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- t 12 THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, FRIDAY EVENING, .OCTOBER 23, 1914, v MAM LAWSON Elf it My Dear Mr. Hanley: I - In June when I came to Oregon for my annual nature romp they told me that you were running for the Senate. "He will win, of course." r "Win!" said they "they" are my Big Business friends, Oregon's bank ers, railroad officials, newspaper owners, managers, editors "he'll be the Joke of the campaign." "Joke, William Hanley of Oregon a Joke In Oregon?" and each of "they" hastened to add: "Merely a political - Joke. Bill Hanley per sonally all right; there Is not a man In the state who stands better with the people of Oregon as a busi ness man, citizen, doer, man, than the sage of Harney, but as United States Senatorial timber " . I was puzzled, and I laid down my perplexities to one of my old pen man friends, a far-seeing student or public affairs, a man whose pen gallops abreast the present hurdling times in the big dallies and maga zines of the East as well as tof the Hvest He laughed. -"I am surprised you should be puzzled. You know Bill Hanley and you know Big Business. ' the Oregon end as well as the east ern end. Well, there's your answer. Then, too, you know the decision of Big Business to make its last ditch stand at the coming election. You know that the word has been flung west, south, everywhere In these United States, to regain control of the United States senate, regain con trol at any cost, and balk President Wilson's death-to-specla-privllege-reforms. and there again you have your answer. "Think 4 bit and you will compre hend that Bill Hanley is the last man in Oregon that the powers you have named. The SyBtem, want in the United States Senate In these fidgety times, so we public opinion shapers have ajl had our orders: , "'Play up Chamberlain and Booth to the limit but keep the under ground knocker pounding steadily 'Bill Hanley's only a Senatorial Joke.' " z Since then I have been told, if once, at least 60 times that Bill Han ley was the Senatorial' campaign Joke, always by the earns, brand of people, never by the earnest, honest, times distrusting voter who is lying awake nights wondering what the present unrest- clouds portend never by the poor devil Oregon family There is unrest, fear-of-the-f uture abroad in the land north, east, south, west. There is 'idleness, poverty, misery as never before. Anyone who speaks to the contra ry, speaks falsely, for the evidence is everywhere. The labor horrors of New Jersey, Virginia, Massachusetts, Michigan, Colorado, California, Illinois, and elsewhere, the Impeachment of the governor of the Empire State, the Impeachment of federal and state judges In Pennsylvania and other states, the Impeachment of United States Senators and Congressmen and the exposure of .the Standard Oil's buying of Senators and Con gressmen and the Sugar Trust's con tinuous and contemptuous robbery of the United States government; the wholesale corruption of the bal lot box, the ln-the-daylight murders of officials and private citizens of cur largest cities and the bra zen display of vicious and de grading beastly immorality by our new made dollar royalty, are un-put-downable proof not only of the country's condition, but of the fact that never before In the coun try's history has a like condition existed. Everywhere, in every walk of ; American life the evidence is over whelming that the United States Is sick, dangerously sick. (I am not talking of the condition ,. brought on by the European war, I . am dealing only with the condition which was with us before the Eu ropean war was dreamed of.) This sickness was not germinated . In the acts of the Wilson Demo--.".cratlc administration; it was with us before Wilson and his Demo cratic Congress were elected. Whoever States to the contrary. ! states falsely. Bad as Is the nation's present sick ness, it would be worse If the gov ernment were still In the custody r of the administration which preceded -. Wilson's. Wilson and his Democratic admin 1 istration have helped stay the rapid . ' ly increasing sickness of the nation which existed when the Wilson Dem- ocratic administration took the helm from the old Republican regime. , . The truth of the above cannot successfully be denied. The under--ground evidence la overwhelming ,o those who have had, and still have, access to it. repeat, there Is unrest, f ear-for- the-f uture. Idleness, poverty, misery, ' as never before, in the United States, and It has come When the prosperity of the country was never so great. ,'. It has- come during a decade when T the, production of the whole country has averaged