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: - AS INDEPENDENT NEW8P1PEB. -f- t-C.Mi JACKSON. .PabHanar ruhUb4 every ear. afternoon and ntoralDr; (except Bo nas Far afternoon), at Tbe Joei-nal HuUrtlm Broadway aad XarubtU streets. " VwUsnil. Or. 'IMmd at the poatofrie at PortUad. Or., far r transmission through tba snails aa coos' C eiaaa matter. TELEPHONES Mala 7173; Rome, A-B085-All departments, mdwd by these number. Tall the operator what department yon want. FOREIGN ADVERTISING BEPKEflKNTATlVrS - Benjamla Keatnor Co.. Brunswick Bids.. 123 ruth Ae., Nw Xork. 1218 Psople'a Oaa Bldg.. Chicago. shbecrtptlon terms by mall or to ay addrcrn ,. la tba Ualted Statea or Mxleo DAILY (MOBNINO OR AFTEHNOON) Doe year... $3.00 I One month I M SUNDAY (M year $2.00 One month.......! .23 DAILY (U0BN4NO OR AITKBNOON) AND SDN DAT On year. ...... .17 .00 I On month M America asks nothing fur herself but wbat aha baa a rlgbt to ask for humanity Itaelf. WOQDItuw WILSON. Millions tribute for defense, but not a cent tot CHARI.K8 C. PINCKNKY. War li the bntlneni of barbarians. Napoleon liunaparu-. POKTfiAND'H NEW DAY STEEL rolling mill is one of tho new Industries announced for Pbrtland. It is the latest of many Dew Industries that have been planned duVing the past yesr for manufacturing Portland. In the Shipbuilding industry alone, tho newly established Columbia river and Portland plants have contracts for new ships totaling $55,000,000. As was truly Btated at the Cham ber of Commerce dinner Monday, evening, investing capital never be fore flowed so freely Into Oregon. The sugar plants at Grants Pass and Medford, the cement plant at Gold Hill, the extension of Invest ment in plants already established are examples of the great indus trial advance in this Btate. There never was greater reason for an optimistic view of the fu ture. A great sawmill with a plant capable of cutting 200.000 feet of lumber daily is one of the newly announced projects. It is unques tionably the move of far-seeing men who realize that, even after the war erfds, it will take years to rebuild devastated Europe, and. are taking steps to join with other Oregpn lumbermen in helping to supply materials for the purpose. Capital throughout the United States never hadgpo much In the way of encouragement. The tariff ,1a to go out of politics, and tariffs fre to be written upon the findings of a tariff commission applying business principles and facts de rived from human experience. The taking of the tariff out of politics and reducing it to an exact science applied to business is assurance to Industry and business that they can go ahead with their plans with out fear of disturbance by sudden tariff changes. This is one great reason why American capital is flowing into Oregon. Another reason Is that there is a federal trade commission which finds out what may b the matter with business and ascer tains what government may do to sJd business. American capital is encouraged to Invest when such a ffreat governmental agency is doing jui in us power to aid the business -life of the country. That Is an other reason why capital Is flow Jng Into Oregon. .t .!n Portland the other day was a representative of the bureau of for eign and domestic commerce. He Wag reporting to Portland lumber men as to possible lumber' markets la South America where he had been seeking places to sell Ameri can lumber. Here Is another in stance of the federal government's new-plan of aiding American manu facture and production in every .way. Capital is encouraged by uch things, and it la investing, not nly, In Portland, but everywhere n America. , And there 1b still another treat jnouiura me leuerai reserve sys ttemwhlch is encouraging capital to investment. It haa forever re- . moved business unrest and lack of , "confidence. It has banished panics eand the fear of Danlcs. The in vestor knows now that he can put pis money into enterprise and sleep ' Roundly at night, realizing that to -morrow is safe there will be no . fcountrr-wlde financial crash toen J danger or sweep away his invest ment. VyOiisirucuTo siaiesmansnip has made American Investment eafe.: It has given confidence to capital and capital is flowing Into Oregon.' It has forever banished hard times, and established an en- daring prosperity. The passing of E. E.. Coovert is lamented not only by his personal 1 friends,: of .whom he lad many. in the city hd the stale, but by the general public, - The good road worK.,"othe community haa r.fit r the : guiding influence of Ib-mind r and suggestion :ant much ot the benefit' that, -.has .come and'wui PEACE OR WAR WHICH? i i . i I-,- - -f w E NOW know what Mr. Roosevelt would have done if he had been president when the ' Lusitania was torpedoed. He told us in his Battle Creek speech what he would have done. "I would instantly have taken possession of every German ship interned in this country," said Mr. Roosevelt. ' e Under international law, Mr. Roosevelt would have bad no right to take possession of "every German ship Interned in thla country." As a neutral nation it is America's solemn duty to give asylum and refuge to the interned ships of every belligerent with ' whom we are at peace. To seize the German interned ships would have been an act of retalia tion and reprisal. It would have been a challenge to the German nation to a trial at arms. It would have been a violation of every principle hi neutrality, and that at a time, with all Europe under arms, when this country la the trustee and the only nation capable of upholding neutral rights. It could not have restored the lives of the dead. It could not have led the then victoridus German people into a mood for reasonable and peaceful settlement of the controversy. It would have inflamed Ger man public sentiment to a point at which thb kaiser could not have prevented a declaration of war against the United States. The in-1 dlgnant people, maddened