Show SEEN and HEAR around Me the NATIONAL CAPITAL By Carter Field rAMO FAMOUS S W WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT Washington Out Washington Out on the Pacific coast there was nothing Ilk like lik the shock even to the Investing public pubic that wet wat felt back east over Preil- Preil dent Ro Roosevelt Roosevelt's sevelt attitude toward corporations corporation in general en era I and public utility corporations corporation in particular The public p so to speak bad had been educated dp to think that corpora corpora- were not mere segregations of investors Investor but cruel Inhuman thin things which ground down the poor exploited labor corrupted politics and poured the profits of It all back to some come mythical gentlemen InWall in inWall Wall street treeL One of the tron strong forces in so 0 educating the people along Ioni the Pacific coast coat in this thI direction was wasa a publisher now very verr anxious to defeat Mr Roosevelt to wit William Wil WU- liam Randolph Hearst Ills ms clamors clamor clam clam- ors or now remind one of the story printed not long after the Versailles peace conference to the effect that Lloyd George and Clemenceau having bamboozled Woodrow Wilson Wil WU son on found later they could not un bamboozle that stubborn Presby terlan terian Hearst in brief despite the tha cir clr circulation of his papers In Seattle San Francisco and Los Angeles is I. having a hard time Urne convincing the folks folkl that Roosevelt so 0 far tar as 81 the corporations are concerned has hu not been following the very verr ideas Idell that Hearst himself has bas been preaching lo to these many years ean In the early days daYI in the political life We of Hiram W. W Johnson he be got lot his hIl start and rose to a leadership which has hll hard hardly been equalled In any other state b by the simple process proc proe ell eat of fighting the corporations Generally as a. a matter of fact Johnson and Hearst have fought taught to to- gether Had Experience I So that the voters voter who were bornand born bornand bornand and grew up In California have had hada a pretty thorough education in corporation corporation cor cot potation baiting Their fathers remembered remembered remembered re re- the da day when the tho South South- em ern Pacific dominated the politics business and pretty prett much ever everything everything every every- thing else In the state tate They remember remember re reo re- re member and have told the present generation many times of the fight to drive it out a ft tight fight in which Hearst Heard turned against his own father and Johnson rose to suc such uch h Commanding heights heIght that man many y Californians to this day do not understand understand un wh why he was wu not nominated for tor President in 1020 1920 They never understood the bitterness bitter nest ness of the eastern Republicans Republican against Hiram for tor what happened happen d in IDle 1016 when Charles Charle E E. Hughes s failed to shake his hll hand band That the eastern G. G O. O P P. leaders leaden blamed Johnson for the election re-election of Wilson Wll Wll- son on did not and does not percolate out cut here Voters are used to being Independent and and and-a a little bit wild Moreover the big bli vote veto is down downIn In the southern part of the state tato largely recruited from Iowa Nebraska Nebraska Nebraska Neb Neb- and Illinois Originally Republican Re n. publican yes yea but Intensely progressive pro pro- and Just as a. bitter against corporations as II Hiram and his bJ fellow fellow fel fel- low veterans veteran in the war to drive the Southern Pacific out of California Califor nia politics AU All of which explains In part why this state tate Is la generally conceded to Roosevelt and is Ja made doubtful at ataU ataU atall aU all only by the possibility that WI Wll Wll- lIam Ham Lemke with th the support of Dr Townsend and Father Coughlin Cough Cough- tin lin may take enough radical votes vote away from Roosevelt to give rive Governor Gov Landon a chance And from present Indications it U Is Ja only a chance Oregon Turning Dry Six years rean ago ala this writer visited Portland on a scouting mission minion The quest was wat to determine if U there was enough wet sentiment in this Pacific port to justify the Association tion A Against I a 1111 t the Prohibition Prohibit Amendment in giving elvin some ome than nan cial sial assistance to the Democratic Democrat e nominee for congress Gen Charles a Martin Martin Oregon was regarded as at one of at the the driest drIed states states Out next to Kansas Kansa s- s ita In the union Every one admit admitted red the Ithe the state outside Portland wavery wa was s very err dry Indeed The Question w. w was whether General Merlin Martin who believed be be- in repeal should come ou out t fr frankly we wet wet wet-tn in which cue case the association as al' would help belp hi his campaign campal fund or or whether he be should Tema remain la IDent tient on this Issue Isue Most loat 0 oi of the shrewd political observers observers ob ob- servers were wen confident that It if I Martin did come out wet et he be would be defeated When this scout left j Portland Martin Makin Mar n was still aun jing Later he be came earn out wet and was iwas el elected alon along with a flock rock of ether ether wet Vet c candidates that year It It was the beginning of the wet tide Ude that surprised every eve one onti one no one I more moro than the leading wets which was wal to bring repeal within three years ear But this WI year Jear there are In Portland Port Port- land the unmistakable signs of a wring swing in the other back direction back towards