yearly over three bil - lions of dollars more than the whole.! people consumed while producing it. , , I will repeat this astounding head whos every body, mind and soul effort Is Jacked to the breaking point in an endeavor to make his yearly Income meet his annual living cost. Do you know, Mr. Hanley, that you ought to be proud of the title, "the Joke," in this campaign, the result of which Is to have a vital bearing on the people of Oregon's, the people of America's affairs? In my researches ana public work I have run across many of our coun trymen who at the beginning of their public careers were adorned with the title, "the Joke." "You're a Joke." was The System of his day's answer when Abraham Lincoln asked the privilege of lead ing his bewildered countrymen back from chaos to everlasting stability. Then the martyred emancipator's 'gaunt figure," "homely face," "store clothes," "country speech," which later were defied by his people and his country, were a Joke. When United States Supreme Court Justice Hughes, then an unknown New York er, dared to announce that he would pillory the Life Insurance thieves he was met with the System's chor us, "The Joke." When Wisconsin thrust La Follette into the public glare, with the prediction that he . would be heard from later, a loud, guffawed "The Joke" shook the raft ers. When in his early days the great Roosevelt showed those teeth, which afterwards won the national blue ribbon for biting Into entrenched special privilege dollar hypocrisy, "The Joke" was deafening. And a brief yesterday, when the present commanding figures, of ail the world's commanding figures. Wood row Wilson, asked the privilege of ap plying his "pedagogic crudities" to the ship of state's steering apparatus, he was heralded "The Joke of the Twen tieth Century." In all ages and in all climes the first appearance inhu manity's battle lists of a people's real champion has been met with contemptuous outbursts of "The Joke." British Royalty nearly burst its sides laughing when Joker Oliver Cromwell's uncouth figure came to London town, and "The Petit Joker."' was the title grinning Europe gave to the eagie-epauletted little Cor sican who later burled hla heel In the Adam's apple of Europe. Even the meek carpenter of Galilee was hailed as "The Joke" of His age by The System of His day, when he started forth to put Christianity on the map of Unbelief. Indeed, you should be proud of be TH statement for 10 years, while the United States was enjoying nnpre- cedented prosperity prosperity to such an extent that after the hun dred millions of Inhabitants of the United States had paid for all they had produced and consumed, there still remained a balance a profit of three billion dollars each year, or $30 apiece for each man, woman and child in the country, or $150 for each family. And yet during these 10 years unrest, fear-for-the-f uture, -idleness, poverty, misery increased- THERE IS ONE UNALTERABLE BAROMETER OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE'S CONDITION, WHICH AT ALL TIMES IS BEFORE THE EYES OF EVERY MAN, WOMAN AND CHILD IN THE COUNTRY COST OF LIVING. For years and years the cost of the American people's living has steadily increased out of all proportion to their income until now it is at the breaking point beyond the power, of being met by the American people from the income of their labors. Hence th'e condition of unrest, fear-for-the-f uture, idleness, poverty, misery as never before. While the country has been at its maximum prosperity and that maxi mum greater than any prosperity in the world's history, the cost of the American people's living has been steadily mounting out of all pro portion to the Increase of the Amer ican people's total income, until THE COUNTRY IS FACE TO FACE WITH REVOLUTION AND THAT REVOLUTION BREAKING THROUGH IN SPOTS IN A MORE BRUTAL AND VIRULENT FORM THAN EVER" BEFORE IN THE HISTORY OF THE MODERN WORLD. Indeed, this is a terrific statement and one that at first hearing arouses good Americans tdxa frenzy of de nial; but it is truth. For instance, nowhere in modern history can there be found surer indications of coming revolution than the Los Angeles dynamiting and the Colorado labor massacre. . I would say flatfootedly to the voters of Oregon, that THERE IS A CLASS-HATRED-BRED REVO LUTION BREWING IN THE UNI TED STATES. WHICH, IF NOT STAYED, WILL BURST FORTH AT ANY TIME IN THE VERY NEAR FUTURE AND WITH A BRUTAL VICIOUSNESS WHICH WILL, BY COMPARISON, MAKE THE FRENCH REVOLUTION APPEAR A NURSERY CHARADE. And right here I will say: I am no socialist, anarchist or other prop agandist, whose political, economical or social crbt& compels such alarm ist language. I