by the seizure in violation of every principle of international law, of their harmless merchant ships, would have compelled a declaration of war. Indeed, the seizure Itself -would have been an act of war, just as the seizure of German interned ships by Portugal was regarded as an act of war and was followed by an immediate declaration of war by Ger many against Portugal. Yet, "I would instantly have taken possession. of every German..shln Interned in this country," says Mr. Roosevelt. -It is a deliberate dec laration by the man who has told perfect accord, that he would have, impulsively Closed his eyes to the almost certainty of war, that he would have been -utterly reckless of consequences to this country, that he would have held lightly the. fear ful cost in men and money of. involving this country in the sickening European drama, and that with a -.consuming thirst for military glory, he would have committed an overt act of hostility that Germany could neither overlook .nor condone. It la as If Mr. Roosevelt actually wants war with Germany, Just as by his repeated public declarations he is. known to demand war with Mexico. It is as if tbV barbaric spirit rolling over and submerging Eu rope under rivers of blood and Indescribable agony, had aroused the madness and blood-lust of the Jungle in Mr. Roosevelt as well as in thousands of others who, like himare 'clamoring for America to go to war with some nation, somewhere, anywhere. It is as if the bloody thoughts rampant In Europe had communicated themselves to the thou sands in America and aroused the . savage spirit that in the animal brings on fury and ferocity at mere sight of blood. -The past 26 months of the reign of blood in Europe have been no time for a president to lose his head. It has been no time for govern ment by impulse and caprice: It has been no time for lack of poise or lack of balanced Judgment in the American White House. Nor will the future months or years of the bloody world, drama be a time for that sort of administration of American affairs. The war may last for years to eoine, and the terrible problems of yesterday will be the problems of tomorrow. The complications, tho stress, the delicate situations to come vsan not be trusted to brain-storm government which would "instantly seize every German ship interned in this country," and then let the American people bear the consequences, dreadful though they may be. . President Wilson did not find it necessary to "Instantly seize every interned German ship." By effective diplomacy, ha secured from Ger many full concession of every American neutral right at sea. By effective diplomacy, he secured from the Imperial German gov ernment a pledge that ships should not be sunk until after vjsit and search and safety to passengers and crew, and that pledge has beln faithfully kept. By effective diplomacy, he secured from Germany the tremendous concession of a full abandonment of submarine warfare as it was then conducted. All that could possibly be asked. President Wilson secured from Germany, without the firing of a shot, without the loss of an American or a German life, and without the destruction of a dollar's worth of American or German property. nificent highways of Multnomah county ,ad its Inception in the wIbb counsel and advice given by Mr. Coovert. As an active and energetic citizen of Portland, Mr. Coovert has played a part in the progress of the city. His untimely death is a loss that reaches beyond the circle of his immediate family to touch the broader feelings of the community. OREGOX FISH T HE halibut banks off the Ore gon coast have proven their value financially during the last season. More fresh fish has been brought in from the ocean to Oregon ports than ever before. In other years there has been more or less halibut fishing Jn this Bection, but the attempts in general did not prove a success. This was not from lack of fish for the halibut was there in abun dance, awaiting a fisherman. The main trouble has been a lack of suitable equipment to take the catches. In former seasons with only limited success, much difficulty was experienced 1 n securing proper marketing facilities.' The lack .of suitable storage equipment was a drawback. This latter difficulty has partially disappeared and the past season's catch has been well handled and marketed and has brought unusually good prices. All halibut fishing interests off the Oregon coast have made money for the season. The quality of the halibut caught off the Oregon coast has always been good, but the lack of proper care in handling has heretofore been a detriment not only to the sale of the fish but to the prices obtainable. With bigger and bet ter boats proposed for next sea son's operations and with cold storage facilities adequate the hali but Industry should soon prove one of the state's important assets. Presumably the weather proph ets of Baker, In searching fori the cause of the sadden snowfall which' whitened the city Monday night will blame It onto the war. "THE PRISONER" A' LICE BROWN'S "Prisoner" is - a novel of extraordinary interest. We care as much for its exquisite Mierary style and Its charming analysis of hu man emotions and motives as we do for the social question it takes up. And yet it is an Important question. What is to become of a man who has suffered imprison ment and emerges into life again? Shall we despise and shun him? The law has inflicted its pun- isnment upon him. Shall we pro ceed td ' outdo the severity of the law and punish him for the rest of us that h and Mr. Hughes are in the common pleasures of the world? Is he to be regarded as a moral leper even If he wishes to purify his soul of taint? Ed Howe, the Sage of Potato Hill, as The Independent calls him, has something to say on this subject in his last Monthly. He gives an account of a released con vict who murdered his employer in cold blood and then, with the