prohibition AU All the obvious and objectionable phases of or the liquor traffic are not only present but flaunt blunt themselves And people are Inclined to forget that this tort sort of thin thing was always present oven during the height of prohibition The They forget that dur duro In lag ing prohibition It was concealed was wal probably worse than it Is Ja now They notice only what Is Ja thrust upon upon up on their observation and that In Portland is II very much like lice what the movies would have us UI think existed on the Barbary coast cast of ofSan ofSan ofSan San Francisco in th the wicked o old 1 d days das before betor the fire UI Ugly and Sordid But even In those good old oleS days day there w were ere re Iota lota of people In the Golden Gate district who never r allied It was there there many man many more who never saw aw it No visitor laWIt saw laW it unless unIe he was taken there for tor that tha t purpose But In Portland no one going to the union depot to take a train or meet an incoming friend can miss mill it Between the Ule station and the tha heart of downtown is I a distance of about five dye blocks It is Ja an old and run-down run section of ot the city a typical typical cal flophouse section But on the first floor of half of these flophouses are saloons saloons saloons-regu regu regular lar Jar old bars barJ brass rails ralls dirt dirty floors Coors sloppy towels and very verr obviously ob- ob women on only too anxious to have some generous stranger buy them a drink or a cheap meaL meaLAnd meaLAnd And all this not concealed in the slightest from the visitor walking or for that matter riding by Gone Cone forever is the swinging door based on the Idea that it would let the tha aroma of wet goods on sale lale waft out but conceal the identity of the tha customers customer lest some lome angry wile wife with Carrie Nation propensities Invade In vade the premises to prevent her husband drinking up the r rent e n a t mone money It Its It's aU all open and above board whether It its it's on the level or not What cannot be Ie seen en does not require require re re- quire much imagination and both are calculated to work up to a frenzy the good folks of this country country coun coun- try who achieved prohibition in the tha first place Canada Dryer Than U. U US U.S. S. S Despite the bitter complaints of American tourists in Canada at finding that most of the places they visit are dryer than the good old United States from an alcoholic not a drouth standpoint Canada thinks sho she has hat the right solution of the drink problem Particularly the hard liquor problem Save for the permit idea bor bar borrowed rowed from Sweden the system Is not so different from the home state of Bishop Cannon Virginia s I save a v e that the Virginia system is more liberal on beer and wine Hard liard liquor must be bought in government stores flares The profit to the government is excellent but the tho Important element is la that the one which worries students of the problem more than any other how how to eliminate the profit p motive Is Is handled Liquor interests In the United States admit frankly when talking confidentially that their main problem problem lem lam is la the greed reed of their own members mem memo bets bers for increased sales alel Their motive of course is la bigger volume volume vol vol- ume less leu expense per unit a and n d Irea greater ter total profit It is Ja the motive in ever every line of business There is nothing peculiar about it whatever except that in the cue case of this one business increased sales to the same tame customers customers' m mea mean e a n drunkenness a and n d drunkenness spells pella trouble in turn for the liquor interests It Is Ja a vicious circle and the liquor men themselves admit it As AI Asa AIa a matter of fact the they are frightened frightened frightened fright fright- ened to death of the man many evidences evidences evi evl dences of rising mine feeling against them They are more afraid of another prohibition tide Ude than even the most optimistic drys would dare to hop hope No Problem for Canada Which revives a t Lords Lord's day feeling feel feel- lag ing which had been forgotten these man many years eul by most newspaper men Yet it t was wal not until 1010 that fast the city of Norfolk Va had a morning paper on Mondays I The thought was that Sunda Sunday A newspapers news WI papers were all aU they the right they were printed on Saturday nights But Dut Monday morning new newspapers papers were bad bad to to get let them out reporters and end and printers had bad to work on the Sab Sat bath But in a Canada there is Ja no such problem At least last there is II no such ucb problem on the part of the retailer who he American interests sad sae ly 17 admit 1 U 11 the worst word offender For here bere the government bIvin having a monopoly does doe not trot seek eek in an any way to cajole customers into buyIng buy buy- lag Ing more Inere than lacy went want Save perhaps by bl the tho subtle Influence on foreigners that with one permit they can buy all ail the they want But this system is 1 designed by natives Not even to get good American dolIan dol dot tars lars will wW the they change It It or liberalIze liberal liberal- ize be It Wh Why a reputable hotel botel or dining car care for far Instance should not be allowed al al- lowed towed to leU beer and wine lne or er for tor that matter cocktails and highballs is U a mystery to the American visitor But that might open the tho door just Juit a chink Canada knows mOM the United States Statu was not going oin to have the saloon back and she knows knowl it is la back bade O BeU B U idle I u. u a. a smi |