am merely a plain citizen, whose breeding, education, environment and worldy possessions compel a .iervative vlsionlng of "The Joke" of this Senatorial cam paign. . For four months. In between play ing with the cattle,--tossing alfalfa and sucking in this wonderful Ore gon ozone, I have , been Watching, studying, acid testing this Senatorial catch-as-catch-can. hoping I might find opportunity to "take a hand for the good of the state to which I have brought my children, and my capital the state, which after looking the country over, I decided was nearer the garden spot of the earth than any other hoping I might assist in sending to the Senate the one man who, in my opinion, Oregon most needs to guard her Interests in the present snarly times. I think that I understand the Ore gon Senatorial game that I realize what you are up against In your de sire and efforts to do something for -your state atft her people; but, how to assist you is another proposition. Scores of times during the months I have been looking on, I have been tempted to offer you my services in some practical capacity, stumping, writing, banner or pike carrying, but here-are a few of my impediments: I am a life-long Republican, don't know how to bo anything else; my father was a soldier' in the saddle with Sheridan, from the opening to the closing of the Rebellion, when he came home to die from his'" many wounds, and, to the sons of such fathers, the grand old party Is some thing more than "politics." At the same time I believe that Woodrow Wilson is one of pur great est presidents, that his administra tion has done more real good for the nation for the people than aU the administrations, since Lincoln's, com bined. I mean it-r-more real good than all the administrations, since Lincoln's, combined. Also I have worked, from the first to the dastardly Chicago convention which robbed him of the Republican nomination, beside the great Roose velt, for whom I have always had, and yet have, unbounded admiration. Also I am enlisted In my home state, Massachusetts, for the elec tion to the Governorship, of the coun try's greatest living statesman, dyed-in-the-wool Republican, Sam McCall, upon a rock-ribbed Republican plat form. And If to these difficulties I add that I know nothing of practi cal poll ties, and am strong in my convictions that one of the crying crimes of the times is the hot-airing of the people at elections, I know all uncertainties which may affect his country's welfare. Then, too, my loyalty to the past thirty years' production Of my pen compels me to as smooth telescoping of coming events as lies within me under no circumstances can I af ford to risk my reputation for sound diagnosis. For it must be remem bered that I was the one who five, ten, fifteen, twenty years ago, pre dicted in public speeches and writing the Hell conditions which are now with us; that I, as long ago as 1904. set forth in my writings and lectures, the coming of the revolution which is in sight and named the causes which would produce revolution, and. that the causes were the ones that since then, have In the Courts of Justice and the hails of Congress and through state and municipal inves- tigatlons, been exposed to the whole country in all their coarse, brutal. mean viciousness. Then another thing I would say to Oregon- voters: "Do not let anyone brush away my statement of coming revolution with; the argument. "We cannot have class-hatred-bred revo lution in the United States' . I . 'That we are too law abiding, too meek, etc' " Oregon voters know what happened in Europe over night, and Oregon voters have but to look back upon the terrible happenings in our country during the past five years to know that anything CAN happen in the United States, and at the drop of a hat, when the people of the United States awaken to a full realization that they are being robbed to the unbearable point, and that their government can not or will not stay the special who do the robbing. When 10 years ago, I filled a thousand pages with detailed tales of nefarious pillaging of the Ameri can people by their great, most looked-up-to Individuals and insti tutions and after I had been harried and hounded to the limit of, .civil and criminal prosecution In an en deavor to prove the falsity of my, awful charges; and when ridicule s and vilification had been exhausted to show the absurdity of my asser tions, simultaneously In New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago, at great Washington birthday gatherings, three of The System heads pro claimed that they would prove to the world the untruthfulness of my charges and when they had finished their elaborate arguments, the