Bame coolness, shot his employer's wife. When he was asked why he had committed these fearful crimes the convict replied that "he Just diU it," indifferent to his guilt aad the penalty which would follow. Ed Howe goes on to warn.everv- body against employing released prisoners. In his opinion they are all evil and anybody who trusts them is a fool for his pains. He makes the mistake of judging a whole class of people from an ab normal specimen. Just as those do who condemn the churches because some members are dishonest.' The convict whose story Mr. Howe re lates was evidently mentally dis eased and never should have been released from confinement. When the world becomes civi lized enough to treat criminals as patients to be cured rather . than sinners to be tortured,, a released prisoner will be regarded about as we now regard a person who has been detained by Illness at a hos pital and is sent back to his fam ily and friends with hia normal functions restored. By Inadvertence The Journal in an editorial the other day gave the wrong date for the "lime meeting" which is to be held at Corvallia next Saturday. The correct date is Saturday, October 7. Readers who may have been misled by our slip of the pen will please make the proper change in their plans. There should be a large " attendance at the meeting, for it will take up a question of vital interest' to the state. PROTECTING BIRDS N OT many years ago congress passed an act which placed migratory game and Insect eating bird3 under federal protection. The department of aerl vuiture wan maas guardian over these useful little creatures and In due time it prescribed rules for their protection. But there are certain species of hunters who want ho rules for protecting wild life. They wish to slaughter the birds at all times of the- year. They seem rather , to prefer to kill them in the nesting season when the death of an adult female bird means the death c a nest of fledglings. - These hunters, contend that the federal , law to protect the birds Is unconstitutional and they- have brought tho , point before the etr- They may win their case, for, as we know, the consti tution admits of all sorts of queer interpretations, Muclf will depend on the "whims of the Judges and the state of their digestion when the point is argued. But, as it fortunately happens, there la a way to evade the quirks of the courts In this particular matter and save the birds even if it should turn out that the consti tution favors indiscriminate slaugh ter. The migratory birds belong to Canada. as much as to the Unit ed States since they feed and nest in both countries. A treaty has, therefore, been negotiated with Can ada, which protects them as well or better than the federal law would. Canada has ratified this treaty but it is still to come before our national senate. True sportsmen can contribute something to the welfare of the bird world by urg ing their senators to vote for the treaty when it comes up for ratifi cation at some future day. The great value of the treaty in this matter is that it takes preced ence of all stae and federal laws and can not be vetoed by the su preme, court. It seems a pity that human life can not also be pro tected by treaty witli some foreign nation. We could then do as much for our enslaved children as we now can for our hunted birds. Telegraphic news from far of! Nicaragua inform us that four men were killed during the prog ress of the national election just held. That sounds like the good old days before the direct primary and the corrupt practices act took all the fun and frolic out of poll tics.. Letters From the People Communications sent to The Journal for publication in this department should be writ ten on only one aide of the paper, should not exceed 300 words In length, and must b ac couipauied by the name and address of the sender. If the writer does not desire to bare the name published be should so state. "Discussion Is the greatest of aU reformers,; It rationalises ererythlna; It touches. It rot principles of all false sanctity aurt throws them back on their reasonableness. If they hae no reasonableness. It ruthlessly crushes them out of existence and sets np Its own conclusions In their stead." Woodrow Wilson. "The Party of Negation." rortfaftd. Or., Oct. 2. To the Kditor of The Journal. For years the Republi can politicians have been asserting that the Democratic party was "a party of negation" and could accomplish nothing beneficial or constructive for the good of the ' country, fiut since that party, under the statesmanlike guidance of Woodrow Wilson, and as sisted by a few progressive Republi cans, haa succeeded In the enactment of a large number of progressive meas ures for which the country has been long clamoring, these etandpat politi cians are seized wltn a ' ventaDie in of political hydrophobia, snapping and snarling at everything President Wil son may bay or do. Anyone not know ing the actual facts in the case, upon reading one of Hughes' tirade con cerning tne enactment or tne eignt hour law "under duress," would nat urally conclude that the railway broth erhoods had gone to Washington armed, and in full force had surrounded the White House and Capitol demand ing the Immediate enactment of the said law, when, in fact there was neither demand nor request for such legislation from either the managers or the brotherhoods. The only demand came from the people at large, and If that constitutes duress, then any law demanded by any considerable number of people would be enacted under duress. Mr. Hughes and hia backers. ,with their confident predictions of dire calamity to the country should the Democrats remain in ' power, at the close of the European war, are endeav oring to lay the country under duress for the election of Hughes to the pres idency. I have been through every presiden tial campaign since the time of Lin coln, participating actively