government! Six or
eight Items alone, under a law capable
of being written on one sheet of paper,
raise $100,000,000 of customs revenue In
England. Yet that country had In 1815
a tariff nearly as cumbrous and virions
as ours. It contained 1400 Items. With
a meticulous Ingenuity like that of our
own tariff makers, it sought to levy a
special tax on every conceivable variety
of human production. All this has been
swept away in England, to the great
advantage of her treasury, and to the
durable satisfaction of her people.
But Americans, even In their revised
tariff, are caught in tha old complexi
ties and endless subdivisions of tariff
legislation; Open the bulky volume that
la called a law almost at random; and
you find yoiirself in a Mandarin atmos
phere. "Single yarns made of Jute, not
finer than five lea or number." "Cottoa
cloth, not bleached, dyed, colored,
stained,, printed or mercerised, contain
ing yarn the highest number of which
does not exceed number nine." Are such
things suitable for a statute? Do thev
fit Into any rational Idea of taxation?
What ths -explanation is of this terri
ble mass of tariff legislation, everybody
knows. It began as a tax and ended as
governmental oversight of every branch
and form of human industry. Little by
little, every established canon of taxa
tion was departed from. Step by step
the notion of subsidy and favor crept In,
Thus two things that do not belong to
gether became hopelessly mixed up. If
you are merely going to lay a tax, you
can do it In a few simple words, follow
ing 'Adam Smith's four rules. But if,
while pretending to lay a tax, you are
going to undertake a minute and father
ly supervision ofvthe business of every
man In ths country, It Is inevitable that
yon will loss yourself In a myriad of
phrases, and make your tariff , bill look
more like a dictionary than a law. The
resulting confusion, waste, misunder
standing, bickering, litigation, complaint,
tinkering, scheming, log-rolling, corrup
tlon are frightful. As we havs said, w
think that the Underwood bill makes a
brave beginning of clearing away the
huge tangle. We do not assert that more
could wisely be attempted at the pres
ent time. But let us not delude our
selves Into imagining that ws are more
than emerging from the tariff morass,
Many years will have to be devoted to
the labor of draining and making habit
able that Serbonlan bog where armies
whole have sunk. . ,
' .The man who gambles In wheat may
make a poor breadwinner. .
A man without an aim In life Is Hks
a dog that has no wag In his tall.
There are men who make a specialty
of telling the truth to ths highest bid
der. --'
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- Young man, the safest way to study
the color of, her eye is through a tele
scope. ,.- - -
You may fill a trust wit water, but
you can't be surs that the stock will
pay dividends,
If you would pose as a cynic, all you
have to do is to put the lid on your
sentiment and nail it down. -
No man can love a woman -as much
as sha wants to be loved, or admire her,
as Bhe thinks she ought to be admired,
ANOTHER .
SHORT STORY BY
POPULAR WRITER
As a. strong fiction feature
for next Sunday, the SUN
DA Y-JOURN A Lr Magazine
"vviipoffer "ROMANCE;" a
short " story by Robert V.
Chambers.
A Civil war incident tat
nisfies the vehicle for a
charming love story, inter
woven , witTr MiFrTngdverF-'
ture.
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