pith and conclusion was the crimes I had exposed were impossible to commit because the American people would never stand for their Committing. Their violent arguments were hardly cold when the two most prominent criminals whose practices I had ex posed, Standard Oil and Sugar Trust, were convicted by different courts up to the supreme court, of not only all I had charged, but crimes much more nefarious. And , to show how Personal This page was written without the knowledge of Mr. Hanley or my self. It is voluntary offering of Mr. Law son, who even insists on pay ing for it publication. Its contents should mean much to the voters of Oregon. Mr. Lawaon, for the past quarter of a century, has been a command ing figure in the financial, political and sociological affairs of the country. His was the first voice raised against the practices of the mighty Wall street brigands. In his work, "Frenzied Finance," In 1804, the world was told for the first time the astonishing taies of Trust, Banking, Life Insurance, Corpor ation, trickery and pillaging, which t oday are common knowledge. His revelations were printed in all languages. "So astounding were they at that time that their author was call ed a madman, and his predictions, which have since come true to the 1 etter, were held up to the scorn and ridicule of America and Europe as crazy vaporings. Mr. Lawson, because of his bold ness of statement, was repeatedly sued civilly and criminally by the biggest lights In the American poltical and financial world. He threw down th e gauntlet to the most powerful and vindictive business and financial combinations, particularly the Standard Oil and Its Wall street allies, and whipped them to a standstill, compell ing the abandonment of every suit brought against hfm. In the middle of the fight he carried the war Into the very citadel of what" he terms "The System," and single - handed shook Wall street to Its foundation. He then started after the Life Insurance crooks, and at a personal expense of over two million dollars and wit h the aid of a committee which he formed of the governors of seven sta tea, in a remarkably short time, drove to exile and prison the powerful Lif e Insurance crooks and brought about the reformed methods in Life Insurance under which It Is conducted to day. During both Roosevelt administrations his work and advice entered largely into "Roosevelt policies." With great personal effort, he helped carry Massachusetts and secured Roosevelt delegates to the Chicago con vention. Mr. Lawson's political efforts have always carried weight from the fact that he does not-hesitate to strike out straight from the shoulder for any man or party whose work be eon eiders In the Interest of the people, and from the fact that he never asks office or accepts favors from the successful candidates whom his efforts have aided. . , Mr. Lawson's reputation for fearing none, asking no favors, accepting no rewards, and doing his own pen work at his own expense, has made his services much sought but rarely given. This offering of Mr. Lawson to Mr. Hanley, from the fact that M r. Lawson is at the present time doing all possible to assist Democratic Pre eident Wilson in his reform work, do ing his best to elect his son-in-law's father, Republican ex - Congress man Samuel McCall, Republican governor of Massachusetts, while at the same time maintaining his friendship and loyalty to Progressive Roose velt, Is a valuable, as well as. unlq ue contribution to Oregon's senatorial campaign, and I earnestly commend 1 1 to the voters of Oregon. , c&abke xarrrzs. my unfortunate predicament will be clear to you. Talking of hot-air I have faith fully analyzed the vast volumes re printed Lln the Oregon press during the present campaign and I have been surprised that such horse sense . people as Oregonians will stand for it. It may be of Interest to the peo ple of Oregon to know that Senator Chamberlain is a bully mixer, eats with his fork, wears a boiled shirt at dinner parties, talks like a gentle- VOTERS OIF in the United States the Impossible can quickly become not only the pos sible, but the commonplace, both these robbers of the people publicly in the court and before Congress, A Final Word to the Mothers, Wives, Sisters, Daughters of Oregon In my public work three quarters of my support comes from women. Of 450,000 correspondents In connection with my writings and public work, over half are women. In analyzing the cause, for up to the publication of my Frenzied Finance American women took but little Interest in finance, and none in finance reforms, I settled beyond doubt two things: women are more honest to a cause than men Intuitively they