In many of them, and never before have I seen such senseless vituperation hurled at any candidate as is being launched at our beloved president. Talk about patriotism! Such conduct shows neith er respect for an honored citizen nor a decent regard for the high office to which he was honorably elected. I have been a Republican when Re publicanism stood for the general wel fare of all the people, but since the party ha fallen Into the hands of a mere machine for the protection of monopolies and the predatory classes who are seeking to exploit the re sources of this and other countries;, you can write me down solidly for Woodrow Wilson and the legitimate business interests of the country. Henry Fords statement is a clear center shot, comprehensive and truth ful, and If possible should be mailed to every registered voter in the coun try, for the monopoly press will not give It much publicity. - J. G. QARRETSON. Wall Street and the Presidents. Waldo, Or.. Sept. 27. To the Editor of The Journal When Roosevelt went back Into the Republican party it was not the first time he yielded a point to Wall street. Money bags success fully dictated to every president from McKlnley, and Including McKlnley. down to, but not Including Woodrow Wilson. When the Chicago convention ten dered Grover Cleveland his second nomination he wired the convention from New Tork saying that before ac cepting he must see the financial plank of the platform. Probably Wall street had told him the terras upon, which he could be elected president the second time, his administration indicated that. When It became Roosevelt's turn he started out grandly for the dear peo ple; he It was who successfully ex posed the rotten trusts and prepared to do what Wilson has done. Coming from Roosevelt, it immediately took root, stimulated the Socialists, and finally gave 'rise to the Progressiva party with him as its leader. In the midst of his exposure' of the corrup tion of the standpatters hex also re ceived a wire from Wall street asking him If there was "anything more com ing." "Yes" meant a panic; no" meant the only terms upon which. a financial crisis could be averted. Roosevelt an swered "No," and quieted down. With Wilson it was different. The Republican party had been defeated and all the president had to do was to go to the peoplevvla their congressmen for that support necessary, to enable him to "hold the fort. When he de fled the "Interests" they Immediately set about for one of their regular panics. Now was the decisive moment and the turning point, in the affairs of America. Wilson, acting- under pro gressive laws recently passed by bis administration, replied to them that If they dared to attempt a panio he would ass the cash and credit of the United. States If necessary to keep the busi ness of the country going. They slunk away mad. and Charles Kvans Hughes' public declaration in a recent -speech, that if elected to the presidency he will wipe out all of the progressive laws passed by Wilson, is the an swer. Roosevelt will help, because Wilson enacted Into law IS of. the leading progressive measures embodied In Roosevelt's platform, of 1912, thus In terfering with his political sjnjltlon as if his d$slr to rule were of more importance, to the, country than the Immediate adoption of this vital legis lation. It would have enhanced more his future Value to his country if he had acted with such progressives as Robert M. La Follette, Miles Polndexter and the progressive members of the delegation from Oregon, and assisted Wilson In the passing and maintain ing of these lffwa. It was a great service that Roose velt and his followers did for the'Am erlcan, people when they laid the foun dation for the great deeds done by Wilson and the congress; now Roose velt spoils It all. The Progressives should be shy of his pleadings for them to support Hughes, Roosevelt, Lodge, Penrose, Crane, Plerpont Mor gan and George W. Perkins. W. T WT Vt VT? r.ll Tllaa TVtnrn in Unto Si Portland. Oct. 2. To the Editor of The Journal "And now, most surely, the reader will call out to me at this place: "Well said, good Master Santil lane! Make hay while the sun shines. You are on the high Voad to fortune; push forward and outstrip your rivals.' "Oh, let me alone for that. I spy, or my eyes deceive me, my servant com ing in with a new gull that he has Just caught. Even so! It is my very Sciplo. Let me hear whttt he has to say. 'Sir,' quoth he, 'give me leave to introduce this eminent practitioner. He wants a license to sell his drugs during the term of 10 years in all the towns of the Spanish monarchy to the exclusion of all other quacks; in short, a monopoly of poisons. In gratitude for this pat ent to thin mankind, he will present the donor with a gratuity of 200 pis toles.' I looked superciliously, like a patron, at the mountebank and told him that-his business should be done. "As lameness and leprosy would have it, in the course of a few days I ent him on his progress through Spain, In vested with full powers to make the world his oyster and leave nothing but the shell to bts unpatented competi tors." Two hundred years ago, Le Sage,, in his "Gil Bias," eighth book, ninth chap ter, "describes Judge Hughes' great American protective tariff. As thls-l worked in Spain in the days of Le Sage, even so It works here today. Modernized, this would read: "And now, surely, the reader will call out at this place: ' "Well said, good Master Hughes. Make hay while the sun shines. You are on the high road to fortune. Push forward and outstrip your rivals. If Wall street, the steel trust, the cotton trust, the sugar trust. the whiskey trust and all the other trusts, and the president of the Santa Fe. all and arundxy. will furnish a good, big fund and elect Judge Hughes to the presidency, and also fill both houses of congress with such patriots as fen rose. Smoot. Cannon and McArthur, then, under such conditions. Judge Hughes can safely promise to send big business on a progress through the treat and glorious American republic, Invested with full powers to make the world their oyster and leave nothing but the shell- to their unpatented com petitors.' " PETER VAX BUSKIBK. About Money Kings. Hood River, Or., Sept. 30. To the Editor of The Journal. If the editor of The Oregonlan will prove to me that the corporations and money kings are backing Wilson for president. I won't vote for him. If he will prove to me that Hughes Is not being backed by the corporations and money kings, I will vote for Hughes. So far, Hughes has kicked against everything that would be a benefit to the laboring class of people. He commenced to kick against the eight-hour law that stopped the railroad strike, as soon as it was passed. That Is one proof that he is backed by the money kings. They have him retained and he is the best attorney they have ever had. He is doing Just what they want him to do, and aa I understand it he has a lot of millionaire women engaged to come out here from New York in a fine train to tell the working men and women of the west why they should vote for Hughes. Millionaires telling us poor felows that have to etirn our living by hard labor, how to vot; isn't that a sight? Those women had better stay at home and nelp some of the poor, starving families in New York city with their money, In place of com ing out west to try to pull the wool over the poor working mans eyes Every time we get a man In for presi dent that tries to do right by the people the money kings try every con ceivable way to beat him. I know a few fruit growers here In Hood River valley who had large crops of pears, and when the railroad strike was about to come off, they almost cried for fear they would lose their crops, and after the eight-hour law passed that saved the strike and their pear crops were saved they sided right In with Hughes against the elght-tiour law. T. J. M'KEAN, The Law .of Restitution. McMinnvllle, Or., Oct. 1. To the Editor of The Journal I must give expression to my feelings, upon read lng the report of B. F. Irvine's ad dress at a recent Wilson meeting at Fortiand. The constructive states manship of the present administration was a theme to win an audience. Mod ern requirements today are construc tive, and must change past, worn-out conditions. I trust the lecture will have a far and wide Influence. The Short notice I read in The Journal made my pulse quicken to feel that the movement for regeneration was stirring. I hope a tremendous mo mentum for Immediate action may re- suit in rousing ana sustaining enthu siasm for the continuance of the present policy or our republic on humanitarian constructive Drtnclnles Social and .financial conditions threat en us, for why should any citizen of America surrer from neglect and con tempt? We have had an unbalanced social state of affairs. - This most un xair system oi poverty and unem ployment must surely be laid bars and corrected. What satisfaction can be round in the knowledge that abun dance and want sit side by side? We have been slowly getting away from the attitude of Jealousy. The old Greek and Roman laughed at the changes heralded in their day, for In their belief civilization could not exist except upon the backs of slaves. Laws have come down to us: dim is our conception of the growth of pre cept. Ws claim English law for prece dent, founded on Roman and Jewish instructions, and old customs. We still adhere to the Ten Commandments and the Jaw of an eye for an eye. tooth for a tooth, from the, time of Moses. But one great law from that period is in oblivion, th law of restitu tion, which the lawgiver, Moses, In stituted for protection ."from the dan gers of becoming very poor, or exces sively wealthy and powerful." No ether "national" law has ever been enacted which so carefully guarded this point. Moses-law-providea"rtor 'restltu'loa PERTINENT COMMENT SMALL CHANGE One of the objectives of General Mackensen was to put the rue in Rous mania. I m Suppose the "obey" is cut out of the marriage service, what can be done with absent-minded clergymen who ars addicted to force of habit T' Sarah Bernhardt is now on the way to America on another farewell tour. But you can't make a Joke of her fare wells, as you did of poor Pattl's. Agreement on a point of belief on the part of President Wilson and Jus tice Hughes was indicated in a London dispatch yesterday, the Judge appar ently having gone unwarily on record before ascertaining the president's view. But on - the other hand after 24 hours for reflection one might conjec ture that parents won't teach the babies "Patty Cake, Patty Cake, Baker Man" any more. What have the bakers done for them that ihey should give them all that free advertising? It Is rumored that an attempt will be made to locate the Lusitania sd salvage its gold. Let it be done, by all means. Consider Captain Kidd's treas ure, and r-hat a lot of trouble would have been saved If it could have been dug up the day the captain was hunged. The word "probe." in the estimation of most writers of newspaper head lines, is in the good old scout class. Lut that is merely because it has five letters, against the 11 in "investigate" and. the 13 in "investigation." Other wise. It is as banal as those tedious processes which It is used to represent are Ineffectual. INCOME TAX By Cordell Hull of Tennessee, Author of the Income Tax. The receipts of the present federal Income tax law as originally enacted, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1016, were $124,000,000. This splendid showing has more than Justified the highest expectations of the framers of the law. The largest estimate made at tht time of its enactment fised Its re ceipts at $120,000,000. This law naturally required about two years to attain its normal revenue yield. This la true both as to Income and Inherit ance