can separate truth from bunk. I ask the Judgment of the women of Oregon. If this page is truth of course you women will see to It that Mr. Hanley is overwhelmingly elected the women of Oregon can elect the next Senator If they earnestly 'set out to do It. If there is a single material error, or a single unsound conclusion in this page, ignore my plea and curse me out to your heart's content; I can stand it, for It does not make a picayune's difference to me, personally who of the three is elected. Please do not show any mercy in the analysis of this page, for bear In mind that there can be no excuse for my errors or unsound conclusion. This sort of stuff Is my daily diet, I have spent my life in it; I know the political, financial, economical game from the upper side of its hair-part to the under side of its instep, 'fhen, too, keep the terrific seriousness of this Senatorial election before you. If this page is sound to you, your state, your country needs, Mr. Hanley in Washington before things get worse; things are getting worse every day you women folk know that, because your butcher, your grocery, your clothing, your fuel and your rent bills show it. Your daily paper, your women's Journal, your magazine tell you, in shrieking language, that things rum, white slavery, factory slavery, store slavery, Immorality of all kinds are getting worse, and their getting worse has a big, big bear-, ing on the big, big question of the hour: "Will high cost of living bring revolution?" "They"may tell you that Mr. Hanley is not perfect; don't let that trouble you, none of us are; but you can put it down as gospel truth that he Is much better than most' of us. I wish I was as good as Mr. Hanley, and I bet that Senator Chamberlain and Mr. Booth do, too; If we were we would be worry ing less about our future residence. Perhaps "They" will tell you that Mr. Hanley Is not for prohibition; do not let that worry you either. I know the man-animal from his soul-cellar to his heart's cupola, and I can tell you that some of the best specimens I have ever bumped into are on the other side of prohibition; however, don't let Mr. Hanley's notions about Sum Regulation disturb you. I will go bail for them, and as you probably know, while -not a teetotaler, I am a frenzied throw-every-drop-of-the-damned-stuff-lnto-the-ocean, Antl-Boozeite. Do not let "Them" tell you that Mr." Hanley Is not sufficiently "polished ' to represent Oregon in thftSenate. No one doffs his bonnet to "polish" lower than I do, and when I tell you women of Oregon who do not know Bill Han ley that he Is as "polished" as a thousand-year-old crown Jewel inside, it Is a safe wager that hes "polished" enough for the United States Senate. Abraham Lincoln had no more outside "polish" than Bill Hanley, and yet history speaks of him as the most "polished" public man of his time. Think of Oregon, big, manly Oregon, the foundation of which was only laid day before yesterday, and by men who slaved for their women. Idealized their children and went broke for a friend or their plighted word, men who signa tured with "their mark" and who considered an oftener-tfcan-a-four-tlmes-a-year bath or the wearing of a boiled shirt ample ground for a lynching bee think of Oregon raising the "polish" question. Do not let sentiment Influence your Senatorial vote, for It will not really be a hardship If neither Senator Chamberlain or Mr. Booth go to the Senate. Most of you never had a Senatorship' in your family and probably neither of these two worthy gentlemen will shed tears, if they miss landing this one. Senator Chamberlain has already had a lot of fat public Jobs and Mr. Booth has a fine business to fall back on If he takes a cropper. Assuring you that I make this pie for Mr. Hanley only because I know that his election at this time will be another spike in the System's coffin of the brand President Wilson has been driving, and giving you my word that neither Mr. Hanley nor any of his people have any hand in this page or even know of my intention to write, Belleve-me,, most earnestly yours, . , TEOHia W. lAVIOV. (Paid Advertisement by Thomas W. x.awson, rrisevlUe, Or.) man in Congress and out, and wants like Hell to retain his Job. That Mr. Booth would die rather than. beat up his family or kick a dog that he only want to sit In the Sen ate to correct the Inaccuracies of the dally sculpture reading, and that his anxiety for election is solely on ac count of the prettiness with which that fact could be embroidered into his obituary, tinder the caption, "He mellowly rounded out his successful confessed to crimes many times blacker and more sneakingly coward ly than what I had charged them with. I