tax laws. At the present time nearly 0 countries and states have Income tax laws in operation. When or.ee enacted n- country has been known to repeal such law, While no tax is popular or welcome on the part of the citizen, yet It can be said that the tax on incomes lj more generally acceptable than any other tax thus far devised. This state ment Is true because every taxpayer realises that the Income tax is imposed according to ability to pay and because the best test of ability Is net profit or Income. This tax more nearly than any other meets the two prime requisites of taxation, which are adequate rev enue and equitable tax burdens. This principle of taxation, which has been the outcome of generations of tax dis cussion and legislation in most countries, combines more of the essen tials of a desirable tax than other methods. No one method of taxation. however, should be considered singly, tut as a part of the revenue system which all taxes combine to form. The economic soundness of the principle of the income tax is now eft universally recognized that few citizens here or eisewbere directly oppose this tax. The reason and necessity for se curing a substantial amount of federal revenue from the Income tax at the present time are supported by an over whelming state of facts. The utter futility and absurdity of relying on the tariff to afford sufficient revenue to meet the extraordinary expenditures necessary for the enlargement of the army, .navy, and fortifications Is patent to every citizen of even partial intelligence. The framers of the Payne tariff law found themselves wholly unable to so draft that measure as to secure an amount of revenue requisite to meet the demands of the treasury under normal conditions. The house committee was obliged to insert a provision taxing- inheritances to' the extent of $20,000,000. With this new Internal tax added their estimates still left the treasury shy $10,000,000. They later substituted the corporation tax. The Internal taxes of the government exceeded the tariff taxes during three of the four years' existence of the Payne tariff law. The' well-known standpatter In his championship of ultra-high protection has always sought to create the vague Impression that the tariff afforded an unlimited source of revenue to be tapped at will by the federal government according to Its necessities. This misleading lm presslea will be removed from the popular mind, whether the affairs of the government be administered during the next few years by the one political party or the other. The federal gov ernment is now called on to levy extraordinary taxes to meet extraord inary expenditures. The total federal taxes will be near $900,000,000 annu ally, until the program for Increased armaments and fortifications is com pleted. No polltfcal party has ever been able to levy a tariff tax that would yield in excess of $330,000,000. The revenue necessity for the Income tax, therefore, must be conceded by even the most ultra champion of stand pat ism and special privilege. There le another ground in support cf this tax equally Important to the American people, and that Is the neces sity for equalizing our hitherto grossly 1 every fiftieth year their Jubilee year. This law, by preventing the absolute alienation of property, thereby pre vented Its accummulatlon Into hands of the few. In fact, they were taught to consider themselves brothers and to act accordingly, to assist each other without compensation and to take no usury of one another. "The stranger that dwelleth w44h you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself, for ye were .stnangers in the land of Egypt" Lev. 19:34. The Jews failed to follow the law of restitution, and, they were dispersed. How are we falling today? MRS. M. A. B. LINDEN. Criticises Mr. MalOne. Linnton, Or., Oct, 2. To the Editor of The Journal In Friday's .Journal there was a letter by M. W, MaJone, which is no credit to a "person with the supposed Intelligence of the indi vidual, he being our Democratic post master. Would Mr. Malone kiss the hand that smites him, or, his ancestors? His onslaught on -the German-American Is unreasonable and very, foolish for one holding his position. This 1 a free country and the German-American will vote . 'intelligently, whether It be for Hughes, or for Wilson, re gardless of insult Mr. Mtvlone make the open accusa tion that everyone voting for Mr. Hughes is an undesirable citizen. One can hardly credit suoh an expression. . MRg. T. B. SMALL. Concerning Conkling. 'scio. Or Oct . To the Editor of The; Journal I have Jus read Roose velt's speech. It takes me back to the days of RoscOe Conkling, who In his day was the brains of the Repub lican party. In the beginning of every campaija ,"hV would "make 0. J great t cr'-n i5';i..',ir;iv.' w. . " j . AND NEWS IN BRIEF OREGON SIDELIGHTS Plans for an annual poultry ShOW are oeing formulated Dy the unua.no Poultry association, organised to ad-, vance interest in high grade chloltans. , It will be dated early in 1817. I , . ... .... ,. Baker citlsens are busy with a city I amusement park project of a compre. ffliaracter. It . is proposed to acres, adjoining a 40-acre tract already owned by the city, In the Better Baby contest that was a feature of the Urant county fair at John Day. Marjory Herburger, year old child of Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Her burger, scored 99.7 and Helen Jones, two-year-old child of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Jones, 9K.6. A special prise was fiven Warren Baldwin. 