REPEAT. THERE IS A REVO- Mr. and Miss Oregon Voter: May I have a word with TOUt Ah earnest, straight from the shoulder word on matters of heart-beat inter est to TOUT yThis word costs ME time, effort, and money to formulate and get to YOU. I cannot possibly receive anything of value, tangible or otherwise, In return for MY expenditure YOU may receive, because ot it, some thing of value to YOU." This being so. Is it asking too much of YOU to read It carefully and give its contents YOUR best consideration? This is all I ask. All? No, one other thing tear out this page and pass it along to some other Oregon woman voter. f" In asking this small service let me illustrate. Suppose YOU had come over 3009 miles to Oregon to rest up from 20-hour-a-day body and mind drudg ery! Suppose during YOUR rest-up YOU could not shut out from the natural beauties of YOUR rest-up place the suffering and misery of others! Suppose -in the middle of YOUR rest-up YOU saw an opportun ity to do something towards allevi ating the suffering and misery of others and suppose YOU took up YOUR pen went back "to the drudg ery TOU had fled from and formu lated this page and personally paid the money necessary to get it where it might help the suffering and mis ery which had roused YOU to action. Suppose these things? then would YOU hesitate to ask thegeneflciar les of YOUR effort to do their bit career with a United States Senator ship." These things may be important, but, surely any good nickel-a-llne-professional-pen-pusher could work them up to an Aurora Boreallsed fin ish without ringing in, day after day, the threadbare "tariff," "protection," "free trade," etc, gold bricks, which, at every election for a half century, have been exhibited for the befooling and befuddling of to-be-tricked voters. I do not personally know either of your honorable opponents, but from what their press agents have said, I do know that both are all right for ordinary times and honors; that one would make a rip-roaring Fourth of July orator, club chairman. OIREKGOFJ LUTION. A BLACK, BRUTAL REV OLUTION ABOUT READY TO BURST IN OUR LAND. AND IT WILL BURST UNLESS THE CAUSES WHICH HAVE INCU BATED IT ARE REMOVED, and they can only be removed by men to whom Almighty God has given the mind, heart and soul to realize what they portend and to fearlessly de stroy them. Can Senator Chamberlain or Mr. Booth do the right thing in the Uni ted States Senate to dissipate the about-to-burst revolution? Can they? Is there any possibility of their do ing the right thing if they do not even see the coming of the revolu tion, to say nothing of seeing the causes which have created it? What does it matter o the voters of Ore gon whether Senator' Chamberlain is sent back to the Senate or Mr. Booth is given the honorable title of Sen ator? Millions of Just as good men will never be given the Senatorial Job or title. But it does matter to Oregon voters. If revolution is on the way, that they have in the Sen ate their best equipped men to stay It, to dissipate It. and to destroy the cause of It. U Is my Intention In this page to give some facts which will help Oregon voters decide whether either Senator Chamberlain or Mr. Booth are qualified for the Job which awaits the next Senator from Oregon. Before doing so I will generalize a bit. The curse of American elections Is that the voters, the ones most vit ally Interested in the election re sults, do not bring to the subject the same horse sense shrewdness which they apply to their private affairs. Almost invariably they are influ enced in the casting of their ballots by the clap-trap of the candidates and their campaign haridlers. To Illustrate. In the present elec tion the most important thing to every man, woman and child in Ore gon, is the election qf United States Senator. There are three candidates: Sena tor Chamberlain, Mr. Booth and Mr. Hanley. The election of the one best fitted for the Job, as against the lection of the one worse fitted, should be of more import to every voter of the state than the doing of any one thing, . public or private, which any voter will be called upon to do between now and election. And yet, what are the conditions which Oregon voters have allowed to cloud thei making of their de cision? Senator Chamberlain's and Mr." Booth's names are mentioned a hundred times to Mr. Hanley's one, and the affairs and views of each have received many, many times as much illumination as Mr. Hanley's. This means that the voters of Ore gon will know on election day many times' as much of each, man as of I in making it effective? Would YOU? Mull It over and perhaps it will give YOU the same pleasure to pass this page along to some other Oregon voter as it does ME to take up MY pen in the interests of tens of thou sands of Oregonians, who, like the following suffer in the midst of God's bountiful stores because men like William Hanley are kept from seats in the law-making halls of the people that GOOD FELLOWS may hog the public crib, that SUCCESSFUL MONEYMAKERS may satisfy their laudable ambition for a perch on the ladder of flamboyant fame perhaps it may Impel YOU TO SECURE SOME MORE PAGES AND SEND THEM TO OTHER VOTERS. Copy of one of scores of letters' I receive when In Oregon: -, Oregon. "Dear Mr. Lawson: Here is my situation and I want some advice from you. I have read all your books and magazine articles and have always believed in your true interest for us strugglers, who are not so fortunate as you are in worldly goods. Three years ago after I read what you said of oppor tunities in Oregon, I sold my ma chine shop in Iowa and brought my wife and six children to Oregon and bought this ranch for $14,000. I paid $4000 cash and had $2000 left. I am paying 10 interest, $1000 a year on the mortgage. Now my $2000 has all gone in improvements and . I . owe $1200 for improvements and the mortgage is due and they say I must reduce It $4000 and I cannot get it.. I cannot even reduce it $1000. What can I do? You say in your writings or South American ambassador, the other a first class church warden, state charitable commission chair man, or brilliant president of a world peace society, and that either would, with honor and distinction to hrs state, grace an oldtlme, by-the-llef-of-Wall-Street United States senate. But what these qualifications have to do with the selection of a member of the 1915-1921 United States Sen ate, which will have to deal with the raw red Hell condition, which 40 years of System robbing of the nation and the people have fastened upon the country, is beyond my figuring out. I itch, however, to do something to help send you to the Senate, where I KNOW YOU WILL MAKE A MARK, NOT FER- Mr. Hanley. This means that a large majority of Oregon voters will go to the polls under the Impression that their only duty is to decide be tween Senator Chamberlain and Mr. Booth. Is this right, is It fair to the people of the state, to the state itself, is it a square deal for the dead and gone who tolled and suffered that Oregon, the Nation, all the people, should have the advantages of the great scheme of Ideal government which they created and bequeathed? Let us see what these election methods result in. No state In the Union has a better stock of states men raw material than Oregon, yet a visitor from Mars to Washington In the past two years, the most vital two years in the past fifty, in search of the ten greatest law makers, would depart with the first and second ten without knowing that Oregon ww one of the United States. I mean by this no disparagement to ' the west, or its able representatives, tor number one on the Martian's list would be Senator Owen, of Okla homa, with Borah, of Idaho, a close second. Does any student of affairs who has absorbed the mental atmosphere of these real statesmen or who ob served the campaign of the Inexperi enced - in - politics college teacher, W'oodrow Wilson, believe that any of the three would allow such a campaign as the one I have been watching in Oregon? Some cute politician may say that the reason for Candidates Chamber lain's and Booth's prominence over . Candidate Hanley, is their better equipment for the office, to which I answer: The study of public men and public affairs Ja my profession. I know the statesmen of yesterday, and day before yesterday, I know, those of today! I have studied Sen ator. Chamberlain and Mr. Booth and Oregon affairs and I know Mr. Han ley. Have seen him in action east as well as west, and I am absolutely unbiased In my views of all three. ' With my knowledge of the men and '; the Job awaiting Oregon's next Sen ator, I am firm in my conviction that I do Mr. Hanley no favor or his op ponents any injustice, when I un qualifiedly affirm rhy belief that at the end of Mr. Hanley's first year In, the Senate he will crowd Senators Owen and Borah for first place on the list bf real statesmen doers. An American political campaign, of all life activities, brings to the sur- - face all there is in a man. Woodrow Wilson's x campaign for nomination and election were Inspiring human Interest educational courses. ny red-blooded man or woman would give over business or social affairs to follow In their wake. The same can be said of the great Roosevelt. The campaign f atmosphere fairly sizzled with all the important ques 1 that, the- people only get 4 In terest on the billions