9U.9, born in lwaco. Wash. m Weston is to repeat, on Ootober 14. the -Free day that proved so great a success last year. The Leader prints this appeal of a committeeman: "Let every resident of Weston boost for and PTrh daWyMtcS:ntobb0er"lir40r 13? dy bake a pie or two and some to what you can to help the j r.eip ou every lady eak. 1 io merchants, who are contributing 11b- erally and from whom each of you will receive a souvenir bv finding it" Thla lmDrovemant note is found in the McEwen correspondence of the Baker Herald: "Mr. Northup is build lr.g a new barn, said to be the largest end roost up to date in tho valley. It is t4 feet long and SJ wide; 14 feet to the efcves, 41 to the ridge, big enough to hold 150 tons of hay. When completed ; he will give a barn danco. He has in- stalled a gasoline engine to run the cnurn, washing machine and cream separator. LEGISLATION disproportionate tariff and other tax burdens. The American people are re quired annually to contribute in taxes the sum of more than $2,000,000,000 for governmental purposes federal, state and local. These taxes ere lm - posed in many forms, such as the general and special property tax, the tariff tax, the internal revenue tax, the business, license, occupation, poll, road and street, and t other taxes. The peddler, the huckster, the popcorn vendor, and those engaged In most oc cupations, are required to pay special tages in addition to the poll and road or street tax common to "all citizens. The general property tax is supposed to embrace in its application all prop erty owners. The almoBt universal verdict of economic and tax authori ties, however, is that the general prop erty tax system has practically broken down. The recent conclusion of the New York legislative committee on taxation but echoes the views ex pressed in the reports of the tax com missions f the various states as fol lows: "As has already been shown, the property tax falls with greatest weight on Die man of email means, on the widow, on trust estates, on young and struggling business concerns, and. generally speaking, on those least able to bear it." m m The result has been that the masses of the people are already contributing far more than their reasonable share of the $2,130,000,000 of taxes paid for I evening took three loads of friends to all governmental purposes for the year a regular camping place on the rdge 1913. The masses paid the chief por- of the' woods and ute supper before a Don of the taxes for the year 1913 as firo 1 ft. high. They roted wienies follows: Tariff. $318,000,000; Internal , on forked sticks, each one his own and revenue. $309,000,000; general property, had other good tilings too numerous occupation, license, poll, and other to mention. Myrtle l'oint correapoml taxes. $1,500,000,000. The experience j ence Coquille Hentinel. of every nation has been that the ' The Times comes out somewhat de owners of accumulated property have lepidated this Issue owing lo the fa:t under other tax methods largely es-j that our mammoth staff atrurk work caped their Just proportion of taxes. I to attend the Fair; therefole Fair news That this condition exists In the ' must go over to next weeh. Read all United States In a most prominent de- i the ads carefully and, look pleasant and gree is patent to every intelligent ' be glad that we have nothing sensu cltizen. We have near $50,000,000,000 tional to publish. Condon Times, of intangible personality in this j This editor never enjoyed a vacation, country. Less than 10 per cent of this His life has been one continuous grind huge amount was reached for taxation at hard labor, sometimes 18 hours a under any law prior to the enactment ' day, for laws of equal and exact Justice of the federal income tax. Our pres- ! to his neighbors, hut the way they ap ent national wealth, after deducting 1 predate It la indK-ated by about two In the value of exempt property and al- seven keeping their subscriptions pall lowing for duplication, will aggregate ir. advance. Though hundreds of them $160,000,000,000. The annual net take their annual vacations. -Houlton profits derived by the Individuals and , Herald. corporations who are subject to the j Weston boys have great sport with present income tax law amount to the inner tubes of old automobile tires about $7,000,000,000, or a net profit of i which are elastic enough to have a ntarly 4 per cent of our total na-1 vigorous "kick" when Stretched out and tional wealth. It Is not unreasonable ' suddenly roleased. Master Gall W1I1 or unfair to ask the present Income turns is wearing a very black eye which, taxpayers, who are now receiving an he got through being a trifle slow in annual net profit of about 9 per cent i dodging. Weston Leader, on practically one-half of the national I j. H. Sickels. the angler and story wealth, to contribute 1230,000, 000 to : teller, who had been at AgneHs for a aid in meeting the present extraord- couple of weeks, came down Thursday lnary snd other expenditures of the und went north to Port Orford. The federal government. Let wealth pay taxes according to ability and the gov ernmental benefits received. m That the income tax is cheap and easy of collection and affords stable revenue is not controverted. The cost of collection is only 1.60 per cent as compared with S.25 per cent for cus toms collections. This tax involves no forced levies or sheriffs sales, be cause it only comes out of profits. This method of taxation deserves to live and to be perpetuated in the fiscal systems of every civilized country. It ia the greatest engine of fiscal power the United States has today. This statement is proven by the fact that England, with less than hair our wealth and population, expects to de- rive $976,000,00 during the present fiscal year from her Income tax.