they have in the banks. I have looked thS up and it Is so, and -why can't ; I borrow my 110.000 mortgage ati? r place Is worth all I haveipaKi it, 117.000, and It- musty be go for the 110.000. If I" ha p-Ud .w instead of 10 I would fcatfe flSOO b hand now to reduce the mortgage My space forbids me t gr entire letter of this feaful-of-the-f uture, honest, industrious citizen uf Oregon, whom I am moraHy respon sible for BRINGING TO OREGON AND THE CLUTCHES OITHE OR EGON END OF THE YSTEM: The System which is so 'fas driv ing our nation on the rofjts of dis solution and destruction. fJ I receive annually hundreds of I thousands of such letters and Inquir ies from all parts of the country, letters and Inquiries wherein the very bloom of American man and womanhood plead with j,ie for an swer to the question: jWHY, IN THIS LAND OF GLORIOUS 1'LEN TY, MUST WE, WHO LABOR AND LABOR SUCCESSFULLY BE ROBBED OF THE FRUIT OF OUR LABOR BY THOSE WHO DO NOT LABOR?" If It were possible at election time for me to put one out of each thou sand of my inquiries into the hands of every voter of the United States, the next Senate and Congress would be composed almost entirely of MEN OF THE MIND. HEART AND SOUL CALIBER OF WILLI A; 4 HANLEY with the result that wrl era of such letters as the above, the next fen years," proceeds of their el would In with . the forts, free their ranches and firms from au mortgage. Believe n Most sincerely j-burs. TEOUaI T.WBOV. HAPS WITH A JilANICURED THUMB NAIL OR .N OILED TONQXJB TIP, BUT IT LEAST WITH A STAKE DRIVER AND A BRANDING IRON,! A MARK WHICH FOR DECADEJi TO COME WILL BE POINTED mTO WITH t PRIDE. BY EVERY OffeN-FRONT-ED WESTERNER JUiD vVITH t SNARLY VENOM f)Y EVERY EASTERN DOLLAR VOLF AND TRUST HIRELING :S 'B I L L HANLEY'S, OF OREG0 j.V WORK." Trusting the following product of my somewhat rusty pr will meet with your approval, andlthat It may accomplish a tithe of t'-j'e prayers I put into it. Believe me as honored' to sign my- self, Your fn iend, THOMAS W. iaWSOW, Prlnevllle, qe;., Oct. 21. tions which affected "t;e American people and the nation. should dis like to be compelled t choose be tween a thirty days' sentence to the present Oregon Senator til campaign, and the annual tiddledetlnks tourna ment. J If the burning questions, of the day are only those I ijave read of from the Chamberlain , and Booth sides, then the quicker Oregon amends its laws td make the ijenatorshlp -a draw-a-number lottery, with every Oregon voter an equal-' participant, the better. Let us f whether I overdraw the picture. HThe burning question of the hour K' "The cost of the American people? i living'. Is It or is it not greater tian their In come? Why is the coJ on the In crease? . Why is their hjuome on the decline?" V This s the question !hf the hour. It Is so big, so vital, bS interwoven with the affairs of evry voter In Pregon, as well as evry .voter in very other state, tht, all other questions should be pu to the rear until this one has been lnswered, and answered correctly. . ,Wiy? you ask. Because this is the situation and it is, not possible to gfet vay from it. THE COST OF LIVj0 IN THE UNITED STATES MUSf GO DOWN, OR THE INCOME 01' THE PEO PLE MUST CXiME UFOR THERE MUST BE REVOLUTION. There nu be and will be enScted in every ciJof the Unfted St es the same terrible class war as fas Just been fought In New Jersey, 'jyirglnia, Mas sachusetts, Michigan, Qplorado, Cali fornia, Illinois and elsewhere. There must and will be, becawse the Amer ican people will never fait and wait for death by starvation! without first trying to wrest from ; fhe ones who robbed them and who J have wealth ' beyond the dream of arSelent or mod ern kings, what they j produced, but were pillaged of. I want to say here ; any of the law abidfhg, prosperouji voters of Oregon, who may, from? their lack of know edge of what hal been taking place of late in other jsectlons of the e - uniiea siaies, inina sir am drawing the long bow, that if tihey will read the government reportstt of the recent Massachusetts, Mlchigin and Colo rado class wars, andjfhe court rec ords of the Los AngeUs dynamiting. they will see that jj have under, rather than over, pictured conditions. WHAT IS THE ... OBABIHTY, THE POSSIBILITY GF- THE COST OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE'S LIVING 3&OPFING R THEIR IN COMES RISINC? AS j THINGS ARB GOING? X will answer the question for I am, jtrom longj study of, and active participation ln the; causes of high cost of living, familirwlth the subject. If things j$ntijnaf at the Oregon Senatorial cihpa5gn stand ard, there Is as muclij chance of the cost of living droppin'orfge Income (Continued on Ht .sjre.) -