- The equity and fairness of this tax and Its capacity always to produce Adequate revenue will Justify, as.lt has Justified. the permanent existence of the law. speech. All the small fry over the country would commit at least a part. and ,u rf.lJKfffi? l! clap their hands and the papers would call them the coming statesmen. I long ago made up my mind that any- one that ravors tne old party of pro tection docs it from Ignorance of the tariff or through selfish Interest Jn the present campaign Hughes, Roose velt and nuiny other New Yorkers have tried to take Conkling place. They are only .22 s trying to fill a .45 bore. O. W. DOWNINQ. Itegrulation, By C. A. Reichen. Why, don't you know that brewer bill. That innocent contraption To "regulate" the sale of beer. Is a colossal deception? "The dry law we would not Impair Their solemn declaration; But now we find they'd make It void By inserted punctuation. "A comma Isn't much," quoth they, "To add to that old measure. The voters won't the dlfferense see. And 'twill give us Jots of pleasure. Sffc-4. "Industrial slusb.vo -blind their eyes. Will make fine campaign blabber? Nobody will suspect this law Will stretch like Indian rubber." So they planned and so they framed it But now they see disaster. The more they try to check the stench The more it spreads the faster. For decent people don't propose That stuff so sure indicted, Shall be "sold to any person'' , Unwary and benighted. Medicine for all th folks. At stores and filtrns? stations: - But don't exceed your gallons six. Portland. CKJtober J- - Rag Tag and Bobtail Stories From Everywhere (To this column all readers of Tba Journal are invitee to contribute original matter la story. Is aeraa or la philosophical obeerratUa atrlblnt quotsttona. from any aoure. Caotrtbotlooa of exceptional merit wul be psld for, at the editor s appraisal. 1 The Well Known Rullnv Passion. k, RpnRTE.RI, w. TJ EPORTER8 are heartless be- - ings." says John Clark, Port lands chief of police, and In proof thereof he tells the following, which iio says actually happened when he wax chief of detectives In St Paul. "I was standing in front of a river v front police station, talking to a re porter, when along came a man with his hat pulled down and his coat but toned up, looking pretty seedy and down at the mouth. He was walking toward the river. " 'That guy looks like ha mlarht bump himself off,' said the reporter. 1 Vft JJ. ' v.V,n,t,n"10", llt tnere 'P snouts for help from the- river. The reporter and 1 set off on the run. We got to the bank. Sure enough, the fel low had Jumped in, but the cold water had discouraged him, and now. ha , wanted to get out. I ran along the bauk, looking for something to throw to the man in the water. "I didn't notice that the reporter wasn't with me, until I spoke to him and got no answer. Then I looked around and saw him standing up on the bank. He had his note book and pencil in hand, and Just as I looked he ahouted to the poor wretch in the water: " "What's your name? What's your namef " Then He Talked Good Old U. 8. Samuel Lancaster, builder of the Co lumbia Klyer highway, wished to take a close-up picture of the Aro de Trl- omphe In Paris and the Brandenburg ' gate In Berlin, when he was abroad i several years ago. The camera he had ' taken from America would not annwor- the purpose, and ho found it necessnry to secure a small panoramic camera, from a Purls establishment. Walking up to Die camera clerk, a petite, red-headed, chic sort of girl. Mr. Lancaster spent the next 20 min ut8 trying to explain in his poor , Kiench that he didn't want the camera c8- '1a coull he return the lnstru- mint if it was not suited to his pur pose? The girl listened patiently, but blankly, l-'lnally ulie blurted: "Hay, mister, can't you speak Eng lish?" tihe was an Irish Iukb from Belfast. October Fingers. By 8. Bell" Noer. Spirits rovu my garden All night long. Whispering low to each flower. t'aresslnar each leaf. Putting a note Into the robin's song, That stirs inyjieart with grief. TrilMr, Btrumrltra ri 111 I n IT from fil'lir. Mrpst treasures from my sacred trove jnd leave (when none is there to sie) Haunting scents and sounds Thist fainter are As each loved playmate goes from me. Folk Lure. Three of our automobile owners last . angling' In Rogue river at Agneae did not suit him, but he was greatly tickled with the amount and variety of fruit to be found in that locality. Gold Beach Reporter. O. O. Adams, the gasoline stump puller man. and his daughter, Lilian, of Big Elk, went to Corvallls Thursday, Mr. Adams to take the higher degrees In Maspnry, and his daughter, to have her tonsils and adenoids removed. Toledo Leader. Never Wor&e Needed. From the Philadelphia ledger. Tounp Barnes had married contrary to his fathers wlsnex. Meeting his parent soon afterward, the father i -ai,i angrily : "Well, young man, I have made my 1 wiu and cut you ofr with a dollar." i "j. am very sorry, father," said the youth contritely, and then added: "But j you don't happen to have the dollar with your Quick, David; the Sling 1 Prom the Independence Monitor. The fight between Qoliuh Pendleton and David Weston has already com- great deal warmer if Weaton's mo- ey holds out. Death List ITobably Incomplete. From the Detroit News. A Hartford, Conn., woman has bein Indicted on a charge of poisoning five persons, not one of whom, oddly enough, was her busband. The t'nion LablaL Toprlnt avklas upon her lips Te thought the time was ripe. But when he went to preen, she said: "I do not like your type." Boston Transcript A kiss he printed on her Hps And showed her no contrition. Because the artful minx Inquired: "Well, Where's the next edition?" Birmingham Age-Herald. A kiss he printed on her Hps And she made this oration: "Please, please, continue doing that; It boosts my circulation!"' New York Evening Sun, A kiss he printed on her Hps. She smiled, the artful creature. And modestly Inquired of him: "Was that a special feature?" Moscow (Idaho) Star-Mirror. He tried to kiss her lips again, But couldn't quite set at her; She held a book in such a way They were "next to reading matter,' Boston Courier. .; To print a Vine, he did Insist. Upon her lips but listen! The -maid was meek, she turned her " cheefcz-. .j .' Tls more "Preferred Polrlo?.'L Montana Dally Record, The kiss was filched so rapidly I am A V. . 1 Must be Une-o-tVper. ' V-